I miss Euphoria. Is that OK to say? It’s been a long time. I miss the Sunday nights I spent in Euphoria’s no-named, vaguely tropical teenage romper-room-world, where a fog machine hot-boxed every street, and “Blow the Whistle” is canon in a Gen Z high school dance soundtrack. But it’s alright. I had Detective Zendaya, learned the ins and outs of dick pics, cried over some spilled chili, and witnessed the most asinine game of football ever to grace the small screen. Fear not, young carnival-goers: In late October, HBO announced that Euphoria would return for two standalone episodes, with the first one—a Christmas special!—airing on December 6. That’s in addition to HBO renewing Euphoria for a second season back in the summer of 2019. This is all despite the extremely open-ended season finale—where we saw Rue choose her family over running away with Jules, only to return home and appear to relapse after months of sobriety. Not to mention, most of that was packaged via interpretive dance—which we speculated at the time hinted at Rue’s survival. But others have wondered if the scene set… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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