Euphoria is teen drama television series created and written by Sam Levinson for HBO Max and based on the Israeli miniseries of the same name created by Ron Leshem and Daphna Levin.
The show has received positive reviews, with praise for its cinematography, plot, score, performances of the cast (particularly Zendaya and Schafer), and approach to its mature subject matter. It has also been considered controversial for its nudity and sexual content, which some critics found excessive due to the teenage setting. It is the second most watched show in HBO history, behind Game of Thrones.
Euphoria premiered on June 16, 2019. In July 2019, the series was renewed for a second season, preceded by two one-hour specials broadcast in December 2020 and January 2021. The second season premiered on January 9, 2022, and in February 2022, the series was renewed for a third season.
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- Genre: Drama
- Network: HBO Max
- Cast: Zendaya, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, Maude Apatow, Barbie Ferreira, Jacob Elordi, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Angus Cloud, Storm Reid, Nika Williams, Olivia Grace Applegate, Javon Walton, Alanna Ubach, Austin Abrams, Ruben Dario, Greg Bryan, Cranston Johnson,…
- Premiere Date: Jan 9, 2022
- Executive producers: Drake, Future the Prince, Sam Levinson, Ravi Nandan, Kevin Turen, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Tmira Yardeni, Mirit Toovi, Yoram Mokadi, Gary Lennon, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin
Critic reviews for Euphoria (TV Series)
The series’ second season received mostly positive reviews, with critics praising the performances and visuals but criticizing the season’s pace and characterization. On Rotten Tomatoes, the second season received a “Certified Fresh” score of 81%, with an average rating of 7.2/10 based on 119 reviews.
Metacritic assigned the season a score of 74 out of 100 based on 19 reviews, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.
Euphoria misses the mark by using sexual assault and racial microaggressions as the very foundation for a Black male teenager character. Full Review
Taylor Crumpton – Bitch Media
I think is really well done, well considered and reflects the problems a lot of young people are having today. And it also looks great. Full Review
Scott Bryan – BBC.com
Euphoria’s nihilism feels as contrived as a Burger King ad. Full Review
Judy Berman – TIME Magazine
But getting “real” doesn’t have to mean diving head first into a cesspool of drugs, profanity, promiscuity and a borderline indifference to it all. That’s where Euphoria so far fails not only itself, but the many impressionable youth. Full Review | Original Score: C+
Ed Bark – Uncle Barky
A lot to like here. There is strong acting and a pop-video, heroin-chic sheen to the show’s visuals that are as pretty as they are appealingly deviant… But italso feels somewhat suffocating as a series, by refusing to be anything but nihilistic. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Adam White – Daily Telegraph (UK)
Zendaya is reinvented as the self-destructive, self-loathing Rue, in what is a truly astonishing, mesmerising performance, upending every expectation of what she could do. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Rebecca Nicholson – Guardian
The show is often beautiful to look at, but its unrelenting provocation shows its true hand. Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
James Jackson -Times (UK)
Euphoria is more than a glossy, sexed-up version of teen life: it is also shockingly gritty. Full Review
Katie Strick – London Evening Standard
A coming-of-age show caked in glittery hedonism… Full Review
Christina Svenson – Slate
The promise of the show glints brightest when it feels most originally itself. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Danny Leigh – Financial Times
It’s heated up, it’s blunt, it’s lurid – but artfully so. Full Review
Matthew Gilbert – Boston Globe
Quickly and quietly, Euphoria’s technical know-how is the stuff of TV-making dreams, empowering its story in a beautiful symbiosis that’s made it HBO’s latest success story. Full Review
Tirhakah Love – San Francisco Chronicle
Beneath the show’s explicit exterior is a tender core and Euphoria is at its most successful when it is exploring gentleness as opposed to brutality. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Arielle Bernstein – Guardian
I kind of hated Euphoria’s pilot, but I kept watching further episodes because of Rue and Jules’s dizzy-sick meeting at a house party — I felt it in a way the rest of the show simply couldn’t approach. Full Review
Emily VanDerWerff – Vox
Trolling the Family Research Council with graphic scenes of underage sex, violence, and drug use is easy to do. What’s harder is using the same kind of imagery and action to make a point, or a change. Full Review
Sophie Gilbert – The Atlantic
Rue & Jules’s relationship is the jewel of Euphoria. I’ll keep watching because I desperately want to protect them. Otherwise, the show so far is a highly self-conscious study of ennui, overfull with fancy camera tricks and thousand-dollar getups… Full Review
Doreen St. Felix – New Yorker
That it’s easy to buy into Euphoria’s nihilistic vision of adolescence as distilled misery says more about us than it does about teenagers: Some people just love a good scare. Full Review
Willa Paskin – Slate
Despite the scenes of uncomfortable sex, Sam Levinson never fails to spotlight the fragility and confusion and, yes, sadness underneath that bravado. Full Review
Melanie McFarland – Salon.com
In Euphoria’s cynically nihilistic vision, today’s teens have been warped by technology into soulless, self-medicating androids who use each other for cheap thrills! What will happen to them? OMG. Full Review
Robert Rorke – New York Post
That Zendaya came out of the Disney machine adds a thrill of transgression to her performance, which holds the entire production together-grounded, self-effacing, charming, and so assured. Full Review
Sonia Saraiya – Vanity Fair
Euphoria’s first season was met with a positive response from critics, with much of its praise going to its acting, story, visuals, and approach to mature subject matter. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the first season has a positive score of 80%, with an average rating of 7.3/10 based on 97 critical reviews.
