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Euphoria: All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name (2022)
So, so very disappointing
Look I can't bash everything about this episode; it's euphoria, so as always it has great cinematograhphy, sets, lighting and costume. Good on the show for that. The issue comes in with the fact that this is an episode with enough content to fill an hour that gets side-tracked and bogged down with so much stuff the show's done already in favour of a myriad of better things it could do.
Fez and Ashtray's conflict going on in tandem with the play was great for tension building in episode 7, and I genuinely believe without that the play episode would've been pretty bad. This time though, the tension is lost through it being a whole different episode, and it does such a bad job at building it up. Ashtray going on a shootout with the police wasn't even remotely explained and had no logical reason to happen beyond killing him off, now Fez has been arrested so we get to kick the can down the road and deal with a satisfying emotional payoff for him and Lexi to season 3.
Maddy and Cassie's arc had the same issue, all the fantastic buildup of episode 7 falls apart, and they get two lines of dialogue each, while Kat the trooper gets to actually move around and have some action in an episode, by which i mean follow Maddy around. But thats 3 different sets she's on, that could be the most different locations she was on all season! Well done Levinson, giving her something to do beyond filming one scene for her an episode (side note, that body image thing from episode 2 got dropped quickly, what happened to that lmao).
Back to Maddy and Cassie though, again that got no resolution just some vague mention of "nate is a smellyhead", which WE KNOW CAN WE GET SOME PAYOFF THIS EPISODE GOD DAMN. So again, a payoff to that kicked over to season 3.
Rue and Jules are on speaking terms, that's cool. I hate the route they went on this season, Elliot is such a bad character and dragged the whole damn show down, especially that guitar thing this episode. Considering what the two specials established it was really disappointing to see their relationship have no development this season.
Rue is also sober now? With 1 episode dealing with withdrawls? Levinson understands addiction and wrote that really well, did he forget about how deep rooted addiction is this episode? Her arc got her in deep with a kingpin drugdealer who threatened to sell her to a human trafficking ring, which again got kicked over to season 3! Noticing a pattern here, not gonna lie!
Lexi's play was good. This show is blatantly expressionistic so I don't particularly mind about the set design thing, but at the same time the play felt like it was exposing a lot of personal information about people, so kind of don't understand why Rue is fine with that. But hey whatever that's a minor gripe. Lexi's arc though with Fez? KICKED. OVER. TO. SEASON. THREE.
All of this god damn episode was filler, and made for a terrible season finale. It barely feels like the same, relatively nuanced show that Season 1 was. It has it's perks, all the acting was good, visuals were fantastic and the score was good, just... everything the technical aspects are accompanying were poopy.
Episode: 4/10
Season: 6/10.