HBO, known as "Little Yellow Platform", is naturally not going the usual way to shoot youth dramas.
A drama produced in 2019 is called the juvenile version of "Guess the Train", the American version of "Skin Bag", and the Yu version of "Sex Self-Study Room".
The play involves various social issues such as sexual crimes, drugs, violence, and bullying.
It tells the story of a group of minors, but the screen is full of various 18 forbidden elements.
In addition to the scale, the quality is also good,
Each episode's sensory BGM and footage can take the viewer to the ceiling.
After 3 years of violation, fans finally waited for its return -
The second season of "Excitement"
The episode unfolds from the perspective of the drug addicted girl Ru,
A group portrait of troubled teenagers in small American towns is strung together to tell their path to self-redemption.
The English title "Euphoria" refers to an extremely intense feeling of pleasure and excitement that lasts for a short time.
On the one hand, it represents the extremely excited state that the heroine entered after taking drugs, and on the other hand, it also hints at the attitude of this group of teenagers who are drunk and dream of death and do not ask about the consequences.
High school girl Ru,
In childhood, he was diagnosed with a variety of psychological disorders, including anxiety disorders and bipolar disorders.
After her father developed cancer, her symptoms worsened.
During a nursing trip, she stole her father's painkillers, and since then her dependence on drugs has become uncontrollable.
The first season begins with a scene where Ru Gang comes out of a drug rehab center.
However, forced detoxification did not change her.
After regaining her freedom, she still spent a moment of indulgence, wandering on the edge of danger and fighting with her mother.
Until the appearance of the transgender girl Jules.
Jules,
As a child, because she was a girl with gender perception, she was treated as an "abnormal" child by her mother and forcibly put in a mental hospital for treatment.
But she still firmly chose to be a beautiful girl, but she also left a self-harm tendency because of the pain of the past.
In childhood, he cut his blood vessels in a can in his hospital room, and when he grew up, he sought abuse through casual sexual relations.
After her parents divorced, Jules transferred from the city to the town.
A long light pink hair, a beautiful plaid skirt, all kinds of playful fluorescent eyeshadow...
Like a girl coming out of a comic, she lights up the town and also lights up Ru's world.
The two met at a party and quickly became friends.
They ride in the night wind,
Talk in the same bed,
When Ru took a powerful medicine and was delirious, it was Jules who gave her the reassuring companionship and care...
The closeness with Jules makes Ru feel for the first time the calm without the help of drugs,
As a result, dependence on drugs gradually turned into attachment to Jules, and Ru briefly quit drug addiction.
At this time, Jules has not yet realized Ru's feelings - she is immersed in a sweet online relationship.
As a transgender person, Jules's chances of meeting the "true destiny" are less than ordinary girls.
However, this male netizen seems to be tailor-made for her - not only does not exclude transgender people, but also has a rather gentle and considerate personality, and the external conditions are all up to standard.
Jules soon fell in love and chatted with him every day.
On the night of the appointment of "Face Base", Jules, who was full of expectations, found that the object of the ambiguity that had always been ambiguous was Nate, the school bully who had humiliated her several times in public.
Nate was the highlight of the school's football team, and Dad was the richest man in the area.
Father and son are handsome and golden, but they both have secrets that are not known.
When Nate was eleven, he discovered his father's secret—a drawer full of obscene adult films, in which the protagonist was none other than his father and all kinds of small fresh meat and women's clothing bosses.
Those adult videos had a strong impact on young Nate.
On the one hand, he deeply disliked such a father,
On the other hand, he also irresistibly inherited his father's habit of deeply obsessing with the flesh of the same sex.
Under this contradiction, he desperately suppressed the desire in his heart and molded himself into a muscular macho man with high masculinity.
It also forms a very distorted personality:
Paranoid personality, arrogant and violent,
Can't be loyal to women, but also has a burst of control,
He couldn't stand others getting half a point of his "prey".
His girlfriend Maddy has also already figured out Nate's personality - as long as he feels confident and strong, he is willing to do anything for her.
Conversely, if you want to provoke him, just make him feel that his self-esteem has been provoked.
The two break up, and Nate fights with various members of the opposite sex. In order to make Nate jealous, Maddy also openly flirts with strange male college students at the party.
Sure enough, Maddy expected to arouse Nate's desire to win, and the two quickly reconciled.
Of course, the jealous Nate did not let go of the college student.
He followed the college student to his home, beat him up violently, and threatened not to call the police on the charge of rape of a minor.
A campus figure who is so "masculine", if others find out that they have the non-masculine behavior of "obsessing with male flesh", they will definitely lose everything they have painstakingly managed.
So, after failing to make a run with Jules, Nate used Jules' intimate photos to blackmail her into keeping a secret for her.
Unfortunately, his girlfriend Maddy also discovered Nate's secret through a mobile phone photo album.
Enraged, Nate grabbed Maddie's neck out of control and slammed it hard against the wall.
