New Year's work, of course, to come to some hard goods.
That's right, that's the much-anticipated HBO pillar-level drama -
Excitement Season 2
Euphoria Season 2
Quirky dance floors, exaggerated eye makeup.
This group of people twisted their bodies recklessly, indulging their souls.
Drug abuse, alcoholism, and even between men and women.
They were a bunch of troubled teenagers, also sixteen or seventeen-year-old high school students.
As soon as the second season of "Excitement" was online, the rating and word of mouth overshadowed the first season, directly detonating the external network.
After the ghost director Xavier Dolan watched it, he couldn't help but write a super long film review on Instagram.
Even the makeup "exciting makeup" in the play once triggered major beauty bloggers around the world to follow suit.
Large-scale picture, youthful and decadent background color.
All the audiences are "excited" because of "Excitement".
The series focuses on a group of trapped teenagers.
They vent their desires in the chaos and escape the painful reality of drunken dreams and death.
The heroine Ru (Zandaa) is such a "bad girl".
The death of her father, coupled with the continuous recurrence of bipolar disorder, has caused Ru, who is still a flower girl, to suffer a severe blow.
She began abusing drugs to relieve psychological and emotional anxiety.
She had been to a drug rehab center and had also participated in a drug rehabilitation mutual aid club, but Ru still couldn't refuse the small pills that made her hallucinogenic.
She sank into the world of these white powders, disappointing her loved ones to the extreme again and again.
Unable to reconcile with the self, or even be alone.
In these violent emotions, Ru could not find an outlet and simply fell.
Disgusted by the concern of the family for themselves, shielded from the persuasion of friends to themselves.
Dependence on drugs to the point of being unable to extricate themselves.
Until, until, a transgender person, Julie (Hunter Shaffer) appeared.
Long white legs, long pink blonde hair with light hair.
Who would have thought that such a beauty was actually a boy?
Her cheerful and pure personality is like a gentle breeze.
Blowing away those white powders and walking into Ru's world, it also made her world brighter.
After Julie was bullied and intimidated by the school, Ru would be the first to go to comfort her.
When Ru quitting drugs, Julie was always with Ru.
They comfort and redeem each other, and they are each other's light.
But Julie, who seems to be casual and optimistic, in fact, has also been lost in the wrong vortex of "gender cognition".
Before meeting Ru, she was obsessed with dating different older men.
In this way, I hope to be recognized as a "real woman".
She fell into this kind of self-doubt again and again.
But in the face of strong masculine traits, can she really be a complete woman?
Countless such nights, she rode her bicycle through the empty streets, lonely and empty.
Not only Julie, but also the self-recognition obtained by men, and these two.
One is the pretty girl Kathy (Sidney Sweeney).
After the death of his father, his mother was torn between countless men, which made Casey, who was already wounded, more "lack of love".
She fell in love with every boy she dated.
Place all your "loved" expectations on these boys.
But every one of her boyfriends.
After breaking up with her, they would secretly upload their private videos online.
She became the focus of discussion among the boys in the school, and became what they called a "slut".
Kathy strives to please, respect, be loved and feel secure, never getting a real response.
But if she thought about it, if she could put her attention and love for those boys a little on herself.
Would those boys have a little more respect for her?
After all, the premise of being loved is always to love yourself first.
In the first season, Casey miscarried her then-boyfriend, McKay.
I thought she could see the scumbag and learn to love herself more.
Unexpectedly, at the beginning of the second season.
Casey got entangled with her best girlfriend's boyfriend.
In this way, she may not have climbed out of the previous quagmire, but fell into another abyss.
Compared to Casey, who is inferior to love, her girlfriend Mandy (Alexa Demi) is very different.
As a school flower, Mandy.
Confident and strong, very aware that their beauty is a weapon.
At the nail salon opened by her mother, she had seen all kinds of rich ladies since she was a child.
This made her heart plant the seed of wanting to be a kotai since she was a child.
When he grew up, Mandy hooked up with the rich and handsome Nate of the school and did everything he could to win each other's favor.
The ultimate goal of this posing girl is to get everything she wants by pandering to men.
And her boyfriend Nate.
Not everyone thinks of being a "good sir".
He actually has implicit violent tendencies.
If you don't agree with your girlfriend Mandy, you will pinch each other's neck full of bruises.
He also has a certain stubborn prejudice and dislike for women, believing that women can only be obedient and obedient, and cannot rebel against men at will.
It was his father, Carl, who had such a deep-seated perception of him.
Karl was the richest man in town, a figure with a head and a face.
At home, the authority is the greatest, but at the same time the sense of oppression is extremely strong.
From an early age, he taught Nate to be a very masculine strong man.
The weak and the woman are nothing, and everything around them is not important to themselves.
So it causes Nate's extremely egotistical personality.
But who would have thought that such a father.
He would date different boys on same-sex social networking software.
What's even more disgraceful is that Carl also secretly recorded the process and carved it into a disc.
Until his own son Nate inadvertently discovered these secrets.
For countless nights, he sneaked into the study to watch a video of his father.
However, he accidentally found that his classmate Julie also appeared on his father's CD.
At that moment, Nate's distorted psychology and morbid view of love fermented in his body.
In the Excitement series, Nate is also one of the most tragic characters.
The repressive environment of his family and the irresistible patriarchal orders made him a dark person.
The pain of the original family.
Not only Nate, but also every protagonist in the play.
Ru was at odds with her family because of her drug use.
Insulting her mother after hi-hi and arguing with her own sister all made her extremely broken.
Because of her transgender status, Julie was sent to a mental hospital by her mother.
After this experience, she was afraid of being "abandoned".
So it becomes more sensitive and fragile.
Casey was severely short of love after his father's death.
She constantly wanders among men wanting to be recognized and loved.
But countless times in intimate relationships have been humiliated, insulted, hurt.
And the glamorous school flower of Mandy.
Although the family is complete, her parents have long existed in their real names, so she has focused her attention on materialism.
But what "Excitement" wants to highlight is not only the influence of the original family on teenagers.
There is also a kind of sober consciousness projected by women in this era.
It's self-recognition and self-love.
The best thing in the show at this point is the fat girl Kate (Barbie Ferreira).
Because of her obesity, she was ridiculed by her classmates, which made her feel inferior.
But she didn't get depressed or run away from it.
Instead, put on their hottest clothes and attack in reverse.
At the same time, she also regained her self-confidence through another channel.
First, I tried to write about the same people on the website, and I unexpectedly made a name for myself.
Then she hit the iron while it was hot and continued to post her own videos.
On the contrary, it has attracted many men who like "fat girls" to follow and appreciate themselves.
Looking at the compliments on the screen, Kate regained some confidence.
Compared with several other female protagonists, Kate, who is not dominant in appearance, does not deliberately cater to anyone.
Although she also has confusion, annoyance or anxiety.
But she has always accepted her truest appearance and become more and more confident.
As a result, she gained a boy who truly appreciated herself.
Compared to the girls who objectify themselves and please boys, she is powerful.
Accepting your true self is more important than anything else.
"Youth wound literature" may not work, but if all aspects are brought to the extreme, it is not a way out.