Euphoria jules and nate8/15/2023 ![]() My little brother was a drug dealer, not that unlike Ashtray. There’s a lot of cheating and backsliding, regret and guilt in high school, and plenty of fear about being found out. It’s not that I don’t find much of what goes on in Euphoria relatable, either. Likewise, the only thing interesting about the triangle between Maddy, Nate, and Cassie is why anyone would be interested in an abusive POS like Nate - those cheekbones will only get you so far, chief - and also, how far is Cassie willing to push it before she comes completely undone? (I really want to find out. It’s not to say that it doesn’t work - I’m invested in the love triangle between Rue, Jules, and Elliot, even if we’ve seen it a hundred times, only with less oral sex. Some of the storylines this season are like something straight out of a CW teen soap, only given the illusion of being more layered by the number of drugs and sex scenes involved. Where did Algee Smith’s Chris McKay go, for instance? Why has one of last season’s best characters, Kat, been reduced to a footnote? Why is a violent drug dealer the most sympathetic character on Euphoria? If Sam Levinson cut so many topless scenes with Syndey Sweeney at her request, just how many were written in the first place? Does Sam Levinson - who writes all the episodes himself (except for one episode last season he wrote with Schafer) - ever stop to consider if the show might benefit from some other perspectives? There have been several inscrutable choices made this season. For every pretentious overlong fantasy sequence, there’s a cutting, terrifically delivered Cassie comeback, a mesmerizing performance from Hunter Schafer, or a tense storyline with Eric Dane’s Cal that ends with a confession that is brutal and raw, but also completely and unnecessarily over-the-top. This week’s episode was a prime example of both. I watch out of professional curiosity, but also because it can be very good. ![]() I get a lot of side-eye on Sunday nights, and I give just as much side-eye to my laptop screen. I promise! It’s HBO! It’s a very popular show. ![]() Every week, invariably, she’ll peek over at my laptop and ask, “What the hell are you watching?” and I’ll have to explain again, “It’s not porn. I have mixed feelings about HBO’s Euphoria, a show I typically watch on my laptop on Sunday nights while my wife is doing something else next to me. ![]()
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