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Over the past 5 Sundays, HBO's second season of its striking evidence, "Euphoria," has been garnering even more attention than its predecessor. Season one hit the ground running with intense depictions of gender and sexuality confusion, drug apply, domestic abuse and other themes among high school students. For many, the show is a gross exaggeration of scenarios that seem entirely strange. For some, though, these depictions are all too real.

The show seemingly reinforces time and once again that the actions appearing on-screen are not endorsable by whatsoever means, but does information technology really? Rue Bennett, the narrator of the series, has a serious drug addiction. Throughout the serial, she consistently makes choices that negatively impact herself and those around her usually due to her addiction.

In an episode this season, Rue explains to the audience that she has relapsed and details the steps that she has devised to help her hide her drug use from those around her. While this scene is absolutely comedic because of the sheer fashion in which she goes about explaining her relapse, it is likewise a blueprint for young addicts. Rue notes that she should be a role model as the key character of a honey show, but that is not the case. And she is right. Does watching a character that you want to root for screw make it fifty-fifty clearer how unsafe her behavior is? Maybe that is part of the problem.

The evidence arguably goes too far in trying to convey Rue'southward downfall. This week's episode is a articulate example of that, and many people have actually claimed to cease watching the prove because of it. In this episode, Rue is finally caught red-handed and her mom stages an intervention (well, ii interventions). At both interventions, problems irrelevant to the issue at manus overshadow Rue'south habit, which is supposed to be the focus. The majority of the episode following the failed interventions is Rue stealing, running from the police and turning to a major drug dealer for help.

I am not prissy past any means, but I truthfully had to look away for a portion of the episode. Lori, Rue's new "employer", manipulates Rue into shooting up morphine. She then locks Rue in the apartment and it appears that she is about to be the victim of a horrible crime before she eventually escapes. I just think that such serious subject matter was constantly being overshadowed by drama or something even more intense.

This is non by whatsoever means the only example of this event on the show. Ane of the biggest issues that viewers are finding with this season is season 1's unresolved storyline involving McKay. In season one, McKay is sexually assaulted and deeply traumatized by members of his frat during a hazing event. Cassie, his girlfriend and a central character, is present when this happens. While it physically and emotionally happens to McKay, the principal focus is on Cassie'south reaction. It actually is not addressed again, and information technology seems to be more important for Cassie'due south grapheme development than McKay'southward. He is barely in season ii; his curt-lived advent, which excited fans, was once once again for Cassie.

If shows are going to explore how sexual assault affects people, it needs to work both ways. This, in my opinion, was a gross exploitation of a very existent situation that seriously affects people.

All this being said, I practise like "Euphoria." I relish watching it, just I think it does have a lot of faults that need to exist meliorate addressed due to the impressionable audience it has garnered. Just a few years ago, "13 Reasons Why" was the topic of criticism for like reasons. The success of "Euphoria" seems to accept steered it away from the same route, simply I remember information technology needs to be addressed.

The drama and the struggle is why people dear the prove, but the manner in which information technology is handled needs to be intentional and delicate. "Euphoria" has a platform, and it should be ensuring that it'due south beingness used in the right fashion.