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Euphoria Season 3 Is Worse Than We Thought · The imuRgency Room

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  OK, I actually take back everything that I've said about
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  Euphoria up until this point because this latest season isn't
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  that bad. It's actually so much worse.
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  Hey guys, what's up? It's Emergency and welcome back
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  to my channel. And we need to have a
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  conversation around Season 3 of Euphoria.
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  And I know the first episode just dropped.
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  We've only seen the first episode, but I feel like the
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  direction in which the show is seeming to take is a little
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  troubling and diving into things that I don't know it is ready to
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  actually address because this first episode is setting the
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  tone for the rest of the season. And I'm actually very concerned.
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  And let's talk about it. The highly anticipated Season 3
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  of before it is finally out. What's that, brother?
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  We got the first episode that came out this past Sunday, and
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  people were generally gagged by what they saw.
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  I know I personally was. Oh, both the lady and the punk
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  were too stung speak because not only does it feel like Euphoria
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  has just become a different show, it also has somehow turned
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  up the stakes and become even darker of a show.
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  Seemingly trying to address things and have critiques on
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  things like substance abuse, the proliferation of substances like
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  and how easy it is to get caught up in the very predatory and all
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  consuming land of substance trafficking.
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  And we see that right off the bat with Rue because we finally
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  find out that Lori did in fact find Rue and definitely wants
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  money back and has 10X ruse debt.
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  And that is pretty much where we follow this whole episode.
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  It's just ruse escapades working for Lori and it seems like she
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  is in deeper than ever. No pun intended, because yeah,
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  we'll get into that. That's that's part of it.
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  And I want to say that this first episode definitely played
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  into like the whole first episode shock value that
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  Euphoria has been known for and that many shows are known for at
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  the beginning of their seasons to bring out the flashy and
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  controversial things to get people talking, get people
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  interested in the season at the very beginning.
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  Like I think in Season 1 where Jules is like stabbing at Nate
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  at that party, Season 2 where Nate gets dog walked by Fez.
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  And now in Season 3, actually, everything is shocking and
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  alarming. And I honestly don't know where
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  to start. Like we got Roof cosplaying his
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  Mogga in the beginning. We have that disgusting scene of
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  Faye and Roo trying to take down those substance balloons and all
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  that has come with that. And again, we're going to
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  address that later because that gets into a bigger issue that I
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  have with this show. You have Cassie launching her
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  Only Fans. We have a new pimp character
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  named Alamo that's been announced, and now he has a
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  whole group of strippers that he tried to get ruin on.
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  Like, it's a lot happening all in one episode.
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  And it feels like we did not get a break from like shock value to
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  shock value to shock value. And it's looking like the show
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  is taking a turn to be even darker than it already has been.
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  And I don't know if that's necessarily all going to be in a
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  good way because I fear what's going to end up happening is
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  that it's not going to be dark for the sake of actually telling
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  a dark and compelling story and a mature story in the ways that
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  most other dark dramas do. I fear that this is going to
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  take more of the idol approach. If you remember the Idol, the
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  show that Sam Levinson also worked on, where it's dark and
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  graphic for the sake of his own sort of satisfaction and almost
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  fetish trauma blends. And let's actually talk about
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  that really quick because this episode episode was riddled with
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  fetish content. And if you're unfamiliar with
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  what fetish content is, it's essentially content that is not
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  necessarily explicitly school, but it is content that simulates
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  or at least references different fetishes or kinks that people
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  have essentially. So people that are interested in
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  that sort of thing can consume that kind of content without it
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  explicitly being in a like softcore or hardcore adult
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  cinematography setting. Like we see fetish content all
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  the time on social media where it gets rightfully called out
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  because oftentimes fetish content is unfortunately many
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  times linked with like younger children's content, having it be
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  geared towards children or a seemingly younger audience of
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  things that are seemingly innocuous and innocent,
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  essentially stimulating adult activities.
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  And of course, this is an adult show, but we're seeing very
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  similar things. And let me bust out my notes
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  really quick so that we can run through them all while I was
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  watching, 1 scene that really jumped out to me that was 100%
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  fetish content in my mind was when Rue and Fey were taking
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  those substance balloons, right? We're seeing them having this
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  stuff, these big, big orb shaped things down their throats.
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  And of course, it's filled with a bunch of gagging, a bunch of
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  spit. And we're eventually staying in
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  one scene where they're actually putting their fingers in almost
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  full hands down their throats trying to get it down.
