Euphoria

The main character, played by Zendaya, has one Black and one White parent, but her background is not addressed in the context of the show. Jules is a transgender character played by a transgender actor, and other cast members are Latino and Black. There's a little body diversity among characters.

Violence is often sexual, which can be quite disturbing: A boy vividly pictures his girlfriend getting kidnapped, bound, and thrown in the trunk of a car, after which he fantasizes about shooting her kidnapper. A boy and girl begin to have sex, whereupon he chokes her (he stops after she asks him too). A drug dealer says that a girl should have "some other way to pay" for drugs. Nonsexual violence is also intense: A girl threatens her mother with a piece of glass during a fight, a brief vignette shows Vincent van Gogh shooting himself. Characters are beaten, shot, and attacked in various physical and emotional ways.

Sex is often linked with violence; see "Violence" section. Characters engage in sex frequently: naked body parts, a man putting on a condom, a character flinching and crying as a man has sex with her, a boy trying to choke a girl during sex. Brief images show clips from hardcore pornography, including a flash of an erect penis. A girl has sex at a party; she is recorded and the video is shared without her permission, which makes her feel both shamed and desirable, yet leads to an incident in which a much older man masturbates (which we see) while on a video chat with her. Boys speculate on whether girls are a "whore" and talk about how much "p---y" they're going to "smash." Nudity is frequent, including male full frontal in a scene where a man is shot while receiving oral sex.

Cursing is frequent: "f--k," "s--t," "p---y," "a--hole," "bulls--t," "bitch," "d--k," a song contains the "N" word.

Many scenes depict teens drinking, smoking marijuana, taking pills by mouth or crushing and snorting them. A character overdoses; she is discovered by her family and sent to the hospital, and then rehab. A very young boy sells drugs along with his older brother. An extended scene explains how a character beats an over-the-counter drug test despite still using. A parent guzzles wine. An addicted character works hard to get, and remain, sober.