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00:00Kitty, the stripper character, she got a BBL, and we saw her butt on screen for longer than we saw
00:05Hunter Schafer on screen.
00:10Welcome back to YAP Session, and right now we're talking about the Euphoria finale.
00:15I know there's some mixed reviews about this season, but I feel like I've grown up with this show.
00:19I can cry the glitter tears.
00:21The glitter tears.
00:23So, let's get into it.
00:24I feel like, personally for me...
00:27Spoiler alert, by the way.
00:28If you haven't seen it.
00:28Spoilers.
00:29Lots of spoilers coming your way.
00:30So many spoilers.
00:32It's not surprising to me that Rue died.
00:34Yeah, Rue died.
00:35I feel like we were kind of waiting for this to happen, but we knew she was going to...
00:38Because, like, let's be honest, it's a miracle she's even lived this long.
00:40She's been ruined.
00:41I don't even know how she graduated high school.
00:43No, I know, because, unfortunately, she has been through overdoses, and then when she got involved with, like, Lori and
00:48Alamo, I mean, she could have gotten, like, shot in the head, like, a million times.
00:52She owed Lori so much money.
00:55It's a miracle she made it this long.
00:57Yeah.
00:57But she did, but obviously we knew she was going to live this long because, you know, she's the main
01:02character of the show.
01:03I feel like there's always been conspiracy theories that this is actually the story of Rue's death, and she was
01:07the narrator, and we're going to find out at the end.
01:09This wasn't the case in this finale, but I think it was done pretty well.
01:15I mean, what do you guys think?
01:16I'm not surprised that she died, and I do think it's a realistic ending for her.
01:21I think my issue is that it's realistic, and so much of the season has been over the top and
01:27not interested in realism, that tonally, the whiplash of, like, Nate having this absurd cartoonish death, buried alive and bitten
01:35by a rattlesnake, like, that is not how anybody dies.
01:38And then this really greedy, grounded Rue death, just, like, those two things back-to-back kind of give us
01:43tonal whiplash.
01:44Oh, yeah, definitely.
01:45I think her death was definitely realistic.
01:48She was killed by Alamo because it was revealed to him that she is working for the DEA, giving them
01:54information.
01:55So what he did was he gave her some pills.
01:57It was laced with fentanyl.
02:00And that's how she passed.
02:01I mean...
02:02And it's so tough because I feel like seasons ago she had this whole fentanyl scene before where she was,
02:06like, struggling on the couch.
02:08Some of the...
02:08Honestly, some of the euphoria stuff is just really, really, really tough to watch.
02:12And I know people experience some of these things in real life.
02:15And it's kind of interesting to be able to watch it as a viewer, but also it's just very hard.
02:20Yeah, they were saying it was supposed to be a story about addiction.
02:22And hopefully the story would be that you can overcome it and that that would be the way that the
02:27show would end,
02:27to kind of have a little bit of a positive ending and show that you can overcome addiction.
02:31But that is not the case here.
02:33And I think folks were, like, upset.
02:34Like, we could have had a happy ending.
02:36We could have shown the moral of the story is you can get through this.
02:39You can get over it.
02:40And that's not the decision they decided to go with at the end.
02:43So, you know, some folks were upset about that.
02:44And I think Sam Levinson did touch on that.
02:47If people stayed after the credits, the cast did sit down and, you know,
02:51did share their perspectives on their characters in the show, reflecting back on filming.
02:55And Sam Levinson did say, he's like, well, this is a realistic ending for someone like Rue.
03:01This is not, like you said, it's not always a happy ending.
03:04And he did want to, you know, honor people who have battled addiction who sadly have not made it.
03:09And then he did mention Angus.
03:11He's like, I want to do this for people who went through what Angus went through, Angus Cloud.
03:16And that was honored.
03:16When she did die, she did have this vision of him.
03:19And that's when we kind of saw this never-before-seen clip from season one of Rue and Angus Cloud's
03:25characters, Fez.
03:26And, you know, she was thinking of him as he was passing.
03:29And it was a really sweet moment that we got to see in their friendship.
03:32Yeah, I think it could serve as a cautionary tale for people, like, you know what I mean?
03:37It doesn't always work out.
03:39And, you know, don't try your best to avoid some of these pitfalls because it can go dark, obviously, very
03:45fast.
03:45I will say I do hate how I feel like this last season kind of derailed us from what the
03:51show was.
03:52Yeah, I agree.
03:53Like, to your point.
03:54Talk about total whiplash.
03:56Like, Nate's death was super cartoonish, like you said.
03:59And I also feel as if, like, we're battling with these, like, realistic moments and then this kind of, like,
04:04outlandish things that are also happening.
