One might see them as lockdown episodes-there’s only Zendaya, Schafer, Colman Domingo and a handful of other actors-but director and series creator Sam Levinson finds surprising ways to shoot, cut, edit and score what would otherwise be talky single-location scenes. The strain of the relationship ending hangs over the episodes, both set on Christmas Eve, and released on 6 December and 24 January (they’re available, along with the show’s first season, on Disney+ Hotstar). They make plans to skip town together but Rue backs out at the last moment and Jules leaves, causing Rue, a drug addict who’d just found a measure of sobriety, to spiral into usage again. Season one of Euphoria-an HBO show about the tumultuous lives and many, many troubles of a group of American high schoolers-ended with Jules telling Rue she loves her but also another girl she hooked up with. The two-and-a-half-minute sequence ends with Lorde singing You're all gonna watch me/ Disappear into the sun, as the show's title slowly fades. Both Rue and Jules are forest fires, impossible to predict or control, and the chorus ( They say, you’re a little much for me/You’re a liability) could apply to either. As images of Rue (Zendaya), Jules’ best friend and, briefly, romantic partner, flash in her eye, we hear: So I guess I'll go home/Into the arms of the girl that I love/The only love I haven't screwed up/She's so hard to please/But she's a forest fire. The moments flash by, Jules cycling, dancing, kissing, brandishing a knife, indistinct and warped, the light around the eye changing from indigo to magenta to amber, as if we’re watching her watch a film of her life.Īll the while, Lorde’s Liability plays, an inspired choice in a show that excels in accurate needle drops. We cut to an extreme closeup of her eye, in which is reflected moving images from the show's first season. It starts with a closeup of Jules' (Hunter Schafer) face as her therapist asks her why she ran away. F*ck Anyone Who's Not A Sea Blob opens with a scene so simple and radical, so instantly mesmerizing, that even someone who hasn’t watched Euphoria might feel its power.
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