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Sam Levinson never much cared for high school. That’s not the thing you’d necessarily expect to hear from the creator of a massive Emmy-winning hit that originally was set in high school and firmly centered on teenagers.
“I was interested in the emotional state of being young and struggling with addiction and depression and relationships — that stuff,” the Euphoria showrunner says. “We used to get notes from HBO in the first season going, ‘Should they be doing more homework?’ ”
The third season of Euphoria offered Levinson the opportunity to move beyond adolescence. Delays in production led to a four-year gap between the second and third installments of the drama series, and Levinson, who writes and directs every episode, was ready for his show to grow up — and to evolve as a storyteller right alongside it. “I just thought that if I’m going to come back and we’re going to get everyone together, I’d like to explore what feels like the Wild West of adulthood,” he says. “As an audience, we know that they no longer have the safety net of being able to go home to their parents’ house. It’s the real world.”
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