#slevinson

[fratboykate]

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLMNVCS8/

JAIL

Okay so...I knew that was her background and why she got hired but it like...HAD NEVER CLICKED BEFORE OH MY FUCKING GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDD SAM WAS WATCHING EUPHORIA PORN LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GUILLOTINE FOR THAT MANNNNN CUZ ELECTRIC CHAIR IS NOT ENOUGH ANYMORE

[fratboykate]

So...I had seen stills of the teaser and then saw a tweet talking about how the episode was two people just talking and I thought i’d be walking into an episode of pure Rueles heaven but like...how naive of me. That is absolutely NOT what this show is or what this episode was about. I’m glad I was wrong because that is one of the best hours of television I’ve seen in the last 5-10 years. Easy.

Sam managed to write and direct such an honest, raw, compelling, and unabashedly truthful portrayal of bipolar depression and addiction and he did it by sitting two people down in one place and having them talk.

I’m a massive fan of long scenes with people talking. I think Linklater’s Before Trilogy is one of the best things to happen to cinema. Ever. One of the most memorable episodes of The Affair is the one where Noah and the therapist played by Cynthia Nixon just sit down and have a therapy session for half an hour straight. I know not many people love scenes of two characters going back and forth but I’m a sucker for it, at least the good versions of it. Not everyone can pull it off, not every writer can maintain a flow so effortless, so impeccably timed as what Sam Levinson just did on that episode. Not every writer is that skilled. Not only was the writing stupefyingly complex but heartfet but you had two acting powerhouses like Zendaya and Coleman Domingo going to fucking town on that script, acting their fucking hearts out in one of the most earnest conversations I’ve seen on television in years. What a fucking joy that was to watch. I didn’t even have time to stop and talk about it between Sam had me from the very first shot of the episode until the last one. I mea...the way Sam moved the camera around them? The directing work was beyond. It was bewildering, enthralling.

What a show. WHAT A FUCKING SHOW. I truly don’t trust people who say they don’t like Euphoria. I don’t.

[fratboykate]

This man is fr a menace??

https://twitter.com/fiimgal/status/1493789200696623108?s=21

Don't ask me why but I randomly posted this to my IG stories at like 2:30am with no context. Just this. Simply felt a strong compulsion to do so. I stand by it.

[fratboykate]

apparently they filmed this season of euphoria on film, thoughts?

https://youtu.be/BBle7sK5wJU

I know this was absolutely not the point of this but: HUNTER SCHAFER STEP ON ME CHALLENGE.

Anyway...to the point. I love Sam. I really do. I don't believe everything he does is great (send every copy of Malcolm & Marie to the incinerator please) but I think the writing on Euphoria is some of the best TV writing of the last decade. I'm one of the biggest Euphoria fans you will find but this need White Male directors and DPs have to be able to jerk it while they say the shot on film makes me gag. We get it. It gives you a boner. Now rent an Arri like the rest of the adults and go shoot.

[fratboykate]

that malcom and marie trailer rly called sam levinson a visionary director.. like we are not gonna watch that marriage story movie for the eye candy 😭

Uh...but...Sam *IS* a visionary director??? What? lol