![]() ![]() Most episodes of the show feature lots of nudity, heavy drug use, and occasional violence. As outrageous as teen dramas like Riverdale can be, none of them can hold a candle to Euphoria, a show that never met an illicit impulse it wouldn’t indulge, nor a boundary it wouldn’t push. And Jules (Hunter Schafer), Euphoria’s other protagonist, is a trans girl new to town, weaving in and out of the drama of these kids and their friends while trying to find fulfillment on her terms.Įuphoria’s first season - which premiered in June 2019, its return delayed two and a half years by the coronavirus pandemic - was notable for being HBO’s first teen drama, and leaned into that by making extensive use of the freedoms afforded by premium television. Kat (Barbie Ferriera) struggles with body image, finding her confidence in a side hustle as a cam girl, only to disconnect from her real-life friends. Nate (Jacob Elordi), struggling with his sexuality, channels his frustration into athleticism and rage, arguably becoming the show’s villain. It’s usually a downer.Ĭassie (Sydney Sweeney) has a father struggling with addiction who left her family when she was young, and in the present boys relentlessly objectify her. Introduced by protagonist and narrator Rue Bennet (Zendaya), HBO’s provocative teen drama zeroes in on one of her teen classmates for a whirlwind tour of their backstory. Of course, the episode was only part 1 of a two-part preemptive Season 2-covering the events following the Season 1 finale, after Jules leaves Rue, and Rue relapses.No matter how many characters crash in and out of them, most episodes of Euphoria start by focusing on one person. ![]() We shot everything in that diner in three-and-a-half days." And to be honest, I loved the challenge that COVID restrictions put on the show as a medium. So the day they called to shut us down, I actually pitched the idea of doing a super contained Euphoria movie … Then season two got pushed until 2021, so asked if I could do COVID episodes. In an interview with GQ, Euphoria creator Sam Levinson explained the impetus for the one-off episode: "I had a feeling that the pandemic was going to shut us down for a while leading up to it because I was watching what was happening to the rest of the world. The episode, a conversation between Rue and her NA sponsor Ali (Colman Domingo), was, in fact, inspired by recent events. In place of technicolor opiate binges and rooms full of genitalia and oodles of sex and rivers of alcohol-in short, in place of euphoria-HBO’s Euphoria opened its second season with a sobering special episode containing no partying, no strobes, only a little drug use, and almost one hour of pure, uncut but-for-the grace-of-God narcotics anonymous dialogue.Įuphoria’s episode “Rue” or “Trouble Don’t Last Always” plays out like a limited-set stage performance-a narrative minimalism, which feels both appropriate in the face of a COVID winter and also cathartic trouble found all of us this year.
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