As Rue says terrible things, we once again hear the scene from Gia’s sense experience, Rue’s voice becoming muffled with traffic as Gia zones out. Gia, her mother, and Rue are back in the same seats-because addiction is a cycle. The car ride calls back the opening of season 1, when Rue first returned from rehab. In the car, Rue begins talking about how she was days away from killing herself. She agrees to her mom driving her to the ER. She then sits in the hallway and continues to break down as both her friends leave. She calls Jules a “leach” and a “vampire” and says she never wants to see her. Rue goes to the kitchen to find both Jules and Elliot. (The suitcase contains some $10,000 worth of narcotics that Rue must sell or risk Laurie’s threat of sex trafficking.)Īfter asking the question, Jules’ voice from the kitchen answers, “we flushed them.” Rue cycles through every emotion before returning to anger and demanding her mother tell her where she put the suitcase. At the same time, she starts insulting her mother, saying it was her fault that she got addicted, that Gia will have to live her life making up for Rue’s failure, and that had their father lived long enough, he would have discovered what a terrible mother his wife became. Rue then realizes her mother must have found Laurie’s suitcase and begins tearing the house apart looking for it. Rue’s mom counters by saying she knows Rue is doing drugs, because Jules told her. Rue calls her bluff and suggests they do a drug test. Rue’s mom then accuses Rue of doing more than weed, saying that Rue is also doing pills. (Rue had before lied to Gia, saying she was only doing weed to explain away her other inebriated symptoms.) (Sound distortion with be a recurring motif in the episode.) Her door then bursts open and Rue begins accusing Gia of narcing, of telling their mother about Rue’s weed use. The camera lingers on Gia in this moment as she attempts to escape the coming storm by listening to music. The episode opens with a muffled offscreen argument between Rue and her mother. And saying some pretty awful stuff to her mom. The episode’s promise, however, never materializes, as Rue finds a way to further distance herself from her support, seemingly pushing away Jules for good, de-friending Elliot, betraying Fez, Gia, and Lexi. With Rue now alone, episode 5 represents a desperate attempt by everyone in her life-including her schoolmates-to intervene, to make Rue see the damage she has caused, to make her seek rehab once more. The episode ended with Rue alone in her room doing oxycontin and having a vision in which she was reunited with her dead father. Elliot, who feels he has enabled Rue’s drug usage, then told Jules that Rue had relapsed. ![]() Last episode, she cut herself off from Jules after she expressed concern over Rue’s drinking. Two episodes ago she brought up Ali’s abusive past, threatening to sever her connection to him as sponsor. ![]() (Or, rather, at the end of last season.) Since relapsing, Rue has been slowly alienating herself from her support group. In the general arc of the season so far, episode 5 punctuates a pattern of self-isolation that began with Rue’s relapse early in the season. ![]() Episode 5, however, runs as a sobering, no-frills withdrawal, an episode which never leaves Rue’s side and makes only the occasional meta textual nod in the form of Rue turning to the camera before robbing a house. The episode before referenced itself-and HBO and the fact that the audience was watching a television series for entertainment. Last episode opened on an extended montage that referenced both Botticelli and James Cameron (the same?). We’ll be the first to say: Euphoria often skeeters into the bombastic. For help, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-80, o r visit to chat. ![]() This story contains descriptions of suicide ideation.
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