![]() ![]() “It’s gonna be a good night, tonight, man,” he says, “Let’s get this money.” Fez’s younger sidekick-who looks about 8 but somehow sports a teardrop tattoo-is financially savvy, too. Similarly, our antihero and narrator, Rue (Zendaya), suggests her best friend pursue blackmail as an option to “get money to do fun stuff.” The Mac Miller lookalike Fez (Angus Cloud) is shown hustling and selling drugs out of a convenience store. She drops heavy-handed hints, hoping he’ll buy her gifts, like Sharon Stone’s fur coat from Casino. Maddy (Alexa Demie) comes from a working-class family and hopes to be lifted out of her discontent by WASP-y Nate (Jacob Elordi). ![]() Throughout the show, the empire-building mentality is pervasive. He hopes to get drafted to the NFL-not merely to play the sport but to “take the money,” “invest it wisely,” and “use it to build an empire.” While bills shuffle neatly through a money counter and items ding in her shopping cart, a voice-over tells us Kat is focusing on the important things: “expanding her empire, and collecting her motherfucking bag.” In the same episode, a voice-over guides us through football star McKay’s (Algee Smith) aspirations. In camming, she undertakes a role strictly reserved for adults. “My dream in life is to bankrupt you,” Kat whispers before taking a puff of her vape pen. She verbally degrades men and, in turn, they send her Bitcoin and purchase items off her Amazon wish list. ![]() Kat’s particular brand of camming relies on financial domination. They let us know that these teens, with their undeveloped prefrontal cortexes and irrepressible lust, are not ready for the real world.Įuphoria does follow teen media before it, from The Breakfast Club to Degrassi, in its digestible underdog subplot: “Nerd gets hot.” But quirky Kat (Barbara Ferreira) doesn’t find her inner hottie by catching a cute boy’s eye she gains self-confidence when she starts camming-performing sexual acts online for money. Watching Euphoria, you’ll recognize common motifs like glossy orange pill bottles, dense smoke clouds, damp bare skin, bulky mounds of clothes. Skins, Kids, and Euphoria paint teens as outliers, existing precariously on the fringes of society, paired with lots of sex, and lots (and lots) of drugs. The series has been widely compared to the millennial series Skins and the cult ’90s movie Kids, which were both crafted as gritty alternatives to glossier contemporary teen media (think 90210, Gossip Girl, Dawson’s Creek). ![]() A coming-of-age show caked in glittery hedonism, Euphoria was born of a long tradition of fatalistic media pulling back the curtain to reveal the scary underbelly of adolescent culture. We Should Have Seen the Ending of The Golden Bachelor ComingĮuphoria’s first season is coming to an end, and with it, so are many of the familiar tropes that guided teen shows before it. What’s Fact and What’s Fiction in The Crown Season 6 Part 2 One of the Bestselling Series of All Time Is Now a TV Show. ![]()
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