Zoey Johnson

Zoey is the oldest Johnson kid, gliding through high school on effortless popularity and a phone she never quite puts down. She treats her parents' schemes and her siblings' meltdowns with the bored amusement of someone above it all, more interested in her social standing than in family drama she considers beneath her.

Yara Shahidi plays teenage detachment as high art, delivering withering one-liners with a flicker of an eyebrow instead of a raised voice. The writing trusts her deadpan to do the work, letting Zoey puncture her family's chaos with a single unimpressed glance rather than a speech.