‘Youth trauma TV’ in Israeli <i>Euphoria</i> : Overcoming social limitations and generic conventions

This article examines how the Israeli creators of the television series Euphoria explored traumatic realities of youth, while confronting genre conventions and cultural and social television production/distribution restrictions on creating teen drama series. Based on production research and text analysis, the article analyzes Euphoria ’s themes and storytelling and the way it created ‘youth trauma TV’ sub-genre. The series and its creators rebel against traditional television representation of youth trauma at the level of content and storytelling, as well as at the meta-level of Israeli conventions of the genre of youth series.