Why does EUPHORIA take place in "high school?" [No Spoilers]
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Euphoria has a lot of graphic drugs, sex, and nudity in it which has raised the question, "Why does this show take place in high school?" Why not college? Or the prison from Oz? Well buckle in buckos, because we're about to travel on an emotional time machine!
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I would say Euphoria is like, if you take the wildest stories and drama from several schools, and then put it all into one High School.
While one high schooler may not experienced everything that happens or the kind of people in 'Euphoria', that high schooler surely knew at least one person or had that one experience or heard that one story that's depicted in 'Euphoria'.
ya, i mean its a tv show. What are they just gonna show a normie kid just doing their homework quietly. Obv its gonna be heightened for entertainment purposes. To be fair, I think most ppl who joke about that though are doing just that... joking.
I mean they can say u experience sexuality and drugs in college but the truth is that u experience it in high school like im 16 and I’ve seen drugs, sex, abuse, abortion and mental illness and yes there’s kids with tattoos in high school dumbasses and no I don’t do any of these but I’ve seen people/friends near me do it well I do have mental illnesses like I’ve been in rehab nothing else oh! And REHAB is not helpful so I understand Rue in that. Welcome to Gen Z hoes
that’s just a teen drama this isn’t the first show to be like that
Honestly the two high-schools I went too are much worse than Euphoria. We had to have metal detectors and police on campus.
My high school was honestly pretty similar to “Euphoria high school.” It wasn’t exactly the same obviously, but it was still pretty bad. There wasn’t a kid with face tattoos, but there was a at least one kid with full prison arm tattoos. Girls didn’t walk around dressed exactly like Maddie or Kat, but they wore skimpy clothes to school. People did cocaine in the bathrooms and brought vodka and wine to school in their water bottles, people would sell prescriptions drugs and vapes in the elevator, I knew a few girls who had videos of them doing sexual things released and girls who made regrettable choices with who they did sexual things with, and more. I could go on. I have problems with euphoria, but the basic fact of it being set in high school isn’t one of them.
This could be a generational thing. Idk. My high school wasn't anything like what you just described and it wasnt even close to the one from euphoria. People had shitty home lives but the worst things that really happened at my school were just things like people smoking weed. I'm sure factors like income, social class and geographic location also played a factor In determining our respective experiences as well.
@@galactic85 yeah, I think there are a lot of factors to determine your high school experience. For instance, I went to a deeply underfunded school, and while it wasn’t in the worst area, it still wasn’t in an amazing one either, and I’m sure that contributed. On the other side, I have friends my age who went to high schools where the most dramatic thing was a fight or two. I think the main takeaway is that there’s no one teenage experience, and what might be unrealistic to one person is far more realistic to another.
@@galactic85 It's 100% about the economic circumstances of the kids. I was teaching in a few middle class schools and in lower class schools and the first thing to see is that the lower class will "mature" about 2 years earlier. Earlier puberty, earlier interests, earlier substance issues. Some of that might just be performative to look "cool", and as a teacher I'll never truly see what's happening, but criminal records, pregnancies, drugs - it happens earlier than age 14 at times.
Who has elevators in they hi skool?: tak the stairs;thats Y they so much obesity...
Still shouldn't be in high school, it's not the behaviors themselves that necessarily feel off. Despite being over the top, Skins actually felt like a bunch of teenagers acting up.
This show follows the “wrong crowd” in my opinion. We see normal kids but the main cast are the bad kids in school. Not your average student.
Why the hell would you want to watch some lame as normal kid go to class and then go home and do his homework and maybe play some games and then go to sleep?
Wow, genius, you should write your own TV show about that and see how that works out.
@@Dead4911 Lol Can you explain exactly what you’re angry about because your hostility seems misguided. And I am a screenwriter but I write about adults. You’re embarrassing yourself.
@@jarenfromvenus Do the adults you write about just go to work and then come home and make themselves dinner and maybe browse twitter for a little while and then watch a TV show and then go to bed and wake up the next morning and do it all over again?
Or do they do actually do interesting things that are worth writing about?
@@Dead4911 I’m not arguing with you. You’re trying to defend yourself so you don’t feel as stupid as you sound. I was defending the show and you thought I was saying I want to see average students. You were wrong. Get over it.
Calm down apparently from your reaction you really like this show. Don’t confuse that with actual valid arguments.
Euphoria is an heightened story and you chose to go the complete opposite with this “boring” life schtik. Watch Sex Education for a show that can show regular students and still be entertaining. Get therapy. And please response with another angry message I don’t expect you to be able to do anything else. Aggression grrr.
