One thing I really love about Euphoria is how every scene has its own vibe. The lighting, the colors, the music… even when the story gets really heavy, you can tell so much thought went into how everything looks. Some scenes genuinely feel like music videos. What’s your favorite scene visually?

I have to admit, the only reason I managed to keep up with the third season is that I don’t believe they would change a character so drastically without having something else in the works.

season 1 episode 4 - when jules sleeps over rue's house after the failed meetup with "tyler." say what you want about rue and jules, ik they're toxic, but i think that was the sweetest scene i've ever seen. every time i watch it i get chills. rue comforting jules, the music, the kiss on her forehead, the camera spinning around the bed. omfg it's a masterpiece.

1. Maddy and Cassie, although sometimes condescending, do not bully Jules and Rue and are close friends with Kat. In a typical teen drama they would be portrayed as much more actively cruel by virtue of being ‘popular’ girls. 

2. Nate’s character is portrayed as just heinous enough to avoid falling into the “lovable villain” trap. His tragic backstory perfectly explains his motivations but makes no attempt to excuse them or to get the average viewer on his side for even a second- and that translates through into how he is viewed by fans. The show even subtly acknowledges this when he gives Jules the CD and she asks if he’s changed. He makes it clear he hasn’t. 

3. In any other teen drama, Kat and Ethan would have stayed together, because Kat as the “fat and uncool” girl would be expected to show eternal gratitude to any boy willing to look her way. Euphoria deprives Ethan of a savior’s narrative by flipping the script on their power dynamics- Kat treats him terribly and feels nothing when they break up.  

Agree or disagree? What am I forgetting?

That’s it that’s the post.!

Love seeing Alexa! I feel like we’re always so starved for her public appearances, and that’s okay! But I absolutely love this look. Maddy has always been my favorite character, and seeing Alexa again just makes me wish we could see her in more projects.

When voting it can be a character you dislike overall, a character you feel had no growth therefore unimportant or a character who’s just bad overall .

Round 1 is complete and Nate & Ted Have Been Eliminated With (35) Votes and Elliot Came In Second With (21) Votes and Cal Came in Third With (18) Votes

Rules/How To Play :

- Round 2 Has Began
- 2 Votes Per Person
- At The End Of Each Round The Person With The Most Votes Gets Eliminated
- Each Round Lasts 1 Day
- Last Character Remaining Is The Most Liked Character On The Show

Has this topic ever come up in an interview with Sam? Has he answered it or maybe even danced around an actual answer? This is something that will continue to bother me until I get a solid answer on the 3rd little boy.

Anyone else see it? I think it’s the jawline and the constant look of disdain. I haven’t seen anyone else post about this so I just wanted to know if I was alone on this one lol

The visuals, the soundtrack, the outfits… everything feels so intense. Even when an episode is uncomfortable to watch, it’s hard to look away. And the soundtrack deserves its own conversation honestly.
What’s one scene from Euphoria that stayed with you?

uhh im so confused. i'm guessing it was a subreddit about another show/movie or about the actual feeling of euphoria but idk. can any OGs tell me how this is possible?

