Jenny Humphrey from Gossip Girl and Rue Bennett from Euphoria are pretty similar, in my opinion.

Here’s one reason why I deeply think so.

Both dabble with illegal substances

A huge similarity between Jenny and Rue comes down to their willingness to dabble with illegal substances.

The main difference here though is that Jenny never actually consumed any illegal substances for herself.

She was willing to sell them while she was dating Damien Dalgaard, which means she was fully aware that dangerous drugs and pills were passing through her hands in exchange for cash, and she didn’t really care.

She was living life on the edge for a couple of reasons. She wanted enough money to fit in with her wealthy classmates at Constance while she was taking on the Queen Bee role and she wanted to be impressive enough to Damien, so he wouldn’t see her as an immature little girl.

In Rue’s case, she was actually willing to consume the illegal substances for herself.

Funny enough, when Rue was given the opportunity to sell off an entire suitcase of illegal substances to get into the drug dealer game similar to Jenny, she actually failed at it and took all the drugs for herself.

Since Rue is an addict, that was to be expected of her character. Based on the trailer we’ve seen for Euphoria season 3, we know that decision to take $5000 worth of drugs all on her own is coming back to haunt her.