Euphoria (TV series)

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Television series
German title Euphoria
Original title Euphoria
Euphoria (2019, logo) .png
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) since 2019
Production
company		 A24 Television ,
The Reasonable Bunch,
Little Lamb,
DreamCrew,
Tedy Productions
length 54-61 minutes
Episodes 8 in 1+ seasons ( list )
genre Drama ,
youth series
idea Sam Levinson
script Sam Levinson
music Labrinth ,
Gustave Rudman Rambali
First broadcast June 16, 2019 (USA) on HBO
German-language
first broadcast		 October 16, 2019 on Sky Atlantic
occupation

Main actor:

supporting cast

synchronization

Euphoria is an American television series on the pay TV channel HBO . The first broadcast took place on June 16, 2019 on HBO, in Germany on October 16, 2019 on Sky Atlantic . It is based on an Israeli mini-series of the same name that was produced from 2012 to 2013. In early July 2019, HBO announced it had renewed the series for a second season.

The showrunner , screenwriter and director of the series is Sam Levinson . Jennifer Morrison , Pippa Bianco and Augustine Frizzell also directed one episode each . In addition to Levinson, u. a. Ron Leshem , who created the Israeli template, and musician Drake executive producer of the series.

Euphoria is about a group of high school students around the drug addict 17-year-old Rue Bennett (played by Zendaya ), who meets and becomes friends with the new student Jules Vaughn ( Hunter Schafer ) after her withdrawal . The series focuses on the themes of friendship , sexuality , identity , trauma , drugs and love of the predominantly underage characters.

action

17 year old Rue Bennett is in high school and a drug addict . After an overdose , she was in a coma for several days , which is why she began withdrawal a short time later. Nevertheless, she cannot get rid of intoxicants. She gets her drugs from the dealer Fezco, who is on good terms with her. It is suggested several times that she suffers from depression , panic attacks, and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Rue's father died of cancer when she was 13 years old. Around the same time, Rue began using psychotropic substances . She feels responsible to her younger sister Gia. She also basically has a good relationship with her mother Leslie. Although she is understanding and caring, she always fears that her daughter could suffer a relapse and therefore does not trust her, which strains the relationship between the two and often leads to arguments.

At a party, Rue meets Jules Vaughn, who is of the same age, with whom she immediately becomes friends. Jules moved out of town with her father after her parents divorced and entered high school. She is transgender and bisexual . At the age of 11, on the advice of her mother, Jules was admitted to a psychiatric hospital against her will due to gender dysphoria and self- harm. Jules often meets with men who are usually significantly older than her. Among them is Cal Jacobs, a married man who is well respected as a successful local businessman. After Jules lies to him about being a minor, they have sex , which Jules finds painful and humiliating. She then heads to Christopher McKay's party, a well-known college football player, where she meets Rue.

Rue soon falls in love with Jules, although it is not clear at first whether these feelings are also mutual. Jules initially falls on the dating - app Grindr into a boy names Tylor. It soon turns out, however, that this is actually Nate Jacobs, the son of Cal. Nate blackmailed Jules with the threat of a display of the distribution of child pornography after they had sent to him by nude pictures. He demands of her to keep silent about her meeting with his father Cal and later also forces her to make false statements to the police. A little later, Rue and Jules become a couple after Jules realizes that she doesn't need male approval to be a woman. Jules is initially the main reason Rue stays clean for several months after continuing to use drugs shortly after she was withdrawn. But the blackmail by Nate (knows nothing about the rue), the fact that Jules falls in love with Anna after a weekend trip to an old school friend and that she still has feelings for Nate's persona Tylor (and possibly Nate himself) weigh on them Relationship from Rue's point of view. When Rue comes up with the idea of ​​running away with Jules and leaving town on the day of the winter ball, Jules enthusiastically agrees. Plagued by doubts, Rue takes her to the train station, but cannot bring herself to follow Jules onto the train. In tears she lets Jules drive away on the train and has a violent relapse as a result.

In addition to Rue and Jules, the series also focuses on the everyday (school) life of other characters. Lexi Howard has been Rue's best friend since kindergarten, but the two have grown apart over the years. Her sister Cassie has had a number of partners in the past, which is why she doesn't have a particularly good reputation in school. Cassie's friend Christopher McKay was brought up very strictly by his father and looks like a typical jock . Her classmate Kat Hernandez had problems with her figure for a long time, until she realized that she looks attractive to men because of her curves. She also regularly writes successful fan fiction in the field of BDSM . Her best friend Maddy is with Nate Jacobs, whose aggression problems try to suppress his insecurity about his sexual identity and possible homosexuality . This relationship is not very happy because they cheat on each other and Maddy is strangled by him once in an argument.