So, I did an art history major, but I didn’t go to grad school, nonetheless I wanted to make this post for a while now. Just for fun, I don’t claim to be an expert. I wanted to talk about Jules’ paintings in season 3 because is something I appreciated a lot about the season. So, I want to explore her style, historically contemporarily as well, and then reflect on the meaning of each painting in relation to Jules’ character and her role in the season.
So Jules/ Hunter is a figurative artist, meaning her subjects are human bodies and figures, specifically what she does are trans women nudes. The first time I saw her first painting I immediately thought about the quite famous Egon Schiele, because of the very thick and black outlines and the slender and gnarled figures which often are portrayed in some twisted pose. Schiele was an expressionist and it actually makes sense since most of the figurative art made in these days has strong ties to the expressionist and post-expressionist movements. Why? Because the arts don’t belong anymore only to white males and what urges the artists today is to represent new bodies never represented before, with dignity and introspection and expressiveness, and to picture their inner world and torments. Because what expressionism essentially does is pull out what’s inside so that it becomes visible. So, expressionism and figurative today art are greatly involved with representation.
I did a quick research to check some contemporary artists which relate in different ways to Jules’ paintings and I came across some that I want to share, which are pretty famous anyway. So, Marlene Dumas, Christina Quarles, and Martine Gutierrez, the most famous and celebrated figurative artists and, Kaye Donachie, speak in fact the same artistic language within their own individual styles: Dumas (I can't put the pictures here because reddit blocked the post already) non-naturalistic expressive portraits and jagged figures to evoke pain and trauma, Quarles (7) acid and vibrant unnaturalistic colours and impossibly stretched figures with uncertain boundaries to explore gender and gender fluidity, Gutierrez (8) actually makes photographic portraits but with great pictorial qualities, which are abstracts and expressionist in their colours, to exalt and represent the indigenous identity. Kaye Donachie (9) with her monochromatic delicate portrait and large brushwork. Then a less famous new York-based artist Janet Bruesselbach (10), which with more of a magical realism quality gives visibility to trans bodies. But greatly important for trans visibility are Greer Lankton (11) an iconic trans artist, and Puppies Puppies (12) very much celebrated with her Woman sculpture. This just to give an artistic contemporary landscape to which one can relate Jules/Hunter art, and not just an historic one which is equally important. For example, speaking of historic context Jules brush work is easily relatable to the one of Kokoschka, another famous expressionist painter and artist of the early 20^th century, or to the 20^th century gestual painting (which values the brushwork in itself). Then her ways to represent figures makes me think also to the sculptor Germanie Richier.
Some other qualities of Jules art are its abstract expressionism and its monochromatic tendencies.
Abstract expressionism developed in the 40s and 50s (one forerunner can be Gauguin in the 1880s, or Kandinskij in the 1920s) and it has many aspects, but what Jules does is giving to the painting this intense monochromatic background, which comes from those artists who experimented with the expression of pure colour (color field movement), like Newman and Rothko and Yves Klein. Monochromatic painting has a long history (which I barely know) whether implied or explicit, but what matters in general is that there’s no separation between a background and a foreground and no forms are distinguishable (except if it’s the case of the gestural signs of the painter). The distinction is lost in the applied colour, and the canvas becomes a surface. It’s not a representation of a naturalistic three-dimensional space anymore. So Jules’s figures fluctuate in a pool of emotion and exist in their own inner world.
Now, to breakdown Jules’s paintings what I’m gonna say first is that her art is very personal, we can tell she reflects on her own experiences through her painting and explore her feelings, her transness and her sexuality.
The first one, the woman wrapped in plastic is a great example of that. We’re given the context to the genesis of this painting, which makes it easier to interpret. We know what the plastic means and we know what the flower on her butt is (that’s the flower the plastic surgeon brings to her every time he comes to see her). What’s interesting is the golden skin and the fact that her head is turned towards us.
So, she’s at the centre, she’s in display, and the gold gives her the quality of a precious object. She looks like a wrapped-up vase, with a single flower inside. But she confronts the viewer. Then the red communicates an intense feeling and emotion and it may have even a sexual charge, but it’s not really erotic, there’s a certain coldness given by the plainness of the line work. This is clearly about her sexual experience with Ellis. But why does she confront who’s watching her being a vase? You answer that if you want.
I think it’s a great example of storytelling to condense all this subtext in a painting made by a character. For those who say that Jules barely exists in this season I don’t think that’s true. Her story it’s all in the details.
Next we have the “Seurat remake” which is a great painting. I don’t think it’s a casual choice to pick this painting to represent trans women bodies. Georges Seurat apparently wasn’t interested in any social meaning, and he only painted this composition because he was interested in the essential form of the human body and for some optical research. But it depicts a bourgeois space, a certain patriarchal landscape where only normative expressions of the self can exist. Jules’ version subverts completely the subject of Seurat painting and creates a space where the body is free to express itself and where trans women bodies can exist. Her figures are running, dancing, pissing, having sex, masturbate, sleep. The most prominent figure exhibits a relaxed pose compared to the rigidity of the original. The figures again are slender and their poses are exasperated. Four colors are opposing each other, blue, yellow, green and light blue to define the space of the painting. Again, everything is expressed through color. It’s interesting how the figures in the shadow are engaged in sex or they’re sleeping or standing melancholily still, while those in the sunlight are way more dynamic and joyous. Again, this may be Jules reflecting on her sexual experiences, but the whole painting expresses who she is an artist affirming the trans nudity as artistic and the trans body as free to exists. I think it’s also a way to express her transness as an act of freedom. Now saying that this is a “dicknick” is profoundly offensive and is a form of genderdeading. It may be also a way of fetichizing the trans body. The debate around this painting was really weird. That’s all I’m gonna say. Except that this plotline raised interested question about censorship and the depiction and visibility of the trans body in our culture.
The couple’s painting which is unfinished. We’re gonna consider it as finished since together with the other paintings tells Jules’ story this season. There’s again a red background and what it certainly conveys is an intensity of feeling. Since two figures are portrayed against this backdrop, this intensity is referring to their relationship, even if the man giving his back to the woman, and the woman looking in the opposite direction obviously signifies distance. It's likely that the painting is expressing Jules’ relationship with Ellis. I think there's also a more abstract interpretation: the female figure is light and her body and her hair are floating, and she's overall graceful. The male figure is static, big and it gives a sense of coldness. So it could be that the two figures represent masculinity and femininity, as traditionally performed and opposite to each other and in conflict. This could indicate where Jules is at now with her gender expression. I prefer the Interpretation which refers to her relationship with Ellis, because it looks like a follow up to her first painting.
Rue’s painting is a departure from her previous works in its content. I really like the brushwork. It is intentionally left thick, creating a very high contrast dynamic between the lights and the little shadows, with little to no chiaroscuro. And there's some really nice work done with the lighting on some of the locks of hair. It goes to define some really thin locks, before they merge with the background.
Everything is conveyed through color, and the energy, and the movement of the brushwork. The composition is very simple, even for a piece with a single figure: Rue is at the center, depicted very simply as the sole subject. Her movements, besides suggesting she is lying down, are all directed upwards to suggest an ascension, and her scattered hair, merging with the background, gives her a great sense of lightness. So, then, you have a backdrop with this strong orange, transitioning here and there to yellow rapresenting in the abstract the light that's hitting Rue, and instead of having it plainly blended, she used thick, strong brushstrokes to convey the energy of this light, or to turn the light into energy. It is monochromatic because Rue is bathed in this light from above, so she's covered with this yellowish/orange light/color, and her contours are disappearing. She is merging with the background, meaning she is losing herself in this all-encompassing light. So, she is lying down, lost in this warm light, completely enveloped, almost absorbed. There could be many different interpretations. The most direct is Rue depicted as high which I don’t know why she would paint her like that. What do you guys think?
I think her character this season explored themes of solitude, isolation, insecurities and sexuality. Even if she wasn't present that much I think she was as impactful as always, and it's great how they told her story through her paintings. It also helps that she's unique and iconic.

