![]() ![]() When her new friend Jules (Schafer) hooks up with a grown man, it feels scary and dangerous. She is an addict in recovery, who spends time attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings and hashing out problems with her middle-aged sponsor. When we meet Rue in season one, she doesn’t make drugs look fun. And when it comes to its other ‘scandalous’ themes, I would hesitate to agree that any of the issues at hand are outright glamourised. Euphoria also takes explanatory detours to flesh out concepts like camgirl work and dick pics - which seem to be more geared at older viewers than at in-the-know teens. ![]() In terms of the series’ tone, a friend of mine recently compared it to The Sopranos, for its ability to study the psyches of a complex web of characters. Lots of their fans are the same age.Īs a 27-year-old obsessive viewer, I can confirm that Euphoria doesn’t have the feel of an exclusively ‘teen show’. And, while Zendaya is undoubtedly a Gen Z starlet, she and many of her co-stars are in their mid-twenties (because, of course, sex scenes). The target audience is similar at Sky Atlantic, where you can watch Euphoria in the UK. HBO Max, the streaming platform where the show is most watched in the US, gears its content at millennials with disposable income. In the US, the show is rated TV-MA, which states that no one under 17 should watch - although obviously many do. In this sense, Euphoria is really nothing new it is building on a tradition of edgy TV that pushes the bounds of what we consider culturally appropriate storytelling about teenagers.īut how founded are these fears? Demographically, it feels important to point out that while Euphoria is a series about teenagers, that doesn’t mean that teenagers are its main audience. Just over a decade later, Skins scandalised a generation of parents on this side of the Atlantic, who worried that the gritty teen show would cause harm to kids. In the Nineties, coming of age drama Kids became notorious for its take on teenage drug-taking, sex and general hedonism in New York, packaged in a pseudo-documentary format. ![]() Of course, outrageous depictions of teen life are an established part of film and television history.
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