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  And that looks and sounds like something very adult if you
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  watch that scene. Like honestly, that whole scene
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  feels like it was just written explicitly to be fetish content.
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  Because after that, there's like a whole scene of the girls like
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  farting and Putin and essentially sharding themselves
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  afterwards, which also is in its own way, fetish content.
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  Like there are fetishes for them.
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  There are specific groups specifically for those things.
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  And the fact at the end, the thing at the end that really
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  sent me and I was like, Oh my God, this is actually
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  disgusting. And I don't know what anyone was
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  thinking when they were filming or shooting this is that there
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  was this one part of that scene at the very end where Fey comes
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  out and she's like, I had an accident and you can see streaks
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  of Zhu Zhu coming down her leg. First off, why do we need to see
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  that? I know it's HBO, but like crazy.
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  But what makes it worse is that the dog that's living in that
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  house goes up and starts licking the fence Doo Doo from her leg
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  and into her butt. And that my friends, is
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  absolutely disgusting for so many different reasons.
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  Like the layers behind that are honestly so deep.
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  And I know that this is going to try and be explained away by
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  being like this is just like the realities of the situation.
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  Like this is meant to show like how graphic and how violent and
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  dirty these spaces actually are. And this is meant to build
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  awareness for what's going on. I understand that.
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  For one, I get it, But also there is a way that things are
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  presented and a way that things can be adapted on screen to
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  portray these things without essentially fetishizing them.
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  And again, I would be more inclined to see it from that
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  perspective had this been shown in any other show by any other
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  showrunner. And this is where we get back on
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  Sam Levinson, because I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
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  I think the fact that he prides himself on being the sole writer
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  of the show and the fact that he's had a history of making
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  very grotesque and seemingly over the top graphic sexual
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  content that doesn't really contribute to the plot makes
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  they believe that it's a little bit more than that and that the
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  intention is not solely that. Because like even if you think
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  for this season how old the characters are treated, like
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  damn near every single woman in this show is going through some
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  kind of humiliation ritual. Like you got Rue being a
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  substance mule, having the Boo Boo drugs into a strainer and
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  then hanging out with a pimp. And strippers.
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  The fact that there are so many topless strippers in the show.
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  Jules, while not being present in this specific episode, being
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  a sugar baby. Maddie being broke and being
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  essentially A glorified plus one for everything.
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  Cassie, need I say more? Gassy Faye, All the previous
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  aforementioned things and then Lexie and I, as far as I
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  remember, Lexie kind of good. Like I don't think anything is
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  especially crazy. She's living in that same
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  apartment that she was in in one of them days.
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  I saw that tweet on Twitter, and I thought it was so funny
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  because like, yeah, I could so see that for Lexi and the
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  character that she was playing in one of them days.
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  And the buildings do look the same.
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  But I bring all this up to say that, like, this is just some
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  really sick writing on behalf of the women on the show.
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  And the fact that Sam Levinson, we know, has had a history of
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  writing women in this way. Like, think the previous seasons
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  of Euphoria, think The Idol and all the things that, like, Lily
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  Rose Depp had to do on that show and the way that he portrayed
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  her, it's just really sick. And then also getting into stuff
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  that I talked about in the last video and I'm not going to get
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  into here. So if you want to go see that
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  and want to hear us talk about that, definitely go check out
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  that video. But the way that he has
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  historically stolen ideas, aesthetics, vibes would have you
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  from women without really giving them credit for it really just
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  shows the kind of guy that he is and the kind of mind that he
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  has. And I know for a fact that it
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  gets worse because some pictures leaked from future episodes that
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  allegedly show Sidney Sweeney playing Cassie and Cassie is
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  doing clearly some like only fans type stuff dressed as a
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  baby, like in a diaper doing like the happy baby yoga pose
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  with her legs spread. Like again, I understand that
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  this is a show and this is trying to tell a story, but
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  there are ways to go about it. And the fact that it is going
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  this direction is mildly concerning, at least when you
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  know who is at the helm of all this and knowing how things like
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  this have been handled in the past.
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  And while all this is alleged and speculation, it's kind of
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  clear that like no one else is really this show either.
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  Like even now, now that the first episode is out, promotion
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  for this season is abysmal, especially coming from the other
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  castmates. Like you think of the people
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  that were involved in this season would be wanting to
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  promote it more. But based on what I saw as of
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  filming this video, the only one that's really promoting this
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  season is Sidney Sweeney. Like Zendaya herself has not
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  posted anything about this latest season coming out.
