![]() Eventually, a tear forms in her eye, blurring the screen we’ve become enraptured with. In it, scenes of Jules and Rue’s relationship play out in the reflection of her unblinking eye while Lorde’s song “Liability” is heard in the background. ![]() ![]() This hour shows us a version of Jules who is alone for the first time and gives us some of the series’ best character development to date in the process.Įarly in the episode, we see the type of sensational, self-contained shot that series creator Sam Levinson has become known for: an easily excerpted moment that’s bound to find immortality on teen-fandom sites like Tumblr. Since so much of Euphoria’s first season presents Jules through Rue’s rose-tinted glasses, it was easy to imagine her as the sort of heavenly creature she dressed up as for Halloween. Her formative life experiences have taught her to meet most situations with a shrug or a smile, and this makes her role among a Skins-like cast of attention-seekers and bold personalities particularly suited to deeper character study. The soft-spoken transgender teen is a chronic under-reactor. The line about Jules’ tough few months perfectly sums up what works so well about this episode. Nichols ( Lauren Weedman) is the root from which the episode grows, but impressionistic scenes unfold on all sides of it like gorgeous tendrils.īy not repeating the risky, two-person-play gambit of Rue’s episode, Jules’ chapter loses the actor showcase aspect that makes its predecessor so laudable. Unlike the Rue ( Zendaya) special episode, this one - also shot during the COVID-19 pandemic - isn’t particularly beholden to a single setting or limited cast. The episode, which is titled “ Part 2: Jules” with the intriguing subtitle “ Fuck Anyone Who’s Not A Sea Blob,” is structured around Jules’ first session with a new therapist. Like its Rue-focused counterpart, this hour is billed as a “bridge episode” between the show’s first and second seasons. As if her relapsed, suicidal girlfriend and violent, catfishing transphobe boyfriend aren’t enough, we learn over the course of this episode that Jules has also been dealing with her addict mother and some complicated feelings about her own gender and sexuality. “Without, like, getting melodramatic, I’ve had a really hard six months.” This is what Jules ( Hunter Schafer) tells her therapist partway through the second Euphoria special in as many months. This week, Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Euphoria’s second special “bridge episode,” which is all about Jules. ![]() Welcome to Previously On, a column that fills you in on our favorite returning TV shows. ![]()
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