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15 Shows Like Euphoria — Raw Teen Drama, Visual Style, and No Easy Answers
Euphoria set a new bar for teen drama. These shows match its visual intensity, honest portrayals of addiction and identity, and refusal to wrap things up neatly.
15 FILMS·April 2026·By MoviesPack
Section 1
The Euphoria Formula
Sam Levinson's show changed what teen drama could look like. Not the sanitized version of high school — the **glittered, fractured, overwhelmingly beautiful and painful version.** Rue's addiction isn't a after-school special warning. Jules's identity isn't a lesson. Everyone is making choices that feel real even when they're self-destructive, and the cinematography makes all of it look like a fever dream. These shows get close to that specific feeling. [Use our tool: Shows Like Euphoria](/shows/similar/euphoria) — algorithmically matched
Section 2
The Closest Matches
01
Skins (UK, 2007–2013)
★8.3IMDb
A group of Bristol teenagers navigate sex, drugs, mental illness, grief, and identity in a city that mostly doesn't notice them. Each character gets a focused episode per season — Cassie's eating disorder, Chris's recklessness, Tony's control — and then the ensemble drama reconnects to pull everything apart. The show cycled through two complete casts over six seasons. The first two generations (Seasons 1–4) are essential; Cassie and Sid's arc in Season 1 is the direct template for Euphoria's approach to portraying self-destruction without making it aspirational.
Why it matters
Euphoria owes Skins directly. The episode-per-character structure, the refusal to sanitize, the sense that these kids are making decisions with real consequences in a world that won't protect them.
02
Normal People
2020
★8.0IMDb
Connell is popular and athletic in their small Irish town. Marianne is smart and isolated. They get together secretly, and when they go to university in Dublin their social positions invert, and the relationship continues in fragments for years — each of them damaging the other in specific, quiet ways neither fully understands. Based on Sally Rooney's novel. The sex scenes are intimate and unselfconscious. The show is brutally precise about the things young people can't say to each other even when they want to.
Why it matters
If Euphoria is all noise and light, Normal People is silence and restraint. Both are honest about how young people hurt each other and themselves.
03
We Are Who We Are
2020
★7.4IMDb
Fraser and Caitlin are American teenagers living on a military base in Pordenone, Italy — kids in the particular limbo of belonging nowhere, dependent on parents whose lives are structured by a military institution. Their friendship is strange and intense. The show is about queerness, gender, identity, and adolescence told slowly and associatively, with a visual language drawn from Luca Guadagnino's films. Not plotty in any conventional sense. More like a mood held for eight hours.
Why it matters
Same visual ambition as Euphoria, same focus on queerness and identity, same refusal to deliver clean narrative resolution.
Section 3
The Raw Teen Drama Shows
04
13 Reasons Why (Seasons 1–2)
★7.5IMDb
Hannah Baker is dead. She left behind a box of cassette tapes — 13 of them, one for each person she holds responsible — and they're passed through the school after her suicide. Clay Jensen listens, and the story unravels. Controversial for its portrayal of suicide (later partially edited) but undeniably compelling in its first two seasons. It sparked real conversations about bullying, assault, and accountability. Seasons 3–4 lose focus; the first two hit hard.
05
Elite
2018–present
★7.3IMDb
Three scholarship students from working-class backgrounds transfer to Las Encinas, a school for Spain's ultra-wealthy, and the collision of worlds produces a murder. Each season opens with the crime and works backward. Sex, class war, secrets, and alliances that flip every few episodes. Netflix's most bingeworthy teen thriller — the first three seasons are tight and propulsive.
06
Genera+ion
2021
★7.0IMDb
Queer Gen Z teenagers in a California suburb navigate sexuality, identity, and home lives that range from supportive to actively hostile — and find each other in the process. Five episodes that feel like the beginning of something genuinely interesting before the show was cancelled. More interested in what comes after coming out than the act itself, which puts it ahead of most TV in its treatment of LGBTQ+ teen life.
Section 4
The Identity and Body Shows
07
Pose
2018–2021
★8.6IMDb
New York City, 1987: the ballroom scene is alive, AIDS is killing people the government refuses to acknowledge, and trans women and gay Black and Latino men are building family outside of family — competing in balls, voguing for prizes, and taking care of each other in houses with names like Evangelista and Abundance. Billy Porter is extraordinary as Pray Tell, the emcee who holds the community's grief and joy simultaneously. The show is about joy as much as pain.
