![]() Yes, it makes sense to an extent for Ali to tell Rue this at this time, and yes Domingo sells the line as excellently as he can. It feels like Levinson patting himself on the back, telling himself it’s okay to write something so explicitly interested in just thinking about ideas, without a ton of narrative momentum or action, and subsequently telling us that we need to be on board and believe in it. But it cannot help but play like a justification for this episode’s structure, which is quite literally two people sitting in a diner on Christmas Eve, talking about life, addiction, and loss. God, I want to be all-in on this line, this sentiment, this poetry. The value of two people sitting in a diner on Christmas Eve, talking about life. Right? That’s what I was talking about earlier. ![]() "Thinking about those questions, those ideas, they’re a large part of what makes this life worth living. Just as you and your friends might conversate about any and everything on your mind during a late-night diner chat (god, remember late-night diner chats?), Ali guides his and Rue’s conversation through an eclectic litany of loaded topics, including the commodification of Black Lives Matter, the trickiness of fraught family dynamics, and the flawed limitations within our generation’s usage of “cancel culture” (this moment, by some small miracle, becoming one of the only compelling pop culture arguments I’ve ever seen that our usage of “cancel culture” might actually be flawed probably because Levinson and Domingo approach it with honest empathy rather than self-victimizing finger-wagging). Yes, show creator/writer/director Sam Levinson’s script zeroes in on the seemingly bottomless pit of Rue’s addiction, despair, mental health struggles, and suicidal ideation, and these passages sing with focus, authenticity, genuine pain, and some of the best acting you’ll see on television this year.īut Levinson’s vision here isn’t just one of depth it’s also of width. For a little under an hour, the two characters simply sit at this diner table and talk to each other, with just a Jules-featuring overture, a phone call-featuring intermission, and an "Ave Maria"-featuring curtain call to break up this action and highlight the inherent theatricality of the piece. It's unclear if football game scenes were also filmed at the school.Again: Everything. Grant High School in Valley Glen California. Grant high school in Valley Glen, Californiaįilming for some school scenes took place at Ulysses S. Other locations include Favorite Liquor in Burbank, Bowlium Lanes in Montclair, Odd Ball Cabaret in North Hills, and Frank’s Coffee Shop in Burbank (the diner featured in the 2020 special episode 'Trouble Don’t Last Always' where Rue meets with her sponsor Ali). Grant High School, Sony Pictures Studios, and Del Amo Fashion Center in Torrance, California. Locations used since season 1 include Ulysses S. ![]() Where is Euphoria filmed? - HBO show filming locationsīased on behind the scenes video and social media posts from the show's talented cast, there are a few Euphoria filming locations that can be confirmed. Naming a city wouldn't have emphasised that point any more than the show already has. ![]() One reason Euphoria may have avoided naming a specific city or county is because sex, drugs, and teenage debauchery happen in suburbs all across America. ![]()
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