I mean, it’s weird how obsessed American TV is with High School, there is like way way way less movies and shows with University. Which would be a way better setting for so many Teen shows
TBF, it's an easy setting to attract the most viewers. Also Anime also uses highschool as common setting. This is because this is the last common experience virtually every one has. It easy to just play on memories of shared experiences instead of like a work setting that can differ from industry to industry or company to company
You right. Maybe they prefer targeting a younger audience idk
We wouldn't have the issue of casting 20 something actor as teeneger anymore
Maybe it’s because in the US not everyone has the chance to go to college
Adults these days never got over high school. Millennials are eternal teenagers
Whenever I try to defend this show I'm told "I have issues" and that I'm messed up for liking it. This video is so validating!
Nah you're kinda messed up
defend it to who? Isn't it, like, widely acclaimed by both critics and audiences?
@@darko1295 People are kinda saying (or it sure sounds like they're saying) that the nudity, sexual violence and overall "adult themes" in a show about underage kids 'cancels out' any good aspect of the show. On top of that, I think some of the nudity in the show is beautiful, which is hard to argue when the characters are teenagers
No offense but it is messed up, the way fans of the show try to normalize this ish (even though it happens and that's no excuse) is uncomfortable
@@Mila-cq4tn how is it being normalized? This shows point is to warn about current youth culture. It’s not glorification, it’s exposé.
My high school years were unremarkable. Boring, really. I had a few friends (though none I really was close to at that time), but for those 4 years I was basically just by myself the whole time. No partying. No drama. No drugs. Just a day-in, day-out existence of trudging through bullshit propaganda I already knew was bullshit propaganda. I had dated before high school. I've dated after. But during... no.
I did spend almost the entire 4 years in a proto-depression and with a calm acceptance that "oh, okay, I guess I'm just waiting to die then, for whatever accident ends my completely unimportant existence". I was actually bummed out that I didn't pass away before graduating. Made it all seem even more pointless.
If something were to capture my experience of high school it would need to portray feelings of isolation and absolutely not belonging -- a feeling of "I shouldn't exist" combined with not really wanting to. I've had worse periods of my life -- in high school I wasn't expected to do actual labor all the time and nearly starve to death because I couldn't afford food _and_ rent, that'd come later -- but I can easily say that high school is among the worst times of my life and I have no interest in "recapturing" the feeling.
Cool story bro
This is literally me in high school too
same, my highschool life was boring af and just like you said trudging through the day and hoping to end it asap. funny thing as non american i always thought the portrayal of dramatized school in america was just like the way it supposed to be
Same! I hated high school and felt so isolated like I wasn’t making any real memories. I went to a super small Christian school. I had a very small friend group and was too afraid to experiment with drugs or have sex or anything, so if I anything I was always trying to escape with the dramas or books instead. It was the most isolating period of my life. I never felt like I had a true personality back then and couldn’t be myself.
Then something was off... it should be the time of the dating, exploring, feelings, friendships, first jobs, thinking about future... i attended secondary grammar for 8 years and boy oh boy, it wasnt the best, but still it was and it could have been. And if it could last 4ever, i would make it.
Love the video. But something to add: While of course Euphoria isn't realistic per say, I mean its a TV show, and a heavily stylized one at that, what I do think it is is VERY authentic, certainly emotionally. My experience is not everyone's or probably even most people's. However with that said many people would be shocked how real and authentic many of the things in this show are. I WAS a teen addict, at 14 no less and on the hard stuff. I did encounter so many situations like the ones in the show, just much less severe in nature. And I think you find a surprising amount of people who that is the case for, and why it speaks to us.
Thank you Noah, I feel like people being outraged are missing the point completely. I was also an addict at a young age and you know, this is probably how I saw my life even if it wasn't reality.
Tbh as a passing trans woman who transitioned at 14 Jules is the first trans woman on tv who's life resembles mine at all and that's what keeps me watching
Tbh I'm just passing by :)
really hope for us that jules gets better treatment next season lol
Damn 14 that’s crazy
It is very young to be sure
Good luck passing at 30
I like your perspective on this story. I always laugh at older people who think overly emotional high school shit is so lame. Like they, and everyone else, wasn’t EXACTLY the same way in high school. God I wish it was normal still to feel anything as intensely as back then.
Really? I'd take a double dropmof xannies and 3 crushed up vicodins if I ever felt them intense feelings again
They didn't have xans yet they did have weed and coke in 70s when my mom was finishing up high school. She dealt with the same bullying a lot of girls dealt with today. The only thing that changed was the tech.
I graduated high school in 2018, and I gotta say that Euphoria's depiction of high school was verrrry similar to mine. I don't remember kids with face tats, and our dress code was a lot more strict, but there were definitely kids doing drugs and having sex all over the place. Personally, I could relate to the parties, some of the drugs being done, and even Jules' storyline from the first episode with Nate's dad. Not to mention the stuff that goes on at home for these kids also hit very close to home. I've never seen a more realistic depiction of high school than from this show, but I suppose that depends on your generation and where you lived.
Same here!! For me I relate with Cassie in S1 dealing with parents divorcing, seeing less of my dad until he left, he got into a bad accident & was in the hospital for a while and their divorcing messing with my mindset. Except I never would give my body to forget my problems & I wasn’t into a finding a relationship
I wasn't in that group. But I can think of people from highschool that match most all of what's going on in the show... At even younger ages.
