WHAT IS A SLUT, ANYWAYS?
Euphoria proves that there’s more than meets the eye to women who society deems “slutty.” What is a slut, exactly? A woman people find sexually attractive? A woman who has sex with as much enjoyment as men? Or is a “slut” a woman who turns people down for sex, although society says her sexual capital is high? Cassie Howard, the 17-year-old character on HBO’s Euphoria, illustrates how the world is a cruel place for women who embrace their sexuality without heavy regard to soci


THE TALE OF TWO MCKAYS: EUPHORIA, S1 E6 ANALYSIS
“He’s not black, he’s McKay…okay” For a lot of viewers, the Chris McKay focused, The Next Episode, didn’t give viewers the information needed to truly understand one of Euphoria’s more polarizing and underwritten characters. Utilizing sub context, Euphoria’s writers illustrate how The Next Episode is a character study in how Chris McKay prioritizes assimilation in order to get access to a world his father couldn’t and how that has destroyed McKay from the inside, out. In the

