>>5996900>>5996903>>5966833>>5982450It was actually a bit of a shock going from Buffy teen drama episodes to watching Euphoria, I was impressed that they opened the TV series with 9/11. Also the Rainer Maria Rilke poem at the end, hehe
A lot happened in two decades, whether fantasy, sci-fi, relationship melodrama, there should be some fictional and dramaturgical representation of change
Euphoria had too much sex and too much music, perhaps they did it deliberately to emphasise the internet media hypersaturation of the generation. It makes all of the frenzied copulation feel emotionally less memorable or suspenseful, the characters falter at inducing sympathy, the audience is benumbed and deadened to their ordeals. I liked the retro 1980s nostalgia segment (exploring the origins/background of the jock / athlete character's patriarchal father figure) it had cool 1980s rock music, they cast attractive actors and actresses, it felt like the authentic American Dream fantasy, if you blank out the Zendaya drug addict monotone voiceover narration it was enjoyable.
Unrealistically, they were willing to address almost every taboo, abortion, penis pictures on phones, very grim drug use robbery murder scenes, yet according to Euphoria there is no racism in America, no one dares utter racial slurs or derogatory / insensitive racial language, no transgender slurs either. It seems unbelievable how the major narrative impetus of the series is based on the real estate developer / male patriarch father secret repressed homoerotic desires (he lives a double life maintaining a facade of the model white family whilst visiting motels and fornicating with young male/trans prostitutes) he is so ashamed! His secret must never ever be exposed!! Imagine the disgrace!! Meanwhile, the high school transgender character is happily visiting girl's bathrooms, everyone respectfully uses correct pronouns and never questions, threatens or even awkwardly insinuates, complete societal acceptance. Maybe it is supposed to illustrate a inner psychological self-inflicted torment / generational gap (between parents / 1980s and Gen Z) but the tv series never convinced me of ostracisation there. When the father abandons his family and goes full homo lol embraceing his sexuality, he experiences basically no consequences and is fine and happy (until his athlete son calls the police)
Anyway, here is one of the 1980s songs from the soundtrack, it is good
Roxette, The Look
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LlVI7ZNiFlIWalking like a man
Hitting like a hammer
She's a juvenile scam
Never was a quitter
Tasty like a raindrop
She's got the look
Heavenly bound
Cause heaven's got a number
When she's spinning me around
Kissing is a colour
Her loving is a wild dog
She's got the look
She's got the look (She's got the look) x2
What in the world can make a brown-eyed girl turn blue
When everything I'll ever do I'll do for you
And I go la la la la la she's got the look
