By the end of episode 4, some of the parallel storylines in “Euphoria” begin to cross paths, sometimes in stunning fashion. If the second half of this story is as compelling as the first, this will end up being one of the best limited series of the year.

It has some humor and sincere moments of friendship, but viewers won’t mistake it for a comedy. “Euphoria” has a story to tell, and its simple frankness packs a punch. Prepare for brutal candor with a heavy dose of empathy.

This show isn’t an easy watch, nor a particularly pleasant one. It’s often brash and blunt, defiantly refusing to tie up loose ends or let its characters take easy ways out. But just like the teens it depicts with such staggering candor, once you get past its immediate attempts to hold the audience at arms length, “Euphoria” has an undeniable pull that makes it too intriguing to ignore.

Despite Levinson’s clear command over his storytelling aesthetic, Zendaya’s strong turn, and a rich authenticity driving each scene, viewers shouldn’t expect to enjoy the series, which is ultimately its biggest downfall. ... As it stands, the severe darkness dulls the impact beyond blunt force trauma. There’s a connection to be made with Rue and her journey, but joy seems too far out of reach.

It succeeds at sucking the viewer into its vibe and at building some genuine suspense about how certain story lines will play out. Zendaya is also exceptional as Rue, the glue that holds this sprawling ensemble piece together. But I can’t say for certain that I fully like it, either, because it’s gratuitous for reasons that don’t always seem necessary.

Rue and Jules’s relationship is the jewel of “Euphoria.” I’ll keep watching because I desperately want to protect them. Otherwise, the show so far (I’ve seen four episodes) is a highly self-conscious study of ennui, overfull with fancy camera tricks and thousand-dollar designer getups.

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.

The is my spirit animal. That is all. There's nothing more that needs to be said.

this show blew my mind i watched like a year after it launched or something and to me it came outta nowhere and the acting aswell as the editing and direction are all superb congratulations to everyone involved in this show because you deserve all the praise you get and more. this is so real and actual it hurts my mind. (just love TEOTFW and Wayne more cause theyre kinda a little more my style but still) AMAZING

Giving it a 3 because of the cinematography mostly. This show is a mess. Everything is done for the shock value, and not a single character is likable. The adults are all useless / drug or alcohol addicts / closeted abusive homosexuals with the only exception being the protagonist's mother. Every single one of the teenagers is horrible. All of the girls are very promiscuous, even the ones the show tries to portray as conservative. Case and point: what do you do when your boyfriend, whom you love, gets assaulted and hazed by this fellow freshmen? Why hook up with a random guy that dresses like Ted Bundy of course. Or how about the fat girl that just sleeps with every random "because love doesn't exist" and she's just so broken inside. This just brings me to my point - all of the characters are broken / have extremely traumatic experiences that shape them. I'm not denying that traumas like this exist. Parents can be drug addicts, or die from cancer. You may struggle with depression and attempt suicide. But the issue here is that all the characters are broken. All of them. And all of them do way too much drugs and explicit sex purely for shock value, which lessens whatever impact the show-runners wanted to have.

The first episode was full of sex and artifice just to try to shock its viewer, even more in the emphasis given to showing genitals even being prostheses. At first it did not seem promising, I hope the next episodes the plot has a better way to follow

The whole thing is based on quite blatant exploitation of controversy. The creators just thought boldly with they income calculators in hands that more **** etc. means more money. Are they right? For me it's just cringy abomination.