SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can,” the Jan. 30 episode of “Euphoria.” At the risk of writing too personally about a sho…
Do not read if you have not yet watched “You Who Cannot See, Think of Those Who Can,” the Jan. 30 episode of “At the risk of writing too personally about a show that’s all about personal upheaval, I had wondered whether parenthood might turn me off “Euphoria.”
I shouldn’t have worried. In its new season, “Euphoria” has asserted itself as a work of startling emotional power, a wellspring of visual and narrative ingenuity that is among the very best things on television. And its most recent episode — a showcase for actor— suggests the unboundedness of the show’s ambition, sprawling beyond the doors of high school to make a statement about the impossibility of human connection.
It was not always this way: In high school, Cal was sunny and pleasant, optimistic in a way basically no character on “Euphoria” ever allows themself to be. As played by Elias Kacavas, Cal was in the early process of figuring out who he was and what he wanted. A scene in which he and his best friend and wrestling buddy Derek celebrate just how well their lives are going with a night of drinking and dancing breaks into a moment of affection that feels euphoric, in the good way.
Among the most potent cases made by “Euphoria” is that one can ultimately never escape oneself. The show’s characters set out to change their lives — shifting romantic partners, ways of being, approaches to sobriety — but end up, again and again, where they started. Cal, a generation older, is wiser than his son’s cohort in precisely one way: He knows he’s stuck.
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