![]() ![]() “My department learned how to make the skin look really, really polished and fresh by using illuminating liquid skin products, like a drop of foundation and concealer to spot-treat,” Davy exclusively told Us Weekly. The big takeaway? It’s all about the skin, minimal foundation and amping up the “dewy” glow. That said, she still sprinkled in a fair share of glamorous looks that are bound to spur a new wave of 2022 beauty trends. ![]() Unlike the inaugural eight episodes, which were all about color, glitter and expression, Emmy Award-winning makeup artist Donni Davy decided to take a more toned down approach for the most recent season of the HBO Max series. And while the over-the-top, artistic looks from the first season will forever and always be top of mind, the second season is already shaping up to be equally as amazing - albeit, a bit different. The introduction of charismatic enabler Elliott (Dominic Fike) seems designed to shake up their relationship but ultimately serves to highlight that nothing much of note happens between Rue and Jules until season’s end.Give Us glam! From glitter tears to rhinestone eyes, Euphoria made it clear from the onset that the show was going to serve up some serious makeup inspiration. This rings especially true with the case of Rue and Jules, whose romance largely remains in stasis. This speaks to the larger issue of how abrupt the plot developments feel following the detailed character work of the first season. Montages soundtracked to a litany of pop songs, like Rue’s vision of stepping down a church aisle after getting high and Cassie’s darkly vacant stare into a flower-adorned mirror, are striking audiovisual devices but too often feel like shortcuts for character development. Some of the characters, like Rue’s NA sponsor, Ali (Colman Domingo), find it in themselves to forgive, while others, like Rue’s sister, Gia (Storm Reid), have a harder time of letting go of their resentment for the damage she’s inflicted.įrom Rue’s fourth-wall breaking remark that she’s a “fan favorite” who “a lot of people are rooting for,” to the school play that takes place in the penultimate episode of the season, there’s no shortage of self-aware meta-commentary on the drama that unfolds. ![]() The theme of forgiveness, in fact, is threaded throughout the entire season. Rue is deeply flawed, and the question Levinson asks is whether or not she can be forgiven. #Season 2 euphoria series#It’s not surprising that the season gains a clearer focus as it homes in on Rue’s relapse, resulting in some of the most harrowing episodes in the series to date. Sweeney, on the other hand, is given ample space to allow Cassie’s self-loathing and anxiety to gradually and organically tip over into Carrie-at-the-prom-like levels of hysteria. ![]() Whereas season one focused primarily on Rue (Zendaya) and Jules (Hunter Schafer), the show’s sophomore season broadens the scope, employing concurrent storylines that often shift from the ups and downs of Rue and Jules’s relationship to subplots involving high school jock Nate’s (Jacob Elordi) clandestine relationship with Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and the origins of his father’s (Eric Dane) sexual repression.Ĭal contending with the consequences of his delayed adolescence works to humanize a character that, in Euphoria’s first season, felt like a one-dimensional villain, and while the shift is consistent with the show’s empathy, his catharsis comes about too quickly, summed up in a single episode. Much of the show’s second season is likewise a balance between Levinson’s impulse toward lavish theatricality and the affecting character moments that lie at the heart of Euphoria. The flashbacks immediately situate the viewer back into the show’s modus operandi of explicit depictions of nudity, violence, and drug use, but they also tenderly reveal the older Fezco (Angus Cloud) and Ashtray’s (Javon Walton) origin story and showcase the richness of series creator Sam Levinson’s character writing. It begins with the memorable backstory of young Fezco’s (Mason Shea Joyce) gun-toting, drug-dealing grandmother (Kathrine Narducci) and the lessons she taught him about the drug trade. Following the respite of a pair of comparatively quiet bottle episodes, filmed during the height of the pandemic and released at the end of 2020, Euphoria leans back into maximalism in its second season. ![]()
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