It is a drama series based on the Israeli series that was launched in 2012. The series revolves around a group of high school students trying to understand their mysterious future. These teens try to overcome drugs, sex and violence in an attempt to understand a mysterious future that may pose a challenge to them.
Euphoria wants to be honest and cool AF with character arcs built around its taboos, but while it has plenty of inspired visuals, those values don't make for durable storytelling once you get to know the show at its core.
The series is certainly aesthetically pleasing and well-directed, with smooth camera work that boosts the characters' interior lives. But the writing is shaky, filled with clunky lines and not-so-twisty plot twists.
While Euphoria is surreal and, in its first episode, darker than any teen TV show I've ever seen, it's also just handing back to society what it's given us, no plain brown wrapper necessary.
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.
