![]() If you missed it, catch up.Īnd although Jules’s gender identity certainly plays a role in how the other characters treat her-be it sexual assault, verbal harassment, or erotic fetishization-Jules as a character is allowed to do so much more than endure violence and discrimination. Viewers who missed context clues might be surprised when Jules vocalizes that she’s trans in the third episode-in a conversation with Rue, who cuts her off, because it’s not new information-but Euphoria doesn’t treat the revelation like a rug to be pulled out from under the audience. Whereas that 1992 film revealed that a character was transgender as a plot twist, Euphoria is set in a high school where the Gen Z student body seems to already know, more or less, about Jules. But it does so without reducing the rich complexity that is Jules to her transgender status and-so far-without trotting out the same tired transgender tropes that have plagued Hollywood since the days of The Crying Game. It’s not that Euphoria refuses to acknowledge Jules’s gender identity or to use it as a plot point. ![]() She melts under attention, even when it’s coming from people who could prove dangerous. She spends way too much time on her phone. She likes to ride her bike through the orange groves, even at night. She is silly and has a strong sense of style. Indeed, Jules-like transgender people more generally-is so many things besides simply transgender. ![]() Whereas the (still-groundbreaking) Orange is the New Black seemed to go out of its way to announce that Laverne Cox’s character Sophia was transgender in every single scene, Euphoria trusts its audience to pick up on the hints and follow along. The context clues are all there: a few oblique references in the dialogue, a handful of visual cues. The fact that Jules is transgender isn’t exactly a secret in the episodes that HBO has aired thus far. A character like her is hard to dream up, harder to portray, and harder still for a creator to handle with care. But years from now, long after the hot takes have cooled and the show itself has been reduced to a blur of sex scenes in our collective cultural consciousness, we will still remember Jules. Jules is brought to life by transgender model Hunter Schafer, acting the hell out of her debut role opposite Zendaya, who plays Jules’s best friend Rue.Įuphoria is a series that clearly wants a reaction, regularly touching hot buttons like 9/11, the opioid crisis, and sexting-and a reaction Euphoria will get. The show is Euphoria, HBO’s controversy-courting teen drama, and the character is Jules, a charismatic young transgender girl with Rapinoe-pink hair and a heart that looks for love in all the wrong places. ![]() The finale episode saw many of the season’s biggest conflicts come to a head - more than one in a violent fashion.The most interesting transgender character on television doesn’t utter the words “I’m trans” until three episodes into her show. “Euphoria” Season 2 centers on the intertwining lives of high schoolers in the town of East Highland, where 17-year-old Rue (Zendaya) must find hope while balancing the pressures of love, loss and addiction. ![]() “Euphoria” is also now the most-tweeted about show of the decade - so far - in the U.S. The show also hit a new series high when it aired opposite Super Bowl LVI on Feb. 1, “Euphoria’s” per-episode viewership average was already up nearly 100% from its first season after airing just its first four episodes of the second season. for the seventh week in a row, as well as the top series for the week in both Latin America and Europe.Īs Variety exclusively reported Feb. On Sunday, “Euphoria” was once again the top title on HBO Max in the U.S. “Euphoria’s” growth will continue to be monitored by the premium cabler until it hits that 90-day window, at which time there will be a more accurate apples-to-apples comparison to “GoT.”įor comparison, “Euphoria” Season 1 averaged 6.6 million viewers across all platforms during its first 90 days. To calculate that viewership, HBO counts its programming until 90 days post-premiere across all platforms. Those numbers are a combination of viewership across linear, on-demand, the now-sunset HBO Go and HBO Now, and other OTT platforms. Per HBO, here’s each season’s average for “Game of Thrones” entire run: Season 1 – 9.3 million, Season 2 – 11.6 million, Season 3 – 14.4 million, Season 4 – 19.1 million, Season 5 – 20.2 million, Season 6 – 25.7 million, Season 7- 32.8 million, and Season 8 – 46 million. ![]()
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