About “Euphoria” in a few words:

Euphoria is an American television drama series that premiered on HBO in 2019. Created by Sam Levinson, the show follows the lives of a group of high school students as they navigate the challenges of adolescence, including love, sex, drugs, and trauma. The series is known for its provocative and raw portrayal of issues facing today’s youth, as well as its stunning visuals and powerful performances from its cast, which includes Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, and Jacob Elordi. Euphoria has received critical acclaim for its honest and unflinching depiction of teen life, and it has become a cultural phenomenon since its debut.

Meet the characters from Euphoria

Rue Bennett

Rue is a messy, brilliant narrator who says the meanest jokes and then quietly cries into a bag of chips — she’s chaotic but painfully observant. She’s the kind of person who can name every cartoon theme song at 2am and still spiral into something darker by sunrise, which is both hilarious and heartbreaking. Her voice is the show’s shaky compass; unreliable, honest, and somehow tender even when she’s being self-destructive. She complains about people but keeps a list of everyone’s little details in her head (and maybe on her phone, definitely somewhere). Underneath the sarcasm is a kid who just wants to not be so tired all the time, and that makes everything she does feel urgent.

Jules Vaughn

Jules is a dazzling, restless light — equal parts brave, fashion-obsessed, and an emotional hurricane that you want to stand next to even if she scares you. She loves glitter, fairy lights, and outfits that look like they were stitched from dreams, but she also has this private, jittery depth where she’s doing big, complicated work on herself. She’s fiercely curious about connection and identity, always experimenting, always soft and fierce at once (and yes she takes selfies like an archivist of feelings). Sometimes she’s confident and electric, sometimes she’s fragile and apologetic, which makes her feel real and a little unpredictable. You get the sense she’s both reinventing herself and searching for something steady — a contradiction, but in the best way.

Nate Jacobs

Nate is that perfect storm of charisma and menace — he’s a golden-boy athlete machine who can say exactly the right thing and then do something morally catastrophic five minutes later. He carries himself like he’s in control (the haircut helps) but there’s this roiling insecurity underneath that turns possessive and violent when it gets stirred up. He’s obsessed with power, image, and control, and yet he’s also deeply, weirdly wounded in ways he refuses to name out loud. He’s the type who fixes things with his hands but breaks people with his words; he’s polished, dangerous, and occasionally, bafflingly tender in private. Honestly, you both admire and fear him and that’s kind of the point.

Lexi Howard

Lexi is the quiet, persistent heart who sneaks up on you with a line in a play and suddenly everything makes sense — she notices, writes, and somehow turns small truths into something sharp and hilarious. She’s low-key precise, always carrying a notebook or a set of photocopied zines and also weirdly into basement theatrics (tiny props are her whole vibe). She can be reserved to the point of stealth, but when she speaks or stages something, it hits like a lighting cue — thoughtfully brutal or tender in equal measure. She’s loyal, observant, and sometimes brutally honest in a way that makes people uncomfortable (in the best “someone finally said it” way). There’s a dry humor to her that sneaks out when you least expect it, like a twitch behind the quiet.

Maddy Perez

Maddy is loud, glamorous, and absolute chaos wrapped in perfect hair — she’s the type who walks into a room and the temperature changes, seriously. She’s fierce and protective (especially of those she loves), but she’s also vulnerable in places she pretends are impenetrable — big jewelry, bigger fights, secreted softness. She thrives on drama and intensity and knows how to weaponize style, sass, and a killer stare, yet she sometimes makes choices that make you want to hug her and smack her at the same time. She’s loyal to the bone but explosive, and she’ll throw herself into love or war with equal commitment (which is thrilling and terrifying). Also, she probably owns more lipstick shades than there are days in the year — fact or rumor, I’m not checking.

Kat Hernandez

Kat is this fascinating remix of shy and online-dangerous — she starts quiet and then builds this whole persona that’s confident, experimental, and kind of a revolution of her own making. She’s curious about power dynamics and sex-positivity, but also awkward in real life (there’s a gap between webcam queen and person-in-school that’s kind of adorable). She’s self-reinventing, trying on identities like outfits, and sometimes gets wildly bold (like, domino-effect bold) and other times retreats like a turtle. She’s creative and tactical, and loves to flip the script on expectations — also into vintage lingerie, or was it thrifted jackets? I can never remember, but it’s definitely one of those.

Cassie Howard

Cassie is the romantic who dramatizes everything in the most cinematic way possible — she feels on the surface and then feels ten times deeper when no one is looking. She wants fairy-tale love but often ends up in messy cycles of validation, which is both tragic and painfully human (you root for her and worry at the same time). She’s dreamy, performed femininity a lot of the time (like she rehearses her looks and lines), yet she’s genuinely tender and easily broken when hopes don’t land. She keeps playlists that are too specific to be coincidental and will text you at midnight with something melodramatic and sincere. At her best she’s disarmingly open and loving, and at her worst…well, she makes really questionable choices, but you kind of understand why.