![]() “Or what, Ali? You going to hit me?” Equal parts livid and horrified, Ali backs off, leaving her alone and peerless. And when he raises his own fist, Rue only provokes him further. He confronts her about the package outside, and in a nasty attempt to evade his pseudo-paternal lectures, she snaps, “Good thing nobody's really looking to you to be a fucking parent.” (You'll remember, Ali's not on stellar terms with his two daughters.) Ali reels back, as if he's been slapped. meeting, where Ali immediately suspects she's not shuttling around a spare set of clothes. Maybe, but Rue's too busy with her suitcase of drugs to concern herself with an erstwhile girlfriend. Jules protests, but he calls her bluff, and she relents: “No, she's not, like, the most sexual person ever.” Here, it's tough to decipher whether Elliot means to be manipulative or earnest, as he launches into a laundry list of compliments, praising Jules' “fuckability.” Such comments shift the dynamic between them, and there's an edge to his voice as he says, “But I'm sure Rue told you all that. But he has no plans to act on it, as he doesn't see Rue as a particularly “sexual” being. She's slowly succumbed to his charms, though her guard's still up by the time he admits to his crush on Rue. But if Rue snitches or screws her over? Well, she'll sell Rue.Īlthough Jules doesn't get much screen time this episode, she earns her own small epiphany during a conversation with Rue's new friend, Elliot. Laurie, apparently enamored with this plan, agrees to front her a suitcase stuffed with $10,000 worth of drugs. They'll be Laurie's new network of dealers, and as collateral, Rue will confiscate their phones and upload their secrets to the cloud. These are girls “that you would never expect in a million years to be selling,” she alleges. visited last episode, and tells her she has a 3.95 GPA (hmm) and a bunch of friends with GPAs over 3.7 (hmm?). Dressed in matching blazer and slacks, she seeks out Laurie, the nonchalant drug dealer Fez and co. Instead, she ignored Maddy and stared at her reflection in the mirror, a country Barbie doll with a plastic smile.Īfter school, Rue has a plan to re-stock her drug supply. Her desperation becomes all but tangible by the time Rue wanders into the school bathroom, where Cassie's in a plunging gingham top that, apparently, wandered off the set of Oklahoma! Maddy confirms Cassie could pass as Shirley Jones' understudy, and Cassie, leaking tears, launches into a hair-raising scream-ologue, in which she admits to everything-having sex with Nate, betraying her best friend-before Rue pulls us back from the ledge. During each of these precious morning hours, she thinks only of Nate, who later breezes by her in the hallway without a glance in her direction. ![]() every morning to spend hours jade-rolling her face and heatless-curling her blonde tresses. “Okay, that's a props question,” she replies, telling us all we need to know about Lexi's disassociation from her own life.Ĭhanneling that energy into the real world, Lexi spends hours writing a play, in which a girl named “Grace” lives in the shadow of her older sister, “Hallie,” whom Lexi directs to be “sluttier,” “tackier,” and “sloppier.” IRL, Hallie-sorry, Cassie-is apparently taking this edict personally, as she wakes at 4 a.m. Her mother, Suze, “isn't wearing her wedding ring,” a cameraman informs her. As such, she's accepted her personality-or, perhaps, her position-as “an observer.” Lying in bed alone, she thinks of her life as someone else's movie, which Euphoria director Sam Levinson uses as a clever framing device: We watch Lexi exit her family dining room onto a film set, where she bleats at an assistant to acquire Nicorette and complains about Rue running late. Meanwhile, Lexi's still recovering from the incident at the gas station with Fez and Cal. Finally cowed, Gia demands a promise, that “it's just going to be weed and nothing more.” Gia's furious with this idea, so Rue tops off the gaslighting sundae with a guilt-tripping cherry: She's trying to keep herself from committing suicide, and weed seems to help. She tells Gia, casually, that she's thinking about smoking weed again, only as a means to manage her panic attacks. 1 is, apparently, to have a “cover drug.” In Rue's case, that drug is marijuana. Today's lesson: How to be a drug addict without getting caught. “Rue, are you high?”Ĭut to one of Euphoria's winking classroom scenes, in which a pantsuited Zendaya addresses the camera directly. As she plops refrigerated Pop-Tarts into the toaster and chugs milk from the jug, serenading herself with a rendition of “Call Me Irresponsible,” her little sister, Gia, breaks through the fugue. Still, we don't have much time to feel sorry for Cal before Rue's got us in the throes of a present-day drug mania.
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