So I hope this was an interesting read, please be kind down in the comments. and thank you for spending sometimes reading everything.

When voting it can be a character you dislike overall, a character you feel had no growth therefore unimportant or a character who’s just bad overall .

Rules/How To Play :

- 2 Votes Per Person
- At The End Of Each Round The Person With The Most Votes Gets Eliminated
- Each Round Lasts 1 Day
- Last Character Remaining Is The Most Liked Character On The Show

Kindness and Sweetness have always been the things that characterized Sydney the most. It's easy to be a blonde with big tits as you say, but a lot harder to be such a great person. And nowhere is that best shown as it is here as she halts shooting of the film to please all of the thousands of Hoboken residents eagerly waiting to be near her. Being human while being a 40 million dollar net worth person, humble and raised on good values that she never fogets are what makes Sydney special and unlike many others on this show's cast, she stays true to those beliefs no matter what. She doesn't need to mold into a box that will get her the most followers. She can do a million ads because that is what she wants and is her choice. But keep in mind no matter what that ad is never does she think of insulting anyone because that is simply not her. Heck not once has she said bad things even to the haters, in the show or outside of it. You chose to be insulted, and honestly maybe you should find the fault in yourself rather than in Sydney. It's even obvious by her smile, not fake like many others.

So, I did an art history major, but I didn’t go to grad school, nonetheless I wanted to make this post for a while now. Just for fun, I don’t claim to be an expert. I wanted to talk about Jules’ paintings in season 3 because is something I appreciated a lot about the season.
So, I want to explore her style, historically contemporarily as well, and then reflect on the meaning of each painting in relation to Jules’ character and her role in the season.
So Jules/ Hunter is a figurative artist, meaning her subjects are human bodies and figures, specifically what she does are trans women nudes. The first time I saw her first painting I immediately thought about the quite famous Egon Schiele, because of the very thick and black outlines and the slender and gnarled figures which often are portrayed in some twisted pose. Schiele was an expressionist and it actually makes sense since most of the figurative art made in these days has strong ties to the expressionist and post-expressionist movements. Why? Because the arts don’t belong anymore only to white males and what urges the artists today is to represent new bodies never represented before, with dignity and introspection and expressiveness, and to picture their inner world and torments. Because what expressionism essentially does is pull out what’s inside so that it becomes visible. So, expressionism and figurative art today are greatly involved with representation.
I did a quick research to check some contemporary artists which relate in different ways to Jules’ paintings and I came across some that I want to share, which are pretty famous anyway. So, Marlene Dumas, Christina Quarles, and Martine Gutierrez, the most famous and celebrated figurative artists and, Kaye Donachie, speak in fact the same artistic language within their own individual styles: Dumas (6, these numbers correspond to the order of the pictures) non-naturalistic expressive portraits and jagged figures to evoke pain and trauma, Quarles (7) acid and vibrant unnaturalistic colours and impossibly stretched figures with uncertain boundaries to explore gender and gender fluidity, Gutierrez (8) actually makes photographic portraits but with great pictorial qualities, which are abstracts and expressionist in their colours, to exalt and represent the indigenous identity. Kaye Donachie (9) with her monochromatic delicate portrait and large brushwork. Then a less famous new York-based artist Janet Bruesselbach (10), which with more of a magical realism quality gives visibility to trans bodies. But greatly important for trans visibility are Greer Lankton (11) an iconic trans artist, and Puppies Puppies (12) very much celebrated with her Woman sculpture. This just to give an artistic contemporary landscape to which one can relate Jules/Hunter art, and not just an historic one which is equally important. For example, speaking of historic context Jules brush work is easily relatable to the one of Kokoschka, another famous expressionist painter and artist of the early 20^th century, or to the 20^th century gestual painting (which values the brushwork in itself). Then her ways to represent figures makes me think also to the sculptor Germanie Richier.
Some other qualities of Jules art are its abstract expressionism and its monochromatic tendencies.
Abstract expressionism developed in the 40s and 50s (one forerunner can be Gauguin in the 1880s, or Kandinskij in the 1920s) and it has many aspects, but what Jules does is giving to the painting this intense monochromatic background, which comes from those artists who experimented with the expression of pure colour (color field movement), like Newman and Rothko and Yves Klein. Monochromatic painting has a long history (which I barely know) whether implied or explicit, but what matters in general is that there’s no separation between a background and a foreground and no forms are distinguishable (except if it’s the case of the gestural signs of the painter). The distinction is lost in the applied colour, and the canvas becomes a surface. It’s not a representation of a naturalistic three-dimensional space anymore. So Jules’s figures fluctuate in a pool of emotion and exist in their own inner world.
Now, to breakdown Jules’s paintings what I’m gonna say first is that her art is very personal, we can tell she reflects on her own experiences through her painting and explore her feelings, her transness and her sexuality.
