The problem with Euphoria isn’t that it is attempting to endorse what it illustrates the problem with Euphoria is that it isn’t attempting to do anything at all. The last thing we needed was the conglomeration of all of our local sources of social pressure into one glimmery, sexy national emblem for what it meant to be an angsty teen. Teenagers may have already been overexposed and over-adultified and already participating in the kinds of things Euphoria depicts-but the last thing we needed was a vehicle to further romanticize our self-destructiveness. At my high school and at neighboring schools, similar stories were not uncommon.Īlexa Demie in a scene from Euphoria's second season.
Jules Vaughn, played by Hunter Schafer, has her earliest sexual experiences with a rotation of much older men she meets online. Cassie Howard, played by 24-year-old Sydney Sweeney, suffers from her promiscuous reputation and is the victim of revenge porn. Kat Hernandez, played by model Barbie Ferreira, reacts to an experience of nonconsensual recording during sex by becoming a camgirl in a misguided attempt to reclaim control of her sexuality. Maddy Perez, played by 30-year-old Alexa Demie, is in an on-and-off relationship with her physically and verbally abusive boyfriend, Nate Jacobs, played by 24-year-old Jacob Elordi. For each of the show’s dysfunctional lead characters, I could point to a peer with similar problems.
But even beyond the geographic proximities of the cast, the show felt like it spoke to my classmates and me. Its star, Zendaya, had been born and raised in Oakland and was something of a hometown hero Angus Cloud, a first-time actor who became a fan favorite as the lovable drug dealer Fezco and the show’s breakout star, had been raised in Oakland too, and he and Zendaya had gone to the same high school at different times. Euphoria debuted the summer before my senior year of high school in Oakland.
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