We’re all screaming at our screens for Rue to run away and never look back, but it’s practically a fait accompli. But she must take it intravenously – something Rue has never done before. Laurie offers her morphine to ease the pain. By this point, Rue is looking seriously rough as the side-effects of withdrawal worsen. Out of options, Rue goes to Laurie’s house – her dealer to whom she owes a suitcase full of drugs or the cash equivalent. It seems Zendaya is putting her Marvel training to good use. The resulting chase sees Rue parkour her way out of police clutches. No sooner has she made off with the stolen goods than she stumbles across a patrol car. Our heroin-addled heroine, though, can’t seem to catch a break. A sense of dread (will we see Cassie again? Or will Maddy have bludgeoned her to death with a stiletto and buried her body by the time next Sunday rolls around?) follows Rue as she leaves Lexi’s house behind and heads to Fezco’s.Īfter being turned away by Fezco, Rue resorts to the kindness of strangers – or rather she breaks into some Architectural Digest-looking home and steals a bunch of stuff. The moment of reckoning has come for the doe-eyed Cassie (Sky Atlantic / HBO)ĭropping the bomb so unexpectedly and casually gives the revelation more dramatic flair than if it had been Maddy walking in on her best friend and maybe-boyfriend going at it herself. Admittedly we don’t get to see much – Maddie says something about getting violent before she chases Cassie up the stairs, but the camera stays on Rue as she uses the chaos to make her exit. Maybe it’s this that pushes Rue to ask: “How long have you been f***ing Nate Jacobs?” Either way, it’s hard to feel sorry for Cassie over what comes next. “Just take it one day at a time,” she says, a little condescendingly. Intervention: take two.Ĭassie thinks it appropriate to offer some advice with zero knowledge of the situation. When she can’t find any pills, she settles for some expensive-looking earrings but finds her mum waiting when she goes to leave. The gang’s all here and after exchanging brief hellos, she goes in search of what she came for. And so, she dashes out of her mum’s car like a bullet from a gun, straight into oncoming traffic. It takes all of five minutes for Rue to realise that actually no, she doesn’t want to go to rehab. In this case, it’s the quietly menacing Laurie, ex-soccer mum and big-time dealer. Where there’s a suitcase full of drugs, there’s usually a scary person waiting to collect. Ok, obviously we’re all in Leslie’s corner here but did she really need to flush the drugs? If you find âthat your teenage kid – with no income and therefore no way of paying for a suitcase full of drugs – has a suitcase full of drugs in their room, you do not flush it down the toilet. Storm Reid is entirely convincing as Rue’s younger sister Gia (Sky Atlantic / HBO) That glimmer of vulnerability seems to break her walls down just enough for Rue to agree to go to rehab. “You left me when I needed you – you left me when I was at my lowest and someone who loves you wouldn’t do something like that,” Rue tells her now. One that we’ve been waiting for since Rue and Jules miraculously got back together in episode two as if Jules hadn’t left Rue at the train station at the end of season one. But there’s also a moment of catharsis here. She comes down on Jules hard, reeling off insults freely and aggressively. Suddenly, Rue’s cruelty has a new target. Things get worse when Jules unexpectedly chirps up from the kitchen to inform Rue that the drugs have been flushed down the loo. “You do not f***ing scare me,” Leslie tells Rue, with a tremor in her voice and tears in her eyes that belie what she’s saying. Zendaya’s ferocity calls to mind Evan Rachel Wood’s arresting portrayal as a troubled teenager in the 2003 film Thirteen. The scene plays out like a horror movie as Rue flings her body repeatedly against the door to Gia’s bedroom where her mum and sister are sheltering from her rage. She says the most hurtful things she can think of and manages to sidestep melodrama even when smashing a glass cabinet to the floor. She’s vicious like a small animal backed into a corner. As Leslie implores her daughter to get help, Rue shuttles rapidly between a billion emotions. In my overall review of Euphoria series two, I wrote that episode five pretty much guaranteed Zendaya another Emmy. Instead, we see Gia – Rue’s younger sister – sitting on her bed listening to what we’re listening to: Rue’s mum, Leslie, gently telling Rue that she knows about the drugs. No one’s having sex and everyone’s fully clothed, for a start. From the get-go, we know this won’t be a typical Euphoria episode.
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