We now know the heart-wrenching motive Fezco missed Lexi’s play.

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This season of Euphoria has introduced a swathe of hard-to-watch moments. A few episodes in the past, Rue verbally attacked her family and friends and tore her home aside once they destroyed her drug stash. Nate held a gun to Maddy’s head, after which his personal, to get her to surrender an incriminating disc. However I do not keep in mind the final time I’ve held my breath, lined my face with my arms and felt tears welling in my eyes whereas watching an episode of tv. This. This was excruciating.

We’ll get to that scene quickly sufficient, however to assist make sense of every thing, let’s begin from the highest.

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The season 2 finale wasted no time in addressing the foremost query on everybody’s thoughts from the penultimate episode — why Fez did not make it to Lexi’s play. The episode begins off with Fez standing within the kitchen, saying that he will go away for the play, then getting stopped by Custer. We all know Custer helps the police take down Fez and Ashtray for Mouse’s homicide. Faye, the one different one who is aware of, is standing subsequent to Fez. When Custer begins to speak about Mouse, Faye drops a glass, which shatters on the ground. Then — in an amazingly surprising transfer — she places a finger to her mouth, indicating that Fez ought to keep quiet.

Faye begins to say that drug vendor Laurie murdered Mouse. However simply as odds appear to be turning towards Custer, Ashtray fatally stabs him within the neck.

Earlier than we see what the implications of which are, we’re warped again to Lexi’s play. Cassie, freshly dumped by Nate, makes her manner onstage and begins berating Lexie. Then a long-awaited second involves fruition. Maddy nonetheless hadn’t really been capable of have it out with Cassie after studying she and Nate have been sleeping collectively. In a scene set to comedic circus music, Maddy runs onstage and slaps Cassie, then chases her off.

The drama places Lexi in low spirits, however after a crowd-cheer began by Rue, she returns to the stage and the play resumes. We additionally be taught by means of a flashback that Rue has made amends with Elliot, however not Jules. The scene items us with a full-length tune carried out by Elliot, who’s portrayed by musician Dominic Fike.

The present then drops us again into Fez and Ashtray’s home, the place Fez tells Ashtray that he is taking the autumn for the homicide when the police come. Ashtray would not hear, and winds up locking himself within the toilet with firearms and ammunition.

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In the meantime, we see Nate strolling as much as his dad’s enterprise with a gun in tow. Nate reveals to Cal that he discovered movies of Cal having intercourse with prostitutes when he was simply 11. Cal opens as much as his son, saying that he loves Nate and regrets not protecting him protected. However Nate says he would not need an apology, simply revenge. He pulls out a flash drive that has “every thing” on it. A police automobile pulls up and Cal is arrested.

The darkish occasions proceed. We’re again in Fezco’s home, and he cannot get Ashtray to open the door. The police burst in, and Fez begs them to not shoot, pleading that Ashtray is only a child. Ash fires the primary bullets by means of the door, and one among them hits Fez within the intestine. Whereas he lays on the ground bleeding, Fez continues to scream for the officers to cease. The tip solely comes when Ash shoots a policeman at shut vary, then Ash is shot off-screen.

The roughly four-minute scene is brutal and excruciating. I would exit on a limb and say the heaviest stuff on a teen present possibly ever? (Although I admittedly have not been maintaining with Riverdale these days). An hour later, my head remains to be pounding.

We get extra of Lexi’s play, that includes flashbacks with Rue and Lexi and even a uncommon scene through which the pair have a heart-to-heart. It is candy, however my consideration is repeatedly interrupted by the truth that we do not know if Fez goes to be OK. Our final sight of him is correct after Ash’s dying, because the cops carry him off. On the very finish of the episode, Rue reveals she’s stayed sober all through the remainder of the college yr.

This cover on the season was a doozy — and there are lots extra particulars to unpack. (We probably have plenty of time to take action, given the 2 and a half-year hole between seasons 1 and a pair of). What we all know for certain: Nate Jacobs nonetheless sucks. Rue appears to be doing OK. And this was one hell of an episode.

Stray observations:In between the opening scene at Fez’s home and Lexi’s play, we see a flashback to an undeniably candy Fexi second, which makes every thing that a lot tougher to bear. What’s Lexi going to do when she finds out what occurred? I am a multitude.We obtained a humorous response from Rue to a livid Cassie respiration on glass just like the velociraptor from Jurassic Park. Rue and Jules have a brief and unrevealing dialog close to the tip of the episode. Jules tells Rue she loves her. Rue kisses Jules on the brow and leaves. In a voiceover, Rue says Jules was her old flame. It is unclear whether or not that may be a definitive “was,” however I am prepared to wager it isn’t the tip for these two.
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