![]() Heading into the episode, many were worried about Fez (Angus Cloud) and his unofficial little brother. First, the drawn-out death of Ash (Javon Walton) leaves its mark. (Plus, there are a number of great lines you may have missed, including Suze chastising her daughters for using foul language as their respective worlds burn.)īut while the extra sudsy soap certainly helps clean up the chaos (not to mention that song - a kind of lovely little number written by the series’ composer Labrinth and Zendaya - that nonetheless goes on forever), “Euphoria’s” harrowing side still washes over the finale. (“This is just the beginning,” also makes for a lingering goodbye more ominous for its opacity.) The riot is well-staged, featuring many moving pieces and maintaining a clear sense of everyone’s whereabouts. Maddy’s slap + face smash also exceeds expectations, in terms of the violence she promised to inflict on her former best friend. Cassie’s rampage lives up to last episode’s cliffhanger staredown, all but assuring Sydney Sweeney some much-deserved awards attention. To be fair, there are moments worth acknowledging. (With all due respect to Zendaya, Alanna Ubach earns MVP honors for Suze’s magnificent responses to her daughters’ escalating drama.) But it is worth noting that Levinson, the sole credited writer, effectively staged a version of what he’d already wrote and then made people stand up and cheer for it. There’s no need to rehash how the play recycled plots from the season, effectively making “Euphoria’s” audience sit through the drama twice, while watching the characters spot themselves on stage and react accordingly. The applause may have only existed in Lexi’s mind, given the end of the play begins with Rue calling Lexi to say how much… she liked… the play? But whether that’s meant to be Lexi’s dream scenario or some temporal pincer move, it’s the only ending of “Our Life” we get, and since Lexi is the creator/writer/director of a story about all the “Euphoria” characters, that makes her a painfully obvious surrogate for the creator/writer/director of “Euphoria,” Sam Levinson (an artist with a history of employing characters this way). How else do you explain the admitted disaster getting a standing ovation anyway? Other shows may brush mistakes under the rug, but “Euphoria” bends over backwards reassuring itself that what it’s doing is good, actually. Be it absent characters like McKay (Algee Smith), confounding arcs like Kat’s (Barbie Ferreira), or dialogue so transparent you hear Levinson’s voice instead of the speaker’s (for me, it was Lexi being reassured her “disaster” of a play would still be worse if it was boring) - Season 2 constantly draws attention to its construction. At the end of the episode, we saw that Nate was DominantDaddy’s son, McKay and Cassie had fallen asleep together, and Kat, who had lost her virginity underwhelmingly at the party, scrolled through her phone.Stuff *Finally* Happened in ‘Gilded Age’ S2 Finale: What Worked and What Didn’tĪnd that’s when “Euphoria’s” third component butts in: the chaos. At Jules’s house, they bandaged her up and went to bed. Jules was headed home, and Rue asked to come with her. To get him to back off, Jules took a knife and cut herself. Nate singled her out and confronted her about who it was she knew at the party. Jules had just arrived from her motel room encounter. After Nate found them, he stormed into the kitchen. Maddy found a guy to have sex with in the pool. They spent the night trying to make each other jealous. ![]() When they hooked up, McKay tried out some rough porn moves on her. Nate got into McKay’s head about Cassie right before the party. McKay really liked Cassie, Lexi’s sister. At the motel where DominantDaddy waited, Jules lied about her age and had rough sex with him. She cancelled her plans to meet up with Kat at the party. ![]() When she got home, she went on a dating app and agreed to meet DominantDaddy. Nate catcalled to her, and she flipped him off, causing her and her bike to fall to the ground. Jules rode by Nate’s truck while he and McKay were discussing the party.
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