The first one, the woman wrapped in plastic is a great example of that. We’re given the context to the genesis of this painting, which makes it easier to interpret. We know what the plastic means and we know what the flower on her butt is (that’s the flower the plastic surgeon brings to her every time he comes to see her). What’s interesting is the golden skin and the fact that her head is turned towards us.
So, she’s at the centre, she’s in display, and the gold gives her the quality of a precious object. She looks like a wrapped-up vase, with a single flower inside. But she confronts the viewer. Then the red communicates an intense feeling and emotion and it may have even a sexual charge, but it’s not really erotic, there’s a certain coldness given by the plainness of the line work. This is clearly about her sexual experience with Ellis. But why does she confront who’s watching her being a vase? You answer that if you want.
I think it’s a great example of storytelling to condense all this subtext in a painting made by a character. For those who say that Jules barely exists in this season I don’t think that’s true. Her story it’s all in the details.
Next we have the “Seurat remake” which is a great painting. I don’t think it’s a casual choice to pick this painting to represent trans women bodies. Georges Seurat apparently wasn’t interested in any social meaning, and he only painted this composition because he was interested in the essential form of the human body and for some optical research. But it depicts a bourgeois space, a certain patriarchal landscape where only normative expressions of the self can exist. Jules’ version subverts completely the subject of Seurat painting and creates a space where the body is free to express itself and where trans women bodies can exist. Her figures are running, dancing, pissing, having sex, masturbate, sleep. The most prominent figure exhibits a relaxed pose compared to the rigidity of the original. The figures again are slender and their poses are exasperated. Four colors are opposing each other, blue, yellow, green and light blue to define the space of the painting. Again, everything is expressed through color. It’s interesting how the figures in the shadow are engaged in sex or they’re sleeping or standing melancholily still, while those in the sunlight are way more dynamic and joyous. Again, this may be Jules reflecting on her sexual experiences, but the whole painting expresses who she is an artist affirming the trans nudity as artistic and the trans body as free to exists. I think it’s also a way to express her transness as an act of freedom. Now saying that this is a “dicknick” is profoundly offensive and is a form of genderdeading. It may be also a way of fetichizing the trans body. The debate around this painting was really weird. That’s all I’m gonna say. Except that this plotline raised interested question about censorship and the depiction and visibility of the trans body in our culture.
The couple’s painting which is unfinished. We’re gonna consider it as finished since together with the other paintings tells Jules’ story this season. There’s again a red background and what it certainly conveys is an intensity of feeling. Since two figures are portrayed against this backdrop, this intensity is referring to their relationship, even if the man giving his back to the woman, and the woman looking in the opposite direction obviously signifies distance. It's likely that the painting is expressing Jules’ relationship with Ellis. I think there's also a more abstract interpretation: the female figure is light and her body and her hair are floating, and she's overall graceful. The male figure is static, big and it gives a sense of coldness. So it could be that the two figures represent masculinity and femininity, as traditionally performed and opposite to each other and in conflict. This could indicate where Jules is at now with her gender expression. I prefer the Interpretation which refers to her relationship with Ellis, because it looks like a follow up to her first painting.
Rue’s painting is a departure from her previous works in its content. I really like the brushwork. It is intentionally left thick, creating a very high contrast dynamic between the lights and the little shadows, with little to no chiaroscuro. And there's some really nice work done with the lighting on some of the locks of hair. It goes to define some really thin locks, before they merge with the background.
Everything is conveyed through color, and the energy, and the movement of the brushwork. The composition is very simple, even for a piece with a single figure: Rue is at the center, depicted very simply as the sole subject. Her movements, besides suggesting she is lying down, are all directed upwards to suggest an ascension, and her scattered hair, merging with the background, gives her a great sense of lightness. So, then, you have a backdrop with this strong orange, transitioning here and there to yellow rapresenting in the abstract the light that's hitting Rue, and instead of having it plainly blended, she used thick, strong brushstrokes to convey the energy of this light, or to turn the light into energy. It is monochromatic because Rue is bathed in this light from above, so she's covered with this yellowish/orange light/color, and her contours are disappearing. She is merging with the background, meaning she is losing herself in this all-encompassing light. So, she is lying down, lost in this warm light, completely enveloped, almost absorbed. There could be many different interpretations. The most direct is Rue depicted as high which I don’t know why she would paint her like that. What do you guys think?
Her character this season I think explored themes of solitude, insecurities, sexuality and isolation. Even if she wasn't present too much I think she was impactful as always. It helps that she's unique and iconic.

