Rose-Themed Gifts for Valentine’s Day, With an Emo-Pop Twist

On such an occasion as Valentine’s Day, is there any use in sidestepping cliché? The sing-song poems, the chocolates, the pink-and-red gifts lining every bakery, lingerie shop, and drugstore: You can bah-humbug your way around it, or you can slyly lean in. Love, after all, is universal. We just might be falling in or falling out or something copacetically in between. We love thy neighbor, sister, best friend. And sometimes, in the case of Euphoria’s adoration-starved Cassie (played by a radiant Sydney Sweeney), we love thy best friend’s ex-boyfriend—an exercise in agony and ecstasy that a recent episode rendered in… Read Full Article