Euphoria

Creator Sam Levinson always pushes further than most, shoving the desperation and disillusionment of a young and apparently mostly hopeless generation right in front of the camera. It’s strong stuff. It’s meant to be. “Euphoria” is its own kind of twisted high.

But while the stage is set for more heartbreak and danger, you also sense that this show has grown up along with its ensemble.

Without the high school as the central location and a raging house party to kick things off, the premiere does have a fractured quality; by some miracle, the 62-minute runtime doesn’t drag.

The success of Euphoria’s teen drama ultimately depends on which teen it focuses on at any given moment. With Rue and Jules at the center, you feel the exhilaration of their friendship as much as a real concern for their growing troubles. But with its less fully developed characters, the series can feel like little more than a lurid performance of teenage pain.

Outside of a few poignant character moments, Euphoria tries so hard to be provocative that it doesn’t stir up much at all. It’s a gorgeous, empty thing that mistakes external beauty for inner depth.

“Euphoria” always skewed nihilistic, so none of these ideas are out of place in what may be its last season. But Levinson’s series was never this spiritually hollow.

Euphoria has all the elements of a juicy teen soap, but the high school antics are curdled into their most sickening formulations, the fun sanded off till the skin is raw. Everywhere you look is only sadness and debasement. Euphoria has plenty of antecedents, other teen incitements that push a frenzied kind of emptiness—Kids, Skins, Less Than Zero—but there’s an especial dullness to Euphoria’s provocation.

For me this is how you do it. I can't muster a single problem with it, that's worth mentioning, given the end result. It's the type of show that is so original and unique that you either love it or you hate it, but in whatever direction you go, it would be with a fiery passion. It is one of the very few TV series that sets my bar for a great show.

The cinematography is amazing and really inventive, everything from set-pieces to period piece episodes engages the audience. The first season started out very strong, but it ended up leaving me with questions. The two specials were substanceless and made me weary for the second season. I still approached with excitement as the show is captivating and worth a watch. However, halfway through it loses the plot and becomes obvious if not boring. When watching tv shows I personally always think of rewatchability and with season 2's end, they make it clear none of the plot development will be rewarded and thus not worth revisiting.

Its good series with good script and good artists. It my first story about teen life in real world where all people no live but survive. I like it, but it is so much porn)))

Euphoria's inaugural season was complex to say the least. Season one held high highs and low lows with the majority of its positives coming in the way of acting and cinematography. Still, the first season left me with a feeling of dissatisfaction with the majority of the whole while still holding out hope that the true themes of the drug epidemic, teenage sexuality, and young adulthood would shine through in its second outing. Unfortunately Euphoria season 2 takes what the first season built and plunges into a horrific nose dive into what could very well be to the definition of "bad taste". This may be an intentional choice by the showrunners, but there hasn't been an episode where I felt like I was watching a show with a message. Most of it is simply unpleasant to bear witness to. While the cinematography and performances tend to shine the brightest, (particularly in Zendaya's Rue), the show caves in on itself due to the weight of its own lust for misery.

It's an entire world populated by undesirable, self-involved people, and then places them in scenarios where their worst traits destroy them. These characters take themselves wayyy too seriously. It's a dour, gristly, humorless undertaking perhaps for teenage viewers who also want to learn to take themselves more seriously than they should.