7 Teen Dramas To Watch If You're Sick Of 'Euphoria'

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Soooo, the much-awaited season three of Euphoria is out, and as eagerly as everyone was waiting for it to drop, people have been just as quick to drag it since the first episode.

> euphoria season 3 is so fucking boring like ohhh my god what a drag

— Asia ⋆˚꩜ (@italkayelot) April 28, 2026

Via Twitter: @italkayelot

I mean, I get it. People are tired of the scenes and the weird direction the show has taken. So to pull you out of that misery, because yes, I care about y’all, I found better teen dramas than Euphoria. But these aren’t your usual shows. These are (drumroll pleaseee) vertical dramas! Yes, those short, drama-filled reels you keep seeing while scrolling on Instagram. And the best part, you don’t even have to wait forever for new episodes. These are ultra short shows where each episode is barely one to three minutes long, things move fast, the drama is nonstop, and before you know it you’re 40 episodes deep in one sitting.

So here are 7 teen dramas in vertical format you can (SHOULD) watch instead of Euphoria:

1.

Don't Miss Me When I'm Gone, available on ReelShort.

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This vertical drama has that same 'teen constantly getting treated terribly' energy that you might weirdly get invested in. Daisy Evans loses her parents and moves in with her godmother, Aunt Sandra, where she’s suddenly living with the Miller brothers—two protective, rich, extremely complicated boys. Things start feeling very love-triangle-coded until Lola, the maid’s daughter, enters the picture and blows everything up. Then the brother she loves most breaks her heart so badly that she leaves and the Miller brothers completely lose it trying to track her down. And fair warning: this one gets pretty dark at times.

I know reading about it probably isn’t enough, so here’s a snippet from the trailer so you can watch the mess unfold for yourself:

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2.

Kissing the Wrong Brother, available on DramaBox.

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Just like Cassie Howard, who will do literally anything to win over—and keep—her crushes, Aria is determined to get her crush to notice her before graduation, so she does what any messy teen drama protagonist in a vertical drama would do: asks his dangerously charming older brother to teach her about love, dating, and intimacy. Very quickly, their 'lessons' start feeling a little too real, and she realizes she may be falling for the completely wrong brother instead.

Don’t believe me that it gets this intense? Here’s a little snippet from the first episode for you:

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3.

True Heiress vs. Fake Queen Bee, available on ReelShort.

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Hailey Kaplan is sick of everyone treating her like 'the rich girl', so when she transfers to a public school, she decides to hide who she really is and finally have a normal teenage life. Honestly, this micro drama feels like the kind of plot that would’ve absolutely dominated 2010s teen TV. But things get so messy when Candice, the daughter of her family’s maid, shows up pretending to be the real Kaplan heiress, and somehow everyone just goes with it. Overnight, Candice becomes the most popular girl at school while Hailey gets pushed to the bottom of the social scene and starts getting bullied by basically everyone. The identity-switching drama in this one is genuinely WILD.

Here’s a little snippet from the trailer for you:

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4.

The One That Got Away, available on DramaBox.

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Bella spends two years thinking she’s in this sweet, loyal relationship with transfer student Louie, only to find out he’s basically been playing her the entire time. He’s actually in love with her stepsister Vivian, who Bella already feels constantly steals the spotlight from her, and somehow Bella ends up getting painted as the villain in all of it. This vertical drama really does not let Bella catch a break. Bella works herself to the bone trying to win the Iris Prize for charity so she can secure her future, but Louie secretly helps Vivian steal the win at the last second. There’s betrayal, bullying, public humiliation, and even moments where Bella gets physically hurt because Louie keeps choosing Vivian over her. Eventually, she reaches her limit and decides she’s done begging for love from people who clearly don’t deserve her.

Here’s a little something from the first episode so you can get a feel for the drama yourself:

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5.

The Quarterback Next Door, available on ReelShort.

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If Lexi Howard and every awkward teen rom-com protagonist ever somehow became one person, you’d probably get Skylar Heron. Her senior year starts o