Drugs, sex, violence, and teens mired in anxiety and low self-esteem have made “Euphoria” one of 2019’s TV fiction freaks, but few know this HBO series was inspired by another Israeli series released seven years earlier.
“In Israel it was not very well received, people refused to admit it was their children, but you don’t know what is going on in your own house behind a closed door”, Daphna Levin, director and co-creator of the original “Euphoria” with Ron Leshem and the two executive producers of the American version.