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Once again, with emotion: even in the second season "Euphoria" is a paradise of over-drama - Walla! culture

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Armed with a big heart, spectacular style and two big stars, HBO's blatant, emotional and flashy youth series returns for a second season laden with dramas, loves and heartbreaks. Review


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Once again, with emotion: even in the second season "Euphoria" is a paradise of over-drama

HBO's blatant, emotional and flashy youth series returns for a second season laden with dramas, loves and heartbreak.

Although this time she is more inclined to the gloomy side and continues to suffer from a problematic villain, her big heart, spectacular style and two big stars - continue to turn her into a TV experience

Ilan Kaprov

10/01/2022

Monday, 10 January 2022, 18:45 Updated: 20:16

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Trailer for the second season of "Euphoria" (HBO)

"Euphoria" is still flooding, confused, curious, horny, anxious, jealous and in love, she is too much and not enough, she will continue to carry all her feelings of puberty on the lapel, will be both a drain valve and an emotional flood, and she will do so in maximum drama , Glitter and makeup

One of the most notable phenomena of luxury series is slow cooking. The story unfolds at a measured pace, developing the characters a little at a time, taking time to admire the beauty of a sunset or a picturesque landscape, as if signaling to us that ADHD has no place here. At the other end of this imaginary scale stands "euphoria." This is also what sets it apart and makes it so prominent in the current TV landscape: it shoots all the time and from all the guns. The first 11 minutes of the second season (whose debut episode aired today, Monday, Bite, Hot and Cellcom Tiwi) are almost like an experiment in this context. Take a moment and think about everything the letter combination HBO tells you as viewers, every association, every artistic choice, every familiar motif. Everything you thought about will likely hurt during this opening (plus at least three things you did not think about) and in close-up.



This introduction, after two and a half years of forced recess, is the way of "euphoria" to signal that nothing has changed.

She is still overwhelmed, confused, curious, horny, anxious, jealous and in love, she is too much and not enough, she will continue to carry all her puberty feelings on the lapel, will be both a drain valve and an emotional flood, and she will do so with maximum drama, glitter And makeup.

Like her characters, she does not distinguish between a disgusting message from a friend and a real life-threatening situation - for her both are equally dramatic.

This approach may be too demanding for some viewers, and "euphoria" seems to live with it in peace.

Either you are with her, or you are against her.

It's hard to stay in the middle.




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Another proof of her tremendous abilities.

Zendaya, "Euphoria" Season 2 (Photo: HBO)

Though seen as an added bonus just to fill the gaps and longings of fans until the arrival of the second season, the two special episodes about Roe (Zendaya) and Jules (Hunter Schaefer) are essential to how we meet them in the new season.

The first deteriorated back into heavy drug use following the heartbreak of parting on the train tracks, and the second embarked on a whole journey of self-discovery only to realize that the one she was looking for was exactly the one who left in the first place.

Alongside them, the rest of the characters also find themselves at a crossroads: Lexi (Sydney Sweeney) and Maddie (Alexa Demi) after painful breakups, and Kat (Barbie Pereira) after seemingly finding the perfect partner who loves her as she is.

And of course there is also the complicated Knight (Jacob Alordi) and his no lesser father, and Pasco (Angus Cloud), the neighborhood drug dealer who following the events of the end of last season, becomes much more dominant now.



Just like in the first season, the one that follows juggles between these different plot lines (seven of the eight episodes of the season were available for this review) and the dramatic developments in them, but unlike its predecessor the current season upsets the balance between darkness and light.

If Rowe and Jules were the duo pulling us out of the darkness time and time again, this time the shuffle in the dark and a stronger request.

Not least because Jules herself occupies a relatively secondary place in the plot.

This does not mean that "Euphoria" is devoid of moments of grace and beauty, even funny moments, but at least until we find out how it will end - she consciously chooses to take her heroes to their dark side.

This time, too, she does so through one of her and her creator's great strengths, Sam Levinson: the ability to penetrate the depths of her protagonists' consciousness, to the capillaries of their souls, to know them precisely from the passions they seek to suppress and hide.

That's also why she allows herself to be sexually bolder than she's probably ever done on HBO.

The beauty of fantasies is that there are no boundaries.

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In what section is she pushed aside?

