About “Torchwood” in a few words:

Torchwood is a British science fiction TV series that follows the adventures of a team of experts who investigate and combat supernatural and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. The show is a spin-off from the popular Doctor Who series and features the charismatic Captain Jack Harkness as the leader of the Torchwood team. The series is known for its dark and gritty tone, complex characters, and gripping storylines that explore themes of identity, love, and sacrifice. With a devoted fanbase and critical acclaim, Torchwood has become a cult classic in the science fiction genre.

Meet the characters from Torchwood

Jack Harkness

Jack Harkness is the kind of impossible, magnetic leader who makes you roll your eyes and then follow him anyway. He’s witty, flirtatious, ridiculously brave and with that grin that suggests he knows far too many secrets (probably true), and also immortal — like, not joking about immortality — which makes him oddly tender sometimes. He collects vintage coats and bad decisions in equal measure, harbors a tragic past but refuses to be solemn about it, and will insist on saving everyone even when it’s the dumbest plan. There are layers: soldier, conman, hero, flirt, and then a softer Jack who keeps old postcards in his pocket for no sensible reason.

Gwen Cooper

Gwen Cooper is the heart of Torchwood, all practical instincts, stubborn moral compass and an uncanny ability to find the right person to talk to at 3 a.m. She started as a blunt, jeans-and-jacket kind of copper and somehow became the team’s emotional anchor — fierce with a family-first attitude and a mother-bear fierceness you should not test. She’s the one who remembers birthdays, brings biscuits, argues for the humane solution, and somehow also has a terrifyingly calm side in a crisis (calm until she isn’t). She loves gossip and refuses to admit she enjoys sci-fi, and I could swear she keeps a jar of emergency buttons in her bag.

Rhys Williams

Rhys Williams is the gloriously normal, stubbornly practical hero who grounds all the chaos — a builder or whatever (I can never remember the exact job) but he’s constant. He’s quietly heroic, utterly loyal to Gwen, and sometimes hilariously out of his depth with alien tech yet surprisingly handy with a screwdriver. He’ll roll his eyes at Torchwood’s dramatics and then quietly do the sensible, heroic thing like fixing a car at midnight or covering up evidence because that’s married life, apparently. Also he tells the best dad-jokes and is more emotionally intelligent than he pretends, though he swears he’s “not into this sci‑fi nonsense” while owning at least one weird souvenir.

Ianto Jones

Ianto Jones is the tidy, quietly devastatingly loyal hub manager who keeps Torchwood from falling apart — and he does it with a perfect suit and a very small, bafflingly adorable smile. He’s efficient, mysterious, collects tiny things (pins? action figures? I can’t decide), and guards his heart with a polite but total devotion to the people he cares about. Underneath the neat exterior there’s a person who hurts and loves hard, and who’d make tea at 3 a.m. and check your pulse before admitting he’s scared. He loves order, hates messy paperwork, and also sings badly in the shower — or was that the other one? — either way, precious and tragic.

Owen Harper

Owen Harper is the sarcastic, slightly self-destructive genius doctor who makes brilliant diagnoses and worse life choices with equal flair. He’s cynical and funny, cares in a very grumpy, “I-guess-I-do” way, and will flirt obnoxiously while also secretly being tender when no one expects it. He smokes, drinks, and complains about the job constantly but is the kind of person who’d bleed for his team — or at least moan through it dramatically. There’s a wounded vibe about him (and possibly a ridiculous soft spot for vintage rock tees), and he’s the guy you love to rail at and miss when he’s gone.

Toshiko Sato

Toshiko Sato is the brilliant, shy tech wizard who can hack anything and is quietly ferocious about it — her brain is a laser and also a little secret diary. She can rattle off code like poetry, hates small talk, and yet has this fierce loyalty that comes out in tiny explosive moments (like when someone messes with her friends). She loves gadgets, tea that is somehow always the wrong temperature, and karaoke night where she reveals a surprising love of 80s ballads — I may have made that up but it’s believable, right? Awkward and brave in equal doses, Tosh holds the team’s technological backbone and also the occasional guilty crush, which she will deny very passionately.