Euphoria Season 1 Recap: Pilot

Euphoria is a look through frosted glass at the real life but existential existence of the generation XYZ Millennial dream state and the beautiful horrors that make up a modern youth experience. If that didn’t make much sense to you, it’s because maybe we can’t quite fathom the experience, or we understand it so intensely that we are transported to our own existential crisis though, it may differ from the characters we see in the show. I know it sounds sad but I didn’t build this system, nor did I f**k it up – Rue, Euphoria First as important as ever, trigger warning. To be fair, HBO is one big ol’ trigger warning. As soon as you hear that tone and old tv fuzz sound, know you are in for a night of triggering. But forreal trigger warning of the drug and alcohol use, and sexual nature. THE UPPERS Imagine the show is a scrambler ride – you know the ride where you sit in a little metal car and it swings you violently from side to side and all around. You scream in exhilaration as your body is flung into the person next to you, and that person swung into the next and the last jammed into the door of the tin car. It’s a game of centrifugal force really. But as you laugh uncontrollably, the wind in your hair, your head begins to swim and spin, you can no longer see your surroundings and you begin to float, you feel sick, but you like it, and your eyes begin to water. This – is – that – feeling. I know what you’re thinking wth is she even talking about. Well this is a recap peoples s…