{"id":314147,"date":"2026-04-06T06:39:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=314147"},"modified":"2026-04-06T06:39:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T01:09:43","slug":"theres-just-one-drama-show-you-must-watch-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/theres-just-one-drama-show-you-must-watch-in-april\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Just one Drama Show You Must Watch in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>This month, the season 3 premiere of <em>Euphoria<\/em> finally debuts on HBO and HBO Max after a too-long five-year hiatus.<\/p>\n<p>In case you still haven\u2019t caught up on the provocative, highly memeable show, you\u2019ve still got time to binge all sixteen of its provocative episodes.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninformed, the HBO show follows the teenagers at East Highland High School in California, as they navigate sex, drugs, alcohol, friendship, cheating, betrayal and never much else.<\/p>\n<p>The show stars <strong>Zendaya<\/strong>, <strong>Sydney Sweeney<\/strong>, <strong>Jacob Elordi<\/strong> and <strong>Hunter Schafer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch With Us explains why you&#8217;ve gotten to envision out this controversial popular culture phenomenon before it concludes this spring.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Why Million-Dollar Salary Demands Could End \u2018Euphoria\u2019<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tHas the delay to Euphoria\u2019s third season given the show\u2019s stars Sydney Sweeney, Zendaya and Jacob Elordi a get-out-of-jail-free card? And can it spell the tip of the beloved \u2014 but beleaguered \u2014 hit show? When HBO pulled the plug on production of Euphoria\u2019s third season earlier this week, citing disagreements over the direction the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>The Plotlines Are Absurd, Obscene \u2014 and Addictive<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Euphoria Season 1 Trailer | Rotten Tomatoes TV\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UR4Pxgnm-GA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The central narrative of <em>Euphoria<\/em> is driven by Rue (Zendaya), a teenage drug addict who\u2019s been fighting addiction because the death of her father from cancer. Season 1 kicks off with Rue\u2019s recent release from rehab, and he or she makes it clear to the audience, as our omniscient narrator, that she has no plans of staying clean. While Rue dips her toes back into opiate abuse, she becomes head-over-heels infatuated with latest student Jules (Schafer), a trans girl who frequents one-night stands with older men \u2014 including the daddy (<strong>Eric Dane<\/strong>) of East Highland\u2019s football star, Nate Jacobs (Elordi).<\/p>\n<p>Nate and Maddie Perez (<strong>Alexa Demie<\/strong>) are in an emotionally abusive relationship, while Maddie\u2019s best friend, the highly sexual and emotional Cassie Howard (Sydney Sweeney), pursues a relationship with college freshman Chris McKay (<strong>Algee Smith<\/strong>). Their other friend, Kat Hernandez (<strong>Barbie Ferreira<\/strong>), decides to embrace body positivity and her sexuality by becoming a camgirl. Various plot threads in season 1 of <em>Euphoria<\/em> involve: micro-penises, sexual blackmail, domestic abuse, pedophilia, fentanyl abuse, public masturbation, kidney infections and murder, and that isn\u2019t even the half of it. Criticisms against\u00a0<em>Euphoria<\/em> have concerned such explicitly gratuitous narratives, but one thing will all the time be true: the people want to observe them.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Euphoria\u2019 Launched the Careers of 2026\u2019s Leading Stars<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4298252\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:66.285714285714%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4298252\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all\" alt=\"Hunter Schafer and Zendaya in Euphoria special episode 1\" width=\"1000\" height=\"663\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=100&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=200&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=300&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=400&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=500&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=600&#038;quality=40&#038;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=700&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=800&#038;quality=55&#038;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=900&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1000&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1200&#038;quality=70&#038;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1400&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1600&#038;quality=47&#038;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1800&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/euphoria-s2-zendaya-schafer.jpg?w=1920&#038;quality=86&#038;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Hunter Schafer and Zendaya in Euphoria special episode 1.<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Eddy Chen \/ \u00a9HBO \/ Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em>Euphoria<\/em> served because the jumping-off point for much of its core solid. While Zendaya was probably the most important name of the highschool characters on the time, she has since been matched by Elordi, Sweeney and Schafer. From his imposing, genuinely terrifying performance as Nate Jacobs, Elordi was solid in <em>Deep Water<\/em> opposite <strong>Ana De Armas<\/strong> and <strong>Ben Affleck<\/strong>, indie film <em>The Sweet East<\/em> and eventually as\u00a0<strong>Elvis Presley<\/strong> in <strong>Sofia Coppola<\/strong>\u2018s <em>Priscilla.\u00a0<\/em>While post-<em>Priscilla<\/em> Elordi made his mark in\u00a0<em>Saltburn, Oh, Canada<\/em> and\u00a0<em>On Swift Horses<\/em>, it was on the set of <em>Priscilla<\/em> that Elordi was beneficial to <strong>Guillermo del Toro<\/strong> to tackle his Academy Award-nominated performance as Frankenstein\u2019s Monster.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney, too, has had quite a buzzy post-<em>Euphoria\u00a0<\/em>profession (and never all the time for one of the best reasons), starring in movies like\u00a0<em>The Housemaid, Immaculate, Madame Web<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Anyone But You.\u00a0<\/em>Meanwhile, Schafer has develop into a significant face for transgender representation in Hollywood, appearing in <em>The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds &#038; Snakes<\/em>, <em>Cuckoo<\/em> and <em>Sorts of Kindness.<\/em> It\u2019s undeniable that whatever you think that of the standard of\u00a0<em>Euphoria,\u00a0<\/em>it served as a vital breeding ground for top young Hollywood talent doing a little of their best work. And while well-known, Zendaya further proved her acting prowess beyond her Disney Channel years \u2014 for her performance as Rue, she clinched two Primetime Emmys and a Golden Globe.<\/p>\n<h2>The Filmmaking Is Highly Stylized and Ambitious<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Euphoria Season 3 | Trailer 2 | HBO Max\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3Z4tGN0i2I?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have got successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Say what you&#8217;ll about\u00a0<em>Euphoria<\/em> show runner, creator and author <strong>Sam Levinson<\/strong>\u2018s screenwriting abilities, the person knows easy methods to keep things unique with the camera and editing. The series employs quite a few creative gimmicks: fourth wall-breaking sequences, animated sequences, dance numbers, dream sequences and more. Ultimately, the creatives behind the show exit of their option to make <em>Euphoria<\/em> hyper-stylized in nearly every filmmaking aspect, from the directing and costume design to the sets and editing. The show is supposed to evoke the emotional reality of the characters\u2019 inner perspectives, which doesn\u2019t necessarily reflect objective reality.<\/p>\n<p>While the primary season was shot on an Arri Alexa 65 digital camera, the second season and the 2 specials were shot on 35mm Kodak film stock, giving the visual quality a nostalgic texture. To speak the emotional states of the characters, lighting may be very intentionally deployed, with blues and purples conjuring a frantic atmosphere, and greens and yellows evoking distress. Energetic camera movements create a kinetic fluidity to the show through frequent whip pans and tracking shots. And, after all, the costume design is one of the memorable facets of the filmmaking, with highly meticulous outfits catered to the personalities of every character \u2014 specifically, Maddie\u2019s detailed and eccentric makeup designs are to die for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/play.hbomax.com\/show\/4ffd33c9-e0d6-4cd6-bd13-34c266c79be0\">Stream\u00a0<em>Euphoria\u00a0<\/em>now on HBO Max.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month, the season 3 premiere of Euphoria finally debuts on HBO and HBO Max after a too-long five-year hiatus. In case you still haven\u2019t caught up on the provocative, highly memeable show, you\u2019ve still got time to binge all sixteen of its provocative episodes. 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