Heck I was on a bus route that was shared with middle schoolers. And I remember a highschool girl that would allow boys to pay to see and grope to boobs her boobs on the bus. Somewhere like 7th graders.
“Frankly, Gen Z is a generation that confused pretty much everyone over the age of 25.”
I’m gen z and my generation confuses me too
I’m being totally honest, but Gen Z was/is 10x worse than my generation (Gen Y/millennial). It’s like each generation gets worse and worse
@@ajseb that’s not even remotely true lol
@@ajseb Ok millennial
Listen, there’s no need to talk down about future generations like the Boomers did to you and us.
@@nerasomnia bro I’m being completely honest, all I see from your generation is tik tok videos and guys just looking into the camera. My generation was narcissistic as hell, but your generation is like that x100. Again just an opinion of mine, none of my friends ever do that shit, we are all just focused on making more money
@@ajseb because you're adults, dummy. And kinda don't have the time for it. These are kids in a very unique situation that gave them shit ton of time and barred them from seeing their friends. You're quite honestly being a boomer. Step outside tiktok. Touch some grass, as the gen z say.
Highschool is just a setting like we barely even see them learning or doing tests, i feel like the show could work just as well if they all didn't go to highschool together, but it's also based on a Israeli show about teenagers.
my highschool experience was actually pretty similar to whats shown in euphoria, ppl were always drinking in parties and smoking at school having sex and dressing (not like in euphoria non of us had that style or confidence) provocatively, some kids even had sex at school, heck the police came at some point because there was suspicions about drug dealing in school. everything in highschool is super extreme and overly dramatic so yeah idk not everything in euphoria is realistic but it has a lot of things that are centered in reality and its not unheard of
I IMMEDIATELY thought about what high school was like for me when watching this and it was like “Euphoria high”. Went to school in the suburbs and absolutely yes there are schools that are like this.
This is a great take! I do think college is also full of oversaturated emotions, it’s only a year later. I’d even argue it could be more of a whirlwind for some people.They didn’t blossom until they get out of their dead end town and feel finally like an “adult” who can make their own choices, whether those are good or bad ones.
McKay is even in college!
I'm still waiting for that Paw Patrol Copaganda review
Become a patreon member to make it happen. He won't do it until he gets enough supporters.
I think your comparison to Mr. Robot is on the money. Mr. Robot is so stylized and the plots are so elevated, that by the time you get to the last season and learn what the show is really about, it is really cathartic. That's why I think the Euphoria special episodes are mandatory watches b/c they serve that same cathartic role for the show. Without all the narrativizing the special episodes provide, the details they take the time to put in Euphoria would go to waste, and it would leave Euphoria only as well executed eye/ear candy; which isn't a bad thing, it's just that special episodes hint at something a little more existential.
would you watch the specials before season 1?
@@williamzen1654 nah you should watch them after but before season 2
@@williamzen1654 I would just enjoy the 1st season, then watch the specials, then rewatch season 1. When it comes to season 2, lets just say that sophomore slumps do happen.
That dog transplant scene is one of the best comedic moments in television history 😤
Funnily enough shows like this have always existed... stylized high drama shows about adults pretending to be teens.
yes, its about the vibe! i dont know how much i love the plot of euphoria, but man do i love the photography and editing of euphoria. the acting is also fantastic at times, bringing out strong emotion. it is truly a ~vibe~ and really refreshing to see television handled with so much craft and love.
The sound track is really putting in OT on that vibe too.
Literally everything you said is exactly what I have been telling ppl!!! Once we are no longer teens we don't appreciate how grandiose everything was or felt when we were teenagers. It's as if we have all forgotten what it was like and how HUGE everything felt at the time. The show would still be GREAT if it was set in let's say a freshman college situation but it would not be nearly as compelling. She show almost feels as if it's a teenagers interpretation of reality, not even reality itself and we are forced to feel the magnitude of what they feel. It's almost other worldly in so many ways. I really get this feel from the fanciful cinematography and editing. It is a part of the allure and what makes it so captivating. It HAS to be set in hs. They can't make the show set in college just so we can all feel more comfortable. Truth is being a teen is really hard even when ur just playing apples to apples
I'm gonna be honest, my highschool experience had almost everything that the show touches upon. I would say drugs are the only thing that I personally didn't see because I was scared of them, but my friends would constantly tell me stories about the parties where they smoked drugs and took drugs and all that. People getting drunk when they went out was normal, sex even if we were minors was normal, smoking was kinda normal and there were tons of toxic relationships ( I don't think there was a case of physical abuse though ).
