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The Style Star Of ‘Euphoria’ Is Not A Teen But A Grandma
Don’t get me wrong, I love Euphoria’s unhinged teens and their equally manic sense of style: Maddy Perez’s on-speed “I’m a Genie in a Bottle” revival looks; Jules’s ethereal angel outfits; Kat’s Hot Topic-plucked cybergirl harnesses. But who really rocked my world in the season two premiere was Fezco’s grandmother. The woman, matriarch to East Highland’s resident drug dealer, enters our screens with a bang as Rue narrates: “Fezco’s grandma was a motherfuckin’ G.” Boom. The first scene cuts to Fezco’s grandmother, a woman with long platinum blonde hair who steps out of a light green Chevy in metal-tipped cowboy boots ready to kick someone’s knee in. She struts towards…
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Euphoria Season 2 Is Too Stylish for Its Own Good
Wanna feel old? Watch Euphoria. HBO’s arty, thoroughly depressing teen series returns for its second season on January 9, after a nearly three-year wait. One feels old watching the show because, yes, it’s all about young people and their Gen Z hangups and habits. But there is also, on the happier side of feeling gray, a mounting realization that much of what’s being shown on creator Sam Levinson’s series is the petty, impermanent stuff of youth. The pain may be real, and may be turgidly articulated. But it will, in large part, pass. For some of the characters, anyway. Euphoria’s second season splits itself in two. On the one side…