Cast and dubbing

Zendaya , 2019.
Hunter Schafer , 2019.
Maude Apatow , 2018.

The synchronization of the series is created by Scalamedia based on a dialogue book by Sarah Riedel and Lilli-Hannah Hoepner under the dialogue direction by Riedel.

role actor Main role
(episodes) 		Supporting role
(episodes) 		Voice actor
main characters
Rue Bennett Zendaya 1.01–1.08 Marcia from Rebay
Aliyah Conley (13 year old Rue) 1.05
McKenna Roberts (10 year old Rue) 1.01, 1.03
Janice LeAnn Brown (4 year old Rue) 1.01, 1.08
Jules Vaughn Hunter Schafer 1.01–1.08 Friedel Morgenstern
Clark Furlong (11 year old Jules) 1.04
Madeleine "Maddy" Perez Alexa Demie 1.01–1.08 Maria Hönig
Keilani Arellanes (11 year old Maddy) 1.03, 1.05
Nathaniel "Nate" Jacobs Jacob Elordi 1.01–1.08 Amadeus Strobl
Cassie Howard Sydney Sweeney 1.01–1.08 Olivia Büschken
Kyra Adler (11 year old Cassie) 1.07
Lexi Howard Maude Apatow 1.01–1.08 Sophie Lechtenbrink
Katherine "Kat" Hernandez Barbie Ferreira 1.01–1.08 Maximiliane Häcke
Johanna Colón (11 year old Kat) 1.01, 1.05
Gia Bennett Storm Reid 1.01–1.08 Léa Mariage
Hyla Rayne Fontenot (7 year old Gia) 1.01
Christopher McKay Algee Smith 1.01–1.08 Tim Schwarzmaier
Yohance Biagas Bey (11 year old Christopher) 1.06
Zakai Biagas Bey (11 year old Christopher) 1.06
Leslie Bennett Nika King 1.01–1.08 Christin Marquitan
Cal Jacobs Eric Dane 1.01–1.08 David Nathan
Fezco Angus Cloud 1.01–1.08 Felix Auer
Minor characters
David Vaughn John Ales 1.01-1.05, 1.07, 1.08 Frank Schaff
Ashtray Javon Walton 1.01-1.05, 1.07, 1.08 Derya Flechtner
Suze Howard Alanna Ubach 1.01-1.03, 1.06-1.08 Bianca Krahl
Ethan Lewis Austin Abrams 1.02-1.06, 1.08 Patrick Keller
Daniel Keean Johnson 1.02–1.07
Isaac Arellanes (11 year old Daniel) 1.03
Marsha Jacobs Paula Marshall 1.02, 1.04-1.06, 1.08 Ann have a lot
BB Sophia Rose Wilson 1.01-1.04, 1.07
Ali Colman Domingo 1.02–1.05 Tobias Kluckert
Tyler Clarkson Lukas Gage 1.01, 1.02, 1.06, 1.07 Jeremias Koschorz
Kat's mother Mercedes Colon 1.02, 1.03, 1.05, 1.08
Troy McKay Tyler Timmons 1.01, 1.02, 1.04, 1.06
Roy McKay Tristian Timmons 1.01, 1.02, 1.04
Aaron Jacobs Zak Steiner 1.02, 1.04, 1.06
Custer Tyler Chase 1.02, 1.07, 1.08 Daniel Gardener
Mouse Meeko 1.02, 1.07, 1.08
Robert Bruce Wexler 1.01, 1.02, 1.08 Christian Intorp
Ted Ruben Dario 1.01, 1.04, 1.05
Trevor Shiloh Fernandez 1.03, 1.04