So I hope this was an interesting read, please be kind down in the comments, and thank you for spending some time to read everything.

hey guys! i really want to dress up as Rue for halloween. people always tell me i look like her, and i have a friend that looks like Jules, so we were going to do a matching costume. think glitter and baggy clothes! whoever, i’m not mixed race like zendaya, i am white.
is this offensive? id love to dress up as Rue but obviously if this is offensive i won’t. if anyone could advise me! thank you :))

I'm currently rewatching season 2 and I think I've realized something: is it possible that Nate actually thought that Rue had told Fez about his father and Jules like he says to Cal in episode 3?
So in season 1 did he call the cops on Fez because of that or just because Fez threatened him?
I don't know if this is a stupid question but I never thought about it before.
Has anyone figured it out?

Edit: because I always thought he tells Cal about Fez just because he didn't want Call to know that Maddy had the disk, not because he actually thought Fez knew.

Ashtray

Ashtray is Fezco's "little brother" and partner drug dealer; he is about 12 years old. At the end of the second season, he starts a shootout with the police during a raid at Fezco's house and, as a result, is shot in the head and killed by a SWAT team member.

Tomer "Tomeriko

A young drug dealer and Orthodox Jew who later murders Yizhar, Ra'anan's killer, and broadcasts it live on the internet.

Every time I hear “Nonstop” by Drake or “Right down the line” by Gerry Rafferty I think of Euphoria.

And more specifically, when I hear “Nonstop”, I think of Kat twerking in front of her laptop 😂

My wife loves to have random tv shows on in the background that she’s only paying attention to about half the time. She’s now decided to watch Grey’s Anatomy (don’t know why she picked to watch this now especially since I had brain surgery 6 weeks ago). I’m somewhat following along and I notice this guy walk in and I’m like “isn’t that Nate’s dad.” And it is.

Crazy thing in this episode he’s supposed to remove the penis of a trans woman, but the tells her the transitioning hormones are giving her cancer.

Anyways thought I’d share with the class.

A lot of the characters make choices because they’re afraid of being rejected or judged. It’s interesting how often the need for approval affects their lives. Which character do you think struggles the most with being themselves?