National Institute on Drug Abuse website. March 24, Euphoria is that excitement you get from getting a perfect score on a test, or attention from someone you have a crush on. It can come from a roller coaster ride or as the rush from a physical activity like downhill skiing, especially the first time.
These feelings of euphoria are all healthy and natural. What's not healthy or natural is taking drugs to feel "euphoric. Look at all those pills! For such a young girl! But there are also glossier takes on this basic theme, most notably the CW series Gossip Girl , which ran from to But that same moment came complete with a mini lecture from Rue on the ubiquity of porn, an unnecessary detail that made me roll my eyes.
Curiously, the teens of Euphoria seem to have very little relationship to technology so far. They text, sure, and they know how to search PornHub. The problem is that this approach denies the teenage characters any agency. Zendaya is one of my favorite actors of her up-and-coming generation, and her world-weary affect is perfect to play teen characters who speak with the voice of something screenwriters, because Zendaya has seemed world-weary since she was on the Disney Channel as a teen.
Sidebar: If you are contemplating a new film version of Cabaret , Hollywood — and I know you have to be! The first time I saw Jules, even before I knew she was trans, I sparked to something in her, like Rue does the first time the two meet. And then the show revealed her trans status, and the penny dropped.
The man she meets up with in the pilot turns out to be the father of a classmate, a soapy twist I probably should have hated but totally loved. Their near-immediate bond embodies the kind of alchemy that no writer could really be privy to.
The show centers around the inevitable culture clash between the new kids and their exorbitantly wealthy classmates, but there's also a murder mystery woven through the fabric of the show. Sometimes the show you're looking for is one that doesn't take itself too seriously. Few shows have ever made me feel the full spectrum of human emotion in the way My Mad Fat Diary did.
When we meet Rae Sharon Rooney at the beginning of the series, she's returning to everyday life after a four-month stay in a psychiatric hospital.
She has trouble reconnecting to her friends and grapples so deeply with the reality of her situation that she even lies to her popular best friend played by a pre- Killing Eve Jodie Comer about where she was, claiming that she'd instead taken a trip to France.
Even after receiving treatment, her mental health proves to be an ongoing obstacle, as does her body image. There's so much of Rue in Rae, and the show similarly has a lot to say about being a young woman just trying to make your way through a weird, scary world. It's something special. Like everything else on this list, it's set in a high school, but is less about the plot than it is about the vibes.
There are ongoing plot lines, but each episode could stand on its own, as most simply follow the characters getting through the day. Queerness is a major theme, as are the subtle but vast differences between the millennial experience and the Gen Z experience. Its characters have a certain innocence Euphoria 's don't, and while watching it, you really get the sense that these characters -- as self-assured as they present -- are still just kids trying to figure things out. If your favorite thing about Euphoria is its colorful cast of characters and all of their giant personalities, Sex Education should be your next watch.
The look and feel of the show are as superheated as adolescence itself. The colors are bold, the score and needle-drop songs are loud, and the camera rarely sits still when it can glide, swoop, whip-pan, or spiral. Levinson wrote all eight episodes in the first season and directed five. The medium-size town in which the tale is set was mainly built from scratch, the better to allow for expressionistic lighting and acrobatic visuals. How do you decide what a scene or sequence is going to contain?
Is the filmmaking written into the script? Do the images, sound, or music ever dictate what happens in the story?
We established early on that each scene ought to be an interpretation of reality or a representation of an emotional reality. How did you answer that question? Early on, I had gone into HBO to discuss the look and feel of the show. How did they respond to that idea?
On the pilot, which was directed by Augustine Frizell, I think HBO was reluctant to allow us to do that to the fullest possible extent. We decided that set ought to be a nest, it ought to be cozy, it ought to exist outside of space and time. There should be no ability for any kind of harsh light to seep in. If you look at the last shot of the pilot, we start kind of far back, you see the two of them lying in bed, you see the ceiling, and slowly, our camera moves up and over them.
The ceiling is actually just on hinges, [operated] with ropes, so that the ceiling could come off and the camera could get above them. I know we get that criticism quite a bit. That the emotional reality of it is connecting with them. What about you? Did you feel a connection? This show gave me flashbacks to what it felt like to be a teenager. Every friendship is tight yet at the same time susceptible to being destroyed by stupid misunderstandings.
It means a lot to hear you say that, because one of the big surprises of all this is how the audience turned out to be a lot broader than I think we were initially given credit for appealing to.
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