Episode list

No. German title Original title First broadcast in the USA German language first broadcast (D) Director script
1 Everything stops pilot June 16, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 Augustine Frizzell Sam Levinson
The teenager Rue Bennett suffered an overdose and was admitted to a rehab clinic as a result. After she has completed her rehab, she returns home. As soon as she arrives, she buys drugs from her dealer and good friend Frezco. Meanwhile, the teenager Jules arrives in town, where she will spend the holidays in a summer school . She befriends her classmate Kat, whom she invites to a party hosted by popular college football player Christopher McKay. Jules wants declines as they instead, on the day meeting with an older man she on a mobile dating - App has come to know. When Rue comes home one day in the middle of the night, she is caught by her mother Leslie, who tells her to undergo a drug test. Rue asks her old friend Lexi for a clean urine sample because otherwise she will fail the test. Jules meets up with her date Cal Jacobs at a motel. She is still underage, but lies about her age, which is why they have sex, and then she goes to Nate's party. There, Cal's son, Nate, and friend McKay talk about Lexi's sister Cassie, whose sexual history is notorious at school. McKay notes that he is currently dating Cassie. Nate's ex-girlfriend, Maddy, has sex with classmate Tyler Clarkson at the party to make Nate jealous. This harassed Jules several times, which is why she threatens him with a knife, but she controls herself and leaves. Meanwhile, Kat loses her virginity at the party, while Jules meets Rue on the way back, who accompanies her home.
2 Do you feel what Stuntin 'like my daddy June 23, 2019 Oct 16, 2019 Sam Levinson Sam Levinson
The episode begins with a flashback to Nate's childhood: Cal urges him to be a man. One night he finds his father's homemade porn movies that show him having sex with gay men and trans women. Nate becomes a successful quarterback over the years, but he has serious anger problems, is unsure of his sexual identity and treats his girlfriend Maddy badly. In the present, Nate breaks into Tyler and beats him up. He accuses him of raping Maddy , who falsely claims she suffered a blackout at the party . On the first day of school, Rue bursts into tears and storms out of the gym when asked to talk about her summer vacation, during which she suffered the overdose. Lexi wants to comfort her, but is turned away by Rue. The latter then revels in memories of her first oxycodone - Noise at the age of 13 years, in that time, her father died at his cancer disease infection. Meanwhile, Kat finds out that she was filmed having sex and the recording was posted on the Internet. She initially denies appearing in the video, but when she discovers the recording on several websites, she comes up with the idea of ​​being able to make money with her attractiveness. Meanwhile, Rue goes back to Fezco, who is with his colleague Mouse. This forces Rue to take fentanyl , which she cannot tolerate. Fezco calls Jules and asks her for help as Rue's condition continues to deteriorate. McKay visits Cassie in the meantime and is frustrated that their meetings are always extremely sexually charged. At the end of the episode, Jules chats with a jock who has not yet come out . This is Nate, who knows about her meeting with his father. When she asks his name, he pretends to be Tyler.
3 The whole world is dark Made you look June 30, 2019 23 Oct 2019 Sam Levinson Sam Levinson
In another flashback, Kat gains weight during the holidays, which is why she is bullied by her classmates in the new school year and abandoned by her friend Daniel. They processed their grief by starting with the letter and published on Tumblr several BDSM - Fan Fictions that are very successful, making them fast gaining popularity on the Internet. In the present, she becomes a BDSM webcam model and goes shopping with the newly acquired money . Meanwhile, Jules tells Rue to stop using drugs, otherwise they might not be friends. At a Narcotics Anonymous meeting , Rue claims to have been clean for 60 days, but after the meeting she is confronted by participant Ali, who knows about her lie. A little later, Jules receives a penis photo from "Tyler" . With the help of Rue, she also sends him some nude photos. Then Rue steals tablets from Jules' kitchen. Meanwhile, Cassie goes to a college party with McKay, while Maddy, who is back with Nate, finds, to her amazement, several photos of penises on his cell phone. Jules tells Rue that she wants to meet "Tyler" at a fair at night , which leads to an argument between the two. Rue apologizes to Jules a short time later and kisses her spontaneously, but Jules is taken by surprise and does not return him. Angry, Rue goes to Fezco, who doesn't want to give her any more drugs. Rue insults him in tears and blames him for her addiction. She calls Ali and asks him for help.
