Whether it was the proliferation of penises or Zendaya's Emmy-winning sublimity, HBO's Euphoria generated so much media attention that it will be hard to find any review — including this one — of corporate stablemate Generation that doesn't link the two shows.
That the new HBO Max half-hour hails from a father-child team — Zelda and Daniel Barnz — and boasts an occasionally zany tone while tackling serious topics and themes actually makes it closer in spirit to British dramedy Skins(which aired from 2007 to 2013 and is now available on Hulu).
Generationdoesn't always work. It very often feels like exactly what it is, namely a show at least partly written by a teenager — Zelda was 17 when the script was picked up — with several episodes.
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