Can't wait for you to make a video on my *The Goldinum* film also starring Zendaya as well as Peter Gustavson as her husband and fellow Milton Blackwell, me in an Arab accent (which makes him sound like another genie known as Taj) Jason Sudeikis (in his real voice or not) as a different species than a bird (a stylized metallic came, in fact), Shaun Lambon as a steeled stylized spider and et cetera et cetera in the 2020s!!
I suspected that seeing her squinting and looking hung over all the time on Spider-Man. Very disappointed by her lack of zest. She looked like she needed rehab.
i’ve always liked zendaya but i also thought she was kind of overhyped as an actress. but after watching euphoria i take it back. she really is an amazing actress!!
AdriannaLauren she was over hyped before because she never played any complex characters until now. we never really saw her potential before and i’m glad that we see it now and can say all the unnecessary hype before is now valid
She was overhyped because of her as a person and we never got to see her talent. I’m so happy that I can finally get on the Zendaya trains now that I know how talented she is.
I'm glad she got a more complex role. I was underwhelmed with her acting in the first Spiderman movie but this show really proved how great of an actress she is
I've read that the creators never really want the show to strictly follow realism, but more on emotional realism. Hence, the exaggerated events that's happening
TheMonsterguy411 I TOTALLY AGREE!! The first four episodes I watched when I was on edibles and the other half I watched sober and honestly no difference to me 😅
Every single character that got backstory in this show I know at least one person at my high school that’s gone through it. Yes, including SPOILERS vvvvvvvvvvvv Selling their body on pornhub and being catfished by the exact same person in your school (be it different reasons in the show) The personalities at my school may differ but they’ve all gone through the same thing as the kids in this show has gone through, the only exception is someone’s dad secretly fucking children 😗
puroB well I mean I know some people do start having sex at a really young age and sound drugs at a really young age cause somebody I knew got pregnant in 8th grade and people got kicked out for doing drugs but even then some of those kids were on the honors or advanced path to
Sometimes when actors attempt scenes like that it can kind of come across as disingenuous or you can see through their acting, but holy shit Jacobs promance was so incredible it actually made me scared, like I really felt his screams and pain and it definitely surved it's purpose to shock the viewers
Highschool series sometimes make me think "damn highschoolers life in US are crazy" because here in Asia mostly what we care about are grades, shit ton of homeworks, courses, projects, exams and less likely to think about and have romance and life drama
Don’t all kids are like this. But it can be. It just depends on the type of crowd you are around. Even the “smart kids” at our school will be involved in a life like this.
You forgot to talk about the incredible soundtrack. It’s so exciting and is perfect for Euphoria. It just feels right, gets you hyped like you’re in the show idrk it’s just really great
Yesss. I finished the season like two weeks ago and I still have the soundtrack on repeat. That finale number with the band, dancers, and visuals blew my freaking mind. Discovering Labrinth's score style is reviving my soul.
Why do people “hate” to say things are good? This is a consistent thought I have noticed in most review episodes. Shouldn’t people be happy that shows are good?
two years ago i got out of high school and i can actually say a lot of similar stuff happened in my city during those years. a lot of drug use, sex tapes and nudes being leaked, prostitution, dating older men, abusive relationships and the usual drama. so seeing all of this come to life, it obviously didn't look as exciting and intense in real life as it does in the show but i thought it was so realistic and i liked that they were really honest with it like yeah teenagers really have these thoughts and go through similar shit. that's why i love it so much
people say the show is unrealistic but tbh, my friends and i had similar (although much tamer) experiences like the parties, the drama, the sex, the drugs, etc.
I think some of it is a tad unrealistic, Kat's story in particular. Most people who have only just lost their virginity don't just immediately become sex workers and sex godesses... but most of it is realistic, and the acting is good enough so that it's all believable
@@raquelpetus225 I don't think a teen will try to black mail an adult with a statutory rape charge, not do I believe a trans teen would be freely allowed to run around the city and be a prostitute. I'm not day ng these things are impossible and I was being hyperbolic but they are very very far from the norm and even the outlier.
It's stated in so many episodes that his dad owns half the town, and he's a "good boy" who plays football and "keeps himself out of trouble" so I really think him getting off as light as he did was accurate
@@dirkeldritch4880 The more I think about it, you guys are probably right, and I just don't personally understand his level of privilege. I grew up knowing the cops were my enemy, so I guess I can't understand Nates position at all.
"but for once it feels really nice to have a story about high school and growing up that took it too far rather than shying away from what that experience really is.' PERIOD!!!!!!
A ton of high schoolers in my area have lights like that in their house. It’s mostly just amazon LED lights put up around their room or even house lol.
