It’s unfortunate that Jules isn’t afforded that same graciousness. Rue sees in Lexi’s play a way of working through her grief in a way she never imagined before: “I don’t want to hold onto this forever.” At their lowest moments, Rue and Lexi failed to find solace in each other and instead retreated into themselves, but through their cathartic conversation in Lexi’s bedroom, the two slowly become friends again. The show cuts back again to Rue’s speech at her dad’s funeral, a scene we have watched from virtually every possible angle, but also to Lexi’s dad in the hospital. (It’s a lovely song courtesy of Zendaya and Labrinth, but also a long one.) There’s also a beautiful moment of reconciliation between Rue and Lexi, although I’m still not sure if it actually happened or if it was Lexi fictionalizing what she wanted to happen. She visits Elliot, apologizes, and watches him sing a song for four whole minutes. Which brings us finally to Rue, who ventures out to make amends in her recovery. But now that he has done a complete 180 and gone on a self-destructive warpath, season three might just see the true downfall of Nate Jacobs. (How big is the police force in this town, by the way?) Just a few episodes ago, Nate went to drastic lengths to protect Cal for the sake of his own future. He takes out a USB stick with all the evidence while the police roll up outside. “You don’t get to ruin our lives and just move on and be happier,” Nate tells him, and reveals the nightmares he has been having of Cal since discovering the videos at 11. If Ethan’s homoerotic dance from the last episode was some wake-up call in golden spandex, it told him to set fire to everything - even his family’s reputation. Speaking of, Nate loads up his gun for some reason again (Chekhov who?) and drives to Cal’s shop, where his dad is living his best life. But if this is their reconciliation, will Maddy even try to prevent her best friend from enduring the same abuse she did? “Don’t worry this is just the beginning.” Strangely, it’s as if Maddy has given her blessing. “Nate broke up with me before I even went up on that stage.” Maddy can only empathize. Their fight ends with an exhausted Maddy, Cassie, and Kat “No Lines” Hernandez in the bathroom. Suze does her best to stop Cassie from committing murder, while giving props to Ethan (finally, someone respects him!), and Maddy does one better by slapping Cassie offstage. For what it’s worth, Lexi has her right to freedom of expression or whatever, but depicting Cassie’s orgasm on the carousel - the single most traumatizing scene I’ve ever had the misfortune of witnessing - maybe crossed a line. Still pissed from getting dumped by Nate, Cassie walks onto the stage to confront Lexi for mining her life for theater. There’s a whole different kind of standoff happening at the East Highland auditorium. But he failed at the most crucial moment, and I think there’s some potential in there to see him wrestle with that. Since childhood Fez has taken on the role of caregiver and protector, stopping at nothing to take care of Ash when no one else would. If the series decides to forgo throwing Fez in prison, I’m intrigued to see what the next season has in store for him. Fez tries to take the fall, but Ash ducks into the bathroom with a militia for a shoot-off that leaves Fez wounded and Ash dead. But the cops are already on their way by the time Ash stabs Custer in the neck. While Custer attempts to get Fez and Ashtray to confess to Mouse’s murder, a wide-eyed Faye valiantly throws him off course by pretending Laurie was the murderer. He’s just a kid with dreams of running away with Lexi to do some “ Little House on the Prairie shit” on a farm and have three kids born exactly a year and a half apart. (Is that it for Maddy and Samantha? Are we ignoring the fact that Rue still owes Laurie money?) Rue is the heart of Euphoria, but the show has also lost sight of its ensemble nature.īut first: Poor, poor Fez. Some threads are tied up with a shrug, while others are completely forgotten. But if the finale resonates emotionally, it’s also lacking in resolution. At the beginning of this season, I wondered whether Sam Levinson could reconcile the restraint of the special episodes with “regular” Euphoria, and I think “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” strikes that perfect balance. Euphoria is beloved and loathed alike for being such a head rush of a show, that it comes as a surprise that the finale is so … muted.
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