Generation on HBO Max Is Perfect for Euphoria Fans glamour.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from glamour.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Generation was,
Wow, I never want to have kids.
My second thought involved a deeper, chilling consideration of my own mortality: For the first time, watching the latest teen show on TV, I realized I have more in common with the
grown-ups in it than the
kids.
I m a younger millennial: I, too, had a cell phone in high school and stalked crushes on social media. But while I consider myself to be a digital native, I can
also remember the prehistoric days of dial-up internet and VHS camcorders. Gen Z are on a whole other level: These are teens who have no memory of 9/11, much less Razr flip phones and the iPod competitor Zune. They never wore Legalize Gay American Apparel shirts to high school, because they were only about 5 years old when California passed Prop 8 and 12 years old when the Supreme Court made its historic ruling on same-sex marriage. We might be only a little over a decade apart in age, but even young millennials and old Gen Zers grew up in totally different wo
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Photos or it didn’t happen.
In TV’s newest teen drama
Genera+ion, Gen Z kids won’t do anything without their mobile phones attached to their wrist.
Selfies. Insta. Emojis, SMS conversations, videos, d pics and sex-tortion -all of these things ring true.
There’s a lot of self-obsession, and sexual exploration in this look at Californian high school students. But there’s also a lot of energy and lighter moments than its natural TV sibling,
Euphoria.
Genera+ion is the work of 19 year old Zelda Barnz and her gay fathers Daniel (both are co-creators) and Ben Barnz, who produce with Lena Dunham (
3/11/2021
Father-daughter creative team Zelda Barnz and Daniel Barnz take a graphic, often zany, occasionally harrowing look at contemporary teenage life in this HBO Max half-hour dramedy.
Whether it was the proliferation of penises or Zendaya s Emmy-winning sublimity, HBO s
Euphoria generated so much media attention that it will be hard to find any review including this one of corporate stablemate
Generation that doesn t link the two shows.
That the new HBO Max half-hour hails from a father-child team Zelda and Daniel Barnz and boasts an occasionally zany tone while tackling serious topics and themes actually makes it closer in spirit to British dramedy
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