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Euphoria season 1 Review

**SPOILERS**

Welp episode 8 has me in actual tears

Mini 1x08 review: (because why the fuck not)

I LOVE YOU CASSIE <3

Jules, I understand why you left. You felt suffocated in the little town and needed to spread your wings. But DAMNIT WHY DID YOU HAVE TO LEAVE LIKE THAT.

I honestly feel bad for Nate. He’s going through a lot right now (and am I the only one that thinks Cal just wet a lil overboard with Nate? Yeah he was being an asshole, but Nate was pushed so far that he has some type of attack on the floor).

That being said,

Fuck you Nate. Abusive asshole. Just leave Maddy alone. She’s so supportive of you and you figuring out your sexuality, and all she wants is for you to be okay. I get that there’s a lot stress in your life right now, but please don’t take it out on Maddy. She’s so broken too :(

I honestly thought fez was going to kill Nate, and I’m really happy he didn’t

THAT ENDING THOUGH

THIS BITCH WAS ON THE EDGE OF HER SEAT THE ENTIRE TIME

IM SO EMOTIONALLY CONFUSED

But we’ll leave the rest for the main review ;)

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OKAY COMMENSE SEASON REVIEW!!!

My plan is to address plot stuff (characters too!) and then technical stuff

Story (in general):

KUDOS KUDOS KUDOS. FUCKING FABULOUS. My thoughts watching this was “this feels so real”. I honestly never thought that it seemed at all cliche, which is a feeling a tend to get when I watch something set in high school. I liked how all of the girls were friends and there weren’t cliques.

I also liked how all of the stories were coexisting at the same time and they all worked to gesteht very well. I never felt like the show was cramming I details or overcompensating, which was nice. At the beginning of the show, I did get confused A LOT with all of the characters’ names but that was because they introduced all of the characters at the same time.

I never had a problem with pacing, which can be a huge pet peeve of mine so I applaud ye.

Overall, very well done.

Ending:

I always do a separate review for the ending because, in my unprofessional opinion, it the most important part of a story.

This ending made me emotional but also confused and slightly angry

Allow me to elaborate

If you follow me or have read some of my reviews, you know that I like solidified answers and no loose ends. Well this ending gave me tons of loose ends, which annoys me slightly.

But I knows this is only because they were planning on renewing it for another season (which they did thank god), so I can live with that.

A good point was made during a sincast episode. These problems that every character goes through do happen in real life. But the fact that all of them are happensjng in the same town is kind of hard to believe

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sincast-presented-by-cinemasins/id1073364619?i=1000445028205 here’s the link to that episode. I think the part where they talk about euphoria starts around the hour mark, right after the ad

The confusion and emotion go hand in hand because of rue and Jules’ ending.

HOT DAMN

NOT AT ALL WHAT I WAS EXPECTING

Well, I was expecting that Jules and Rue were going to fall out about something and Rue was going to go back to drugs.

BUT NOT LIKE THAT

AND THAT SONG AT THE END

ANRJRBDHD

if somebody could send that to me or tell me what it’s called, I’d hella appreciate it ty

And yeah, we didn’t get a happy ending. But what the ambiguous ending leaves for is utter excitement for season 2

And who knows when that will come out :’)

Rue &Jules:

Honestly, I fuckin called it. I knew they weren’t going to last because they never seemed to make it work.

This is also a “real” moment because it displays that not all teen relationships work out. In cliche movies, the main couple work through their relationship and end up getting married. But this reminds you that real life doesn’t work that way.

As a tv watcher, I liked that rue eventually went back drugs. It seemed kind of obvious, almost to the point where it’s too obvious to do it, and that’s why I liked that they did that. As a fan of the show, I’m fucking pissed because that means that poor rue is going to have to start back at square one, but without her resources that helped her stay clean the first time.

I think I wrote in my first or second review of the show that I liked rue and Jules’ friendship, and I still agree with that. The friendship is what held rue together. But when things started to progress further than that, and the pair became romantically involved, that’s when the relationship became toxic. And that’s what’s sad. They both needed a rock to support them, but that support was almost immediately ruined when they became a “thing”

Kat:

I liked Kat’s wardrobe change! When she lost her virginity, she seemed to become an entirely different person. And I’m pretty sure her appearance shift has ulterior motives (maybe some self consciousness..?) but she seemed to spread out of her shell abut, and I liked that.

IM SO HAPPY SHE AND ETHAN GOT TOGETHER IN THE END!!! <333333

But this brings up a lot of questions: is she going to continue with camming? (I think yes). If she does how will everyone especially Ethan react?

Idkklk

Nate, Cal, and Maddy:

This one im intrigued to see where it is going to go. Because the last episode left us with a lot of loose ends:

Rue, Jules, Nate, and Maddy know about cal’s hookups

Nate and Maddy are the only ones with proof

Is Maddy going to keep quiet about this? We never really saw her reaction to the video or which video it was

Cal is potentially abusive toward his son

Nate takes a lot after his dad

Nate has a lot of built up emotion and tends to take it out on the people in ramonatocqlly involved with

Alexa Demie and Jacob Elordi are also phenomenal and their chemistry in stage is matches exactly how Maddy and Nate are suppose to act towards each other

McKay & Cassie:

I’m about to eat my fucking foot

I actually really liked this story in the end. I just think I dragged a lot because Cassie’s and McKay’s episodes were at the end of the season. When their episodes aired, I immediately liked the show and their story better.

And that’s just a problem with the story. I fell like this section of the story could have progressed more by the time their episodes came up, to at least build suspense.

But Sydney Sweeney is probably one of my favorites actresses in the show because of how emotional and open she became when Cassie was pregnant and had her abortion. It broke Cassie, and Sydney portrayed that excellently

Quality:

Really good. Seemed to be shot on a nice camera. The camera angles were kind of wonky sometimes, but it never felt like too much and it always seems to match what what’s happeneing during the scene

Rating/content:

Definitely TV-MA. Please use discretion when watching this. It’s a hard watch, and, like podcast says, it would not get an R rating if it were a movie. Honestly the sex scenes bothered me way more than the drugs, but that’s my personal opinion. All of the things that make this TV-MA are essential to the show though, so you can’t cut that stuff out

Overall...

Very impressed. I did like the ending a lot, and I can’t wait for what season 2 has in store :)