Zoey Johnson

Zoey Johnson is the effortlessly stylish, sharp-tongued oldest Johnson kid, stepping off her family's turf and into college life for the first time. She's used to being the cool one, the one with the answers, but freshman year at Cal U puts her social fluency and her sense of self to an actual test.

Yara Shahidi plays confidence without smugness, letting Zoey's wit and polish crack just enough to reveal someone genuinely figuring things out. The writing trusts her to be flawed — a little judgmental, a little lost — instead of just the fashionable big sister archetype, which is what makes her feel like a real freshman and not a mascot.