Violence, drugs and very raw sex scenes between teenagers: the new season of the series HBO Euphoria – broadcast in France on OCS since January 10 – asserts its biases more strongly. Too much ? Anglo-Saxon critics are divided.
YES She sinks into gratuitous provocation
But what happened to the characters ofEuphoria? wonders in The Guardian critic Rebecca Nicholson. Admittedly, the first season did not spare either the gang of fairly clueless teenagers whose tribulations we followed – often drunk and/or under the effect of chemical substances – nor their dysfunctional parents, whose portraits were drawn in hollow over the years. episodes.
But where the provocation was served by the sophisticated aesthetic desired by the creator, Sam Levinson, and above all placed at the service of the intrigues, this time it gives the journalist the impression of being gratuitous.
‘Euphoria’ is furiously explicit in its new version. It’s as if the series looked in the mirror [de la première saison] and thought, ‘No, not provocative enough. So let’s try that’.”
The inaugural episode of the new season thus stages, in a flashback, an ultra-violent episode from the childhood of Fezco (the drug dealer played by Angus Cloud, from whom Rue, the drug-addicted high school student played by Zendaya, gets his supplies). . Worthy of agangster movie”, this prologue has for this review “nothing more of a teenage drama”.
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Delphine Veaudor