4th Turning point? Shook Ones Pt. II 7th July 2019 23 Oct 2019 Sam Levinson Sam Levinson
The next flashback is about Jules' past: She is admitted to a mental hospital because of an anxiety disorder and gender dysphoria, where she is self-harmed and bullied . After her release, she immediately starts a gender reassignment measure . In the present, Rue tells Ali that she is unsure of her feelings for Jules. She meets with Jules at the fair, where the two agree to forget about the kiss. At the fair, Maddy and Nate argue over the photos on his cell phone, while McKay and Cassie meet Nate's father, Cal. McKay doesn't want to admit that Cassie is his girlfriend because he doesn't like her reputation . Angry, she leaves, meets Maddy, who is also angry, and takes MDMA with her , which they buy from Fezco. Maddy then makes a scene in front of Nate's family while Cassie is flirting with Daniel. Kat spends time with her classmate Ethan, but leaves when he approaches another teenager and eventually has sex with Luke Kasten, a student who continues to enjoy high standing at the school after graduating. Meanwhile, Rue and Jules search for Rue's 13-year-old sister Gia, whom they have lost sight of. She used hemp with McKay's brothers , so Rue is going home with her. Nate and Maddy argue over the photos on his phone when he grabs her by the neck. They agree not to talk about it anymore. Jules is confronted by Cal about their night together, but she assures him to keep it to herself. She eventually meets with "Tyler" and is shocked when she meets Nate. He blackmailed her with the nude photos she had sent him and asked her not to betray his father. Then she goes to Rue and spends the night there. A montage shows how the friendship between the two of them intensifies, how they finally kiss again and are from now on a couple.
5 None of this is true '03 Bonnie and Clyde 14th July 2019 Oct 30, 2019 Jennifer Morrison Sam Levinson
In Maddy's childhood, she took part in beauty pageants , but her parents forbade her to do so because a competition organizer was exposed as a pedophile . When she first met Nate years later, she lied to him by claiming she was still a virgin . The two have sex shortly afterwards and start a relationship. In the present, Maddy passes out in class, which is why her strangling marks are discovered by paramedics. Maddy's mother reports Nate to the police, which is why Maddy has to go to the police station, where her injuries are photographed and she is questioned. Nate denies hurting her. Maddy has a violent argument with her mother, she then meets with Nate in a motel , the two make up. Meanwhile, Rue Leslie says that she and Jules are a couple, Jules does not tell her father David about their connection, as she does not know whether she really has any serious feelings for Rue, and she is uncomfortable with how dependent Rue seems to be on her . She finally reveals to Rue about her night with Cal, which she doesn't really care about, to which Jules reacts angrily. When Rue meets with Ali, he tells her that her relationship with Jules probably has no future, which makes her deeply insecure. Rue then decides to revive her old friendship with Lexi, which is why she invites her to go on a roller-skating rink with her and Jules . Meanwhile, Cassie meets regularly with Daniel, but ends their loose relationship as she is still in a relationship with McKay. He apologizes to her for his behavior on the fairground. Kat treats Ethan coldly, which confuses him, and later has sex with a clerk in a mall . Cal seems to be slowly realizing that his fleeting affairs with both men and women could endanger his family life.
6th Next episode The Next Episode July 21, 2019 Oct 30, 2019 Pippa Bianco Sam Levinson
As a boy, McKay was urged by his father to be the best in football and suppressed his true feelings, which later led to fear of failure, and he was often put under peer pressure in college. In the present, he is attending a fraternity Halloween party with Cassie . During one bizutage , some of his fellow students humiliate him by having fake dry sex with him and calling him McGay. He pretends that he doesn't care and a little later has very hard sex with Cassie, which is extremely painful for her. Meanwhile, Nate, who still regularly meets with Maddy at the motel, is temporarily suspended from class. He breaks into Tyler and urges him to claim that he choked Maddy. He also blackmailed Jules to confirm his statement to the police. Rue apologizes to Fezco for their argument. A few days later, at another Halloween party hosted by Daniel, Daniel tries to seduce Cassie. When she doesn't respond, he insults her, claiming that, like most men, he only met her to have sex. Shortly thereafter, Cassie is horrified to find that her period is overdue. Kat is still rude to Ethan but agrees to have oral sex . When Ethan disappears into the bathroom for a moment because he had premature ejaculation , Kat leaves the party. At the party, Rue is surprised because Jules is acting very unusually moody for her. Jules gets drunk and jumps into the pool, pulling Rue in and kissing her. Nate and Maddy appear to the applause of the others present at the party, to which Jules reacts with shock, which Rue is extremely suspicious. She gets into an argument with Jules about it.
