When the second season of Euphoria premiered last January, the first episode “Trying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door” ended with a brutal bang that left most viewers in shock. In the final scene, Fezco, the lovable drug dealer played by Angus Cloud, approaches sadistic jock Nate …
Read More »'Euphoria' Star Angus Cloud Dead at 25
Angus Cloud, who played the slow-talking, big-hearted Fezco on Euphoria, died Monday. He was 25. In a statement to Rolling Stone, the Oakland Police Department confirmed Cloud’s death just after 11:30 a.m. on Monday, and said he was pronounced dead at the scene. Officials did not specify a cause of …
Read More »Dominic Fike Almost Got Kicked Off 'Euphoria' For Being a 'Drug Addict': 'It Was Really Bad'
Dominic Fike almost lost his role as Elliot on Euphoria due to his drug usage. The singer, who released his new album Sunburn Friday, July 7, spoke to Apple Music about his struggle with addiction and how it nearly cost him his role on the HBO show. “I was a …
Read More »'The Idol': HBO's Cringey Drama Ends Not With a Bang But Whimper
We come not to praise The Idol, but to bury it. That is assuming Sunday’s fifth episode is the last gasp for the widely scorned HBO series. The show’s creative team claims a five-episode season was the plan all along, scathing criticism be damned; HBO has not come out and …
Read More »'My So-Called Life' and the Coming-Out Scene That Changed TV History
About a week before the finale, the Washington Post ran its own plea to keep the show on the air, with the headline, “A TV Show Worth Saving.” Writer Judy Mann shared her love of the show, which she said offered just as much to her as to her teen …
Read More »'Reality' Finally Gives Sydney Sweeney Her Movie-Star Moment
On the afternoon of June 3, 2017, Reality Winner parked her car in front of her modest home in Augusta, Georgia. A former member of the U.S. Air Force who was fluent in three Middle Eastern languages — Farsi, Dari, and Pashto — she’d worked as a linguist before getting …
Read More »'Euphoria' Probably Won't Be Back Until 2025
The only thing that may give those interminable, seemingly never-ending four years of high school a run for their money is the extremely long wait times in between seasons of Euphoria. After a three-year gap between its first and second seasons, the show is expected to endure another long delay …
Read More »'The Idol' Is More Toxic and Way Worse Than You've Heard
Memo to showrunners: When in doubt about your lead character, just cut to her masturbating while choking herself. It’s a little past the halfway mark of the first episode of The Idol — the HBO series about the pressure chamber of pop stardom from the minds of Abel “The Weeknd” …
Read More »Dominic Fike Gets Personal on New Single 'Dancing In The Courthouse'
Dominic Fike has dropped a new single, “Dancing In The Courthouse,”along with a Florida-set music video directed by Jack Begert. The song and video reflect on the actor and musician’s upbringing in the state, including his childhood run-ins with the law that ultimately led to him being placed on house …
Read More »'How to Blow Up a Pipeline' Is Here to Radicalize Gen Z
A group of twentysomethings converge upon a small, seemingly abandoned house outside of Odessa, Texas. Two of them are former students, frustrated by the lack of urgency around climate change. One is a Native American from North Dakota, who does a series of D.I.Y. bombmaking videos under the name “Boomtalk.” …
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