08
The End of the F***ing World
2017–2019
★8.0IMDb
James is 17 and believes he might be a psychopath — he's been working up to killing an animal, then a person. Alyssa is 17 and wants to get away from her family. They run away together, and things escalate into actual crime faster than either of them intended. Two seasons of 20-minute episodes, lean and precise, with a genuinely original dark voice and an ending in each season that earns what it asks of you.
09
Misfits
2009–2013
★8.2IMDb
Five young offenders doing community service get caught in a freak electrical storm and develop superpowers. Simon becomes invisible when ignored. Alisha causes uncontrollable lust with touch. Curtis can rewind time. Kelly can hear thoughts. Nathan is possibly immortal. The powers are metaphors for how each of them already felt before the storm. British, irreverent, genuinely surprising. The first two seasons (before the original cast leaves) are brilliant dark comedy.
Section 5
The Addiction and Trauma Shows
10
Intervention
2005–present
★8.6IMDb
Real people in the grip of addiction are filmed — with their knowledge — over several days as family members prepare for an intervention they don't know is coming. What Euphoria fictionalizes, this series documents. The specific logic of addiction, the way it reshapes relationships and reality, the moments where people almost stop and don't — seeing it in real people's lives explains every choice Rue makes better than any fictional parallel.
11
Fleabag
2016–2019
★8.7IMDb
A woman in London runs a failing guinea pig cafe, sleeps with men she shouldn't, and breaks the fourth wall constantly to tell the audience what she can't tell anyone else in her life. Her mother is dead. Her best friend is dead. She is funny about it in a way that reveals how much she isn't okay. Two short, perfect seasons. The intimacy of the direct address creates exactly the same effect as Rue's narration — the sense that the character is telling you things she won't say out loud.
Section 6
The Visual Prestige Dramas
12
I May Destroy You
2020
★8.3IMDb
Arabella is a young writer in London who wakes up one morning with a gap in her memory and a slow, fragmented realization that she was raped at a bar the night before. The show follows her processing this — publicly, badly, sometimes hilariously — while the people around her deal with their own versions of the same questions. Michaela Coel wrote, directed, and stars. Episode 9 imagines three different versions of how Arabella's assault ends and what each version does to her — it's the most formally sophisticated piece of writing about trauma and agency in recent television.
13
Industry
2020–present
★7.7IMDb
A cohort of young graduates join Pierpoint & Co., a London investment bank, and compete for permanent positions. The drug use, sex, and ambition are rendered with the same unapologetic frankness as Euphoria — these people are working 80-hour weeks, taking whatever keeps them functional, and doing things in the name of success that will cost them later. Smart about what capitalism does to people who want it too badly.
14
Minx
2022–2023
★7.8IMDb
It's 1972. Joyce Prigger is a feminist with a magazine idea and no money. Doug Renetti publishes pornography and sees an opportunity. Together they create the first women's erotic magazine, navigating the pornography industry, second-wave feminism, and each other. A show about women owning their desire in a world that penalizes them for it — period-set but speaking directly to now, and considerably warmer and funnier than the premise suggests.
15
Killing Eve
2018–2022
★8.3IMDb
Eve Polastri is an MI5 security analyst who becomes professionally, then personally, then dangerously obsessed with a psychopathic assassin she's been assigned to track. The assassin — Villanelle — is equally interested in Eve. The obsession is explicitly romantic, makes complete psychological sense for both of them, and is also going to get someone killed. Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer create one of TV's most electric dynamics. The first two seasons are close to perfect; the show loses its way after that.
Section 7
Quick Match Guide
| Want... | Watch | |---------|-------| | Most similar teen drama format | Skins, 13 Reasons Why | | Same emotional rawness | Normal People, I May Destroy You | | Queer identity focus | Pose, We Are Who We Are, Genera+ion | | Dark British comedy-drama | End of the F***ing World, Fleabag | | Addiction as the center | Intervention, Skins | | Prestige visual style | Industry, Killing Eve | | European teen drama | Elite (Spain) |
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