7th Awake The Trials and Tribulations of Trying to Pee While Depressed 28th July 2019 Nov 6, 2019 Sam Levinson Sam Levinson
When Cassie was a young girl, her alcoholic mother, Suze, and her father, Gus , kept arguing about why they were getting divorced . After their bitter separation conflict, Gus falls into a deep hole because he succumbs to drug addiction and therefore ultimately lives in poverty. Shortly after Cassie hits puberty , she is physically harassed by several male relatives, which upsets her seriously. In the years that followed, she had several sexual relationships in which she was exploited by her partners, including a man who made a sex tape of them and posted it on the Internet. The present confirms what she had already suspected: She is pregnant . She doesn't know how to confess this to McKay, or her fleeting affair with Daniel. When she finally overcomes herself and reveals to him that he will soon be a father, McKay is completely overwhelmed and suggests that she have the child aborted . Meanwhile, Kat is upset because she had sex with her ex-boyfriend Daniel at his Halloween party, but he doesn't want to remember the relationship. Shortly thereafter, she argues with Maddy, who accuses her of having changed completely for the worse. This unsettles Kat so much that she feels uncomfortable during a webcam presentation and breaks it off prematurely. Meanwhile, Rue struggles with her bipolar disorder due to her brief separation from Jules after their argument, and she vacillates between mania and severe depression . Because of the latter, she is not even able to get out of bed and urinate. She meets with Fezco and asks him to intimidate Nate, because she suspects that he has something to do with Jules' strange behavior at the Halloween party. As a result, Fezco is reported by Nate about his drug trafficking to the police, who soon afterwards ring his doorbell. That's why he and his ten-year-old brother Ashtray panicked and flushed his drug supply down the toilet. Cal wonders how his son was able to turn suspicion of assault away so quickly. Meanwhile, Jules feels lonely, which is why she goes to her hometown. There she visits TC, a friend from her old school. She meets TC's roommate Anna. The two sleep together intoxicated, Jules has hallucinations of both Rue and Nate. Then she writes a text message to Rue, who is slowly recovering, about how much she missed her.
8th And all that anger And Salt the Earth Behind You 4th Aug 2019 Nov 6, 2019 Sam Levinson Sam Levinson
While Rue is in the hospital with a kidney infection due to her urinary retention , Jules returns to the city, the two make up at the bedside. Meanwhile, Cassie separates from McKay and opts for an abortion, Feczo breaks into a man who supplies Mouse with drugs and robbed him to pay off his debt to Mouse. After a subsequent confrontation with Mouse while handing over the money, it is not clear what will happen to Fezco. Meanwhile, Nate has problems with his potency during sex with Maddy , which is why she asks him in an argument whether he is homosexual, which he denies in a rage. He fails as a quarterback at a football game and, after a violent argument with his father, has a nervous breakdown during which he hits his head on a table and the floor. Maddy steals and watches a sex video of Cal shortly thereafter, which leaves her in horror. Then she separates from Nate, which is why he goes to the winter ball with Natalie, a cheerleader . There Maddy dances with a classmate to make Nate jealous, and later tells him that a new relationship would not be good for either of them. At the ball, Kat approaches Ethan and tearfully apologizes for her behavior over the past few weeks. He forgives her, the two of them leave the ball together and go out. Meanwhile, Jules flirts with Anna via text message and tells Rue that she would like to develop sexually. Jules later confesses to her that she is in love with both her and Anna. Shortly thereafter, Rue confronts Nate about the police search at Fezco's house and his chats with Jules. She threatens to make Cal's affairs public, and Nate responds by mocking Jules' infidelity. Rue Jules then asks spontaneously if she wants to leave town with her. At the train station, however, she backs down at the last moment, whereupon Jules drives away alone. Rue goes home dejected, remembering the day her father died. It also turns out that the hoodie she wore many times throughout the season belonged to her dead father. She takes drugs again and has a violent relapse in which she has several vivid hallucinations while intoxicated. In the hallucination, at the end of a singing sequence, she falls into the arms of people wearing hoodies.

