Netflix's Surviving Summer had a strong debut and earned a second season, but after watching those 18 episodes, fans might be looking for other shows like Surviving Summer. The teen series features Sky Katz from Raven's Home as Summer Torres, a delinquent skateboarder from New York City who is sent to a small town in Australia to stay with family friends. There, she befriends a talented group of surfers. She becomes interested in surfing and, while still rebellious, begins to understand that her impulsivity might not always be the way to go.

From New York to Australia, rebellious teenagers and competitive athletes run rampant in teen TV series. Best friends can be each other's greatest rivals, and friendships can be tested when characters are pitted against each other. While fans wait to see if Summer will return to Shorehaven for another season, several other series with resilient characters are available to stream now.

20 Spinning Out (2020)

A Young Ice Skater Overcomes Injury

When Surviving Summer starts, Summer Torres heads to a new town after getting kicked out of school to stay with her mother's best friend. While there, she meets a group of surfers who were once close, but have since grown apart thanks to an injury one of them suffered through. When Ari was injured the previous year, none of her friends came to see her at the hospital, and the friends had to find a way to make up and coexist if they wanted to make the surf team for the state.

Spinning Out is not about surfing, but it is about competitive figure skating. However, the big similarity between these two shows is that it is about an athlete who suffers a major injury and has to find a way to return and remain as competitive as ever. In this case, it is Kat Baker, a high-level skater who takes a bad fall and ends up with an injury that causes her to change her career path. She moves on to pair skating, which forces her to change everything she knows about the sport she loves.

19 Summertime (2020- )

A Series Set On Italy's Adriatic Coast

From the name of the series to its location, the Italian original series Summertime shares much in common with Surviving Summer. Both are about young women named Summer who are living by a body of water and spend a lot of time figuring out who they are supposed to be in life. In Summertime, Summer is a young woman who refuses to conform her life to what everyone else expects her to be, and dreams of getting away but realizes that she can't, at least not yet.

She meets Ale, who is very different from her but is an athlete, an ex-motorcycle champion who is wild and ready to take back the reigns of his life. They meet and fall in love on Italy’s Adriatic Coast, with the beautiful landscape of the water strikingly similar to the oceans off of Australia in Surviving Summer. The series is eight episodes in length, and, like Surviving Summer, it is also available on Netflix for fans to stream when they want some young adult romance in a beachfront locale.

18 MaveriX (2022- )

Competitive Motocross Riders In Australia

MaveriX has a lot in common with Surviving Summer, as both shows are about teens who have big dreams in the world of competitive athletics, with both taking place in Australia. Instead of taking place on the oceans with surfers trying to make the state team, like in Surviving Summer, the kids in MaveriX are on a junior motocross team and want to get selected for the first-ever MaveriX Academy in Alice Springs, which is the home of dirtbike racing in Australia.

There are six teens in MaveriX who are fighting to achieve these dreams, and they end up pushed to their limits when they get a chance for this once-in-a-lifetime dream. It is strikingly similar to Surviving Summer and the battle to make it onto the State team, just with a different look for the sports. Gone are the beaches, and replacing them are dirt tracks. There is only one season so far for MaveriX, with 10 episodes, so it is unclear if it will reach the same success as the surfer series.

Like Surviving Summer, MaveriX was actually filmed in Australia.

17 All American (2018- )

A High School Football Drama Series

While the sports are different, the ideas of young adults who find pressure situations they are not quite old enough to deal with remain similar. In Surviving Summer, it is all about Summer coming into a group that was already fractured, but they all find their way as they seek out making it onto the state surfing team and seek to find success despite their inner problems. That is very similar to All American, which is about teens playing high school football but finding pressure is hard to overcome.

There is a lot more intensity in All American than in Finding Summer. The latter is more of a teen drama, with the surfers overcoming their personal problems to find success on the waves. However, All American ratches up the drama, with drug use, legal problems, parental difficulties, and even the tragic deaths of some characters. With that said, they are still fighting to overcome these obstacles to win on the field and find a way to reach their dreams.

16 Bel-Air (2022- )

The Reboot Of Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air

The biggest similarity between shows like Surviving Summer and Bel-Air is the idea of a troubled teen sent away from their home due to problems. In Surviving Summer, it is about Summer Torres getting kicked out of school more than once. Her mother sends her away to keep her out of trouble, or at least out of sight. In Bel-Air, Will Smith (Jabari Banks) is sent from West Philadelphia to his aunt and uncle's house in Bel-Air after getting into fights at school.

