![]() You get the dopamine hits of beautiful images and caps-locked emotion, swirled with wild tonal shifts, packaged with such maximalism and gratuity as to demand a reaction, and emerge wired by the chaos and worn out by the whole cycle. Watching the second season finale – in which Lexi’s (Maude Apatow) tell-all play devolved into a catfight, beloved drug dealer Fezco’s (Angus Cloud) house went down in a hail of police gunfire, and cast member Dominic Fike sang an entire original song – felt like witnessing the life cycle of a Twitter Event. How did it become a social media lightning rod?Įuphoria is a TV show of and for the internet – appealing to our instinct to be included and our evergreen fascination with high school, stoking a range of reactions from outrage to appreciation (or often both), offering looks and plenty of avenues for takes. Call it disastrous, sublime, exhausting, narcissistic, magnetic or all of the above – no show aims for and captures the online discourse right now better than Euphoria. Its buzziness is helped rather than hindered by a polarizing and, for many, narratively disappointing season that sidelined beloved characters, dropped plot lines, prioritized elaborate and visually ornate tangents over character development, doubled down on the drug abuse, dialed up the graphic violence, and went so far up its own ass as to have a character stage a Broadway-budget play about the show for its final two episodes. In other words, catnip for the online crowd. This is by design: Euphoria, adapted by Sam Levinson from the Israeli show of the same name, is audacious in style, almost pugnaciously provocative in substance, with imitable peacocking fashion and easily memeable cutaways. According to Twitter, the drama is the most tweeted-about show of the (still young) decade, with 34m tweets in the US alone. “You have a character that goes through the scrutiny of being a sexualized person at school and then an audience that does the same thing.But perhaps more impressive, and telling, than its 2022 viewing stats is Euphoria’s digital footprint. It’s completely disgusting and unfair,” she explained. ![]() “It got to the point where they were tagging my family. In a separate November 2022 interview with GQ, Sydney revealed that online trolls took screenshots of her nude scenes and tagged her family members on social media. Cassie’s body is a different form of communication for her.” We show this character’s life and what they’re going through. ![]() “There’s a purpose to what that character is going through. “I think it’s important to the storyline and the character,” she told Teen Vogue of her nude scenes. There are people staring at you, pads between you there’s nipple covers and weird sticker thongs all up your butt.” When you film one of these scenes, it’s so technical and not romantic. When I get tagged in Cassie’s or Pippa from The Voyeurs’ nudes, it feels like me looking at their nudes, not Sydney’s nudes. So, thanks?'” Sydney told Cosmopolitan in March 2022. With The White Lotus, all these people came out of the woodwork like, ‘You’re the most amazing …’ and I’m like, ‘But I went through the most crazy emotional roller coaster in Euphoria. I don’t think as many people took me seriously in Euphoria because I took my shirt off. “The White Lotus has been a completely different kind of turning point. The actress spoke candidly about her nude scenes when comparing her Euphoria role to her appearance on the White Lotus. ![]() But the moment a girl does it, it’s completely different.” “When a guy has a sex scene or shows his body, he still wins awards and gets praise. But no one talks about it because I got naked,” Sydney explained. This is something that has bothered me for a while. “With the White Lotus, I felt like people were finally recognizing the hard work I’ve been doing. Elsewhere in the article, the actress recalled people tagging her younger brother in Cassie’s nude scenes on social media. What has made her uneasy since Euphoria‘s June 2019 premiere is the public’s response to her nudity. Sydney’s point “was more how respectful Sam is and how incredible of a director he is, that he would never make me do something I didn’t feel comfortable with.” However, since those remarks, Sydney has insisted to Teen Vogue that she “never asked him to cut any scenes,” adding, “It got twisted and turned and it became its own beast, and I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’” When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.” I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me or was trying to get a nude scene into an HBO show. “There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless, and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here.’ He was like, ‘OK, we don’t need it’. “Sam is amazing,” she told the newspaper. What a ‘Euphoric’ Pay Grade! See HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Cast Salaries
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