![]() ![]() We, the enlightened viewers, ought to know that the suggestive water bottle spray shots and lisping football players actually constitute a profound social commentary on the trappings of masculinity, all of which is going over Nate’s empty head.Īnd if we were meant to agree with Nate that the gay locker room dance was homophobic, then the show is still playing the same “have your cake and eat it, too” game that, say, 30 Rock did around questions of race. When Nate, something of the villain of the series, calls the scene “homophobic,” some viewers will come away thinking that the description is tacitly absurd. ![]() Nate’s comment that the scene was “so fucking homophobic” seems - to me, at least - to demonstrate that the show genuinely believes it is beyond reproach. A comically one-dimensional closeted jock isn’t actually that far from how the Euphoria writers have portrayed Nate all along, which completely deflates whatever the scene was meant to accomplish in the first place, unless it was supposed to be self-parody.įrom Jules' impeccable layering to Kat's punk princess sass.īut no. In essence, the show itself has kind of been doing in macro exactly what the gay locker room scene did in micro, which makes it hard to expect the viewer to make sense of that moment in Lexi’s play. Maybe if the show had more nuance heading into the school play episode, the decision to have Lexi include the gay locker room dance in her play would have come across differently, like the plainly homophobic antics of a high schooler reaching for every tool at her disposal to take Nate Jacobs down a peg.īut if Euphoria can’t even get a handle on its own homophobia, any attempts to satirize it were bound to fall totally flat. (And yes, sometimes that’s exactly the kind of lurid nonsense we crave.) The problem is that Euphoria doesn’t seem to know how to move beyond exploring all of the characters’ daddy and mommy issues with the limited depth of a freshman-level primer on Freud, leading to a show that is basically an extended Lana Del Rey music video. ![]() All stories rely on them to an extent, but the good ones deploy them effectively. To be clear, using tropes doesn’t mean a show can’t be good. ![]()
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