Brian Krakow

Brian Krakow lives across the street from Angela Chase and has known her since childhood, which is precisely the problem: he's smart, awkward, and hopelessly in love with a girl who barely registers him now that Jordan Catalano exists. He fumbles conversations, overthinks everything, and hides behind sarcasm and homework.

Devon Gummersall plays Brian's misery without ever making him pathetic — the writing trusts that unrequited teenage longing is its own kind of drama worth taking seriously. His discomfort is so exact, so unglamorous, that he becomes the show's quiet emotional barometer, the one person whose crush costs him something real every episode.