‘Euphoria’s’ Eric Dane Showcase Is the Show at Its Astounding Best: TV Review
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can,” the Jan.
30 episode of “Euphoria.”At the risk of writing too personally about a show that’s all about personal upheaval, I had wondered whether parenthood might turn me off “Euphoria.”I was an admirer of the show’s first season, which aired in 2019, but after becoming a parent in 2020 I suspected that the show’s depiction of American teenagerhood as a broken-down garden of temptation might not intrigue me as it had once before.
Certainly, I’ve felt an almost visceral sense of rejection of various works of art in which children are placed in peril over the past two years or so.
And two special episodes that aired between the show’s seasons failed to compel me, leaning as they did almost entirely on style and flash. (Yes, “Euphoria’s” always stylish and flashy, but these seemed to be using flair for its sake, not to bolster what the show’s narrative is doing.) I wondered, after the second of these, whether the show had run out of things to say, or if I’d been the one who’d changed.
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