8 Shows to Watch If You Miss Teenage Bounty Hunters

Fraternal twins, Christian-school Atlanta and accidental bounty hunting — nothing replaces it, but these come close.

Teenage Bounty Hunters (Netflix, 2020) — fraternal twins Sterling and Blair Wesley falling into bounty hunting through veteran tracker Bowser, while navigating Atlanta Christian-school life — earned 93% on Rotten Tomatoes and a cancellation two months after release that remains one of Netflix's most disputed calls. What made it singular was the blend: genuinely sharp dialogue, sincere faith-and-sexuality themes, and a finale cousin reveal built for Season 2. These eight picks each carry part of that DNA.

The 8 Picks

1. The Society (Netflix, 2019) — teenagers building civilisation without adults. Shares the teen-ensemble moral laboratory and the COVID-cancelled wound. Read our fan-written ending for The Society.
2. I Am Not Okay With This (Netflix, 2020) — Sophia Lillis's telekinetic coming-of-age from the same YA-comics soil. Cancelled in the same COVID batch. Seven 20-minute episodes; watch in an evening.
3. Everything Sucks! (Netflix, 2018) — A/V-club misfits, 1990s Oregon, a proudly queer heart. The closest tonal sibling: funny about youth without condescending to it.
4. Daybreak (Netflix, 2019) — post-apocalyptic YA comedy with the same joke density and a heroine who steals the show. Gone after one season.
5. Lockwood & Co. (Netflix, 2023) — teen trio running their own agency (ghost-hunting, not bounty-hunting) with crackling banter. The banter-to-heart ratio matches.
6. Warrior Nun (Netflix, 2020–2022) — young women, secret orders, fight scenes with feeling. Two seasons of found family. See our Warrior Nun guide.
7. Dead Boy Detectives (Netflix, 2024) — teen ghost detectives with cases-of-the-week and a beating supervised heart. Read our Dead Boy Detectives ending.
8. The End of the F***ing World (Netflix, 2017–2019) — the rare one that finished: two teens, one crime spree, zero sentimentality spared. From the same Forsman-adjacent YA-comics wave.

Six of the eight were cancelled too soon — the full graveyard is in our YA adaptations guide. That is the honest footnote to every recommendation here: the shows most like Teenage Bounty Hunters share its fate, which is exactly why this site gives them endings.

Where to Start

If you want the sisterhood first, start with Everything Sucks! — its A/V-club warmth is the closest thing to Sterling and Blair's partnership, and at ten half-hour episodes it respects your evening. If you want the banter, Lockwood & Co. delivers the sharpest trio dialogue since Bowser bickered with the twins. If you want the ache underneath the jokes, I Am Not Okay With This earns it in seven episodes flat. And if you want proof the formula can survive, finish with The End of the F***ing World — the completed run that shows what the others were denied. According to TVLine and Variety reporting across these cancellations, the pattern never varied: strong reviews, narrow-but-devoted audiences, and a cost model with no patience for slow builds.

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