The review aggregator website Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 68 out of 100, based on 26 critics, indicating “generally favorable reviews”.
Euphoria misses the mark by using sexual assault and racial microaggressions as the very foundation for a Black male teenager character. Full Review
Taylor Crumpton – Bitch Media
I think is really well done, well considered and reflects the problems a lot of young people are having today. And it also looks great. Full Review
Scott Bryan – BBC.com
Euphoria’s nihilism feels as contrived as a Burger King ad. Full Review
Judy Berman – TIME Magazine
But getting “real” doesn’t have to mean diving head first into a cesspool of drugs, profanity, promiscuity and a borderline indifference to it all. That’s where Euphoria so far fails not only itself, but the many impressionable youth. Full Review | Original Score: C+
Ed Bark – Uncle Barky
A lot to like here. There is strong acting and a pop-video, heroin-chic sheen to the show’s visuals that are as pretty as they are appealingly deviant… But italso feels somewhat suffocating as a series, by refusing to be anything but nihilistic. Full Review | Original Score: 3/5
Adam White – Daily Telegraph (UK)
Zendaya is reinvented as the self-destructive, self-loathing Rue, in what is a truly astonishing, mesmerising performance, upending every expectation of what she could do. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Rebecca Nicholson – Guardian
The show is often beautiful to look at, but its unrelenting provocation shows its true hand. Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
James Jackson -Times (UK)
Euphoria is more than a glossy, sexed-up version of teen life: it is also shockingly gritty. Full Review
Katie Strick – London Evening Standard
A coming-of-age show caked in glittery hedonism… Full Review
Christina Svenson – Slate
The promise of the show glints brightest when it feels most originally itself. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Danny Leigh – Financial Times
It’s heated up, it’s blunt, it’s lurid – but artfully so. Full Review
Matthew Gilbert – Boston Globe
Quickly and quietly, Euphoria’s technical know-how is the stuff of TV-making dreams, empowering its story in a beautiful symbiosis that’s made it HBO’s latest success story. Full Review
Tirhakah Love – San Francisco Chronicle
Beneath the show’s explicit exterior is a tender core and Euphoria is at its most successful when it is exploring gentleness as opposed to brutality. Full Review | Original Score: 4/5
Arielle Bernstein – Guardian
I kind of hated Euphoria’s pilot, but I kept watching further episodes because of Rue and Jules’s dizzy-sick meeting at a house party — I felt it in a way the rest of the show simply couldn’t approach. Full Review
Emily VanDerWerff – Vox
Trolling the Family Research Council with graphic scenes of underage sex, violence, and drug use is easy to do. What’s harder is using the same kind of imagery and action to make a point, or a change. Full Review
Sophie Gilbert – The Atlantic
Rue & Jules’s relationship is the jewel of Euphoria. I’ll keep watching because I desperately want to protect them. Otherwise, the show so far is a highly self-conscious study of ennui, overfull with fancy camera tricks and thousand-dollar getups… Full Review
Doreen St. Felix – New Yorker
That it’s easy to buy into Euphoria’s nihilistic vision of adolescence as distilled misery says more about us than it does about teenagers: Some people just love a good scare. Full Review
Willa Paskin – Slate
Despite the scenes of uncomfortable sex, Sam Levinson never fails to spotlight the fragility and confusion and, yes, sadness underneath that bravado. Full Review
Melanie McFarland – Salon.com
In Euphoria’s cynically nihilistic vision, today’s teens have been warped by technology into soulless, self-medicating androids who use each other for cheap thrills! What will happen to them? OMG. Full Review
Robert Rorke – New York Post
That Zendaya came out of the Disney machine adds a thrill of transgression to her performance, which holds the entire production together-grounded, self-effacing, charming, and so assured. Full Review
Sonia Saraiya – Vanity Fair
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