Not since Up, has there been such a debilitating romantic opening. First, we have the heartbreaking opening sequence about young Cal falling in love with his best friend on the wrestling team, but getting sideswiped by his girlfriend's pregnancy. But somehow the series managed to work three of its most perfect sequences into one episode. Thoughts: This random, middle-of-the-season connector episode had NO REASON being as good as it is. Nate decides to get back together with Maddy. Laurie gives Rue a larger stash of drugs. Rue tells everyone she's just smoking weed. Euphoria loves an experimental sequence and this one intertwined the beauty, horror, and frenzy of her using perfectly.Īlternate title: "The One Where Cassie Has Never Ever Been Happier" The whole season then concludes with Rue's relapse, depicted as a musical maelstrom where she's carried down the street by a company of burgundy dancers. Mix in the heartbreaking scene of Cassie getting an abortion, and Jules's decision to leave Rue at the train station, and you've got a tragicomedy Shakespeare wishes he could have concocted. Jules and Rue are declaring their love for one another while Kat and Ethan finally get on the same page. We're back to another party (a school-sanctioned winter formal), and the whole cast is scuttling around the dance floor airing their petty grievances. Thoughts: For as strong as the first season of Euphoria starts, it ends even stronger. Rue and Jules decide to get on a train but Rue stays behind and does drugs. Maddy and Nate try to make each other jealous. Kat and Ethan make amends at winter formal. What happens: Rue recovers from a kidney infection. The finale had some gut-wrenching, poignant moments, but felt a bit uneven and messy, especially compared to how tight other episodes in the past have been.Īlternate title: "The One Where Rue Has Musical Hallucinations After Winter Formal" No clue, but Lexi's tech crew got some great one-liners. How is Jules digesting everything that happened this season. Is Rue still on the hook for thousands of dollars to a potential human trafficker? Unclear, but we did get a full, unabridged guitar number from Elliot. While the episode wrapped up certain plot points (goodbye Cal, Nate's-girlfriend-bowl), it also seemed to spend a lot of time on largely irrelevant plots while leaving huge questions from the season unanswered. My roommate was so nervous, she stood in the kitchen while I narrated every excruciating second of that sequence which seemed to last 50 years. Everything with Ash/Fez has taken a decade off of my life. The award for the most depressing episode of Euphoria certainly goes to this Season 2 finale. Rue reconnects with Lexi and doesn't say "I love you" back to Jules. What happens: Cassie storms the stage of Lexi's play. This episode was a fever dream, but I loved every second of it.Īlternate title: "The One Where Cassie Attempts to Overthrow the School Play" For as baffling as it was, the final dance number and the sheer audacity for this show to earnestly give us the "I'm writing a play about us" storyline is immaculate. Was Nate's molestation dream a part of the play? Is the play supposed to be completely true or is it fictionalized? How did Lexi manage to cast 40 ripped jocks to perform a locker-room orgy scene? Did the school approve it? Did she get the musical rights cleared to use "Holding Out for a Hero"? SO MANY QUESTIONS. And between the play itself, the play with the inspiration characters standing in, and then scenes separate from the play with the same characters, this episode was very hard to follow. Like with High School Musical 3's senior musical, literally no one is going to understand what this play is about. Yes, it is Maddy, and honestly it is a ridiculously bad piece of writing. Thoughts: "Wait, is this fucking play about us?" Yes. Nate angrily leaves the play which is calling him gay. Fezco promises to come to the play but never shows up. Alternate title: "The One with Lexi's Play"
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