
Shows that feel likeEuphoria (2019–2026)
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).
If Euphoria hit the spot, these will too

A gifted young woman, an addiction, and beautiful direction throughout
The difference: Chess and the fifties — controlled where this is raw

Emotional maximalism about family wounds
The difference: Multigenerational weepy

Teens crushed between institutions and their own hearts
The difference: Swedish restraint, gentler

First love as the whole world
The difference: Sunlit beach nostalgia

One thread runs through both: growing up
The difference: Easier on the melancholy than Euphoria

Queer teen love taken seriously
The difference: Softness instead of chaos

Intimacy and damage traced with unusual honesty
The difference: Two-person focus, quiet

The same mix in both: stillness, then romance
The difference: Takes it somewhere less wistful than Euphoria does

Young adults finding their way against the current
The difference: Warm K-drama procedural

Melancholy drama in both cases
The difference: Sits closer to crime than Euphoria does

Both keep coming back to the same thing: teenage girl
The difference: Leans harder into mystery than Euphoria does

Adolescent feeling taken completely seriously by the show around it
The difference: A comedy — the grief is real but nothing here is bleak
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