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Tony Award-winner John Gallagher Jr. from “Spring Awakening,” who played Johnny at Berkeley Rep and subsequently on Broadway, brought star power to this modern-day druggy rebel struggling to name his cause.

If you created a Venn diagram overlapping everything that was young and hip and edgy — Hollywood, music, writing, fashion, art — they all converged there, in a bubble-world of boho chic, radical chic, druggy dreams, beauty, daring, and creativity.

Three years later, “Euphoria” — on which Fike’s character plays off his real-life persona as a druggy but soulful musician — seems to have put him in a stronger position ahead of “Sunburn’s” release.

With his sleazy look, his druggy demeanor and his taste for rough sex, the character clearly draws from the singer’s persona as embodied in hits like “The Hills” and “Can’t Feel My Face”; one reason Tedros is so underwritten is because Levinson and Tesfaye no doubt assumed that viewers, having listened to the Weeknd for years, would fill in the blanks themselves.

When the drums finally kick in, it’s a whole different song than you expected — flickering after-hours techno, pitched down into a druggy fog.