Graphic Nudity, Pornography, Drugs - 'Euphoria' Creator on Not Holding Back

If there is one show that has created the maximum buzz recently then that is HBO's Euphoria. The show has already caught a lot of headlines for the graphic nudity, sex scenes and drug abuse that has been shown 'a bit too much' in the show. The whole 'thirty penises in one episode' thing is still the talk of the town for several people on social media even.

However, according to reports, what most don't know is that this series is actually a very personal and deep story of creator Sam Levinson himself. 

"Since around the age of 18 or 19 before I cleaned up, I was always playing around with this idea of chronicling a version of myself from birth to, in its own crazy, mad way, discovering drugs and the need for it," he told The Hollywood Reporter.

For Levinson, who spent his teen years in and out of hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses as he tried to quell his anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder, whatever television show he ended up making was always going to explore why he started using drugs. "Not that I necessarily have a clear answer for it," he says. "But it was something that I was always trying to write about in a way that felt universal even though it is such a personal experience."

Now 14 years clean, Levinson found a way to infuse his own experiences into Euphoria, which stars Zendaya as Rue, a 17-year-old drug addict navigating high school relationships in the age of social media and perpetual anxiety. The drama, HBO’s first major teen-centered show, doesn't hold much back — but Levinson is hoping that the show's boundary-pushing material will shed light on what it's actually like to be a young person today. "I just feel like there is such a disconnect between what young people are going through and what everyone else thinks they're going through," he says.