[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Euphoria” Season 2, Episode 8, “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name.”]Season 2 of “Euphoria” is at odds with itself.
Few sections work together.
Fewer still stand up on their own.
Sam Levinson’s follow-up to his Emmy-winning HBO series can be not-so-cleanly broken down into three components: There’s the harrowing parts, which cover pretty much everything with Rue (Zendaya), from bone-chilling peril (like narrowly escaping a life in the sex trade) to soul-shattering despair (her relapse).
Then there’s the soapy stuff, including Nate (Jacob Elordi) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Maddie (Alexa Demie), who are stuck in a “love” triangle, as well as Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Elliot (Dominic Fike), who are new friends holding damning secrets.Both the harrowing side of “Euphoria” and its soapy secondary plots create an odd dichotomy Season 2 doesn’t really know what to do with.
Are audiences
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