Euphoria creator called out for 'insane' scene in 'diabolical' new episode
The creator of Euphoria has been called out over another controversial scene in season three.
Last month, viewers took issue when the HBO show included a sex scene with a Nazi flag posted on the wall.
In episode two, Faye Valentine (played by Chloe Cherry) sleeps with drug dealer Wayne (Toby Wallace) in front of a Swastika flag.
If that wasn't enough, Wayne had a Nazi tattoo dotted across his chest.
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"THE NAZI BEDSHEET ON THE WALL??????????????????????????????" a horrified fan wrote on X, while another added: "EW this Faye scene?!? With a Nazi flag what the f**k."
During last night's episode, where Sydney Sweeney poses naked with a snake, things get even more shocking when Wayne starts to tattoo a swastika just above Faye's backside.
“Are you a Nazi now?” Rue (played by Zendaya) asks.
“Not… Really,” Faye says.
After watching the clip, one person called Euphoria a 'diabolical series', while a second took aim at director Sam Levinson and said: "We gotta do something about sam bro."
"Americans are too comfortable showing a flag that stands for torturing 6M people to death," another penned.
As a fourth added: "Sam Levinson has completely lost his touch with the Euphoria script."
"The new Euphoria episode making the Nazi symbol more palatable for viewers by not making it a big deal and 'sexy' is insane to me," a fifth wrote.
Someone else said: "Sam Levinson, how the hell do you think of getting a tattoo of a Nazi symbol, wtf."
For Rolling Stone Philippines, Pie Gonzaga writes about Levinson's 'edgelordism' and Wayne's introduction of neo-Nazism to season three.
Gonzaga explains that the new episode 'starts with a flashback to the 1970s, when a con by Alamo Brown’s (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) mother (Danielle Deadwyler) inspires a young Alamo to resolve never to be fooled by anyone ever again'.
"In the present, Rue manages to stop him from beating her with a polo mallet by calling Faye, the getaway driver in Episode 4’s robbery, and asking for a photo of the key to Laurie’s (Martha Kelly) vault," Gonzaga writes.
"The vault key is with Faye’s boyfriend Wayne, one of Laurie’s workers and a dirtbag neo-Nazi who wants to have 'fair-skinned babies' with Faye."
Gonzaga adds: "And no, I’m not just throwing 'neo-Nazi' around; this man has a Nazi Army General’s visor cap and an alarming interest in eugenics. He even tattoos a swastika onto Faye’s lower back. So maybe Levinson isn’t quite done with his edgelordism, after all."
LADbible Group has contacted Sam Levinson's representatives for comment.
Anish Vij