I think the "unrealistic" part is all the style that the show has! Which honestly.... I'm glad it does because being able to show the underbelly of the high school life and making one of the prettiest shows ever has GOT TO BE a challenge.
im in high school still, i dont drink or do drugs but i know a ton of people who do, so its pretty accurate in that sense
High school for me was nothing like that. It was a dull blur, with the most defining memory I have that captures my experience being me just walking to class thinking about whatever homework I did or didn't do (I remember a lot more than that, but that captures the vibe). Wasn't negative per say, I had friends who I'm either still friends with or drifted apart from naturally with no ill-will. Never drank, did drugs, or even had a relationship. I was mostly just focused on schoolwork and whatever book/movie/anime I was reading/watching/writing/thinking-about-writing at the time.
When I was in secondary school, 13-16 in Singapore, we don't usually experience these type of things because the rules in schools here are very strict. Uniforms, no makeup etc.
However when we go to tertiary education, like college. That is where drug addiction, pusher wannabes, addiction, toxic relationship, sexual exploration. People being high in lectures (This is from what I'd seen in my country)
So yea I agree euphoria seems like this kind of stuff experience in college but setting it on college gives a shock value
People These Days: This show is sooo unrealistic!
People Back When: 90210 is sooo unrealistic! Fame is so unrealistic! Skins is sooo unrealistic!
You want to see realistic teens? Volunteer at your local teen center.
Euphoria isn't about high school it's about how you remember high school or it isn't about 1 school it's about a bunch of wild chaotic stories from diffrent school, but people who say euphoria isn't realistic are dense bc many many kids use drugs and alcohol abuse
I TOTALLY understand that YOU didn't see "kids with face tatts" in your HS but that just isn't everyone's experience. I'm a black woman who went to Fairfax High on the Melrose trip of LA. Easily HALF of the kids in my graduating class looked like this. Only it was a little more emo (This is during the height of pop/rock Avril/Paramore etc). There is literally a show on Amazon called Fairfax about how nuts this school is about fashion. My mother came to school randomly and would be like WTF this place is a zoo. All of us tatted, pierced, colored hair (This includes faculty) I use to smoke weed with campus security so he'd let me and my friends go to In n Out during lunch. There was A LOT of drugs. Not nearly as sexual but outside of Rue's journey with addiction and whatever Nate is doing, I've personally seen many scenarios from the show irl while in HS.
I think the series portrays a pretty faithful image of high school, actually. Not the high school we went to, but the one our kids go to.
worried 4 ur kids then
This video convinced me to watch the show despite thinking for the longest time that I would hate it. And it turns out I'm a huge fan!
I partially agree however the fandom never treats them like teenagers it’s assumed that they’re all 18. The overdramatized emotions isn’t something that can only be portrayed in college.
Idk how old you are but when I was in college aged 18-21 there was still that overdramatized emotion
I went to high school in Albuquerque and Madison Wisconsin,, both were just like this show.
Why does Euphoria take place in high school?
Because if the characters were over 18, they'd be sent to jail in Episode 1, end of series.
I couldn't get into the show cause of the s*xual violence but nearly all my friends are obsessed with it so i always felt like the odd one out lol i appreciate the explanation of it's purpose
Tbh Im jealous of people who find Euphoria 'unrealistic'
As someone who isnt trans, drug addict, insecure, abused, scared, has drama in general. The show doesn't stuck well with me at first i saw as "way to dramatic" bc my highschool life wasnt too boring but it also wasnt to lively. But i started to look at the people around me i had friends who are similar to the characters in euphoria. This show does a pretty good job of what it is. Yes it can be too much but so can life.
Have you watched the movie 'Kids' (1995)? I feel that it's much more realistic and disturbing, as the casts were real teens.
That is a movie that i think the general public is not ready for lol
@@chromatika67 Fortunately, I watched it when I was in college, that's years after the movie is released. I was really shocked at how much the s"x and dr*gs were. Euphoria is nothing compared to the movie.
People have cultural amnesia. Same criticisms happened before. And pointing that out has likewise been met with "Not like this!"many time@svm in the past.
Not to mention verisimilitude is a very subjective concept in the consumption of any media. Thousands of films are not ""realistic" yet we enjoy them and sometimes make fun of it.
It’s tv. It’s gonna be dramatized. But it’s really relatable in comparison to the other teen dramas where one of the characters is a murderer. Lol. My childhood best friend was addicted to pills. She was always into it w her mom. She was experimenting w her sexuality. And one of her school mates was a prostitute online. Mostly for fun because her mom gave her money all the time. I was more like Lexi. Where I was a good girl lol and just friends w all the ppl w these issues and in love w the bad boy dealer who has a heart of gold but questionable morals.
