On My Block
This four-season Netflix dramedy follows four tight-knit teenagers navigating first year of high school in a South Central LA neighborhood where gang activity, gun violence, and substance use are everyday realities. The show handles these themes with real heart, but the content — recurring gunfire, character deaths, frank sexual references, profanity, and teen drug and alcohol use — is firmly aimed at older teens.
Best suited for teens 15 and up watching with a parent ready to talk through what they see.
Episodes to know about
Teen characters are shown making out; boys make objectifying comments about a girl's body in the opening episode.
Gang-related threat to one of the main characters runs as a continuous thread across all four seasons, with recurring confrontations and danger.
Gunshots are heard frequently in the neighborhood backdrop; the kids are shown casually trying to identify gun calibers by sound, signaling how routine this is in their world.