{"id":521278,"date":"2026-04-09T10:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521278\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T10:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T10:55:08","slug":"even-zendaya-cant-save-this-misogynistic-fantasy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/521278\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Zendaya can\u2019t save this misogynistic fantasy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As with the first two seasons, Levinson has written the best lines for Rue, the only character he seems to care for. Unlike Cassie, who has become such a caricature of an airhead sex kitten that you wonder if Levinson might actually be trolling <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2025\/12\/08\/sydney-sweeney-controversial-not-left-wing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">America\u2019s pin-up Sweeney<\/a>, Rue is endearing, funny, complicated and unpredictable. Her scenes, here buoyed by the excellent Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Alamo\u2019s charismatic pimp, are what have always elevated Euphoria. Tellingly, she\u2019s the only main character we never see naked.<\/p>\n<p>Yet by the third episode of eight, even Rue can\u2019t quite make you care about this sorry group of amoral ghouls, who seem to loathe themselves as much as each other. Whereas the constraints of high school lent them a degree of relatability, out in the real world \u2013 in their flamboyant clothes and dazzling make-up \u2013 they appear hollow and silly. Once beloved by Gen Z, Levinson\u2019s ultra-stylised aesthetic now feels tired and dated, while an attempt at Breaking Bad-lite violence borders on parody. Euphoria may still have the gloss, budget and star power of prestige TV, but it\u2019s no longer enough to disguise what increasingly feels like the misogynistic fantasies of a creepy old man.<\/p>\n<p>Euphoria season three begins on Sky Atlantic and HBO Max on Monday April 13<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As with the first two seasons, Levinson has written the best lines for Rue, the only character he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[57609,6491,5343,96,10719,1636,263,7335,7447,7355,3133,167224,56,54,55,157732],"class_list":{"0":"post-521278","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-breaking-bad","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-culture","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-generation-z","13":"tag-hbo","14":"tag-review","15":"tag-sex","16":"tag-sexism","17":"tag-sky","18":"tag-television","19":"tag-television-editors-choice","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom","22":"tag-unitedkingdom","23":"tag-us-content"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}