I'm 34. Born in late 80s but grew up as a kid as a 90s baby. My time in High School was in the early 2000s. Absolutely nothing from this show occurred at my High School. Watching this show is an odd fever dream. Probably a generational gap I assume. Nobody had tattoos. We had a strict dress code. Breaking it often brought severe consequences. There was no social media to speak of at this time. There were a few gay kids but most kept it hidden. It was a different time. Didn't see my first pregnant girl til Senior year. I don't doubt that some people were having sex or possibly doing drugs but nobody talked about it like that. Teens kept whatever they were doing lowkey. That's just how it was. There was some drinking here and there but mostly at games and pep rallies. Stuff like that. No drugs at all. I'd describe my High School experience as unexceptionally average. Cliqueish at times being the only thing I didn't like. I wasn't emotional once I graduated. Quite the opposite. I was happy and ready to move on. I don't crave for those days and have not given it a second thought until this show blew up. Everything from this show are things I encountered in my post high school life. Late teens/early 20s. 19ish to be precise. The opening episode of season 2 at the new years party perfectly captured what College was like for me. That was pretty much every College party I ever attended.
Despite all this, I'm an avid binge watcher of shows and movies so I can put my own feelings aside and enjoy a show for what it is. I can still suspend my disbelief because its a TV show after all. I also understand that in the modern age social media is way bigger exposing youth to things at a much younger age compared to my generation. My big issue with this season is the first season at least pretended to keep the illusion of high school relevant to the plot. This season basically gave up on it. But yea, its definitely a generational thing. I can see that more as this show grows bigger. Hollyweird has just always had an obsession with putting the most unusual plots in High School settings. I'm just immune to it at this point.
5:35 the mid season finale for Better Call Saul season 6 did this for me. That ending…
The character of Rue is almost exactly who I was in high school. I was secretly a junkie, a very emotionally needy person, and a mess. The rest of the characters remind me of a lot of other teens I hung with back in those days. Some of them have passed, some are barely alive, and a lucky few managed to turn their lives around. I’m amazed I’m still alive at 39. If I manage to not die before I turn 40 I’ll let you know.
I was pleasantly surprised with how they portrayed Rue. As a 15-year-old who has Bipolar disorder, it was quite noticeable the way my classmates treated me with some empathy after the show came out. I thought it was another dramatic and weirdly predatory show that treats my generation with mental disorders, messed up childhoods in a way that makes a certain group of people loose a bit of faith in humanity. People tend to be frightened by my actions when I'm in my manic period, but I have noticed a pattern in my behaviour and I'll be trying my best to stay optimistic no matter what life throws at you. If you give up, you might never get a chance to become a better person.
I can relate to Rue cuz of adhd and addiction issues. Truth is, everybody has issues, some re just better at hiding it.
as a lower class high schooler i definitely relate and literally think the show is as realistic as a tv can be for me. if i haven’t been in the situations portrayed in the show i know someone just in my 30 people band that have
Idk I mean I did heroin in high school, and I graduated in 2009 so this was some time back now. Although I was definitely an outlier if I'm being honest... I was a pretty angry, fucked up, traumatized kid without any kind of outlet or reliable support structure. I mean I had a ton of issues long before high school began, but then I moved across the country during the summer before my freshman year and that combined with a number of other particular circumstances and unresolved past trauma basically making it a perfect storm for a very, very pissed off teenager just looking for a reason to pop off and some way to just clock out, escape, and let go. I was practically destined to develop a crippling opioid addiction early on in life (I had also recieved large amounts of narcotics before I was born, during infancy, and on and off throughout the entirety of adolescence; I simply didn't quite totally comprehend nor entertain their "recreational" value until high school) lol. While the majority of my friends were content with a little ganja and/or getting ahold of some hooch whenever possible and in some cases even the occasional couple tabs of Exx or blotter strips, I was consistently on a hardline mission to acquire any quantity of opiates/opioids I could find. The primary objective was always OCs, Dilaudid (hydromorphone), and if possible an oxymorphone patch or two (Fentanyl), however I would gobble up or take down whatever I could get my filthy little angry junkie mits on. I did go through a Lean phase for some time, although I preferred "Orng n' Yella Tuss" (brand name Tussionex, extended release hydrocodone in liquid formulation prescribed as a powerful cough suppressant). I also went through a period where I would mix liquid syrup formulation oxycodone with Lean and other shit for a real choppy screwed experience lol. It would always come out this cool, funny lookin' almost iridescent purple color too when fully mixed up. I remember going to a Halloween party out of town at the big state college (big time party town, known nationwide) with a buddy and we went as the Boondock Saints, and I brought with me all my ingredients for my Super Chop Lean Drank and definitely consumed way more than I had initially intended to. Aside from the trip up there, a few brief bits real early in the first night during our intial introductions to those at the base party house, and waking up on the last day to go eat before heading home; I have absolutely no memory whatsoever of those entire three days we spent up there partying, and I have no idea what I did or who I did it with lol. I really regret it too because apparently it was quite a lot of fun and I've since heard many tales of my exploits and antics. I always act like I know what they're talking about and I play along but since I was the only one drinking my fucking time travel erasure potion and I felt like a dirty junkie because of it, I've never told anyone involved that I was essentially not present for the entirety of my stay. Some other entity apparently had control of the 'ole meat suit. It remains rather embarrassing and kinda disgusting to me to this day honestly...
