

Plus, there’s the whole murder thing still hanging in the air. ‘Course, puberty has a way of making these sorts of rejuvenated relationships awkward: Pretty-and-popular Lacey doesn’t hang out so much with studiously unsocial Jo anymore, and they both begin looking at bad-boy Danny as something more than an old school chum. But now that he’s out, he hopes to pick up where he left off-not killing, of course, but renewing friendships with his best buds, Lacey and Jo.

He was accused of murdering his Aunt Tara (death by jump rope, we’re told). But things pick up when 16-year-old Danny Desai is released from juvenile detention after a five-year stint. Here, teens do what teens have long done. (town motto: “If you or someone you know isn’t in serious peril every 43 minutes, you’re doing it wrong.”). It seems the only place that might be more dangerous than this is-well, the CW.ĪBC Family’s latest telegenic nest of nastiness is the aptly titled Twisted, set in the seemingly quiet hamlet of Green Grove, N.Y. And if teens aren’t in constant peril, well, the most likely explanation is they’re being framed for murder. Sometimes they’re even killed (though death on these shows is a somewhat flexible state).

From Pretty Little Liars to Ravenswood, the network’s teens are more imperiled than a royal relative in North Korea. What’s the most dangerous place for a teen to grow up? Compton? Chicago’s South Side? The hard streets of Mumbai? The frost-bitten tundra of Greenland?
