The Pré-Euphoria Netflix program by Sydney Sweeney did not succeed (despite its title)

Created by the writer / director “Immaculate” Michael Mohan and Ben York Jones, “Everything is zero!” lasted only one season on Netflix, but it arrived the same year that Sydney Sweeney made waves with recurring roles in “The Handmaid’s Tale” and “Sharp Objects”. And although these programs were firmly appeared in the “Prestige TV” category, it was in fact this original and sincere 90s that first made me pay particular attention to Sweeney’s work. Located in the fictitious city, rightly named Town of Boring, Oregon, in 1996, “Everything is zero!” followed a group of high school students trying to make a film while sailing in disorderly, clumsy and often painful realities of adolescence. Jahi Di’allo Winston leads the casting as Luke O’Neil, a first -year student who joins the A / V club and quickly develops the Beguin for the director’s daughter, the second year Kate Messner, played by Peyton Kennedy.

But there is a major problem for Luke. Kate arrives at a central achievement during her second year: she is a lesbian, and she has a huge crush on Emaline Addario, a star of the Junior theater club played by Sweeney. While this love triangle was set up (it looks more like a pentagon because two other boys Also Having massive blows for Emaline) sounds like something straight out of “euphoria”, rather than presenting the scenario with an advantage, the spectacle brings a sweet feeling of solemnity and pain to their emotional disorder. It is easy to reject the stories about adolescents as being “frivolous”, because adults tend to forget how important it was and that was life, it was the first time that they fell in love or broke. “Everything is zero!” It was perhaps too honest for the folded public of irony of the late 2010s, because he was canceled despite good criticism. Alas, at least the show joins other greats of the season of a season like “My So-Called Life” and “Freaks and Geeks”.

Sydney Sweeney acts for a large part of his life, but “Euphoria” is undoubtedly the show that put it on the map. His role as Cassie Howard will most certainly be considered by the history of television as one of the great performances of all time that changed their career, but it is only because people have not seen “everything is zero!” After Kate realizes that she is a lesbian, she develops a crush on Emaline. Not only that, but, despite the constant flow of male attention that has launched its way, Emaline also houses the secret that it is queer. While Emaline is reconciled with the truth about herself and the budding feelings that she has for Kate, she presented a serious refreshing and serves as an incredible vehicle for Sweeney to show her actor chops.

The spectacle has aroused a certain controversy over this secondary intrigue, mainly due to the real age gap between the actors. (Sweeney was 20 years old, while Kennedy was only 14 years old.) But Kennedy pointed out on several occasions how she felt safe and respected, even for moments like her and kissing her on the Sweeney screen. In a landscape where real representations of queer adolescent identity are still far too rare, the care and gravity that went to Emaline and the history of Kate felt revolutionary – and potentially that has changed life for young people who have been reflected there. In many ways, “everything is zero!” is the counterpoint to programs like “Euphoria”. It’s less brilliant, perhaps, but with a raw and not kept heart that did something special. He also introduced a whole team of young talents who deserved to explode the actors “Stranger Things” like the Castant. Fortunately, Sweeney broke out in larger projects, but the rest of the whole show deserves the same level of attention and renown.

Honestly, “Everything is zero!” was too pure for the world: full of vulnerability, heat and sincerity that is too rare on the screen these days.