

“You can control what I wear, what I eat, who I talk to,” she whispers. Meanwhile, outside the world of theatre, Cassie has moved in with Nate and has offered herself up to him completely. And vice-versa.Ĭassie becomes unrecognisable as she offers her selfhood up to Nate (Sky / HBO) Sometimes the camera pulls back to reveal a set, letting us know that the moment we just witnessed was, in fact, part of Lexi’s play, not reality. Deft camerawork obfuscates the characters with their real counterparts. Guided by Lexi’s narration, the story dips in and out of her stage production and the real-life moments that inspired them. “It” being a play written and directed by our very own Lexi Howard about her childhood spent playing second fiddle to her four best friends.

The curtains rise and we’re straight into it. The trials and tribulations of our favourite misbehaving teens – Rue’s drug addiction Cassie’s downward spiral Nate’s abusive behaviour Maddy’s mourning of a friendship Jules’s CD Kat’s… wait, what’s Kat doing? – have made for an especially depressing second season.īut what better way to distract from all that than with a night at the theatre? Though, what unfolds across the next hour is far from cheery escapism.
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All the events of the series so far seem to have been building to this exact moment, tremors before the calamitous earthquake of Lexi’s play. There are few episodes of Euphoria that have been as highly anticipated as episode seven.
