The series is narrated by the seventeen-year-old Rue, played by the former Disney child star Zendaya, tangle-haired and pie-eyed in the role. He struggled with drug dependency in his youth, and seems to have converted his personal experience into the show’s operatic vision. Levinson is thirty-seven, and the son of the film director Barry Levinson. The show, which is based on an Israeli series of the same name, was created in 2019 by Sam Levinson, for HBO.
A grab bag of music-video-style moments, satirical pastiches, druggy fantasy sequences, quasi-pornographic sexual encounters, and high-octane action scenes, “Euphoria” is a stomach-turning, hectic, maximalist experience: an audacious mess that, if not always pleasurable, is impossible to dismiss or look away from. This is about as close as television gets to endurance art. The first episode of Season 2 contains one erect penis and two flaccid ones, a drug-dealing grandmother in hot pants, a girl shooting up in a car, a twelve-year-old with face tattoos, some bathroom coitus, a near-overdose on opioids-thwarted by a snort of Adderall-and a baby eating cigarette butts. The teen drama “Euphoria,” which is now in its second season, airs once a week: a lucky thing, since even a single episode of the series can feel like a binge.
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