Maddy was in pain, leaving a large bruise on his neck,
But like many people who have suffered domestic violence, she chose to forgive Nate, and even pushed the charge of violence to the poor college student when the police intervened in the investigation to protect Nate...
And Jules, under Nate's threat, gave him perjury...
At this point, the series has gradually connected a main line from a multi-crowded elephant drama.
Later, in order to break the siege for Jules, Ru asked the drug dealer to tip to scare Nate, but was unexpectedly reported by Nate...
Nate's series of riots made fans of the show grit their teeth.
Fortunately, as soon as the second season came up, the screenwriter gave everyone a bad breath -
At the end of the first episode, the scene where Tip beats Nate at the New Year's Eve party makes many fans shout "excitement".
From the first season, the beginning of each episode of "Excitement" will explain the family and childhood background of a teenager, in addition to the above-mentioned Ru, Jules, Nate and Maddy, and -
Maddy's best friend Cathy.
The departure of her father in her early years made Cathy more eager to be loved than ordinary people, so she was always the more humble party in her relationship.
Good looking and hot figure, she is always asked by her previous boyfriends to take sex videos and nude photos, and every time she will reluctantly agree, although she is not voluntary.
But those who say they like her only her face and figure.
No one asked what was going on in her heart, and no one wanted to listen.
After the breakup, they would upload those videos to sites just to satisfy their vanity and show off their achievements.
The first time she saw the video, Cathy felt that the world was gray.
But she could only hide in the retreat and secretly cry, and reassure herself that this is what every girl will experience, in order to resist the accusations and humiliations of others.
She still wears sexy clothes to show off her perfect body, and still bravely loves and is loved, even though the pain is always there.
After discovering that she was pregnant, she wanted to discuss the child's fate with her current boyfriend, but the boyfriend once again ignored her feelings and only worried about her future.
In the end, Cathy bravely walked into the hospital accompanied by her mother and removed the child.
Lying on the operating table in the hospital, her childhood dream of becoming a skater came to mind.
Another friend, Kate,
Because of the bold and explicit writing of the same humanities, it has become a great pursuit on the Internet.
In real life, because of his fat body, he has always been a foil for others.
Until one day, her indecent video also streamed to the Internet, and she unexpectedly found that her appearance also gained a lot of followers.
So she swapped her loose T-shirt for low-cut and hot pants and tried to show off her body.
Dating different people, and in the process, examining the other person's unconcealed ugliness with great calmness – this is her way of resisting, because her figure has always been the object of scrutiny and disdain.
However, the anxiety about her body is still a hurdle that Kate can't cross, she uses meanness and frivolity as her protective colors, and she can't believe that someone really loves her.
Fortunately, she met Ethan...
Continuing the narrative of the previous season, the second season begins with a backstory about drug dealers tipping.
It turns out that the grandmother who was sick in bed in the last season was also a fierce character who was hot and fiery.
At that time, the grandmother in a blue suit hung a black chao on her face, pushed the car door, and held a revolver gun in her hand.
Domineeringly passing through the nightclub of the wine pond meat forest, shooting through the legs of the father who was stealing the tip, turning and leaving the scene, only the screams behind him were chaotic.
From the bruises on Fei's face, it is not difficult for the audience to speculate about the perennial violence of his birth father.
After losing her grandson's anger, her grandmother took over custody of tipping.
Since then, Tip has followed her grandmother on the road of no return to drug trafficking.
His grandmother often warned him not to be too kind and not to believe in love, but she still adopted the smoker brother who was abandoned by his mother.
And when he grows up, the tip will also save his life in order to protect ru who he regards as a family.
Although I have gone the wrong way, fortunately, there is still a warmth in my heart.
In the new season, Tip meets the little angel Lexie at a party.
One is cute, one is straight, and it has a different spark.
In the previous season, Ru and Jules, who were on the platform, were also reconciled in this season.
A short question and answer has made many drama fans break through the defenses -
- "When did you relapse?" ”
- "The night you left. ”
In addition, Nate's bathroom and ex-girlfriend Cathy secretly had an affair, contributing the largest scale of the whole episode while also allowing the audience to really sweat for the two...
Overall, the second season of "Excitement" still continues the psychedelic West Coast style of the previous season, but in terms of camera processing, it seems to be consciously more restrained and sensual; the tone of the picture is also changed from dazzling blue and purple to a slightly retro warm color.
People can't help but look forward to whether the episodes of this season will focus more on the inner emotions of the characters, and what kind of growth will the protagonists usher in?
Behind the debauched and eroded lives of a group of teenagers, there are several fragmented families.
The trauma of the past and the confusion of the present intertwine in them,
Silent violence sows seeds in the heart of every minor, taking root and sprouting as they age, bearing distorted fruit.
So they abuse their freedom,
Indulging in alcohol, sex, and drugs, trying to find a sense of existence, security, and venting dissatisfaction with the self, but it is doomed to no avail.
The tenderness that is missing in youth will eventually be redeemed by more tenderness.