In the gap between Season 1 and Season 2 of Euphoria , a strange thing happened: it became cool to hate it. Critics balked at the "trauma porn" accusations. Fans debated the necessity of the fully nude cold opens. And yet, on a Sunday night in 2022, 16.3 million people held their breath as Fezco watched a lock click shut on a front door, realizing his fate was sealed.
9/10 (A masterpiece of tone, even when it stumbles.) season 2 euphoria
Season 2 of Euphoria is not a perfect season of television. It is something rarer: a dangerous one. Where the first season was a kinetic, glitter-bombed lecture on modern teen angst, the sophomore effort is a slow, ugly, bruising hangover. It strips away the Instagram filters and asks the brutal question: What happens when the party stops feeling good? Sam Levinson’s direction this season feels like a fever breaking. Gone are the sweeping tracking shots of Season 1 that felt like a John Wick movie about locker room gossip. In their place, we get the infamous "Jules’s special episode" aesthetic applied to a nuclear meltdown. The aspect ratio tightens. The colors bleed into deep reds and cold fluorescents. In the gap between Season 1 and Season
Cassie is not a villain. She is not a victim. She is a wound . And yet, on a Sunday night in 2022, 16