What is Euphoria about?
A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Euphoria (2019)
High school students navigate intimate, bleak, and surreal dramas where love and trauma intertwine.
A full-attention watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is devastating.
Streaming on Max.
Euphoria parents guide
Heads up on strong sex and nudity. That is past what the TV-MA on the box suggests. Beyond that, strong violence and frequent strong language.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- Light gore
- Some blood or injury, briefly.
- Violence
- Strong violence
- Violence is frequent or intense.
- Sex and nudity
- Strong
- Strong means explicit or repeated sex, extended nudity, or sexual assault shown on screen, attempted or completed, even partly off screen. Any one of these is enough.
- Language
- Strong
- Frequent strong profanity or slurs.
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Three questions
- How gory is Euphoria?
- Light gore and strong violence.
- What is Euphoria rated, and is it OK for kids?
- It is a TV-MA, with strong sex and nudity, strong violence, and frequent strong language. Keep it for adults.
Cast and crew
Created bySam Levinson
StarringZendaya, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow
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