**Not for the faint hearted even though this show will leave you feeling Euphoria in some moments**
This show straight from the word Euphoria literally brings lots of really important matters faced by teenagers today into light. This show is not for the faint hearted as it deals with drugs, violence, romance, sex and much more, therefore showing an all round representation of what teenagers are faced with nowadays. The main character RUE deals with her own demons from having a drug habit where she overdosed and her sister found her on the floor practically dead. RUE faking being clean to her Mom and then after meeting this girl called Jules who has her own demons and interests that is set on this man who is just a character cat fishing her into a false sense of security. RUE falls for her hard where the Euphoria grows and you watch their relationship go as RUE stays clean and keep going to rehab as Jules is literally her rock and the main reason why she is trying to stay clean. I am so happy and practically Euphoric right now that this amazing show has got renewed for a second season ten out of ten amazing acting especially from Hunter And Zendaya. Lets keep this new amazing HBO show going for lots more seasons too go and the soundtracks will leave you feeling so euphoric. #Rules #Euphoria #EuphoriaHBO #Zendaya

Because of all the positive reviews and the fact that _Skins_ is one of my favorite teen dramas of all time, I was excited to give this a watch. I was pretty surprised to find it disappointingly mediocre. This might be one of the most overhyped shows of all time; it's basically just a TV-MA rated version of _13 Reasons Why_.

My first complaint is with the way this show deals with sex. While horny teens on a quest to get some is the plot of lots of my favorite media like _The Inbetweeners_ and _Superbad_, this difference here is that this show flattens half the characters into fairly one-dimensional horndogs . Most of the male characters in this show are either some sort of sexual deviant or drooling cavemen whose only dialogue lines consist of telling girls how much they want to fuck them. The female characters, for that matter, accept with open legs any guy who asks. This drags out across every. single. episode. Virtually none of the characters are interesting; there is maybe one I care about and the rest could honestly drop dead and the show would be exactly the same.

This leads into my second complaint which is that the portrayal of adult themes just seems too unrealistic given that these are supposed to be high school students. They obviously tried as hard as they could to come up with as contrived a town as possible to set this in--pretty much every character is being raised by a single parent which I guess is supposed to help explain why they, as high school students, are basically out roaming free at night and going to house parties (in middle class suburbia, by the way) all the time. One of the girls dons full dominatrix garb and cams from her bedroom...is she not worried her parent(s) are going to walk in or even hear? Nope, parents don't really exist in this show. Another character goes out at night to fuck middle-aged men from dating apps in hotel rooms.

My third complaint is that I really don't care for the way the story is told and the scenes are shot. I'd have preferred a format where we just follow certain characters around for a while but no, we're jerked forward and backwards through the timeline by a narrator, _13 Reasons Why_ style. There are also some scenes where it takes you out of the realistic shots and cuts to wacky shots like bottles of pills animated as if they're talking, characters dressed up in costumes, or even cartoon animations. There also...isn't really much of a story. And not even in an artsy nihilistic way. In a bad way where you jump from one meaningless love triangle to another except they can hardly even be called love triangles because none of the characters really express any emotions at all.

I rank this show far below both _Skins_ and _Elite_.

There's just too much about this show that's just perfect in every single way, so I'll just focus on its emotional impact on me. First of all, this shows is exactly the kind of thing that i wished existed. Its cathartic as shit because the energy vibrating off of this is mine. These characters are my friends. And i don't mean that the story is EXACTLY based on real life but rather it parodies it. Euphoria came at the perfect time in my life because I've been missing my school and how fucked up life was then. I'm still not sure how people get out of high school and just be functional adults (they don't). I can't help but be smitten by the show simply because of how precisely close it is to the feeling of being a 17 year old because even if none of my friends have committed breaking and entering and blinded a guy and forced him to agree to confessing to assault but life sure fucking felt like we did and that's why this show is gold. It tries to capture the feeling and not the actions (even though some are scarely close to reality) of teenagers. I love love love everything that this show is. If Euphoria was a human being i would hug it tightly, it saved me from a pit i didn't know i was in.

I still dont know what to feel about this show. I am kinda disappointed that all the plotlines that i was interested in were just dropped or just wrapped up with little satisfaction.And i dont need every thing to be ended satisfyingly, but this just felt like wasted potential . Zendaya is obviously the star of the show and completely deserves the emmy win.Ep 3 was just amazing and my favourite, and i wish the story focused more on her addiction rather than all the highschool BS that we have seen so many times
Technically this show is top notch , with amazing camerawork,lighting, music ( which felt kinda excessive some times) and acting. The problem comes with the characters and the plot.I found only a handful of side characters interesting and there are a lot of them. Nate whom i was very interested in just becomes the bad guy who does things basically because he is bad. The entire subplot of him lying to the police also didnt really go anywhere(maybe it will be answered in season 2 ) Fezco was another really interesting character and his relationship with Rue was one of the best part of the show. Ali who could have been a great character is just dropped halfway , same with mckay who doesnt even appear in the last ep. The carnival episodes one take was so good. I wish there were more scenes of the cast just sitting and talking like there was in the last ep . All the girls just talking about life and relationships while being drunk was the most relatable scene in the entire show( aside from rue's breakdown in ep 3). There were so many dropped plotlines (which maybe will be resolved in s2) and so many holes and gaps in the story. Also the show wants to include all taboo things but doesnt really want to delve into them deeply. I wish they had just focused on one character (rue) and told the story of a drug addict, instead of including all these highschool drama things. Also Lexi and Rue's relation was so underutilised. All in all a 7- 7.5
/10 with the 3rd ep being a 10/10(just wish there had been more tackling of addiction rather than typical teen drama.) The last ep was okay , but I wish there were more scenes like all the girls just talking about life throughout the show.There also plenty of shots that are just beautiful to look at.There are definitely some scenes which you will look at and think how the hell they did that( like the party scene in ep 1 where rue basically becomes spiderman , or the carnival one take which is so good). All in all it was a good show and had a unique flair to it and definitely stands out among the crowd of teen shows , but suffers because of a weak plot.Still conflicted wether or not to watch season 2. Also Zendaya is the best part of the show

It takes a few episodes to get going but it gets REALLY good. The fourth episode builds so much tension that I had to stop watching it to ask people what was going to happen because I got so worried. There are a lot of relatable and likeable characters. Nate's dad is actually really sweet, just very damaged; and Jules is a beautiful ray of goodness. My biggest criticism is that the editing could be snappier--I did a lot of skipping over inconsequential bits. Overall, Euphoria captures the travails of youth really well, without being condescending or pandering.