Joanna Robinson

It's too many things.

All right.

We got a great email from a listener who did not sign their name, but their handle is deathbyostrich.

Great handle.

A really, really good email that I think is actually better than the season of television we're watching, but I'm going to pitch it to you.

Okay.

This email reads, the critique of season three that Sam Levinson collapsed the character arcs of Maddie, Cassie, and Rue into instruments of sexual commodification and shock value is missing the point.

This season is about the collapse of the American future.

To be clear, the first two seasons were already dark portrayals of American adolescence.

Still, the show framed youth through a kind of intoxicating emotional intensity.

There was still love, the forming of identity, rebellion, and even possibility.

Season three strips that away.

In this season, the future itself disappears.

Not only for Cassie, Maddie, Rue, and the rest, but for American youth more broadly.

And there's much more, which I might circle back to, but I just wanted to check in what you think about that idea of like as we watch these characters and their dreams of the future completely evaporate and turn into sort of the worst case scenario for everyone, except perhaps Lexi, but we'll see.

What do you think about that as an idea of what might be on Euphoria's mind or is at least could be on viewers' minds?

No.

Don't you think it's – I mean, how many – I don't know if you're getting served these commencement speech videos that I'm getting served constantly where these clueless CEOs are showing up to commencements to give speeches about how everything you just studied and learned is useless and AI is the future and they're getting booed soundly by the graduating classes.

Why are you booing?

I'm right.