About “Euphoria” in a few words:

Euphoria is an American teen drama television series created and produced by Sam Levinson. It follows a group of high school students as they navigate love, identity, trauma, addiction, and other challenges in the modern world. The show is known for its raw and honest portrayal of sensitive topics, as well as its visually stunning cinematography and soundtrack. The cast includes talented actors such as Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, and Jacob Elordi, and has received critical acclaim for its bold and unapologetic approach to storytelling.

Meet the characters from Euphoria

Rue Bennett

Rue is a messy, brilliant, heartbreaking narrator who speaks like she’s half-asleep and half-on-fire, you know? She’s brilliant at noticing the small, painful things and then numbs them with a lot of weeds and late-night TV binges. She’s fiercely loyal but unreliable in the most human way — and she’ll tell you she’s okay even when her voice wobbles, which is never quite true. There’s a weird tenderness under all the sarcasm, and also she hoards receipts for reasons she can’t explain.

Jules Vaughn

Jules is fluorescent and slippery and wears her feelings like a custom jacket — flashy on the outside, stitched with complicated seams. She’s an artful escape artist who draws on napkins and keeps sketchbooks in weird places (like under her bed and also the fridge? don’t ask). She’s tender and deliberately confusing, a walking constellation of bravado and genuine sweetness. Also paradox: she wants to be seen but sometimes vanishes when you finally look.

Nate Jacobs

Nate is a thundercloud of charm and threat, the kind of person who makes you notice the room and then makes you afraid of everything in it. He’s performance-level confident, athletic, precise — and secretly a mess who reads things like “how to control your rage” at night, or maybe that’s just what I remember. He’s possessive and clever and terrifyingly self-aware, and somehow also painfully insecure in ways that make his worst moves feel inevitable. He wears expensive cologne and watches old wrestling highlights and also keeps a tiny poetry notebook tucked away, which is ridiculous and maybe true.

Lexi Howard

Lexi is quietly devastating, the kind of person who observes and then writes an entire play about it and you can’t help but clap because it’s true. She’s loyal, clever, low-drama, but also has these sharp, unexpectedly savage moments that slay — like she’ll say one joke and everyone will fall over. She collects hotel shampoo bottles sometimes (I think) and loves theater more than most people love oxygen. She’s reliable but not boring; she’s the friend you didn’t know you needed and maybe the third-act boss.

Maddy Perez

Maddy is fireworks and high-end eyeliner and a habit of saying what everyone else won’t, and she does it with such pinpoint fury it becomes art. She’s fiercely loyal to the people she loves and punishes anyone who crosses them—which is epic and sometimes tragically self-sabotaging. She’s glamorous and unapologetic, but also secretly sentimental about small things (like maybe keeping a box of old texts? I think so). She packs an extra pair of heels in case of emergencies and will absolutely start a fight for you or with you, depending on the mood. She says she hates romantic crap but cries at bad romcoms sometimes.

Kat Hernandez

Kat is this slow-burning reinvention, someone who went from shy to striking and kept surprising everyone (including herself). She’s curious about power and sexuality and uses costumes and glitter and sometimes full-on armor of confidence to experiment—also a mistress of online aliasing but real-life bluntness too, which is a weird combo. She’s practical in a chair-sashayed way and also dramatic: owns a chainmail headband? maybe, I don’t actually know but it fits. She’s evolving and stubborn and kind of low-key revolutionary.

Cassie Howard

Cassie is prettiness wrapped in a bundle of longing; she practices the perfect smile until it becomes a little cracked around the edges. She chases romance like it’s a hobby and then is shocked when real people are messy and disappointing—she’s tender and impulsive and will make dumb choices with her whole heart. She wants to be seen and loved and also keeps this weird collection of seashells because they make sense to her? It’s complicated: she says she’s independent but will still replay every text a thousand times, so yeah, messy and very human.