Euphoria
Content Warning : This list include mentions of drug use , furiousness , sexual assault , and mental health .
Some memorableEuphoriascenes that almost went too far , which is part of what make the HBO series one of the most popular yet provocative shows currently on television system . The series follow the lives of fabricated high schoolers who constantly face issuing with drug dependence , toxic relationships , and casual force . Euphoriais led by Zandaya and Hunter Schaffer as Rue Bennett and Jules Vaughn severally and also boast an ensemble cast of problematic characters including Jacob Elordi , Sydney Sweeney , Alexa Demie , and Angus Cloud .
Euphoriaseason 2 face criticismdue to its overuse of nakedness and substance ill-usage . Sweeney , who plays Cassie , had to take creator Sam Levinson to get rid of au naturel scene of her character that she deemed unnecessary ( viaIndependent ) . Several scenes inEuphoriaseason 2 that were originally meant to contain nakedness were removed or altered after similar complaint from plaster cast members . Levinson is known to push boundaries inEuphoria , but several scenes that made the terminal gash in the HBO serial nearly pass away too far .
Euphoria time of year 2 cease its eight - installment carry more democratic than ever before and with a long wait until time of year 3 , here ’s everything we know about it .
20Cassie Pukes At Maddy’s Party
A Previously Strong Character Becomes Uncomfortably Vulnerable
It ’s not surprising that many of the most shockingEuphoriamoments contain violence , a character death , or a scene of an apparently intimate nature . Euphoriais , after all , a show that exists to push limit . However , one specially disturb scene come inEuphoriaseason 2 , episode 4 , " You Who Can not See , mean of Those Who Can " that is incredibly unmanageable to watch despite it containing no sex or violence . There ’s a sequence in the hot tub at Maddy ’s company when Cassie , overcome with emotion , promptly stands up and vomits over the other occupant .
ThisEuphoriascene is shock on two levels , the most obvious being that seeing anybody get regurgitate on is all - but - warrant to prompt a unattackable emotional response . However , at a deeper grade , it ’s shameful because it showed just how much Cassie ’s tactile sensation for Nate ( and her guilt at sleeping with her protagonist ’s former partner ) had cut off Cassie ’s genial wellness . She appeared genuinely burst in this minute , andSydney Sweeney ’s performancemade it specially jarring to see .
19Ashtray Kills Custer
A Child Displays A Disturbing Capacity For Violence
Ashtray is the vernal persona inEuphoria , and pass on what the rest of the characters get up to around him , it ’s no surprise he ’s a central figure in many of the show ’s most shocking tantrum . While Ashtray killing Custer inEuphoriaseason 2 , episode 8 , " All My Life , My middle Has ache For A matter I Can not Name , " was n’t the most jaw - dropping scene for vernal Javon Walton ’s character ( or even the most shocking execution Ashtray committed ) , it was still an fantastically brutal instant .
While the violence of this shockingEuphoriascene is enough to raise brow in its own right , it ’s everything it divulge about Ashtray which makes it rightfully harrowing . Ashtray was raise by Fez , and so his reason of morals was always clearly skewed . However , walk up to Custer and in cold blood planting a knife into his neck opening exhibit viewers just how far belong Ashtray truly was .
18Fez Gets Shot By The Police
An Overshadowed Moment
TheEuphoriaseason 2 finale , " All My Life , My Heart Has Yearned For A matter I Can not Name , " had no shortage of shocking moments . However , due to events both before the scene and after , a specially jaw - throw off Fez moment is often overlook . When viewing for the first time , the chronological sequence that Fez gets fritter away in the breadbasket by a SWAT team while screaming desperately at them not to harm Ashtray is improbably jarring .
Ultimately , it ’s a instant many viewers forget because of everything still to come in in the episode . However , had Fez being shot been the final scene in the sequence , it would still be renowned as an incredibly shockingEuphoriamoment . It ’s also worth take note that it was so torturesome not because of the gunshot necessarily , but because of the phenomenal performance ofthe late Angus Cloud as Fez .
17Faye Injects In Front Of Rue
Euphoria’s Casual Drug Use Reaches New Levels
Narcotics are a unconstipated narrative characteristic inEuphoria , though the introduction of Faye ( Chloe Cherry ) in season 2 also brings a moment of shockingly insouciant use of incredibly dangerous drug . Rue encounter Fay through Fez , and at one import is exit alone with her while Fez and Custer , who is Faye ’s boyfriend , provide to arrange a deal . Much to repent , and the audience ’s , electric shock , Faye continue to pull out a phonograph needle and shoot herself with heroin as nonchalantly as many character light a fag .
Euphoriahas some incredibly well - write moments when it comes to depicting dependency and drug - use . It also has many that have been criticized for being borderline - glamorizing of an proceeds that claims thou of lives each day . The import Faye fritter away diacetylmorphine in the railroad car with Rue arguably falls into the latter family , although Rue is , gratefully , just as perturbed by Faye ’s action as witness are .
16Cal Destroys The Family
Coming Out Of The Closet Became A Destructive Moment
Cal is an incredibly complex case inEuphoria , and it ’s a will to the committal to writing of the show that he ’s such a loathsome antagonist despite throw many struggles that — if he ’d acted differently in life — it would be well-to-do to sense sympathy toward him for . However , while contend with sexual identity is an obstacle that many can relate to , Cal inEuphoriamanages to interweave even this into the long list of reasons viewers find him absolutely worthless .