Same, i see so many kids from my school on snap with purple led lights around their room. I think I’d get slapped by my mom if I asked for lights like that. Just be normal dammit
Ally my parents are foreign, when it comes to bedrooms, in their mind, all I need is a bed, they don’t understand the needs for an increasing electricity bill because of “aesthetic”
I think my favorite scene has to be when Rue was just screaming at Fez’s door, cursing him out and telling him to fix her because he ruined her life and you could really see that he wanted to open it but still didn’t because that was the only way he could actually help her. Breaks my heart every time man.
The dance number part of it is...not for everyone. But the song was AMAZING and captured the feeling of the show so well in my opinion. I can't stop listening to it.
Some mild spoilers ahead Honestly? People keep saying how unrealistic this show seems but aside from the obvious stylistic choice, this is unfortunately how things felt at my highschool. An abusive jock shithead who eventually got arrested for beating his gorgeous cheerleader girlfriend. I was the big girl who found her confidence through too early sex work. I had friends with addictions (lost five growing up to over doses.. huge opiod crisis here) and friends of different sexual and gender identities. I grew up in a really bad neighbourhood and sometimes highschool really is hell. While obviously my life was far from equally as dramatic, a lot of the awful elements feel almost nostalgic to me. This show does a great job of calling back to a crazy time in my life and also making it watchable and more dramatic and interesting. These characters, cinematography and colours and stories are wonderful. It is tackling with honesty and beauty.
@@milkhoney6618 Same. Growing up surrounded by drugs, almost dying myself and still seeing my friends and fam struggle with various addictions, mental health problems, the fights with Rue's mom. All of it left me sobbingggg at the finale, I binged the series and it brought up a lot of stuff. I felt down for a while. I hope you're doing better.
@@whitneyhenry5755 I am so glad to survived that life and I am so proud of you for it. I am nearly 30 now and am faring better but now I carry narcan kits at all times. Opiod crisis is bad still. I had to revive someone last week.
this is too real. where I live, this is pretty much what youth are experiencing or have experienced in high school. and the increasing usage of drugs amongst youth is going up. more and more young people are born into a sense of hopelessness and mental health struggles are so tied to the escape through drugs that's become necessary for teens to survive into adulthood. the show also brings a lot of perspective around harm reduction, which I think is overlooked so often, and even criticized as encouraging drug usage. I mean, 14 year olds where I live smoke weed, do shrooms, and ecstasy pretty regularly and this show makes it a point to remind viewers to care for each other when using, and how using affects your personal relationships and impacts your loved ones (and community by extension). 🌸
Pretty accurate show in my opinion, including a bunch of key issues that happen in a teens life at least once. The show just exaggerates these issues maybe to show the worst and how bad they can actually get or effect. 1. Teenage pregnancy 2. Toxic relationships 3. Drug addiction/addictions 4. Body/image issues 5. Struggling with growing up 6. Sexuality/ LGBT+ 7. Family problems/home issues 8. Bullying 9. Death 10. Social media
I tried my hardest not to binge the whole season and wanted to spread it out, but I couldn't help myself. If you loved this than I highly recommend skins (uk version).
If you love euphoria and skins I highly recommend SKAM. The original Norwegian version is the most realistic/innovative teen show ever. The Italian and Dutch remakes are also really good! You can find subtitled eps online. The Dutch version posts subtitled episodes on youtube.
Great video! The criticism of the show being “unrealistic” always makes me laugh.... the title of the series is “Euphoria”. It’s supposed to feel like an unrealistically heightened version of what it really is, while still maintaining a very grounded emotional realism.
I watched the carnival episode while on acid and let me tell y’all...the cinematography was so much more pleasing and beautiful to look at! the colors and makeup seemed to pop out more it was really neat.
There's been a billboard up recently for this show on my daily walk to school and I saw it and thought "This looks waaaaay too cliche and I'm not watching it." Willing to have you change my mind
I will say, the show is very over-the-top (but granted I’ve been out of high school for ten years now so what do I know), but like he said, it’s better that it’s that way rather than playing too safe and being inauthentic. I love the show and most of the characters. Like someone else said, it reminded me of Skins but not quite as insane haha.
Euphoria actually develops and explores each layer of the characters instead of just forcing a tragic backstory it shows each ripple of decisions and actions Y. E. S.
A lot of the party scenes, scenes in the cars, sleepovers, and especially the carnival reminded me a lot of high school and set the overall tone of how I felt. The visuals cause uneasy feelings at times, the same as high school. Same with the gloomy classroom shots. I feel that this was the first thing I’ve seen on TV that actually reminded me of a lot of specific moments of high school.
