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Shows that feel likeEuphoria (2019–2026)

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

If you loved Euphoria, the closest series we have are The Queen's Gambit (2020), This Is Us (2016) and Young Royals (2021). All three share Euphoria's contemplative feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Carrie (2026).

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If Euphoria hit the spot, these will too

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The Queen's Gambit
2020 · 1 season · Netflix
★ 8.5dramaNetflix

A gifted young woman, an addiction, and beautiful direction throughout

The difference: Chess and the fifties — controlled where this is raw

In a 1950s orphanage, a young girl reveals an astonishing talent for chess and begins an unlikely journey to stardom while grappling with addiction.

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This Is Us
2016–2022 · 6 seasons · NBC
★ 8.7dramaHuluParamount+

Emotional maximalism about family wounds

The difference: Multigenerational weepy

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

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Young Royals
2021–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.2dramaNetflix

Teens crushed between institutions and their own hearts

The difference: Swedish restraint, gentler

Prince Wilhelm adjusts to life at his prestigious new boarding school, Hillerska, but following his heart proves more challenging than anticipated.

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The Summer I Turned Pretty
2022–2025 · 3 seasons · Prime Video
★ 7.2dramaPrime Video

First love as the whole world

The difference: Sunlit beach nostalgia

Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

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Looking for Alaska
2019 · 1 season · Hulu
★ 8drama

One thread runs through both: growing up

The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Euphoria

Miles enrolls in a new boarding school seeking adventure. There, he befriends a group of quirky students led by the captivating and troubled Alaska. As they pull pranks and explore dark secrets, a night of celebration takes a tragic turn, forcing the group to grapple with loss and the complexities of growing up.

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Heartstopper
2022–2024 · 3 seasons · Netflix
★ 8.5dramaNetflix

Queer teen love taken seriously

The difference: Softness instead of chaos

Teens Charlie and Nick discover their unlikely friendship might be something more as they navigate school and young love.

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Normal People
2020 · 1 season · BBC Three
★ 8.4dramaHulu

Intimacy and damage traced with unusual honesty

The difference: Two-person focus, quiet

Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

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given
2019 · 1 season · Fuji TV
★ 8.2animation · drama

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance

The difference: Takes it somewhere less wistful than Euphoria does

Ritsuka’s lost his spark for music—until he hears Mafuyu sing. One voice pulls him back in, and suddenly, everything starts to change between them.

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Extraordinary Attorney Woo
2022 · 1 season · ENA
★ 8.5dramaNetflix

Young adults finding their way against the current

The difference: Warm K-drama procedural

With a genius-level IQ, Woo Young-woo learns to embrace her extraordinary self while forming a tight-knit community of friends and allies.

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Time
2021– · 3 seasons · BBC One
★ 8.1drama · crime

Melancholy drama in both cases

The difference: Sits closer to crime than Euphoria does

Guilt, violence and impossible choices – what does it take to survive? Tense, gritty and heartbreaking – Jimmy McGovern's award-winning prison drama, with an all-star cast.

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Carrie
2026 · 1 season · Prime Video
★ 7.8mystery · drama · sci-fi & fantasyPrime Video

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teenage girl

The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Euphoria does

After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty of the social‑media age, and the awakening of mysterious telekinetic powers that rise alongside her adolescence.

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Never Have I Ever
2020–2023 · 4 seasons · Netflix
★ 7.8comedy · dramaNetflix

Adolescent feeling taken completely seriously by the show around it

The difference: A comedy — the grief is real but nothing here is bleak

After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.

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