production

Series creator Sam Levinson at San Diego Comic-Con International , 2018.

Project development and pre-production

The Pay TV transmitter HBO confirmed on 1 June 2017 that in cooperation with the Film Studio A24 Television adaptation of the Israeli miniseries Euphoria (2012-2013) by Ron Leshem , Daphna Levin and Tmira Yardenivon was planned under the same name. The American film director and screenwriter Sam Levinson was hired as the showrunner . The son of film director Barry Levinson was best known for directing and writing the films Another Happy Day (2011) and Assassination Nation (2018), but was previously not involved in any series production. A variety of people were involved as executive producers , including Levinson, the musicians Drake and Future the Prince , the creators of the template Leshem, Levin and Yardeni as well as Lauren Santos, Ravi Nandan, Kevin Turen, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Mirit Toovi, Yoram Mokadi and Gary Lennon. The script is also from Levinson, who also incorporated his own experiences with drug addiction, depression and fears from his youth. Levinson also drew inspiration from the films Magnolia , Boogie Nights , One with a Heart , The Passion of the Maid of Orléans and Welcome to Life .

Levinson is the main director of Euphoria for five episodes . Jennifer Morrison and Pippa Bianco also directed one episode each of the first season . Augustine Frizzell directed the pilot episode announced by HBO on March 13, 2018. In late July 2018, HBO announced that they had ordered a first season with a total of eight episodes. Shortly after the first season was released, HBO extended Euphoria for a second season. The pre-production of this was completed in March 2020 so that the shooting was imminent. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they had to be postponed for an indefinite period. Due to the delay, the release of the second season is not planned for 2021 at the earliest.

For the main character Rue, the American actress and singer Zendaya was cast, who became known as a child actress in the Disney series Shake It Up - Tanzen ist alles (2010-2013) and KC Undercover (2015-2018), but most recently also in major Hollywood films such as Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Greatest Showman (2017) and Spider-Man: Far From Home (2019). Many of the actors selected alongside her were previously largely unknown. For the role Jules was, for example, LGBT - activist and model Hunter Schafer selected for Angus Cloud (who plays the drug dealer Fezco) and Barbie Ferreira , previously only a small cameo in the HBO series Divorce had is Euphoria , the acting debut as supporting actors. Other leading actors are Maude Apatow , Eric Dane , Alexa Demie , Jacob Elordi , Storm Reid , Algee Smith , Sydney Sweeney and Nika King . For the second season, an open casting was held for at least four new characters . Kelvin Harrison Jr. will join the ensemble from season two.

Filming

The cameramen Marcell Rév , Drew Daniels , Adam Newport-Berra and André Chemetoff were responsible for filming the first season . Most of the shooting took place in the south of the US state of California . Original sites were about the Del Amo Fashion Center and other places in Torrance and Los Angeles- -Stadtteile Sherman Oaks and Valley Glen , where it was filmed at the Ulysses S. Grant High School. Most of the scenes were filmed at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City . A large part of the series was created there on specially built sets , including the entire fairground from the third episode. For this, more than 700 storyboards were initially designed and these were recreated in the studio on an area of ​​around 10,000 km² with rides from California and Arizona . Filming there lasted six days. For a scene in which Rue takes drugs and then the house apparently revolves around her, the entire corridor was built on a kind of cardanic suspension . This rotates continuously around her, while Rue can walk from the floor to the wall and finally to the ceiling and back again, followed by the static camera. Christopher Nolan used a very similar effect for a dream sequence in a hotel in his film Inception . In contrast to this scene, Euphoria's sequence also had numerous extras in the room, which were attached to the floor with ropes, so that these in the background are apparently unaffected by the rotating room.

The romantic scenes and especially the sex scenes were staged with Intimacy Coordinator Amanda Blumenthal. During the filming, Levinson placed particular emphasis on portraying the characters' drug use realistically, but not glorifying or glossing over the drug use or the consequences. While characters usually look the same, the make-up of most characters in Euphoria differs from scene to scene, which is why make-up artist Doniella Davy created hundreds of designs. Many of them were initiated directly by Levinson, who wanted to use the make-up of the figures not only to individualize the figures himself. They should also convey their respective mood and emotional development.

The shooting of the second season planned for the second quarter of 2020 was postponed indefinitely a few days before the start of shooting due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack comes from the British singer , R & B - musician and music producer Labrinth . Levinson contacted him while he was working on his second album Imagination & the Misfit Kid . Labrinth wrote and produced the soundtrack both before, during and after filming. In the course of the first season, parts of the song All for Us , written by Labrinth for the series, are used and hinted at, but it is only played in full and shown with a choreography in the last scene of the season finale . The song was sung by the main actress Zendaya. In addition, numerous other songs - sometimes over 20 per episode - by other artists are used in each episode, mostly from the genres hip-hop , indie rock , trap , R&B and doo wop . The songs were selected by Jen Malone and Adam Leber , who were recognized by the Guild Of Music Supervisors in 2020 for the best music selection in a drama series. A first playlist with a large number of songs was created in September 2018, the final list of performers was approved in May 2019, just under a month before the first episode was broadcast, with the contractual consent of almost 350 different parties being required. Some copyright holders have banned their songs from being used because of the explicit scenes in which they should have been used. Well-known artists who appear in the first season are Beyoncé , Billie Eilish , Migos , BTS , Fiona Apple , Lizzo , ASAP Ferg , Skrillex , Randy Newman , Bobby Womack , Agnes Obel , Lil Wayne , Drake and Madonna . The entire soundtrack of the first season includes 160 songs.

