When you thought Euphoria could not get any extra demanding, nicely, you in all probability have not seen season two, episode 5. Warning: Spoilers forward. The newest episode, “Stand Nonetheless Just like the Hummingbird,” is at the moment accessible to stream on HBO Max. Watch it and are available again.
Rather a lot occurs within the episode, however we’ll concentrate on the primary quarter-hour. On the high of the episode, all the things goes to shit for Rue (Zendaya) after her mother (Nika King) has realized of her daughter’s relapse. Whereas Rue initially thinks her sister Gia (Storm Reid) ratted her out, it is revealed Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Elliot (Dominik Fike) are additionally current for this intervention when Jules tells Rue that Mrs. Bennett has flushed her complete suitcase of medication down the drain—you realize, the medication that she was alleged to promote for a terrifying drug seller, whom she owes $10,000…. Not good.
Nevertheless, whereas your thoughts was taking part in out the ramifications of these actions and processing the following combat between Rue and Jules, cop chase, and that Nate-Cassie bombshell, you’ll have forgotten one plot element that form of makes the entire scenario much more horrible.
After viewing the episode, TikTok person @Trisa_3 posted a video questioning why Rue’s mother would instantly flush the medication as an alternative of guaranteeing that Rue wasn’t in deeper hassle outdoors of abusing narcotics. “If I discovered a big suitcase of medication in my daughter’s room, I’d not simply throw them out,” she stated. “I’d assume the worst and I’d assume she owes somebody.”
Honest! However to make issues worse, Jeremy O. Harris, a playwright and consulting producer on Euphoria, thought it prudent to remind followers of one thing that occurred in episode 4 that makes all the first scene much more tousled. “[Rue] had instructed Elliot her entire plan,” he commented
Supply: Glamour