Sharon Cherski

Sharon Cherski is Angela Chase's oldest friend, the one she grew up with before deciding she wanted a different kind of life. Popular, poised, and dating a football player, Sharon still shows up in the school health office with an unshakeable politeness, even as Angela drifts toward louder, messier company and leaves her behind.

The show could easily make Sharon the discarded 'boring' friend, but it keeps insisting she has an interior life Angela simply stopped looking for. Devon Odessa plays her with a controlled, hurt dignity that never curdles into resentment, so every scene between them quietly asks what growing apart actually costs.