I'm of the belief that certain people are cursed.

Euphoria S3 — 2.5/5

And thus ends what feels like a contractual obligation. Y'know, I never watched this thing for the story. It's a fun watch, and I think it's the closest perhaps we've gotten to a music-video-as-movie. It's full of color and music and standout images but never felt like it got lost in its art direction; it's vibes (and thus definitive of the late 2010s). It had extreme highs and extreme lows—you can't say it didn't swing for the fences! I appreciate that!! Now — which fence? And on what side? And in whose yard? Indeterminate. I think with this season, the show unfortunately will be remembered as a celebrity grab bag and 'a point in time' for a selection of famous actors and actresses. At some point during these episodes, I thought, cynically, that Sam Levine, former addict, was maybe making a point that though we look down on drug addicts, there are other addictions that we don't think as little of: addiction to attention, power, and class aren't nearly as bad. But do some heroin? Aw, man, ur fucked. I say I looked at this cynically because I think in that view it becomes a bit of "yOu dARe pOINt yoUr fiNgERs aT mE??" which is maybe unfair to him, I don't fucking know the guy. But then the last episode ends and nothing leading up to it really comes together to achieve epiphany, so it really ruins the opportunity to try to say all of it was about anything. The show ends with a showdown between two people we have not followed across multiple years. Fair enough—by this point, the rest of the cast had just became a bunch of people who used to share a space now leading scattered lives. They moved beyond the need for the show, so the show moved beyond a need for them.