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  Like I'm filming this on Monday, but I checked her socials on
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  Sunday. There was nothing that was
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  posted, no main feed, no story, no nothing about this season
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  that just came out. In fact, she's opted to promote
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  the drama instead, which is not an Octa Zendaya.
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  But I think that does tell where things are out, like especially
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  if you look to the clips from the four year premiere, it was
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  it's clear that the cast may not be as cohesive as they were in
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  the past with people dodging pictures and interactions with
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  Sam Levinson to even just dodging interactions with each
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  other. And I'm even thinking about that
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  pop up they did at Coachella to air the first episode at
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  Coachella. And the main person that was
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  promoting that was Chloe Cherry. When there are multiple other
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  cast members that were sighted at Coachella, like they were at
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  the festival. They were just not publicly
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  promoting it, which I think is so wild.
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  Like I know for certain Jacob Allordy was there.
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  I know Labyrinth was definitely there.
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  He wasn't going to show up. But what I'm trying to get at
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  from all this is that it's clear that everyone trying to really
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  distance themselves from the season and just move on.
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  And as a long term fan of Euphoria, that is really sad to
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  see. But it really just shows that we
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  are rolling down a very steep and dark hill.
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  And the show itself just feels different.
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  Like I know it's meant to be more mature.
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  I know that we are no longer in high school and that we're
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  seeing everyone in their adult lives.
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  And don't get me wrong, the show still is entertaining and I'm
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  still going to watch and going to finish the season.
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  But comparing this episode to the ones of past seasons, it
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  just feels like we're watching completely different characters
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  on screen. Like some of these characters I
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  do, I'm not recognized at all. Like Speaking of Jacob, Nate, I
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  don't know who that is. Like it feels like Nate Jacobs
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  underwent a lobotomy in between seasons two and three because he
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  is entirely too chill about everything that's going on.
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  Like he is letting Cassie walk all over him and is just
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  seemingly OK or at least mildly concerned but not really angry
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  at the fact that she wants to create only fans.
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  And again, there's nothing wrong with creating only fans, don't
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  get me wrong. I'm just saying that season 1
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  and 2 Nate would be a lot more angry and a lot more violent
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  about his fiance or future wife wanting to post on only fans.
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  Like let's not forget how we treated Maddie for wearing IMG
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  outfit and the fact that he pulled an actual Pew Pew out on
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  Maddie when she was threatening him about the stuff with jewels.
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  Like this man has a track record of being very emotionally
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  unstable and very prone to violence.
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  And you know, hey, it's just the first episode.
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  Maybe we'll get that explained further as to why he is the way
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  he is in future episodes, But this just seems like a stark
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  shift to the point where it's like, all right, who is this?
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  But a sixth sense is telling me that that's not going to be the
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  case. And that sixth sense is really
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  just the way that Jacob Allordy spoke on his character and his
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  actors on actors interview with Gwyneth Paltrow, essentially
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  alluding to the fact that like, yeah, this is a different guy.
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  And honestly, it might be bad. In fact, it probably will be
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  bad. And of course, he tried to PR
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  recover being like, oh, my performance might be bad.
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  Is your character nicer? I actually think so.
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  I really, I really do think so Whether it works or not, I don't
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  know. There's a, there's a chance that
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  whatever, whatever we've done is just not well, what I've done is
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  not good. I'm.
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  Not sure I'm. Not sure.
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  And if we know one thing about Jacob Lordy is that he is going
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  to be brutally honest about his performance and what he thinks
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  about things. And if he does not like a
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  project and he thinks it's trash, he is going to say so.
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  And this might be him saying so, but we're really just going to
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  have to wait and see. I know that it's only the first
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  episode, but according to the reviews of people who saw the
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  first 3 and gave the season of four out of 10, I don't know how
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  much it's necessarily going to improve again.
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  I'm going to be doing pre show live streams on this channel
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  every single week before the episode airs.
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  I'm not promising weekly episode recaps, but this is the first
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  episode and I feel like this really did shift at least my
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  perspective on how I think things are going to go.
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  Because prior to this first episode and going into this
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  third season, it was looking like things were going to be a
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  train wreck. And for the most part, it's
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  looking like things are going according to plan and are
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  generally going the way that I expected them to go.
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  Well, actually, maybe this might be a little worse.