04:06I feel like we could have grounded the show in something a little bit more real this last season.
04:11I agree.
04:11And it could have helped us kind of, like, tell that story of addiction, you know?
04:15Because even within the first two seasons, I mean, yes, the issues and the whole, like, allure of it all
04:22was very dramatized to what a high schooler would go through.
04:26But deep down, it was very relatable.
04:29And, I mean, don't get me wrong, each one of these characters have made very bad decisions.
04:33But you were really rooting for them at the same time and, like, hoping for them to grow.
04:39And I feel like, I wish we kind of just saw a happy ending for some of them.
04:44I mean, honestly, I feel like the only one who had a little bit of a realistic ending, because I
04:50feel like she always had a head on her shoulders, was Lexi, Maud Apatow's character.
04:54Because, you know, she's working as a PA.
04:56But she's still struggling seeing everyone suffer around her.
04:59And even, I wish I, back to the addiction point of it, is, like, she feels like she wished her
05:05last moments with Rue were different.
05:07And I feel like that's a lot of things people go through when people die, especially people that are close
05:12to you.
05:13Well, we also didn't even get closure for a lot of the lead characters, which is, like, you would think
05:17that we've been following these characters for years.
05:19We want to know where we left them.
05:20It's, like, Maddie and Cassie are now living in this weird house that Cassie had been living in with Nate.
05:25We don't even really get a clear sense of what their lives are going to be moving forward.
05:29Lexi was working for this TV show.
05:31That plot is just, like, sort of abandoned.
05:33Like, I guess presumably she'll keep doing that, but it just never really went anywhere.
05:38It felt like it was just thrown out there, like...
05:39Yeah, right.
05:40Nate and Rue are both dead.
05:41And Hunter Schaefer, was she just, like, not available to film?
05:44All she did all season was paint.
05:46She did not even have a plot.
05:48She got less screen time this episode than Kitty, the stripper character.
05:51She got a BBL.
05:53And we saw her butt on screen for longer than we saw Hunter Schaefer on screen.
05:58Like, that sounds like an exaggeration, but it was actually not.
06:01Like, Jules started season one as one of the main characters of the show.
06:06And she was, like, such an afterthought.
06:08Like, most of this finale was, like, a shootout with cops and Nazis.
06:12And then a shootout with Ali and Alamo.
06:16And it's, like, even Cassie, who really dominated the season, was not in the finale much.
06:20There were some just very strange choices made.
06:23Yeah, and I think, I mean, obviously it's not realistic to, like, be super close with your high school friends
06:29once you graduate.
06:31But I feel like Hunter Schaefer's character and Zendaya's character, like, they were truly, like, life-forming people to each
06:41other.
06:41I mean, life-altering people to each other.
06:43They meant a lot to one another.
06:44So I kind of wish we had some final moments with them.
06:48Because it wasn't just a friendship.
06:50I mean, they were in love.
06:51And I feel like that's one, they were one of the only few relationships, as twisted as their relationship may
06:57be at some times,
06:57that we saw for Rue's character where it was, like, truly serious and committed and loving.
07:03Yeah, when they were established, earlier on in the seasons, when I was really locked and loaded into the show,
07:07they were, I bought that friendship so hard.
07:10I really rooted for them.
07:11And so to have no closure there, have no real, it's kind of, it's a big misstep.
07:15It feels like it wasn't, the finale doesn't feel like it really gave anybody a sense of, like, closure.
07:22And, like, I feel good with how it ended.
07:24It doesn't feel that way at all.
07:25It kind of felt like, here, damn.
07:26Yeah.
07:26Please stop asking.
07:28Now we are.
07:29Like, I don't know what Jules' life is going to look like.
07:31Like, this season, she became a sugar baby.
07:34And she was just painting.
07:35And it's like, all right, is that just what her life is from now on?
07:38Like, we don't really get a sense, like, is she going to leave this guy and, like, return to art
07:42school?
07:42We really have no idea.
07:44And, like, Maddie and Rue were actually closer this season.
07:46I don't actually remember Maddie and Rue being friends in seasons one and two.
07:50I think they were friends.
07:51Like, they cared about each other because they grew up together.
07:53Like social circles.
07:54Yeah.
07:55Friend of a friend.
07:55But we saw more of a friendship between Maddie and Rue in season three.
07:58And we don't even get to check in to see how Maddie feels about Rue's death.
08:02Like, how does she feel about it?
08:03We don't know.
08:04Instead, we get, like, long scenes of shootouts instead.
08:08I mean, I do like what they did at the end with Coleman Domingo's character because Rue's character does die
08:13halfway through the episode.
08:15Because I feel like we always saw his character as kind of this mentor and guide for Rue.
08:22And he never, ever gave up on her.
