I tend to ignore grittiness. Like sure, they were a LITTLE stereotype heavy on the teen-angst situation train, but all those situations literally exist so it's never got unrealistically "real" and "gritty" for me
my mom didn't want to watch it bc she said it was "pg-13" (my bro's 10) and i was like "..." bc two days ago she didn't want to watch moonlight for reasons unexplained so i'm like
uhhhh, there's bloodless violence, lots of car crashes which were really freaky for me personally (idk why), a bunch of Tragic Backstories but none that are specifically triggering necessarily (ymmv), and one weird scene where Bad Guy gets all up in bb gay's grill which made me uncomfortable but it's portrayed as like, not a good thing. Also death