I got things done that went away because my body type was not meant to be changed in the way I thought I could change it. We all just clicked and it felt like a family, and that’s rare, especially with a group of girls, Demie says. Demie alone, the most elusive of the bunch (her Wikipedia bio is nine sentences), broke out with Euphoria. … I really don’t take my natural body for granted anymore. Zendaya, Sweeney, and Apatow (the daughter of director Judd and actress Leslie Mann) all started acting during childhood. “I actually feel way more beautiful than I ever felt because I feel healthy. “I was already feeling dysphoric about my breast implants because I’m such a ‘tomboy.’ Like, how do I even put these in outfits?” Kehlani recalled. And sat me up on the counter and told me that no boy will ever love me if I have marks on my body. I told her, ‘well, I guess I’m just gonna have to love myself.’”Īs for Kehlani, the singer revealed in a Byrdiemagazine interview back in December that they felt pressured to remove their breast implants following disparaging comments from internet users. I get cuts,” Sweeney said. “I think I came back from laser tag, and I had rug burns all over my legs because I got really into it. In a recent discussion with GQ, Sweeney opened up about a few moments in her career where she was underestimated, like when a casting director once told her she’d “never be on a TV show,” claiming she didn’t have the “right look.” She revealed another instance of being doubted in her life, where somebody questioned her ability to find love. The show has since been renewed for a third season, and fans certainly have Sweeney’s performance as Cassie to thank. Kehlani is only one of millions of Euphoria fans tuning into the hit HBO series each Sunday for Season 2, after the January premiere locked in 13.1 million total viewers. They continued in the next post, writing Cassie “love me fr im out I quit.” “THIS WHAT U BEEN LEARNING FROM MY MUSIC?! Aw hell. Like CNN, HBO is a unit of WarnerMedia.“Cassie…You got my poster on yo wall girl,” Kehlani wrote on her Instagram Stories. “Euphoria” season two premieres Jan 9 at 9 p.m. In the final analysis, though, this latest batch of episodes unfolds with the kind of grim, unpleasant efficiency that can make one feel every bit as numb as Rue sounds. The teens in “Euphoria” (played by twentysomethings, as is common) haven’t cornered the market on self-absorption and obviously didn’t invent it. (It returns along with another series presenting a different spin on dysfunctional families, “The Righteous Gemstones,” which isn’t a particularly compatible pairing.) Granted, in the streaming age a show like this isn’t intended to be everyone’s cup of tea and doesn’t need to be, with the advantage that “Euphoria” appeals to an audience that might not regularly watch much else on HBO or HBO Max. That said, as written the characters almost dare viewers to care too deeply about them, and the show’s attempts to be edgy occasionally feel simply icky, including a later encounter in which a gun is brandished as a kind of foreplay. Nor does the new season completely escape the earlier tendency to reduce the parents to either monsters or ineffectual nags that recall the unseen voices in the old Charlie Brown cartoons, despite an effort to flesh out some of their histories.Ĭriticizing “Euphoria” as someone weaned on earlier generations of teen dramas risks a certain “Get off my lawn” quality, and the show has its share of critical admirers and ardent fans, earning Zendaya an Emmy for its first season and the intensity of her performance. Yet there’s a repetitive quality to the issues at work, central among them Rue’s relationship with Jules (Hunter Schafer) and the triangle involving Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), Maddy (Alexa Demie) and Nate (Jacob Elordi), each bruised and damaged in their own way. Levinson has structured the season as a series of stories involving individual characters, gradually bringing those strands together over the course of the seven episodes previewed. Yet any television show ultimately boils down to the characters, which is where the series falls short, even with the flights of fantasy – giving certain episodes an almost dreamlike quality – and heavy-handed narration provided by Zendaya’s Rue, whose struggles with addiction persist. “Euphoria” works overtime to differentiate itself from the airbrushed soapiness of “Gossip Girl” or other TV contributions to the genre, endeavoring to rival the rawest movies that have probed these areas or premium series like “Genera+ion” and “13 Reasons Why,” itself a source of controversy. After a two-and-a-half-year gap between seasons with a two-part special in between, “Euphoria” returns, offering the latest permutation of youthful angst.ĭespite Zendaya’s attention-getting, award-winning presence, the HBO series remains so unrelentingly bleak and nihilistic that it’s overly defined by how far series creator Sam Levinson will push standards in terms of nudity, sex and drug use.
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