Hunter Schaefer, "Euphoria" Season 2 (Photo: HBO)

An example of this course of action is Lexi (Maude Apatow), her introverted and hidden sister to Cassie's tools and one of the less developed characters of the premiere season, who chooses to stage a play based on her life in the high school where she studies. This reveals to us the unique point of view of a character who did not really seem essential to a previous story. Without a spoiler, this is one of the most beautiful and creative episodes of "Euphoria", which combines stage with reality and manages to enrich our knowledge not only about Lexi, but also about the other characters, thanks to her observation of them. Throughout the season "Euphoria" takes this step a lot, as if so as not to bore itself. Once it's a character breaking the fourth wall and telling us directly about her life, once it's again a montage narrated by Roe, once it's fantasies born out of the heroines' feverish subconscious. This creativity prevents "euphoria" from being repetitive, but much more so: it saves it from having dialogues just to advance the plot.



The importance of this move is significant, as the way the characters in "Euphoria" communicate with each other is an important tool in its arsenal.

This is one of the places where its rawness is manifested.

Not sentences that the characters seem to recite just to establish themselves as the label they are supposed to be, but tantrums, graphic expressions of passion, violence, threats, gossip.

After all, "Euphoria" is a series about addicted people, who are basically all of us: drugs, love, control, self-worth, feedback from the environment, adrenaline and more.

Its protagonists are dramatic because at this point in time in their lives everything is truly the most dramatic there is.

All of these connect of course to the real experiences of Levinson himself, as a former drug addict.

"Euphoria" sits right on this seam between high and low, and it keeps finding new ways to pronounce it.

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Amazing in the way she transcends an emotionally unsettled figure.

Sydney Sweeney, "Euphoria" Season 2 (Photo: HBO)

It's hard to believe that there are still those who doubt Zendaya's playing abilities after the last two years, but if there are still any, then the second season is a triumphant proof of her tremendous abilities.

Rowe is not only this model for dealing with addiction, it also conveys in the most effective way the coping of many characters with a recurring question: "Am I a bad person," followed by an equally important one: "Do our bad moments testify to us as human beings."

While one of the seasons of the season that is likely to become particularly talked about, it provides almost an entire hour of a breathtaking and gut-wrenching performance, and not only that.

Sweeney, whose character occupies a much more significant place in the second season, is amazing in the way she transcends an emotionally unsettled character.

The cast of "Euphoria" is almost entirely about the difficult task of dealing with characters in a storm of emotions.



The exceptions in this part last season were Knight and Cal Jacobson (Eric Dayan).

Both seemed like rather cartoonish villainous characters within the world of "euphoria".

Repressed violence that justifies everything.

At least for one of them, Cal, makes a "euphoria" patch with a plot that paints him in different and more interesting colors than before.

Knight himself remains the weakest part of the series this time as well.

A sociopath on whose face it is not clear why he has so much power over everyone around him, that a willingness to get into particularly extreme situations for him.

It is not for nothing that the parts in which he participates this time as well are the weak ones and not once are they also the absurd ones of the season.

The problem is that these are quite a few parts.

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A beauty that captures feelings, moods, thoughts.

"Euphoria" Season 2 (Photo: HBO)

Alongside the sensitive and powerful writing, “Euphoria” remains a spectacular visual experience. Her original camera movements, costumes, sets, lighting, everything bursts out of the screen in a thousand different and special ways. These are not gimmicks for the sake of gimmicks, but different ways of telling a story. In the past or present, on the street or on stage, in fantasy or reality, this beauty captures not only moments in time but feelings, moods, thoughts. The beauty of "Euphoria" is as painful as it is comforting, nostalgic as it is groundbreaking and modern. This spectacular packaging is wrapped in a perfect soundtrack, which gives it a great feel beyond the time it describes.



As mentioned, not everyone will withstand the emotional and artistic intensity of "Euphoria," and even in its second season it is not free of scripted problems.

The strange exclusion of a ray of light like Jules (certainly in light of the wonderful special episode starring her) into a sub-character seems particularly puzzling.

And yet, it is still an extraordinary experience.

A series that takes the air out and somehow leaves a taste of more, that is emotionally draining and somehow enters the heart.

Those who have been infected before, will probably not be able to stop this time either.

Love, go understand.

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