Every aspect Euphoria's second season — the filmmaking, the storytelling, the acting — brims with a hunger to push harder, go deeper, and uncork more emotion. chaneyj writes
Photo: Marcell Rev/HBO The first episode of Euphoria season two opens blatantly, unapologetically, like a Martin Scorsese film.
Levinson doesn’t spend the entirety of Euphoria’s second season mimicking the style of one of the great American filmmakers, though. As established in its first season, which unspooled on HBO in 2019, Levinson is a filmmaker with a moody vibe all his own, one he leans fully into throughout the seven new episodes provided to critics in advance.
And while the HBO series feels more than ever like an ensemble piece, it’s still correct to call Zendaya its lead. Rue narrates all the episodes and her struggles with drugs — she is on them again, to an extreme degree — remain central to the series. “As a beloved character that a lot of people are rooting for, I feel a certain responsibility to make good decisions,” Rue says in a meta fantasy sequence in which she lectures a class on how to get away with being a drug addict. “But I relapsed.
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