![]() ![]() Immediately a parallel to Rue’s similarly reserved discussion in the diner can be made. Mandy Nichols, she doesn’t want to talk about why she left for the city, admitting it was not well thought out and mostly reactive. Jules returns to from her memory to tell the therapist, Dr. Where Rue (Zendaya) told Ali (Colman Domingo) that she blamed Jules for all that had happened in the first special episode, we discover that Jules harbors some resentment about Rue as well. A therapist (Lauren Weedman) says the trigger words, “So why’d you run away?” A splash of color in Jules’ eye reveals the events her eyes have witnessed in East Highland through her first year in the city over the lyrics of Lorde’s “Liability.” This overture of images over Jules’ pupil becomes a hint for fans that there are two sides to every story, as the focus shifts from Rue’s viewpoint in the first special to spotlighting Jules’ experiences now. Part 2, titled “F*ck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob,” enters on the distraught, distantly focused Jules (Hunter Schafer) against a beige backdrop. There are revelations in the final scenes about Jules’ mother and even an encounter that might make people want to go back and watch Rue's hour again in a new light.If there is one underlying theme to take from the Euphoria special episodes it’s that you never know the pain someone else is hiding. ![]() Weedman is good but not given the kind of juicy part of her own that Domingo was in the first hour, and that hurts the process a little bit, and yet Levinson and Schafer compensate by opening up the episode more to flashbacks and other characters, including John Ales as Jules’ father and Elordi. She nails all of the emotional backflips that she’s still processing without sinking into melodrama. ![]() All of this is prelude to a discussion about how Rue tore down all needs for concerns about identity and judgment, really seeing Jules in a way she hadn’t felt before.Īs she was in the first season, Schafer is emotionally raw in a way that feels completely genuine. reality continues into memories of Tyler, the online paramour who turned out to be Nate ( Jacob Elordi), and how much that passion became real to her, but was never real in a physical sense. How much of our identity is what we choose to present to other people and how much is internal? The discussion turns to when people instantly judge others based on how they look and how Jules has conformed to a self-formed perception of femininity for so much of her life. “Part 2” starts off with Jules discussing gender as a construction, telling her therapist that she’s considering going off hormone therapy. How are these connections different? How does Jules hold back or give of herself differently? A first meeting with a therapist is often about throwing it all out on the table, and Jules reveals a lot about herself through the stories she chooses to tell about the connections between her & Rue, her & her parents, and her & her online partner. There are times when this chapter feels like it’s trying to do too much in terms of its narrative construction-the joy of watching Zendaya and Colman Domingo bounce off each other purely in conversation for an hour was one of the strengths of “Part 1”-but the inconsistency captures where Jules is at in her life, her feelings going a hundred miles an hour since the break-up with Rue. But the interruptions increase: flashbacks to her time with Rue, her continued infatuation with “Tyler” (Nate’s online persona), and even drama with the return of her addict mother into her life, revealing more of what Jules was going through in season one. After a tone-setting intro in which memories of her time with Rue play out in Jules’ tear-filling eye set to Lorde’s “Liability,” the conversation really kicks in. ![]() Much like Rue’s chapter, most of this hour unfolds as a two-hander, this one between Jules and a therapist played by Lauren Weedman. ![]()
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