MTV’s First Scripted Drama Was A Sci-Fi Coming-Of-Age Story That’s Impossible To Stream

MTV has long been a home for original series speaking to young audiences. After starting as an exclusively music-focused network, MTV eventually branched into reality shows and scripted series. Teen dramas such as “The Shannara Chronicles,” “Teen Wolf,” and the American version of “Skins” all premiered on MTV. Before any of those series debuted, the network took its first step into original scripted, non-animated, non-sketch-comedy programming in 1994 with “Dead at 21,” a sci-fi series created by Jon Sherman.

A series built on youthful rebellion and Sherman‘s own interest in the cyberpunk novels of authors like William Gibson, “Dead at 21…