Euphoria

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jun 16, 2019
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.1

Generally favorable reviews- based on 74 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 52 out of 74
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 74
  3. Negative: 13 out of 74
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  1. All_ButTrU4
    Feb 20, 2022
    6
    :The first few minutes of euphoria sophomore season explode with voices as we finally get a long awaited backstory to Fez. Most of the episode is framed in a familiar in-between where an apprehension reverberates through each scene and no one is in a good place. Performances are unsurprisingly good ,even the newbies like Dominic Fike. This episode was worth waiting for despite it:The first few minutes of euphoria sophomore season explode with voices as we finally get a long awaited backstory to Fez. Most of the episode is framed in a familiar in-between where an apprehension reverberates through each scene and no one is in a good place. Performances are unsurprisingly good ,even the newbies like Dominic Fike. This episode was worth waiting for despite it withholding until the end. If it continues to lean on it's excellent ability to explore it's characters precisely then we'll be in for a much bigger and better season well so i hoped. with each episode it became harder to watch without rolling my eyes at unnecessarily abundant slow motion turning around in a darkened room scenes. they have been rumors abound about discourse within the shows cast which given the inconsistency and abandoned storylines prove some disturbance. i have many qualms with how this show seems to value style over substance ,it lingers on some scenes longer than it should and when in dynamic shift aims for shock over poignancy. this isn't to say they don't deliver captivating award worthy episodes(see: standing still like a hummingbird ) but overall as a sum of it's parts this would sit closer to CW fodder(see: gossip girls) rather than the quality of it's first season that sat comfortably in hbo's acclaimed catalogue. what is disappointing is the fact that this show has amnesia..it can't stop forgetting whether it's characters entire personalities or overarching consequences. cassie charater despite having the second majority screen time still fails to be more(thank g.o.d for Sweeny brilliant nuanced performance) such as her previous abortion as well as Kat's development which needlessly regressed into a confusing ill fleshed/covered identity crisis that ends a relationship we barely got to experience in season 1. which brings me to my greatest frustration, the introduction of irrelevant characters who's actions could have been done by existing characters (eg.faye). the show is being strangled by it's own success so much show it's trying to be itself instead of just being itself. im still invested though cause it is a show with characters i care about outweighing the ones who deserve better development.… Expand

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 19
  3. Negative: 0 out of 19
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Doreen St. Félix
    Feb 9, 2022
    80
    Despite their endlessly harrowing moments, the first four episodes of the second season were the first time that “Euphoria” actually felt fun to me. Rue is once again a full-blown addict, and everything is horrible and scary, but also exciting and sexy and stylish.
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  2. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Abby Robinson
    Jan 13, 2022
    80
    If you enjoyed season one of Euphoria, you will enjoy this. If you didn’t, you won’t. It continues in much the same vein, both exhibitionist and bombastic, but also introspective and tender. There is much in there that is surface level, designed to send your jaw hurtling to the ground, but this is entertainment, baby! A little bit of that never hurt anybody, and it takes care in other ways to ensure that it’s not an empty vessel.
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  3. Slant Magazine
    Reviewed by: Anzhe Zhang
    Jan 13, 2022
    75
    The series doubles down on staking its claim as the classiest and most artistic form of the lowbrow high school drama ever, but what lies beneath the debauchery is a powerful dramatic core, particularly in the story of Rue.
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