I loved this show so much. I'm 36. My high school experiences were a mix of every character on the show. The "unrealistic" parts, as you pointed out, are the art around the story. My favorite thing about the show is the juxtaposition of extremely adult situations happening to children who still ride bikes as their main form of transportation. I am reminded of being 14 and riding my bike to my 19 year old neighbor's house to get plastered in his basement. The show is a painting, really. I love it. I'm also pregnant with a girl, and somehow seeing my own experiences portrayed on the screen in this way has me shook. But, I survived. And so will she.
I personally love almost every aspect of euphoria, but its story telling reminds me a lot of UK skins. That show also focuses on highschool and involves drug use, addiction, loss, relationship drama etc. and it had a similar story telling format, where each episode we are introduced to a character. I feel like Euphoria owes a lot to skins, but Euphoria's execution is better on almost every level.
I don't think they're all that similar in terms of story telling. while they do have episodes centres around certain characters, both of the shows seem to be trying to portray different things with their cinematography and tone etc. Skins is meant to be more down to earth/gritty while euphoria is more wacky and artistically driven (take the scenes such as the one at the end of the finale, the harry styles/louis thing, the one where lexi and rue are detectives and when rue and jules talk about dick picks, etc) i prefer skins for the way it's grounded, as I think that makes the story a more realistic representation of the teenage experience, but I appreciate the artistic, parody elements a lot in euphoria. if skins did that though it would ruin the entire dynamic of the show.
This isn't relevant or important, but all I could think about when Zendaya started singing in the Euphoria season finale, was that one episode of Skins (the season one finale too, I believe) where the cast starts singing Wild World out of nowhere... that is to this day one of my favorite moments on a TV show ever, specially because it happens right after a very dramatic scene, and it brought me so much joy both times. Anyways, I'm so happy both shows exist.
It’s super realistic to me. It depends what friend group you hang out in but I could find real life people, including myself, that the characters reminded me of. But it’s a show so of course it has to be glammed up with symbolism, but I related deeply with the friend group. For example, doing drugs, parities, weird relationships, promiscuity, abuse, etc. I felt like I was watching a specific chaotic part of my life. And this is what this show is about, chaos and finding euphoria in all of it. It reminded me of all those late night in Fort Lauderdale that I spent with many people, and the kind of crap I used to get myself into. I will relate to this show more than any teenage drama out there, and I really hate teenage dramas. P.S. the lights are meant for color theory and symbolism, but the houses of my friend group and the people I hang out with, the parties I went to, they all had that weird dark color with the room being lit up with some purple or red strobe light. I just think it’s a stylistic choice. I like my room super dark, but with one stream of fairy lights across the wall for example.
I have been out of school for a while, but I am so glad to hear that someone also had these types of experiences. My time in high school was also absolute chaos and captured quite well in Euphoria. Not from the Fort Lauderdale area, from more north FL, but yeah you're def not alone in your experiences!
Lou Angeles it was mostly out of high school. Age 18-21. My high school life was more depressing than exciting, although I guess I could talk about all the things I experienced in high school since I went to about six different once’s in different states. I think my high school life is the reason I kinda went crazy once I graduated lol
i like how the characters lived in a low/middle class neighborhood, while characters like nate lived in a higher neighborhood. the show does remind me of my highschool, but in a hyper way.
I as a high schooler from a middle class Indian household can not relate to the show- probably cuz it's focused on American teens' lives. But the acting, the cinematography and the storyline was phenomenal! It is truly commendable. It is truly awesome!
Euphoria is a sequence of "give this person an Emmy!" reactions, split into 8 episodes. It handles incredibly well the harsh topics it deals with, from drug use to bullying to gender identity to masculinity and its toxicity.
it would’ve definitely been more relatable if the show took place in the city. as someone who just graduated high school from Chicago, the drug usage at these schools are absolutely insane. it’s so insane that the students at the schools scattered around the city all know each other. why? bc of the parties and drugs. it’s sad. but this is what it is. euphoria did a great job depicting it, whether suburban or city setting!
I think the lack of realism adds to it, because the story is supposed to be told by rue, a teenager with a drug problem. Certain scenes are over the top and dramatic because it's through rue's perspective. I think the camera work also adds to this, given that she has anxiety and those shots convey how it feels to have it pretty well. I just think that it's supposed to be unrealistic and dramatic because that's just how being a teenager is, you never know what happens next, you're so inexperienced that every little thing feels like a big deal, you're going though hormone bingo and all of that skews your view of reality. The LEDs are spot on though, I'm not even American and 2/3 people I know have some sort of led light in their room, me included
The club scene from episode 7 is my personal favorite scene. The insane lighting, the editing, the music, and of course the acting from Hunter Schaefer and Jacob Elordi is incredible! This scene and the confrontation between Nate and Cal in the finale are my two favorites.
honestly euphoria was exactly how high school was for me so i was differently invested in each of the characters. i love this show and that it is showing my experience without knowing me.
