Euphoria - HBO, Sky Atlantic

Yaayuh! · 17 Aug 2019 at 15:04

A really stylish, kinda dark, high school "coming of age" show.
Almost finished this, found it brilliant so far. Zendaya is fantastic as Rue.

cheesyboy · 18 Aug 2019 at 20:29

Probably going to start this as my next series. Thought it sounded pretty great from an article I read.

Yaayuh! · 18 Aug 2019 at 22:05

cheesyboy said:
Probably going to start this as my next series. Thought it sounded pretty great from an article I read.

I really liked it. Very stylish, great soundtrack and some genuinely great acting.

jpaul · 18 Aug 2019 at 22:55

really .. watched 20minutes of it .. cut in the same mold as American Pie type movies .. it's just an american view on ~20 somethings - not a patch on something like skins

Yaayuh! · 19 Aug 2019 at 08:34

jpaul said:
not a patch on something like skins

Lol, It's far better than Skins IMO. A whole other league in fact. You may have agreed if you spent more than 20 minutes on it...

Raymond Lin · 19 Aug 2019 at 11:29

Has this finished yet? I plane to get a month's worth on Now TV for Sky Atlantic to check it out.

Yaayuh! · 19 Aug 2019 at 11:32

Raymond Lin said:
Has this finished yet? I plane to get a month's worth on Now TV for Sky Atlantic to check it out.

Good question, I just downloaded it all via Sky's On Demand.

Raymond Lin · 19 Aug 2019 at 11:36

Rossi~ said:
Good question, I just downloaded it all via Sky's On Demand.

If the whole series is on there then it has.

cheesyboy · 22 Aug 2019 at 09:36

3 episodes in - it's really quite good, but a bit depressing. I can only watch one episode at a time

I wonder, though, am I really dense because it was only in Ep3 that I realised (not sure if a spoiler.....):

Jules is a trans woman.

I just hadn't picked up on it until they said it out loud. I wonder if I missed it in some of the text message exchanges earlier through a mixture of sometimes watching with subtitles (that unhelpfully block the onscreen text messages), and my wifi bridge seemingly dying and causing stuff to play at really low res, on and off, so I can't really read them anyway.

Edit:
Edited because I totally ****** up that spoiler (it was missing)

Glanza · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:03

I'm enjoying it feels like an American homage to the proper UK version of skins.

jpaul · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:32

cheesyboy said:
if I missed it in some of the text message exchanges

good point - I don't know - but didn't read them either
(rant) tv programmes that have plot lines communicated with texts are annoying .. I am usually, not watching with that degree of attention,
whose going to see that, too, watching on a mobile phone :
programmes that overlay the text on the screen/5thwall are better - recent stylish film about uber driver manipulating passengers to kill did that .. can't remember its name
edit: ride - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6237268/

Yaayuh! · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:33

cheesyboy said:
I wonder, though, am I really dense because it was only in Ep3 that I realised (not sure if a spoiler.....):

Yes, i'd say at least slightly dense

cheesyboy · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:35

jpaul said:
good point - I don't know - but didn't read them either
(rant) tv programmes that have plot lines communicated with texts are annoying .. I am usually, not watching with that degree of attention,
whose going to see that, too, watching on a mobile phone :
programmes that overlay the text on the screen/5thwall are better - recent stylish film about uber driver manipulating passengers to kill did that .. can't remember its name

To be fair, euphoria does mostly have an onscreen text for the messages - just the closed caps block it if you're using them!

Rossi~ said:
Yes, i'd say at least slightly dense

When did we find out? And when did the other characters realise? That jock dude - did he know straight away? Is that why he was such a dick immediately?

Yaayuh! · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:39

cheesyboy said:
To be fair, euphoria does mostly have an onscreen text for the messages - just the closed caps block it if you're using them!

When did we find out? And when did the other characters realise? That jock dude - did he know straight away? Is that why he was such a dick immediately?

It helped that I knew who Hunter Schafer was to be fair, and you know, jaw lines and what not and also the motel scene with poppers. I believe you see her *cough* package.. quite swiftly too

cheesyboy · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:42

Rossi~ said:
the motel scene with poppers.

I just assumed it was an anal sex thing in that instance

I'd never heard of the actor. Once I realised it in the show, I assumed it was a woman playing trans. It was another discovery that she was trans too

Yaayuh! · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:43

cheesyboy said:
I just assumed it was an anal sex thing in that instance

I'd never heard of the actor. Once I realised it in the show, I assumed it was a woman playing trans. It was another discovery that she was trans too

Believe it or not, this is actually her first acting role... which is pretty impressive. She's a model, primarily.

jpaul · 22 Aug 2019 at 10:53

In the trans respect - reminds me of Chloe Savigny in hit'n'miss - great music ... that, was good, on nowtv.

The euphoria drug scene - hommage to trainspotting a bit naff but I guess the audience haven't necessarily seen that.

cheesyboy · 22 Aug 2019 at 11:01

Rossi~ said:
I believe you see her *cough* package.. quite swiftly too

Oh ****! I just remembered there was a scene where they were both lying on the bed and it looked like she had something in her underpants!

It all makes sense now

Dyson · 22 Aug 2019 at 20:55

Was a great series, really enjoyed the whole thing.

jpaul · 23 Aug 2019 at 08:07

... we need some reference points for what folks thought it was good or bad in respect to ?
for me much lower quality than skins or the inbetweeners (I'd watch a repeat of those over this)
hypothesis ... mainly because its for the american market ... netflix (as you've probably read?) profile their market and write dramas to that usa teen/YA demographic ... (lol was it called sex education) ... so the characters and their behaviour are alien ... so you have to put it in the same gendre as something like GOT. ..