Euphoriaseason 2 , installment 4 , " You Who Can not See , Think of Those Who Can , " brought Cal ’s twofold - liveliness to a head when he finally come out to his family . However , in typical Cal fashion , he did so in perhaps the most destructive and shocking way possible . After piss in the entrance hall of the family unit home , Cal drunkenly brags about his infidelity in front of his married woman and youngster before feign his son Aaron for watching smut , and crushing Nate by remind him how much of a disappoint Cal sees him as . He destroys the family unit in a unmarried conversation , and it ’s one of the most emotionally barbarous scenes inEuphoria .
15The Police Want To Investigate Maddy’s Bruises
Maddy Doesn’t Cooperate
After the show has already made it readable that Nate has been physically abusive to Maddy in the past , it move one footstep further to pile the trauma onto Maddy . After attending a fair where Nate grabs her cervix , Maddy hides the contusion with a turtle instead of make-up , and still spin from the incident , she does n’t feed . With the air conditioning not working at school day , Maddy still feel upset about the incident , and no food to give her push , Maddy faints at school , which prompts paramedics being yell in .
or else of treating Maddy like a survivor of revilement with any variety of compassion or care , when Maddy turn away to join forces with the law because she does n’t desire to relive the incident , they bear her down and forcibly swerve out her clothing .
Because the contusion are seen by the paramedics and schooling staff fall out her fainting , the school has to report the bruises to the constabulary . Instead of treating Maddy like a survivor of abuse with any kind of compassion or care , when Maddy reject to join forces with the police because she does n’t want to live over the incident , they hold her down and forcibly geld away her clothingto get a smell at the bruise .
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It ’s a scene that ’s uncalled for and laborious for the viewer to watch , but it also founder a window into how survivors of ill-treatment can be treated and blame for what happens to them .
14Mouse Gives Rue Fentanyl
The Scene Implies Mouse Could Have Done More Than That
Though Rue is presented as an addict who will try anything when she relapses inEuphoria , that is n’t entirely the case . She ’s stick aside from fentanyl , and even Fezco does n’t sell it because he consider it too dangerous . When Rue , however , happens to be at Fezco ’s house when Mouse is there , the other dealer uses the opportunity to endeavor to take vantage of her . Not only does he force Rue to take a dose of fentanyl , but he also imply she can use her body instead of money to devote him for it .
The conniption stops short of Mouse actually physically assault Rue , but it ’s sure enough implied that he could have if Fez was n’t there to pay for the drug on Rue ’s behalf . In fact , Rue spends 24-hour interval there , so out of it from the drug , that Fez has to call Jules to come get her . The show could have cross even worse of a phone line than it did .
13Cassie’s Carousel Ride
Cassie’s Drug-Fueled Freedom Is Cut Short
In one episode ofEuphoria , Cassie and Maddy settle to avoid how their swain have made them feel by take MDMA and allowing the high to harbour them instead . regrettably , a stimulant and hallucinogen like that can actually enhance tactual sensation , leading Maddy to attempt to leave Cassie behind to go confront Nate . huisache spends her time on a luggage carousel with another classmate , but her feelings get the better of her .
Initially , what Cassie be intimate about using the MDMA while on the carousel is that she feels completely free . Eventually , however , she starts to use the carousel for some self pleasure , and her moaning describe the attention of those around her . Before the scene can go too far , Cassie get embarrassed and try Maddy out to leave , but the scene is clumsy enough without taking anything further .
12Cal And Nate Fight
Nate’s Reaction Implies Past Abuse
Nate and his father have a complicated relationship as is discernible in Nate having a nightmare about him , but it ’s also reflected in the way Nate plow other people . The insult Nate has ache , however , is only implied for much of the first season of Euphoria .
It ’s not until Nate and his father get into an logical argument in theEuphoriaseason 1 finale that becomes physical that it ’s clear how bad the abuse might have actually been in the yesteryear . Cal throw off Nate to the land , and when he does , Nate nearly straight off start sobbing and fuck his own header on the floor . It ’s an incredibly traumatic reaction to the fight and leaves the watcher knowing that much worse has likely happened to Nate in the yesteryear . WhileNate is a morally blemished and nearly irredeemablecharacter , the audience feel for him in the moment .
11Chris McKay’s Hazing
The Way The Scene Is Shot Implies More
As McKay feel the pressure to be a collegial - storey jock , he and Cassie spring up distant . He also , however , has more psychic trauma in his life as he starts college than merely pushing his girlfriend away from him . While his Church Father continues to push him to be his best , his future fraternity brothers violently assault him .
With all of the violence in the show , Euphoria , again , avoided going a tone too far with another example of intimate violence , but the implication was enough for some .
When McKay is attack by a group of young human being , the tantrum is helter-skelter and shot in a direction that mean not just physical violence , but sexual ferocity as well . That implication was n’t something that player Algee Smith was aware of until after he saw the fill out tantrum . According to Smith ’s interview following the airing of the episode withThe Hollywood newsman , “ It looks really graphic in the picture the way they edited and hack it up , which is scary as infernal region , but they ’re frolic - humping … I was surprise by the redaction . ”
The best Euphoria quotes can be truly moving , relatable , and sometimes even hilarious . These are some of the show ’s most memorable lines so far .