it’s a good show, hard to watch some scenes but it’s really awesome to see the show addressing mental health, insecurities, relationships, drugs, abuse and sex on such an intense level.
at first i assumed it was one of those stale shows that locals would hype up on twitter for about a week because the cast is hot but it’s actually a great depiction of many issues, basically an american skins
gosh i really love this show. it's almost been weeks since i finished watching it and it cannot get out of my head. now, when there's no s2 yet, I watch videos like these, you know, like reviews, or interviews or conferences, bloopers, technically everything aaaaaaaaahhhhh euphoria is a drug, literally and figuratively hhahaha
The cinematography is SO GOOD and the colour palette(what you say is the lightning) too. And i love that you're more of a movies guy which ks better for analyzing these aspects. I am too
I feel lowkey nauseous after watching your compilation of spinning shots, I didn't realize how much the camera actually whipped around until you put it all together.
I grew up in a low income neighborhood that was pretty rough at times and honestly this show was pretty realistic to the school I went to, I knew so many kids like the ones in this show and life got pretty dark for them after graduation, glad I was one of the lucky few that was able to gtfo
“what kind of highschoolers have lights like this” “what kind of highschoolers all walk around shirtless like this” actually...... LOL the LED lights have been mad trendy lately everyone and their mom has a couple sets throughout the house 💀💀💀 also i know lots of guys who walk around shirtless at parties. its a scarily realistic show
@@EmyN Yeah when asked what show he had been checking out, he said Euphoria and thought it was amazing. I don't remember if someone from Variety or ET that asked him, but just search it and I'm sure you'll find the video
I do think Euphoria deserves the hype, it’s a masterpiece, but it’s kinda weird to have it hyped up by underaged teenagers on TikTok cause the series was obviously r rated and not meant for teenagers.
@@Chloe-ul3vd Well, that was the entertainment industry has always been, GTA San Andreas was literally everyone’s childhood, I played it since I was like 6 year old, when it’s actually a game for adults lol.
@@stantwitter1016 i mean same lol!! but i mean they’re physically exposed to stuff without knowing the consequences because no one teaches them or they learn the wrong things from the media.
I live in the Netherlands and i can relate to this like almost everyone who is 14 years or older is not a virgin anymore. Its probaly different in other countrys but it is like that here.
Well from reading the comments I realized a lot of people were saying their schools were and are exactly the same as the show but like in Europe or at least in France I swear drugs are only at some parties or once between friends, the closest to a nude that was ever leaked was a picture of a girl in a bathing suit and if anyone would ever assault a girl like Nate Jacobs did he would be deported and spit on like wtf is going on in the US
as a high schooler i can tell you that i’ve been through and seen all of those things that are portrayed in the serie. i’m coming from a tiny town in croatia-Zabok, but i’ve seen all the drugs and the violence and drinking and partying, even girl on girl crushes. i’ve experienced it all on my skin and i’ve seen it around me as well so while i was watching the show i actually had a lot of my own flashbacks which made me feel something unbelievable. love that show. also if you’re a high schooler and can’t relate to me i think you should try that kind of rebellious way of living at least for a short amount of time, it’s gonna shape you a bunch as a person and you’ll see all kind of fd up shit that is everywhere around you
Euphoria’s first episode made me cry and feel so much. Hearing what I’ve feel anxiety/depression be described and showed. Wow! High school was one of my worst years in my life and wow just wow! Totally invested in this show!
Tbh, I initially saw the clip where Rue has memories of her summer and I immediately fell in love because Bobby Womack’s rendition of Fly Me To The Moon was playing, then that prompted me to watch the first episode on RU-vid and now I’m suffering because I don’t have HBO 😳
i just graduated highschool and turning 18 in about two months and this show made me feel like i didnt experience high school or 'teenagehood' to the fullest at all
Be grateful you missed out on the toxic bullshit. I get that the show sort of romanticised stuff but as someone who went through, or knows people who went through the same things, it's nothing to glorify. It was never living life to the fullest, it was hardly living it all.
be grateful. you are very lucky to have not experienced the peer pressured sex, the dangerous world of party drugs etc. at that age, you missed absolutely nothing.
@@Chloe-ul3vd I personally didn't feel much peer pressure and I definitely experienced parties and drinking/drugs and whatever but literally all the rest of my time was spent worrying about school lmao, every other week I got to party but the rest was just clouded by school instead of 'enjoying my teenagehood'
I cannot stress the importance of this show. I lost my brother to a drug overdose when I was 8 and have had anxiety and depression since I was a little girl, much like Rue. And while, like you said, it’s not the most realistic show about teens out there, the way it portrays addiction, anxiety, abuse, and love is so real. I can’t wait for season 2.