The original Labrinth soundtrack was released as an album on October 4, 2019 and comprises 26 songs with a running time of just over an hour.

publication

Euphoria had its initial release on June 16, 2019 on HBO . Another episode was then broadcast weekly. The finale of the first season ran on August 4, 2019. In Germany, the first season ran from October 16, 2019 on Sky Atlantic , with two episodes being broadcast every week until the finale on November 6.

reception

criticism

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The series was received positively overall. On the IMDb film database , the series received a rating of 8.4 / 10 from a total of over 46,000 audience ratings. On Rotten Tomatoes , the first season received a critical rating of 82% and an audience rating of 84%. At Metacritic , the average value of 68 (critic) and 84 (spectators) gave 100 for the series. Most critics praised the series for its realistic and adult portrayal of the subjects covered and the acting, particularly the leading actress Zendaya and the acting debut of Hunter Schafer .

Tim Goodman highlighted the work of series creator Sam Levinson in his review for The Hollywood Reporter . "Levinson steers steadfastly into what will make many adults, especially parents, sit up and take notice (and possibly upset), while most teenagers will likely agree that it is one of the few accurate visual interpretations of their lives." He also praised the acting von Zendaya as "an absolute revelation", Hunter Schafers work in her acting debut he described as "similarly fantastic, groundbreaking achievement". For The Washington Post , Hank Stuever described Euphoria as "beautifully shot and artistically appealing", but also as "unsettling and unnecessarily cruel". "Juggling storylines leads to scenes being constantly cut off before they can pick up speed," said Mike Hale for The New York Times . Levinson created characters who are more than just carriers of social problems, but he has too many of them in too many storylines. Benjamin Lee, on the other hand, credited the series in his review for The Guardian with the fact that it succeeded in balancing the serious issues and moments of shock with a surprising sensitivity. Lee drew a comparison to the Netflix series Dead Girls Don't Lie , whereby Euphoria, in contrast to her, managed to treat the lives of the teenage characters unfiltered and yet cautiously and with more in the back of her mind than just sparking controversy. Lena Mändlen was of the same opinion for the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Euphoria addresses similar problems, but does "exactly the right thing that dead girls do not lie wrong: she deals with psychological problems realistically". The portrayal of the characters' sensitive social problems is often explicit, but never glorifying . Daniel Gerhardt described Euphoria as “the teenage drama of the year”, which raised the whole genre to new levels of generosity, violence, visual and narrative radiance. The HBO series is "also the most visually stunning representation of the current American opioid crisis, " he continued for Zeit Online . For Gerhardt, Euphoria is less a settlement with Generation Z , as Arielle Bernstein described in The Guardian , but rather "with those adults who have released their children into a world full of cynicism". Oliver Junge also praised the series for the realistic depiction of the young characters and described Euphoria for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a “psychologically intelligent in-depth analysis of pubertal loneliness and rebellion in the universally interconnected digital age”.

Awards and nominations

Primetime Emmy Awards 2020

  • Nomination: Best Actress - Drama Series, for Zendaya
  • Nomination: Best Musical Composition - Drama Series, for Labrinth (None of this is true)
  • Nomination: Best Original Soundtrack, for All for Us by Labrinth (And all this fury)
  • Nomination: Best Music Supervision, for Jen Malone and Adam Leber (And all this anger)
  • Nomination: Best Contemporary Costumes, for Heidi Bivens, Danielle Baker and Katina Danabassis (next episode)
  • Nomination: Best Contemporary Make-up, for Doniella Davy, Kirsten Coleman and Tara Lang (And all this anger)

British Academy Television Award 2020

  • Nomination: Best TV Series (International)

Critics' Choice Television Awards 2020

  • Nomination: Best Actress in a Drama Series, for Zendaya

People's Choice Awards 2019

  • Award : TV Star 2019 - Drama, for Zendaya

Satellite Awards 2019

  • Award : Best Actress in a Drama Series, for Zendaya

Web links

Individual evidence

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