![]() As the musical dance number ends, she climbs on top of the gospel group, who are all helping her ascend and as she reaches the top, she looks around in a disoriented way and then falls, followed by the scene blacking out and going to credits as she does. It then turns into an interpretive dance accompanied by marching bands and the choir catching her in stylish ways. Then it cuts to outside and a gospel choir is bouncing her to the melody. She also dances with her father, which shows that the scene is not based on reality. ![]() She stumbles around the kitchen, hugging her mom and then her sister–both are completely unaware of her presence. And as the drug hits, she floats up to a standing position and begins to stumble around the home. She snorts the unknown substance and then falls back on the bed. And all of this takes place around a song Zendaya herself sings called, “All for Us.” Having lived with an addict, sadness usually brings all the devastating moments to the surface, which then makes it hard not to succumb to the substance abuse.Īfter this, it gets a little confusing because once Rue relapses, everything around her turns into a strange music video and even a choir gets involved. While this is going on, the episode crosscuts between memories of her fighting with her mom, the present moment of her crying her heart out over Jules, and another flashback of her mom talking at a church about Rue surviving an overdose.Īll of these things serve to depict Rue’s mental mindset before relapsing. As she leaves the room, she slowly puts it on and tightly embraces it like she is being held by her father. We see her move towards the room slowly, and what’s revealed is that the sweatshirt she has worn all season belongs to her deceased father. ![]() My own friend put it perfectly: Rue is now sober through the power of friendship.As she let’s go of Jules, Rue begins to have flashbacks of when her father died. Instead, the implication is that Lexi’s navel-gazing play inspired Rue to be better to herself, awarding a secondary character the honor of facilitating our beloved lead’s big win. Worst of all, it led to the finale’s most frustrating wrap-up: Rue’s drug addiction, Euphoria’s most engaging and heartbreaking subplot, resolved itself in a voice-over at the end of the season finale, robbing the viewers-and Rue’s suffering family!-of any sense of emotional closure. It devoted an entire musical number to mocking Nate and his insecurities about his own sexuality. (Rue still owes a drug dealer who threatened to sell her to sex traffickers $10,000, but, uh, maybe Lexi took care of that so Rue could make it to her opening night … ?) The play gave Cassie yet another platform to scream about how much she loves being loved. The theatrical conceit limited any amount of meaningful wrap-up the season could offer, reiterating previous scenes through new and unilluminating perspectives and hyperfocusing on Lexi and Rue’s former friendship while distracting from Rue’s more pressing issues. While the penultimate episode offered a glimmer of hope in a self-referential, over-the-top school play that gave the underutilized Lexi (Maude Apatow) more screen time than she’s had for the entirety of the series, it ultimately undermined the story and the series. (I also like the latest memes mocking how Elliot, aka indie musician Dominic Fike, spent four whole minutes of the finale singing a song to Rue about how he hopes they can be friends, despite him enabling her addiction all season.) The one predictive meme that paid off was about Kat’s absolute erasure from the season, the alleged result of a behind-the-scenes debacle that led to gossip more entertaining than the show itself: The poor girl, a breakout character in Season 1, got three scenes all season. ![]() Maddy!-developed based on presumed story progression that never happened. Even the memes it spun off- Super Bowl Sunday, Cassie vs. ![]() With an emotionally vapid central figure in Nate, whose own abusive behavior obscured any reason Cassie or Maddy would continue to fight over him, the plot served as a black hole of inefficacy. Recklessly told stories, like a histrionics-drenched love triangle between Nate, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), and Nate’s ex/Cassie’s best friend Maddy (Alexa Demie), dominated the season. But in the second, the show vacillated wildly between darkness and absurdity. In its first season, Euphoria balanced its melodramatic subplots and tone against a strong, self-aware voice, in order to not alienate or overwhelm viewers with its nihilism. ![]()
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