Euphoria: Is Zendaya’s hit show really that shocking?

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Sex, drugs and nihilism - Euphoria’s unflinching portrayal of Gen-Z teenagehood has sparked a moral panic - but has the controversy been blown out of proportion?

Of course, outrageous depictions of teen life are an established part of film and television history. In the Nineties, coming of age drama Kids became notorious for its take on teenage drug-taking, sex and general hedonism in New York, packaged in a pseudo-documentary format. Just over a decade later, Skins scandalised a generation of parents on this side of the Atlantic, who worried that the gritty teen show would cause harm to kids.

 

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