TY - JOUR AU - Edholm, Roger PY - 2022/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - “I’m Not Always the Most Reliable Narrator”. On Character Voice-Over as a Rhetorical Resource in HBO’s “Euphoria” JF - Series - International Journal of TV Serial Narratives JA - SERIES VL - 8 IS - 1 SE - Narratives / Aesthetics / Criticism DO - 10.6092/issn.2421-454X/13657 UR - https://series.unibo.it/article/view/13657 SP - 05-16 AB - Voice-over narration features in various ways in contemporary TV series. One recent series that employs voice-over extensively is HBO’s Euphoria. In the series, the protagonist, Rue, narrates repeatedly in each episode of the first season and critics have labelled her voice-over with terms such as “unreliable” or “omniscient”. The aim of this article is to analyze the uses of character voice-over in Euphoria and to argue that such analysis require examining the theoretical terminology often applied to film and TV voice-overs. The article argues that character voice-over should not be defined based on a structuralist narratological conception of the narrator. Rather, voice-over should be approached within a framework of narrative rhetoric and viewed as a medium-specific rhetorical resource. The proposed view, as opposed to one classifying different types of voice-over narrators, is better able to explain how voice-over works in serial storytelling and how this resource is employed in Euphoria to create different effects and affect the audience in different ways. ER -