I went to a private Christian high school too by the way, probably should have mentioned that before. That definitely colored my experience in a manner that results in a rather... unique perspective perhaps? Like on teenage drug/alcohol abuse and any resulting developed addiction? Some of my other circumstances might disqualify me in some ways since they were unique to my situation, but still. It's quite astounding how rapidly kids can desensitize themselves to self destruction when either given the proper reason or robbed of any hope, or if motivated by enough outwardly directed/generalized hatred and powerful self-loathing.
So, all the studies you pulled up about underage drinking, drug use and sex are about the US. However, I as a German can very much relate to the age and high-school setting. You're allowed to drink at the age of 16 over here, but most people start at 14. Drug use is quite common at least in bigger cities. Also, when it comes to sex, age 14-16 is round about the age where people start.
All of that being said, you stating that this age is not realistic might apply to the US but not to all countries.
I'm from an European country and I completely agree with you
God damn, I do not understand how Jackson has less than 500K subscribers.
Keep up the good work!
Off topic, but I love your comedic timing 💀
The teens in Euphoria on a Friday night: *does drugs, has sex, drinks a lot*
Me, a 16-17 year old on Friday nights: *draws she-ra fanart based on Taylor Swift songs*
Good take. One of my most fundamental high-school-experience TV shows is Buffy, which happens to be simultaneously the most and least realistic. Sure, it externalizes the horrors of high school onto a wild fantasy setting of vampires, apocolypses, demons, preying mantises, etc.
But when the person you're dating starts treating you badly it *feels* like they lost their soul. When you start to learn about how government works and become politically engaged, it *feels* like the politicians could only be acting as poorly as they do because they made a dark pact with a demon. When you have something important to do but your mom doesn't let you go out, it *feels* like she's keeping you from saving the world.
Realism? Realism.
Buffy!! Yes!!!
ima young boy at 17 and im tellin u, this is how the kids my age are now. maybe it’s different here in Detroit though.
I love your analysis and I love the style of Euphoria, here's my take: I'm 17 and I think this show is pretty harmful to the middle schoolers and such watching this because yes they do watch it also I know plenty of people who got pregnant, went to jail, do drugs, and made an only fans, but they don't do it like Euphoria ESPECIALLY the ones who are middle class or above
oh yeah... the show is meant to be for adults LOOKING BACK at their hs years. but for middle schoolers they will think this is the ~cool~ experience of hs and will try as much as they can to emulate it, not all, but definitely some who don't get the real message of the show, which i don't blame bcs their brains haven't finished developing. but it's definitely dangerous
What’s even more weird is how both HBO & Netflix pushes this weirdo narrative onto us but in reality it is illegal to date a teen or even watch underage pornography videos yet Hollywood seems to always find a way around it to show it & no one is honest enough to say hey bro your writing is weird af & maybe you should consider making these characters at least collage students.
It’s just a weird obsession with teeny 💩 that is pushed in the US.
I remember watching PLL(pretty little liars) just as grossed out & I was literally a freshman in college weirded out at the fact that one of the characters was dating a whole damn teacher & nobody called the writers or the image it was depicting alarming behavior. I still question that 💩
This is right on time. I said last week that the show was starting to feel kind of "style over substance," but this reading puts parts of what I highlighted into a perspective that makes sense.
Bro you did NOT NEED to do Sam Levinson like that but I'm so glad you did.
Honestly, my high school had kids addicted to Oxycotin, dealing drugs, smoking weed, having sex every day in the parking lot...this stuff is really NOT unheard of for teens, it just depends a lot on several factors, and not every kid is involved with all of it, but back in 2004-2008 we had our share of leaked photo scandals, teachers selling coke to students, girls getting abortions regularly...and this was all at a celebrated Blue Ribbon high school where the majority of students went on to prestigious colleges.
Basically, I think people will always freak out about teen shows and movies because the farther you get from your own teen years, the more you forget how it wasn't all so innocent (and neither were you). That's not to say most kids lead that kind of lifestyle as a teen, but it does exist for sure.
Great analysis!
Euphoria was very relatable to my high school besides how they dress but other then that I mean people partied all the time most of the kids at my school had a drug problem.
the girl who plays the young version of nates mom went to my high school and i remember seeing her in the halls and then suddenly im seeing her sitting on cals face and thats not a high school flashback i was expecting
Uh, I moved around A LOT in poorer communities and yeah I’d say it’s not exactly like this but drugs were involved. I mean, for 1. I didn’t do them, but my mom was sick, no dad in the picture. Living off of 1200 a month from disability for my mom.. she couldn’t take the Vicodins and I needed money.. so like yeah, you see a lot more when you’re exposed to a lot more..
I just imagine being a background character doing the same things I did back in HS, playing soccer, watching wrestling, hanging out with my cousins etc and just looking at the main characters like "popular kids are weird man!" while in class doodling on my notebook lyrics from an Ozzy song.
Tl;dr: euphoria characters are not relateable.
