He made a concerted effort to always maintain eye contact during those exchanges." It's all a very long-winded way of turning other penises into Nate's enemy-a reminder that his father is a serial cheater who fetishizes trans women. How they'd talk to him with their dicks hanging out.
As Zendaya's voiceover explains, "He hated how casual his teammates were about being naked. That's a lot to process, so let's head back to the penises, which are abruptly folded in the crude rundown of Nate's life. Young Nate, discovering his father’s collection of homemade porn. He is only attracted to the most feminine, "perceivably weak" women, and yet at the end of the episode, he's revealed to be chatting on a hookup app with the same trans girl his father raped in Episode One.
Nate's fucked up childhood manifests itself in equally fucked up anger and toxic masculinity. He's the masculine heir apparent to a very broken man who expects his son to end up like him. He's not just the son of a man who has regularly preyed upon trans women and gay men, but the son who carries that secret around after discovering his collection of homemade porn featuring his father in the act. All those penises are just a short aside in the story of Nate's life, which gets a brief overview at the top of the episode. The scene centers around Nate, the star athlete with anger issues and some serious sexual anxiety. In an era when edginess is synonymous with craft, what could have been a one-penis-five-second exchange is blown into 30 penises shot in various states, distances, and angles. But the 30 dicks of Euphoria ended up just being flopping, flaccid appendages on display in a locker room scene that fails to achieve its intended purpose.
When it comes to shock value, the bar is set pretty high when the pilot of a series features Eric Dane's erect (prosthetic) penis raping a transgender teenager. On Sunday night's episode, the gaggle of penises (gaggle? crop? murder?) made their debut in the first ten minutes of "Stuntin' Like My Daddy." They were objectively fine. 'Westworld' Actor Talks Full-Frontal Nude Scene.HBO's 'Euphoria' Made Me Feel Old and Scared.HBO's 'Euphoria' Already Has People Outraged.Cassie’s body is a different form of communication for her. But no one talks about it because I got naked,” she said in an interview with The Independent. She also defended Cassie’s onscreen nudity, telling Teen Vogue it was “important to the story line and the character.” She added, “We show this character’s life and what they’re going through. She has also spoken out about the unnecessary stigma attached to her nude scenes, calling out people who don’t value her acting because of them. And you don’t even have to take her word for it: Her grandmother, who was in the Ellen audience, gave a proud thumbs-up to show her approval.Īs Cassie, Sweeney has filmed many sex scenes, so it’s definitely understandable that she may forget how shocking they can be to an extended family member. “They said I have the best tits in Hollywood,” Sweeney said. It turns out her grandparents were more than supportive of her work - no matter how R-rated. “I was like, ‘It’s a Hollywood premiere! You’ve got to come!’” The actor apparently invited every family member she could, only to end up sitting next to them as they watched her nude scenes on a “ginormous screen.” Sweeney said she was “on the floor” with embarrassment. “I didn’t really think about it,” Sweeney told DeGeneres.
The actor, who plays the unlucky-in-love Cassie Howard, revealed on Thursday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show that not only do her grandparents watch the show, they attended the season-two premiere with her. A lot has been (and will be) said about the nudity on Euphoria, but this comment from star Sydney Sweeney’s grandmother has got to be a first.