Euphoria

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 16, 2019
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 109 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 83 out of 109
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 109
  3. Negative: 23 out of 109
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  1. mrwashu
    Jul 10, 2019
    1
    The whole thing is based on quite blatant exploitation of controversy. The creators just thought boldly with they income calculators in hands that more lgbt/sex/rape/drugs etc. means more money. Are they right? For me it's just cringy abomination.
  2. azovka
    Aug 5, 2019
    3
    Giving it a 3 because of the cinematography mostly. This show is a mess. Everything is done for the shock value, and not a single character is likable. The adults are all useless / drug or alcohol addicts / closeted abusive homosexuals with the only exception being the protagonist's mother.
    Every single one of the teenagers is horrible. All of the girls are very promiscuous, even the ones    Giving it a 3 because of the cinematography mostly. This show is a mess. Everything is done for the shock value, and not a single character is likable. The adults are all useless / drug or alcohol addicts / closeted abusive homosexuals with the only exception being the protagonist's mother.
    Every single one of the teenagers is horrible. All of the girls are very promiscuous, even the ones the show tries to portray as conservative.
    Case and point: what do you do when your boyfriend, whom you love, gets assaulted and hazed by this fellow freshmen? Why hook up with a random guy that dresses like Ted Bundy of course.
    Or how about the fat girl that just sleeps with every random "because love doesn't exist" and she's just so broken inside.

    This just brings me to my point - all of the characters are broken / have extremely traumatic experiences that shape them. I'm not denying that traumas like this exist. Parents can be drug addicts, or die from cancer. You may struggle with depression and attempt suicide. But the issue here is that all the characters are broken. All of them. And all of them do way too much drugs and explicit sex purely for shock value, which lessens whatever impact the show-runners wanted to have.    … Expand
  3. Mattyice
    Jun 16, 2019
    1
    Euphoria is truly a terrible show in many respects. It has painfully unlikable characters, annoying pretention in its filmmaking and "protagonist", and shock moments of drug abuse, sex/genitalia, and the like that are only there for shock value and nothing else. Furthermore, it's writing and appearance of its teenaged characters is criminally unrealistic, and it often feels like the showEuphoria is truly a terrible show in many respects. It has painfully unlikable characters, annoying pretention in its filmmaking and "protagonist", and shock moments of drug abuse, sex/genitalia, and the like that are only there for shock value and nothing else. Furthermore, it's writing and appearance of its teenaged characters is criminally unrealistic, and it often feels like the show was written by a 16 year old who thinks this is what high school life is actually like. I can give a little credit to its color grading, but its cinematography is artsy for the sake of being artsy with no value or substance, making the various tilts, cuts, zooms, and camera movements jarring more than anything else. Unless they do something legitimate with its unlikable characters, story, or writing in later episodes, I'm most certainly going to be passing on this show.… Expand
  4. FosterChad
    Jun 19, 2019
    3
    The first episode was full of sex and artifice just to try to shock its viewer, even more in the emphasis given to showing genitals even being prostheses. At first it did not seem promising, I hope the next episodes the plot has a better way to follow

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#97 Best TV Season of 2019
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#26 Most Discussed TV Season of 2019

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Metascore
67

Generally favorable reviews - based on 27 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 27
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 27
  3. Negative: 1 out of 27
  1. What's Alan Watching?
    Reviewed by: Alan Sepinwall
    Apr 16, 2026
    58
    For all of the many flaws of those earlier years, high school was a much better setting for Euphoria than everything happening now. But there are still moments.
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  2. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Benjamin Lee
    Dec 3, 2019
    80
    Its louder moments are graphic and brash but its quieter moments are equally impactful, a well-modulated drama that knows when to push and then pull back. It’s hard to know where it will go and that’s part of its untamed appeal but as it stands, it’s one of the most audacious and effective new shows I have seen this year.
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  3. The Atlantic
    Reviewed by: Sophie Gilbert
    Jun 19, 2019
    60
    In its best moments, it’s a thoughtful, open-hearted story about teenagers trying to navigate life as the first fully-online generation, test subjects in an unfettered landscape of dick pics, adult predators, and synthetic hallucinogens. But it’s also the kind of drama so relentlessly provocative—images of erect penises crop up with the persistence and frequency of weeds in springtime—that it prompts a question: Who is this supposed to be for?
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