My first thought after seeing the title etc: "someone did live action serial about that anime?"
I haven't watched Euphoria, but what I don't remember of those years is because we were *ahem* partaking in things that my adult self realized were EXTREMELY age inappropriate. Or were they?
i am gen z from somewhat slow city, i feel old when i talk to my friends from big city like delhi.
EMOTIONALLY, Euphoria is a perfect and real look into teen life. Even without the drugs, sex, and other wildly illegal acts, it hooks a viewer bc it has some relatable and deep emotions. We FEEL for every character in the show, even the ones we hate. The style, music, and acting only helps that.
Story/plot wise, Euphoria is almost like a horror fantasy for adults looking back on their unremarkable teen years and wanting more. Sam Levinson (a weirdo, tbh) is living vicariously through these characters to experience things he probably didn't as a teen and/or to get through what he did. He also really likes to use the lens of black people but that's a rant someone else has already covered multiple times before (google it, I can't remember titles, haha).
A co-worker who is nearly 20 yrs younger talked me into watching this show and it was slow going at first. It took me three tries to get through the first two episodes.
I was very weirded out and "appalled" but once I was in, I couldn't stop myself. I've seen every episode now but haven't had to hold myself back from rewatching it ...I enjoyed it (I think) but I may be a little traumatised 😮💨.
The whole time I was watching I kept thinking "This isn't real...Rue went into a coma after her overdose and this is all a manifestation of her neurodivergence until she's strong enough to wake up" OR they'll do the "Dallas"/"Newhart" thing 🤷🏾♀️
5:39…..The vivisection in Bone Tomahawk and I was fully an adult lol.
I guess I'm the only one that literally went to this school. I can't even explain how much did me & my friends were doing. Or that my mom bought my first mdma when I was 15 🤯 anyways..
Good video 😸✌🏼
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Euphoria feels like it takes place in the early 2000s when I was coming of age. All of the things that happened in the show, happened at my high school or to friends of mine. It doesn’t feel uniquely gen z but perhaps that is because of Sam Levinson.
Despite what the production team says, this show is not for millennials. It’s reaching high school audiences; it’s for GenZ and younger. And I don’t think that’s the _worst_ thing for teens to be watching. There’s a valid amount of bad elements to the show that people are quicker to point out because of the graphic elements. And I’ve heard from behind the scenes Zendaya was highly pressured to do nude scenes and her family (who manages her career) had to fight Sam Levison to avoid instances of it. Just knowing that, and how Sam wrote this about himself and then directly reached out Zendaya to play his character insert, only to then also pressure her to do more graphic nudity it’s a hard pass for me. I’ve just had a harder time watching shows and movies where the actors involve said they were exploited during. An Emmy award winning performance sure, but she’s still so young it’ll be a while if we ever find out what it all really cost. (I don’t think this is reported anywhere, but a producer friend I have knows her parents well, so yeah…)
I really think Euphoria is for the kids who grew up watching Degrassi/Skins/Gossip Girl. It’s a teen drama but the stuff the characters are dealing with are things that apply to us 20 somethings.
It’s why Gen Z watches the show but complains about what happens on it. Nobody that’s in their mid/late 20s watching is complaining about minors being sexualized and being played by adults. It’s what people in that age range grew up watching.
The Lighting + Jackson and his shirt of choice makes me euphoric!
“I don’t know just what I feel, but I feel it all tonight.”
That One Tree Hill moment is hilarious!! Dan Scott never had a heart.
I love euphoria to near death and though ironically i find it creepy in the beginning, I find myself at time's forgetting that these are high-school students. My mind just naturally imprints them to be college aged.
Euphoria is kind are relatable for my school. Like kids have sex, do drugs and alcohol also there is very much drama here lmao. Not very realistisch but relatable.
I'll be 100% honest here, this show isn't really something that I would typically watch and it's still not really my thing, but I kind of kept watching just because it reminded me of so many people that I've known in my life who have actually been involved in so many of the situations that are portrayed in the show.
The criticisms that I've seen for Euphoria, especially the portrayal of minors I completely understand and agree with.
The directors are walking up very fine and thin line.
As stylistic as the show is though, besides some elements that are over the top, you might be surprised just how accurate a lot of the stuff you see in the show is.
Of course it can vary depending on the school, but a school that neighborhood mine called Hall high School had a lot of the same issues of the one you see in euphoria.
The drugs, sex, the violence. Ya, you may not have personally dealt with that wherever you attended but I assure you this kind of s*** is going on.
Of course elements are blown up for dramatic effect in the show obviously, but a lot of what is there I've seen with my own eyes.
It's not as unrealistic as you think. Just cut down on the amount of prison tattoos and some of the clothing you see some of the students wearing and yeah it's pretty on par.
@11:05 “He looks like Brooklyn Hipster Rasputin” 🤣
You said Machine Gun Kelly, but did you mean R Kelly?
its for me, a drug addict transgirl who tho is no longer in highschool, i was a year ago. I went through a lot in a short amount of time. i love the show, i dont know why but everytime i watch it i feel something i havent felti n a long time. Idk what it is but its there.
