Why Euphoria’s Latest Episode Is a Major Letdown

Warning: This story accommodates spoilers for season two, episode 5 of Euphoria.

Sam Levinson is thought to mix totally different types in Euphoria, typically mixing comedy with drama to inform the excessive schoolers’ tales. However in season two of the HBO sequence, the episodes have turn out to be more and more chaotic—and episode 5 is not any totally different. 

After the final episode closed with Rue (Zendaya) hallucinating her father and being held by Labrinth in church, we anticipated this one to open together with her in a hospital mattress. It was a good looking second that appeared to represent a shift in Rue’s habit, with some speculating that she had really died.

In case you have been hoping for solutions within the first 5 minutes of the present, you’re not getting any.

As a substitute, the present begins with Rue’s mother, Leslie (Nika King), confronting her about her relapse. And although Rue initially blames Gia (Storm Reid) for snitching, Leslie reveals it was Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Elliot (Dominic Fike) who advised her concerning the suitcase of drugs. “You don’t perceive mother, it’s not my suitcase,” Rue cries. “That is unhealthy.”

She destroys the home in her seek for the medicine, which have already been flushed down the bathroom. She breaks down doorways, smashes furnishings and threatens her sister, which Jules and Elliot witness from the opposite room. For the primary time, it looks like Jules understands the total extent of Rue’s habit.