08:25Kind of like what Maddie said in an earlier episode when she was talking to Alamo and she was in
08:29the car with him.
08:30And he was like, do you trust her?
08:32She's like, she's crazy.
08:34But I do.
08:35And she has a good heart.
08:36And I think that's what we all saw in Rue.
08:38And despite her making mistakes and digging a bigger hole for herself, like, we were all rooting for her at
08:45the same time.
08:46And I think Coleman Domingo's character wanted to honor that at the end.
08:50When he showed up to the strip club, he was like, and he shot Alamo.
08:56Because that's the first time we didn't see him kind of as this peaceful mentor.
09:01So I found that interesting to see.
09:03And even when Alamo, he's like, who sent you here?
09:05He said, Rue.
09:06He wanted to do her justice.
09:09Yeah.
09:09The one time where he was violent, it was principled, though.
09:11It was for, it was on behalf of Rue, someone he loved so much.
09:14Yes.
09:15And I'm not sure it fully worked for me, but it is sort of an interesting idea that Ali and
09:19Rue had this, like, mentor-mentee relationship.
09:21And to, like, make it in the end so that the mentor is the one who learns and, like, carries
09:26the lesson forward.
09:27Because that's, like, the reversal of what we expect.
09:30Yes.
09:30It's kind of interesting.
09:31It is.
09:32And I think also, also at the credits at the end, Zendaya, they sent a snippet of a little speech
09:37crying, saying how grateful she is.
09:39And personally, like, I grew up watching her on Disney Channel.
09:42And I feel like this is her first role that really took her from child star to mature actress.
09:48Yeah, we saw her whole evolution because it took 300 years for every, for every season to get made.
09:53So many Disney Channel stars or child stars kind of find, kind of find it hard to kind of make
09:58that balance or transition into, like,
09:59this adult creator, actor, whatever.
10:02And I feel like what I love about Zendaya's journey is for me.
10:05Like, I didn't, you know, I saw her shake it up a little bit, but I feel like I kind
10:08of aged out of that.
10:09Yeah.
10:10So, like, I didn't have that same fandom.
10:11I was like, okay, this is Zendaya.
10:13Oh, I was a huge fan.
10:14But then seeing how she really was, like, really acted her ass off in Euphoria.
10:19Yeah.
10:19It was beautiful to me.
10:20I feel like that's really the role that opened her up to all these huge films that made her a
10:25real serious actress.
10:28So, I know, it's, like, sweet to see.
10:30I mean, obviously, this opened doors for other people, too, like Sidney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi.
10:35Then Sidney Sweeney posted something, all of her crazy characters, didn't she say something like,
10:40it's called acting, guys.
10:41Yes.
10:42More facetious.
10:43She did call out the haters for her whole OnlyFans scene controversy.
10:47It was definitely the hot topic of the season.
10:49But strangely enough, I, in the finale, I feel like this is the most I could take Cassidy's character seriously
10:57because we didn't see those silly scenes, you know?
11:01And, I mean, she obviously had fun with it.
11:03She's calling it out.
11:03She's at an end.
11:04It's called acting.
11:05Hello.
11:06Ever heard of it?
11:07Literally.
11:07I do think whatever the show became in season three, like, it does deserve credit for being,
11:11like, this really wild star maker, like, Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Sidney Sweeney are three of the
11:16most talked about stars in the world, like, arguably the biggest Gen Z superstars.
11:20Like, if you think about other big shows like Game of Thrones, like, Kit Harington isn't
11:24as talked about as they are.
11:26Like, he's doing fine in his career, but he's not the level of A-lister that they are.
11:30So, like, that's something that's really, I think that's the show's legacy.
11:33And even to the point before talking about the transition from child star to a mature artist,
11:40I mean, you can say the same with Jacob Elordi.
11:42Before, he was just the kissing booth guy, you know?
11:45So, I think this also opened doors for him.
11:48We saw him as a serious actor.
11:52Yeah, I also think a big impact of the show is just that it showed, it was kind of like
11:55the sex, drugs, and rock and roll version of high school, because I don't know if Beltran
11:58in high school was not like this.
11:59Oh, no, I wasn't in that front group.
12:02It was like Degrassi on steroids.
12:04Degrassi was already on steroids, so this is just another level of it.
12:08But it was like kind of the coming-of-age show for, I guess, Gen Z, and so that'll be
12:13missed.
12:14I don't know, I'm like wondering what's going to be the next one, but definitely was a star
12:17maker, definitely was an impact, definitely was must-see TV, and, you know, we'll be missed.
12:21No more euphoria.
12:22No more.
12:23And I'm happy to see where the rest of these stars take their careers from here, you know?
12:27Yeah.
12:27We'll see you next time.
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