Thanks for creating!
My problem isn't with these teens doing all that crazy shit. In my HS there WERE people doing drugs and a girl was caught hooking up with men pretending she's 18. I just don't like how they get away with everything so easily
They literally don't tho. They're all in a mess. Kat can't keep a healthy relationship. Rue is almost getting trafficked and needs rehab and her life is falling apart. Fez is probably dead. You get the idea.
Puberty is not a universal experience though. Like I get your point about using the words that precisely capture the emotion, but saying that age has this experience is stereotyping. So yeah it's definitely some ageist superculture propaganda trying to make high school stereotypes relevant when they are obsolete.
I suspect there's something to say about how pericisheteronormative patriarchy puts a lot of sexual Coercion on adulting & legal recognition of care networks, but considering how the pericisheteronormative patriarchy is a dictatorship that controls media production once we get to HBO levels, I'm not confident in the show's ability to keep that message (& that's in addition to having only 1 writer as opposed to many writers, in addition to how colonial apologia embraces thought experiments as equal to material experiments).
Euphoria seems more believable to me in the college setting. They look more like college students to me.
I live in the UK and personally I can relate to the show in many ways with my high School experience, though the show is a far more exaggerated version of it. I feel like people think that just because they can't relate or they didn't see that stuff happening that it is unrealistic but that is not the case... I knew people very similar to the characters doing similar things and I was in some of those crowds myself, though like I say euphoria is extremely heightened.
always so smart and thoughtful. love your videos
None of those kids are making it to college. 😒 not a single one.
I never looked at the show and said "I wish my high school(secondary school) was like that" I think the show is a cautionary tale, we are not meant to like these characters per say..we are meant to look at their stupid decisions(not all decisions are stupid) and say "I will not be doing that"
💀tv show was good, accurate to how high school was for, knew people who was doing acid in school, burning trash cans in the bathrooms, people getting there ass beat and going to jail, people bringing guns and drugs to school, somone got arrested for crack before..everything’s in that tv show is accurate to what most high schools are like, and some high schoolers do get addicted to drugs, but if we’re making the argument based on high school than there tons of movies we’re it’s based on a high school setting and shows drugs, sex and all of that
When people say this show is unrealistic I just think to myself “well yeah like every tv show it’s imitating real life with all the boring parts taken out” but then I start to think..” oh so you think these issues can’t happen in highschool…” which is so ignorant..like sit down and realize that your experience isn’t THE experience..like why tf do you think there’s detention centers? Do you think highschool kids just never commit crimes, get addicted to drugs..have sex? Like no maybe the way things play out in season 2 could be called unrealistic (the high production/ sexual play in a highschool😂) but when just written on a piece of paper everything that happens in the show idk how this show can be called unrealistic…like dude get off tiktok watch the news.
If I combined the 3 high schools in the school district I went to I’m pretty sure it would make the Euphoria high school
Good spot kid. Yes indeed, how better to depict adolescence than through a lacking of realism? The concept is perfectly sound. I cannot speak to the execution, never watched it, but I can say the description about fits snug with my high school stage experience.
I did. I did all of those things.
Thank God there was no fentanyl back then.
The audience is simply: young adults that feel nostalgic about high school and are mistaking their college memories with their high school memories. Meaning that they remember high school being MUCH crazier than it actually was.
Euphoria speaks to a very specific experience of teens in 2010s middle America where H*r*o*n took over the suburbs imo no this is not the average experience but for me this was a spot on depiction of a lot of my experiences. Obviously exceptions but the sentiment is there
Honestly the high school setting didnt seem totally unrealistic to me. Not every hs obviously, but SOTA in SF circa 2015 isn't too far off...
I just wish people would talk more about the use of nudity and sex instead of focusing on the good cinematography and compelling character writing. It is very questionable.
Maybe not all people have the same moral values as you and that's ok, because imposing one morality over all peoples is fascist no matter what justification you use.
@@nikoguarro Authoritarian, maybe. Fascism is a more specific idea than "controlling what people do". Fascism is (in simplified terms) the idea of purifying a race in order to return to a mythologized past.
Also worth noting that "I wish more people would talk about a particular aspect of this show" is a far cry from demanding everyone have the same moral code as you.
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I also think purely from a plot perspective it wouldn't be possible to have these characters in the same room if they were in college, the hierarchy of high school doesn't exist and for example theres no way Rue would've made it to the same college as Lexi. High School is really the last place you're kind of forced to exist in with people that you don't have much of choice in being around!
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Never seen it, but it doesn’t seem that unrealistic. I went to an art high school and yea it was kinda like what i’ve heard and seen about the show. I get the criticism and like I said, never seen it, but this shit exists even if its not the normal experience
Tbh Euphoria is one of the greatest show of all time and the acting is just amazing