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Turnt

Turnt, a teen drama series from the United States made for streaming, was created by Rachel Stern and debuted on Facebook Watch on August 1, 2018.¹³ Produced by the digital studio Brat, it follows an ensemble cast of students at Monroe High as they navigate high school after a scandalous hookup leads to bad trips, budding romance, and secret sex.¹^•² The single season ran through October 24, 2018 and the series is listed as ended.¹

Key fact	Detail
Original network	Facebook Watch (2018), as Brat's first original series for the platform¹^•³
Premiere / finale	August 1, 2018; final episode "Happy Birthday" aired 2018¹
Episodes	40 ordered in one season¹
Episode length	7 to 18 minutes per the series infobox; 10 to 15 minutes per The Ringer⁴
Creator / director	Created by Rachel Stern; directed by Will Slocombe¹⁴
Production companies	Brat TV and One Push Productions; filmed in Alhambra, California²
IMDb rating	7.2/10 from 96 votes²

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Premise

The series follows "an ensemble cast of characters as they navigate high school." Its logline describes blurred lines at Monroe High, where a scandalous hookup leads to bad trips, budding romance, and secret sex.¹ The Ringer's Alison Herman, a television critic, described the show's ingredients as teen pregnancies and illicit affairs galore, with the apparent goal of being a successor to Skins, though she judged the effect closer to Days of Our Lives Jr.⁴

The finale, "Happy Birthday" (episode 1x40, 2018), centers on Hot Seth's birthday party, which goes wrong when Becca releases the much-anticipated "Hot Guy List," causing drama that spirals out of control.¹

Cast

Madeleine Byrne as Kat
Jared Scott as Forrest
Elsie Hewitt as Victoria
Cristian Oliveras as Danny
Darren Barnet as Hot Seth
Isabella Roland as Jess
Donald Clark as Gabe

Other cast members listed by TVmaze and IMDb include Nate Wyatt as Scott, Jayna Sweet as Natalie, Chase Edmondson as Rocco, Aleu Moana as Anna, Hailee Keanna Lautenbach as Becca, Kailey Maurer as Indica, Michael Bow as Peter, and Reece Everett Ryan as Ben.¹^•² Oliveras was already known as a Musical.ly star before the series.⁴

Production

The writing staff also included Vincent Ingrao, Rick Montano, Annie Stamell, Matt Pelfrey, and Sasha Garron, among others.⁵

Brat, founded in 2017, was a studio aimed at teen and Gen Z audiences built around its own YouTube channel, best known for the Chicken Girls franchise.⁶^•⁷ Turnt was the first series from Brat not exclusively featured on the studio's own YouTube channel, and Brat co-founder Rob Fishman called it "provocative and timely," noting it would skew more mature than the company's previous programming.³^•⁶ Brat's deal with Facebook was described by Fishman as an exception, with such platform deals expected to be few and far between while the studio focused on owning and operating its shows.⁷

Release and reception

The series premiered on August 1, 2018 with a four-episode drop, followed by three additional installments each week.⁶ Episodes ran 10 to 15 minutes, a length The Ringer described as splitting the difference between a sketch and a full-length half hour, a structure it shared with the fellow Facebook Watch teen soap Five Points.⁴

Viewership. In a September 2018 review of Facebook Watch's catalog, The Ringer reported that Turnt had drawn four-digit view totals on the platform, calling it an as-yet-unsuccessful attempt to cater to Gen Z. By comparison, the Facebook Watch shows Five Points and Strangers started their latest seasons with viewers in the millions and settled into averages of about 300,000 views per episode.⁴ On IMDb the series holds a 7.2/10 rating from 96 votes.²

The series later became available free with ads on The Roku Channel and Tubi.⁸

Other works titled Turnt

The title has also been used for unrelated projects: Turnt (2020), a film produced, written, and directed by Mann Robinson, which received a 3.3/10 IMDb rating and later gained a sequel, Super Turnt;⁹^•¹⁰ Turnt AF (2026), a Mann Robinson Productions crime drama series;¹¹ and a Turnt event-ticketing app.¹²

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 2017 to 2021

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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