Euphoria (2019)

What earned the score

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  Trans Character in Nate’s Story

  The trans girl raped by Nate’s father later becomes the person Nate contacts on a hookup app, linking her identity to the family secret and Nate’s storyline.

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  Closeted Father’s Sexual Secret

  Nate’s father is described as closeted and as one of the men who rapes Jules. The show makes his concealed sexual identity part of the surrounding family and sexual drama.

• Same-Sex Makeout Pairings

  The episode shows several teenage couples making out, including explicitly identified gay and lesbian pairings. Same-sex romance appears as part of the show’s sexualized teen-world depiction.

• Trans Romance as Rue’s Addiction

  Rue falls in love with Jules, her transgender best friend, and treats their relationship as another drug to numb her pain. Jules’s identity and their romance are woven into Rue’s character arc.

• High-Schooler’s Sexualized Images

  The pilot shows nude, provocatively posed pictures of a high-school girl and a pornographic clip purportedly showing her having sex with two men. The sexualized depiction of a minor is explicit on-screen content.

• Masculinity as Inherited Pathology

  Nate’s anger and sexual anxiety are traced to his childhood and described as toxic masculinity, with his father’s predatory conduct setting up a critique of masculinity.

• Christianity as a Punchline

  Rue sarcastically claims she gave her life to Jesus before buying and using drugs. The scene uses Christian faith as the setup for a cynical joke.

• Dismissive Claims About Christianity

  A girl says Christians stole Christmas from pagans and claims King James hired witches to turn his urine into gold. The dialogue treats Christian history and tradition as targets for mockery.

Details

A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.

Starring

ZendayaHunter SchaferSydney SweeneyJacob ElordiAlexa Demie

Genre

Drama

Release Date

Jun 16, 2019

Parents Guide

• Sex Severe

  S3 pipelines almost all female leads into explicit Sex Work storylines that progress in soft-porn graphics, pornified female nudity, fetishized female stripper erotica, fetishtic female ASMR, and specialized fetish content involving graphic Giantess, Breasts and Feet.

  S1 & S2 presents almost every female teen as provocatively dressed and highly sexualized with prominent and recurring scenes of explicit and gratuitous teen female nudity.

  S3 Trigger Warning: Systematic hyper-sexualization and graphic objectification of females via pervasive Stripper, Sex Club, Sugar Baby and OnlyFans sequences featuring gratuitous pornified female nudity via male-gaze exploitation, spectacle voyeurism and torture porn utilizing predatory, humiliation-based female degradation, explicit fetishistic PetPlay, AgePlay and high-risk Saran Mummification Bondage.

  S1 & S2 details severe teen pornography use with graphic teen visuals including depicted teenage Cam Girls and severe Sexual Violence and Image-Based Abuse against female teens. Severe sexual content features graphic sex, graphic nudity and graphic teen depictions including crude sexual material intertwined with heavy adolescent substance use and abuse alongside one explicit scene in a high school male locker room.

  S1 & S2 portrays severe and triggering sexual content including inappropriate intimate relationships between family members and graphic Sexual Assault and Rape perpetrated by adult men against underage female teenagers.

  Nudity double standard. Regular graphic full frontal and rear male nudity, including some involving teenage characters. Female nudity is limited to breasts and rear.

• Violence Moderate

  Disturbing/Triggering NC-17 Content involving pornographic/exploitative female sex acts and demoralizing and heinous sexual abuses and perversities including sex and rape with depicted female minors.

  A male forcefully grabs a female by her neck and violently slams her into a wall and into a truck.

  A teen girl is kidnapped in a parking lot. A rag (possibly containing chloroform) is placed over her mouth, and her wrists and ankles are zip tied and she is shoved in a concealed compartment of a truck bed.

  A character is stabbed in the neck and slowly bleeds to death.

  A drug dealer orders a woman to disrobe and she is hit when she refuses.

  A young girl threatens her mother with a piece of glass during a fight.

  Several wounds are show in the aftermath of violence.

  Character's wounds from being stabbed and shot are shown graphically.

  Characters are beaten, shot, and attacked in various physical and emotional ways.

  A character is shot in the head.

• Profanity Severe

  f**k, s**t, c**t, d**k, and cock are used alongside lesser profanity like b**tard, b**ch, and ass as well as racial slurs, homophobic slurs, and ableist slurs.

  Heavy uses of "f**k" throughout the series. Teenagers characters uses more profanity than adults do.

• Drugs Severe

  Kat and BB vape in a lot of episodes.

  Alcohol, cannabis, hallucinogens, heroin injections, hormone injections, MDMA, methamphetamine, tobacco as well as prescription medications such as Fentanyl, Ketamine, OxyContin, Xanax are crushed, snorted, smoked, swallowed, and/or injected intravenously.

  Social drinking, graphic drug uses, and smoking throughout the series.

• Frightening Scenes Severe

  A character is forced to do fentanyl to the point of nearly overdosing which could be upsetting for sensitive viewers.

  Characters injecting drugs intravenously is shown in graphic detail as the needle punches through the skin which may upset sensitive viewers.

  Characters can suddenly be killed without warning which may upset sensitive viewers.

  A woman gets an abortion which could upset sensitive viewers.

  Cal Jacobs, Nate's father, is a pedophile.

  Ashtray dies in the end of season 2 it is very upsetting and graphic and it's shown on screen.

  Disturbing/Triggering NC-17 Content involving pornographic/exploitative female sex acts and demoralizing and heinous sexual abuses and perversities including sex and rape with depicted female minors.

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