With the return of
Euphoria
, the obsession with the Sam Levinson and Zendaya series returns.
Justified obsession. There are a lot of good things to say about this HBO Max drama. One of them is the magnificent promotion that their interpreters are doing. It is true that
emerging stars like Sydney Sweeney or Jacob Elordi are interested in having their own projection
and that is why they lend themselves to the one offered by the
Euphoria
campaign , but it is also true that Levinson's is the perfect series for their rounds of interviews delirious statements and scandalous headlines come out given by actors who are not prepared to answer questions beyond those derived from their own work. However,
the young cast of
Euphoria
It is learned from home.
Firstly, because they are considerably older than the characters they play (a convention that, for 99% of audiovisual fictions, has been working well all their lives) and secondly because
their knowledge of the realities that the series portrays
is clearly first-hand .
On the other side, luckily, things are also changing: the way
the fashion industry has embraced Barbie Ferreira or Hunter Schafer
is as self-serving (hello, capitalism) as it is positive. While the voluptuous Ferreira is considered a style icon on par with any (let's be clear) skinny actress, Schafer stars in Prada's new campaign, adding her name to a growing list of trans supermodels.
Euphoria
is breaking barriers.
That new world, freer, more diverse and better, is also reflected in
the new
Gossip Girl
.
Also available on HBO Max, the derivative of the 2007 minor classic tries to be varied in its portraits and self-referential in its essence.
The second he achieves, getting close to meta phenomena like
Scream
and the first, let's say he does it... in his own way. Set in elite New York,
Gossip Girl
slips every time she tries to tackle any kind of inter-class conflict.
As in the original series (or, going back to the 1990s, in
Sense of Living
), his idea of "the rich" and "the poor" is a fictional convention as lying as having
teenagers played by 25-year-olds
. And it works much worse. The poor in
Gossip Girl
are the rich in any other story. This, approached with cunning and / or a sense of humor, would lead to a much better series.
For whatever reason,
Gossip Girl
doesn't want to be that show.
Maybe you can't either.
It's funny that one of
Gossip Girl
's school teachers is played by Tavi Gevinson
.
Popular since she was 11 thanks to her fashion blog, she is now an actress.
At just 14 years old, Gevinson launched Rookie, her own fashion magazine.
Now he is 25 and does series.
And he plays the teacher.
There yes that
Gossip Girl
knows how to be twisted referential.
Turning Tavi Gevinson into someone who already belongs to the adult world and, therefore, is out of the game in the kid's world is a good joke and a low blow to those of us, well over 25, who think for a moment that maybe the new
Gossip Girl
was for us.
It is not.
Euphoria
yes.
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