Rue makes a new friend in the laundry room, Elliot (Dominic Fike), who’s definitely not as high as Rue, but he’s still high. In a Hereditary-style moment, Cassie leans out the window, but her head remains attached (although she’s obviously going through something). Nate is Cassie’s toxic knight in shining armor who does things more for show and sport and whose armor is more a facade than anything else. They romanticize the situation by drinking and driving down the road to the party at 100mph to Orville Peck. Things speed up.)Ĭassie (Sydney Sweeney) is found in a minute mart parking lot crying over her possible break up with McKay (Algee Smith) by none other than Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi). (If you think this is a lot already, we are only about 20 minutes into the episode. Everyone is ready for the year to be over and to not remember the first few hours of the next. The house is filled with teens, sweat, loud music, alcohol and smoke. In fact, so fine that Rue thinks the event was fun and exhilarating, kind of like the drugs she’s still high on.Īfterwards, they pull up to a house party, as if nothing happened. An intense and potentially deadly scene unfolds as Rue and one of the dealers’ heroin-addict girlfriends are found outside and suspected of wearing wires, but everything ends up fine. In an attempt to deal with the whole Mouse situation, Fezco, Ashtray, and Rue (who’s high out of her mind, and probably shouldn’t be there) go off to try and make things right with the dealers who sit above Mouse. The episode then cuts to the present day with a 13-year-old Ashtray killing Mouse, Fezco’s drug lord, in the name of brotherly love. In this dangerous business, Fezco and Ashtray knew that they would do anything to protect each other. Fezco knew that they had a business to run. This bond grew when Fezco’s grandma collapsed and fell ill. In fact, the feeling was too real to not consider Ashtray a legitimate brother. His grandma brought another kid home one day: Ashtray (Javon Walton). Fezco also happened to be good at math, so that helped. Taking him on runs and teaching him the ways of the business, Fezco’s path felt paved for him. It also gives us the trauma and backstory necessary to understand how Fezco ended up where he is.Įssentially raised by his grandmother (Kathrine Narducci), teaching him that violence is sometimes the answer, Fezco is surrounded by drugs and dealing from a very early age. It gives us the humanity we’ve seen nurtured in his character throughout Season 1. The episode starts with Fezco’s (Angus Cloud) backstory. “Fezco’s grandma was a mother f****** G” - the iconic first line in the Season 2 premiere. It follows Jules in therapy, discussing her relationship to femininity, hormones, her mother, online romantic relationships, and, hesitantly, the reason she ran away: Rue’s sobriety being dependent on Jules. The second special episode of Euphoria airs. Rue and Ali (Colman Domingo), her sponsor, discuss addiction and sobriety at great lengths to help Rue understand her dependence on Jules for sobriety and her greater relationship to drugs. It details and explores Rue’s mental state after the events of the Season 1 finale. The first special episode of Euphoria airs. That was March 2020, the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was the Season 1 finale, August 2019. Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Rue (Zendaya) broke up, and Rue relapsed. –SPOILER WARNING: This article contains spoilers for the most recent episode of Euphoria on HBO.– –TRIGGER WARNING: This article contains discussions on topics such as substance abuse, violence, sexual assault, body dysmorphia, and other potential triggering subjects.– This series will come out on Sundays at 3PM PT before the new episode of Euphoria airs weekly at 6PM PT on HBOMax.* Photograph from Hunter Schafer’s Instagram is the first article in a new series where I reflect on and peel back the past week’s episode of Euphoria Season 2.
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