![]() (“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. ![]() ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’ Is Ending with Upcoming Season 12 - for RealĪnd that’s when “Euphoria’s” third component butts in: the chaos.
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