Surviving Summer shares little in common with the original sitcom

Bel-Air is a remake of the classic sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. However, while the original series (starring Will Smith himself) was a comedy that saw him in a fish-out-of-water story, this remake is more of an intense drama. Surviving Summer shares little in common with the original sitcom besides the forced move. However, the drama is a lot more similar to this remake, which has more danger and pitfalls awaiting its characters as they get used to a new situation in a new location.

15 The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-)

Teens Living Life In A Beach Community

• Stream on Amazon Prime Video

Summer isn’t just the name of the title character in Surviving Summer; it’s also the name of the season in which the series is set. Most of the action takes place during the summer surfing competition season, while there are references to the past and what happens during the rest of the year between seasons. That’s how Amazon’s The Summer I Turned Pretty is set up as well, making it an easy addition to shows like Surviving Summer.

While both shows center on a young woman’s coming of age, they are also ensemble shows that feature a large cast of friends that branch out from that one person. In The Summer I Turned Pretty, that one person is Belly (Lola Tung). She’s not learning to surf, but she is dealing with similar emotional situations to Summer, and those emotional situations come to a head during her summer visits to one particular place.

14 Zero Chill (2021)

A Look At The World Of Competitive Ice Sports

• Stream on Netflix

Surviving Summer deals with the competitive surfing world and just what it takes for teenagers to commit to going pro. Zero Chill takes that pro sports angle from the beach to the ice rink. The siblings at the center of the story play ice hockey and figure skate. While the training for both is different, they do require an intense level of commitment that is sometimes interrupted by the antics of the characters.

Zero Chill is especially interesting because it allows the audience to see two different sides to the competitive sports world of teenagers, including when one of them isn’t necessarily looking to become a star on the pro circuit, and what that might mean. It also features a lot of rebellious activity, just like what Summer brings to the world of surfing when she’s intent on breaking the rules.

13 Doogie Kamealoha, MD (2021-2023)

A Remake Of Doogie Howser

• Stream on Disney+

Doogie Kamealoha, MD might not seem like it belongs among shows like Surviving Summer at first glance, but high-pressure situations and a setting by the water are what Surviving Summer and Doogie Kamealoha, MD have in common. Doogie is a remake of the 1990s series Doogie Howser, but it only lasted for two seasons on Disney+, which means the entire show is available to watch, unlike Surviving Summer, which has two seasons and no word on a third anytime soon.

She still has to balance those responsibilities with living out her teenage life.

In Doogie Kamealoha, MD, Lahela (Peyton Elizabeth Lee) is a teenager who also happens to be a doctor in the same hospital as her mother. Her adult responsibilities are very different from those of the competitive surfing world, but she still has to balance those responsibilities with living out her teenage life. It is this juxtaposition that makes the two series similar.

12 H2O: Just Add Water (2006-2010)

Girls On The Beach Become Mermaids

• Stream on Netflix

Australian television has a lot of great shows aimed at teens. H2O: Just Add Water is one of the shows that helped Australian teen television go worldwide thanks to its broadcast on Nickelodeon in different countries before Netflix picked it up for streaming. Like Surviving Summer, the action is often set on the beach in Australia around a particular group of friends. They deal with relationships, secrets, and trying to lead a normal life.

The difference here is that the normal life in Just Add Water is interrupted because the main cast of teenage girls (Claire Holt, Cariba Heine, and Phoebe Tonkin) accidentally gain the ability to become mermaids when they touch water. Their stories are all about keeping their big secret rather than catching the perfect wave. While more supernatural in flavor, it is still a show about discovering who a person is rather than what people expect them to be.

11 Betty (2020 - 2021)

Female Skateboarders Making Their Name

• Stream On Max

Set in the Lower East Side of New York City, Betty brings together a group of female skateboarders who carve out a name for themselves in a predominantly male sport. This diverse group of friends looks out for each other and shares a pure love of skating. It is this theme of skating that makes the two shows similar, thanks to Summer before she headed out to Australia.

Summer is a skateboarder from New York City who loves to do stunts with her crew, including lighting her skateboard on fire and riding it off a diving board, after breaking into a public pool at night. Summer is a little rough around the edges like the women in Betty, and she advocates for women in skating by trying to teach Ari's little sister, Honey, how to grind a rail in Surviving Summer.