Written and created by Sam Levinson and based on an Israeli television show, Euphoria isn’t supposed to be trash.
But, given the right trash lens, it could also describe the band of teenage delinquents cavorting through HBO’s Euphoria.įrom taking videos for foot fetishists to swallowing goldfish whole at a frat initiation to lessons in dick pics featuring Charles Manson speaking in tongues in court (the different between horrifying and terrifying dick pics) and literal child drug dealers with face tattoos who assert “I don’t fuck with human trafficking” (me neither, kid), Euphoria, through its eight episodes, seems to depict the newest generation of the filthiest people alive. “Yes folks, this isn’t any cheap X-rated movie or any 5 th rate porno play, this is the show you want! Lady Divine’s cavalcade of perversions, the sleaziest show on Earth!…These assorted sluts, fags, dykes, pimps know no bounds! They have committed acts against God and nature, acts by their mere existence would make any decent person recoil in disgust!” As I’m sure you know, dearest Filthy Dreams denizens of perversions, this batshit carnival barker, beckoning both unwilling and luridly indecent gawkers into a flood tide of filth derives from John Waters’s early grotesquerie Multiple Maniacs. Kat prepares for her star turn (all screenshots by moi)
