In EUPHORIA, high-schoolers turn to sex, drugs and violence for a heady — and hellish — escape. Read Alan Sepinwall's review
There’s a risk of a show like this trying so hard to be cool that it’s anything but. And there are moments whereseems to cynically lean into fearmongering about teen recklessness. But the direction by Augustine Frizzell and Levinson is visually striking throughout, full of moments lit to look both menacing and intoxicating.
They pull excellent performances from their cast. Zendaya, a former Disney darling, is following a tradition of onetime child stars tackling more explicit roles to transition into adulthood, but her work goes so much deeper than Rue snorting lines. Even as Rue’s scamming everyone, Zendaya always makes her seem vulnerable and just barely concealing her pain. Schafer and Ferreira are superb covering relatively untrod ground.
The first few episodes are working overtime to troll, only sometimes hitting that narrow window Rue tells us about. There’s a stunning montage in the second episode where Rue, struggling to improvise a class monologue about what she did over summer break, flashes through a series of randomly ordered family memories that are alternately happy and angry. She can’t decide whether to emphasize the good or bad parts, and just shuts down. It’s a question thatstruggles with, too.
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