Lexi unveiling her masterpiece isEuphoriaat its best, which is inextricably bound up withEuphoriaat its worst.
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The staging is grandiose and clueless in exactly the way a preternaturally gifted high-school students breakout production would be.
Sometimes Lexis avatars are played by the same people theyre impersonating.
That willed naivete serves it well here.
Euphoriaoften toys with its viewers when it isnt behaving as if its not beholden to the audience at all.
It brings viewers back to a pay-cable prototype of serialized drama from earlier times.
Its obvious from her questions that Lexi isnt going to warn her inspirations.
If she did, she might feel guilty and soften the piece.
And the trembling-to-hysterical emotional baseline ofEuphoriais congruent with teen melodramas dating back to the 1950s.
The episode where Lexi unveils her masterpiece isEuphoriaat its best, which is inextricably bound up withEuphoriaat its worst.
Its self-aware and self-regarding and constructed in an intellectualized way.
And yet it flows, as if you are somehow seeing an imagination in the process of thinking it.
The deeperEuphoriagoes up its own ass, the more sublime it becomes.
