With the latest bleak injection of teenage anxiety, "Euphoria season 2" crosses the line once again
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) After a gap of two and a half years between seasons with a special part between them, "Euphoria season 2" returns, presenting the latest change in youth anxiety.
"Euphoria season 2" is working overtime to distinguish itself from "Gossip Girl" or other television contributions to the genre, in an effort to rival the thinnest films that have researched in these areas or premium series such as "Genera + ion" and "13 Reasons Why," the same source Argument.
However, any TV show ultimately boils down to the characters, as the series falls short, even with flights of fantasy - giving certain episodes an almost dream-like quality - and the heavy narrative provided by Zendaya's Rue, who struggles with addiction persevere.
Levinson designed the season as a series of stories involving individual characters, gradually bringing these threads together over the seven preview episodes. However, there is a recurring quality of issues at work, among them Roe's relationship with Jules (Hunter Shaffer) and the triangle featuring Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), Maddie (Alexa Demi) and Nate (Jacob Elordy), all of whom are bruised and damaged. in his own way.
Nor does the new season completely escape the previous trend of reducing parents to either monsters or ineffectual mouths that remember the unseen voices in old Charlie Brown cartoons, despite efforts to flesh out some of their history.
Criticizing "Ecstasy" as someone weaned from previous generations of teen dramas risks a certain "Get off my law" quality, and the show has its share of critical and ardent fans, earning Zendaya and Emmy for its first season and intensity of performance.
However, the scripted characters almost dare viewers to pay close attention to them, and the show's attempts to be edgy sometimes feel uncomfortable, including a later encounter in which the weapon is marked as foreplay.
True, in the age of broadcasting, a show like this isn't meant to be everyone's cup of tea and doesn't need to be, with the advantage that "Euphoria" attracts audiences who might not regularly watch much on top HBO or HBO. (She returns with another series that offers a different spin on dysfunctional families, the "Right Gems," which aren't particularly well paired.)
Teens in "ecstasy" (played by their twenties, as is common) did not corner the market on self-absorption and clearly did not invent it. In the final analysis, though, this last set of episodes unfolds with the kind of grim, unpleasant efficiency that can make one feel just as numb as Rue's voices.
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