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Without glitter, bouncy soundtrack, invested makeup and artistic camera movements - HBO's successful youth drama is back in a minimalist version full of beats. Thus, in the wake of two long conversations about life, the two protagonists manage to reveal new layers about themselves, and also gain a new perspective on the relationship between them.


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Quiet Storm: Euphoria's specials mention how powerful it is

Without glitter, bouncy soundtrack, invested makeup and artistic camera movements - HBO's successful youth drama is back in a minimalist version full of beats.

Thus, in the wake of two long conversations about life, the two protagonists manage to reveal new layers about themselves, and also gain a new perspective on the relationship between them.

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Ilan Kaprov

Thursday, January 28, 2021, 12:00 p.m.

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Trailer for the "Euphoria" special starring Hunter Schaefer (HBO)

For a year and a half, "euphoria" disappeared from our lives.

It's a long break for any series whatsoever, but especially for one that exploded on screen in a tremendous emotional onslaught, and stormed all the way to the heartbreaking end of the first season.

This embrace of the total, the shimmering, the sentimental, the scandal or the festival, has made it a success that it is (or in the case of categorization, the reason why it is so exhausting).



In the days of a worldwide mental arithmetic, one that cannot be avoided in a closed and oppressive reality, even "euphoria" had to ask itself difficult questions.

Mostly its creator, Sam Levinson.

After all, the really big villains of the series are not Knight Jacobs (Jacob Allordy) or his father, Cal (Eric Dayan), though there is no doubt that these are particularly awful kind of sociopaths.

The demon that hovers over all the protagonists of the series wherever they are, and certainly over its two main protagonists - Roe Bennett (Zendaya) and Jules Vaughn (Hunter Schaefer) - is the addiction.

Each and every one of them is addicted in one way or another to a habit that sweeps them into the darkness, and the more they fight it, the more their destiny seems to fall to its clutches.

Levinson is of course well acquainted with this demon, following a long and arduous struggle with drug addiction.



Naturally, and as the vast majority of TV creators choose, the Corona and the world of "Euphoria" do not meet.

But Levinson has found a clever and intriguing way to capture the sensations it produces, without displaying a single mask on screen.

He chose New Year’s Eve, a time traditionally doomed to soul-searching, to dive deep into the subconscious of his two great heroines.

Each won its own special - Roe under the name "Trouble Doesn't Last Forever", which came out in December, and Jules in "Cock on Anyone Who Is Not a Jellyfish" (free translation) which came up this week.

In the process, a pair of seemingly separate works were created, but with launch points that pop up to the eye in continuous viewing, telling about the two more than we were able to discover over eight whole episodes.



Henceforth spoilers for both parts.



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Without glitter and dizzying camera movements.

Zendaya, "Euphoria" (Photo: PR, HBO)

The most striking thing about the two parts of the special is the spread from the layers that made "Euphoria" the bubbling volcano it is: no glitter and intricate makeup, no spectacular costumes and dizzying camera movements, no bouncy soundtrack.

Levinson presents his two heroines in their most raw version, broken after parting on the train tracks.

In an interview with him in GQ magazine he tells how much he enjoys this opportunity that has fallen into his hands.

In the wake of two conversations - Roe with Ali (the excellent Coleman Domingo), her sponsor from the first season, and Jules in the first meeting with her psychologist, Dr. Mandy Nichols (Lauren Widman), after being brought home by her father from the short and lonely adventure in New York - he Reveals how much remains beneath the surface at the end of last



season.This is the kind of TV we've seen before (the most notable example is "In Treatment"), but in "Euphoria" it gets another upgrade of the same demon of addiction.The two episodes are actually long stream of consciousness conversations, Suffering from the frenetic nature of Rowe and Jules, jumping from subject to subject, from moments of transcendence to the ignorance of existential doubt, and while Levinson does devote a small and beautiful plot line to Ali's heartbreakingness and the family price he paid, Rowe and Jules' interlocutors serve The defense of both of them.They systematically re-orient them each time, leading them each to face the fears she buried.At least some of these insights were supposed to come during the second season, but the long break led Levinson to put them on the table right now.

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The burden of her friend was great on her.

Jules (Hunter Schaefer), "Euphoria" (Photo: PR, HBO)

Jules is in an identity crisis ("How the hell did I spend my whole life building my body, my personality, my soul, around what men love? It's embarrassing… I feel like a fake"), while Roe is in a faith crisis ("This world is too cruel "I do not intend to stay in it any longer").

But both are also deeply rooted in addiction: Roe to drugs that separate her from the anxieties and loss of her life, and Jules to a dangerous fantasy world she has created for herself through dangerous virtual relationships ("I fall in love easily because half of any relationship is in my imagination").



Throughout these heartbreaking and moving conversations, each of them in turn deals with her drug, and testifies that without it she sees no meaning in the sequel.

In Roe's case, the series' creator's personal experiences, struggles and regrets surface, but in the case of Jules (in an episode co-written with Hunter Schaefer, the first in the series that Levinson did not sign alone) it is an experience that comes through the eyes of a transgender young woman in a self-search.

This is real magic, as "Euphoria" manages to mobilize the same buzzing and noisy float of emotions even when it is the antithesis of itself.

Through minimalism she carves the same power she displayed in all her colorful power.

Through these moments we discover a hidden and central detail in Jules Vrou's relationship: the fact that Jules' mother was addicted herself.

The disappointment and distance between Jules and her mother accompanied the girl all the time as she feared surrendering to Roe and recreating that trauma.

And here, it is precisely this decision that leads Roe to the abyss.

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Reveals a heartbreaking past.

Ali (Coleman Domingo), "Euphoria" (Photo: PR, HBO)

"Euphoria" dances around these two weddings alternately, moving from Roe's point of view to that of Jules.

One accuses the other of leading her to addiction, while her friend testifies that the burden of being an addict's only support is simply too great for her.

All of these come together in a dream scene shared by the two specials.

At the beginning of Roe's special, the two appear in the script of their dreams: loving and happy in their New York apartment, on the morning of Jules' first day of school at the School of Fashion Design.

It ends when Jules leaves the apartment, and Rowe takes a bullet out of the secret hideout and enters the bathroom of the branch.

In Jules' special, she describes a nightmare in which she returns home (dressed just like in Rowe's special), only to find that the bathroom is locked with no ability to help her lover, who has taken an overdose.



Life in a fantasy that turns out to be a nightmare was the lot of the two in the first season as well.

This is the expression of the never-ending conflict of "euphoria" over the battle between the ideal and the real, between a moment of hi and a moment of down.

"Not everything that is good for you is also good for you," says a former waitress and drug addict to Roe in her special, echoing the danger inherent in the relationship between the two.

In the cauldron of beats and big questions that Levinson burns around the heroines, he also shares with us one of his own: Is this great love at the center of his series a blessing or a curse.

It is certainly possible that "Euphoria" would have reached this conflict along the way as well, but this quiet version presents it almost poetically, like a heartbreaking playlist.



This week it was revealed that the production of the series is scheduled to convene for filming in March (with an emphasis on "planned", as the spread of the plague in the US will make it very difficult to create with a tendency for huge scenes and a huge cast), with a view to airing before 2021. No, it will be interesting to find out how the two specials will affect her continuation.On the one hand, there is no doubt that this experiment is not meant to continue - "euphoria" can not exist from a collection of intimate and minimalist conversations. On the other hand, it created a new perspective on the most important relationship in the series. For this reason, it was totally worth it.

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"Euphoria" (Photo: PR, HBO)

The two special episodes and the first season of "Euphoria" are available on HOT, yes and Cellcom TV.

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