“I miss high school.”
“I don’t.”
When Rue and Maddy have this conversation, it’s like they’re speaking on behalf of Euphoria itself, or at least viewers like, well, me. On the one hand, it’s become abundantly clear after only two episodes that removing the show from its high-school setting to accommodate the real-time aging of its cast has completely changed the feeling of the show. It’s no longer a rapturous exploration of the overheated emotional stakes of teenage depression and desire — it’s a show about grown-ups who do sex work of some kind or other, or have jobs with talent agencies or TV producers or larger-than-life organized crime bosses. Your heart still goes out to them, but it’s not like it used to be.
After the events of the premiere, Rue is already hard at work for her new boss, the swaggering Texan druglord and strip-club impresario named
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