![]() ![]() The one mention of rehab causes Rue to forcefully run out of the car into moving traffic. Leslie and Gia are able to convince Rue to go with them to the hospital ER, but like the attempted intervention, the ride turns sideways. ![]() Whether or not Jules told Leslie, it is clear that Rue was already headed in a dark direction. Everything Rue has done since New Year’s is her setting herself up for a downward spiral, particularly taking on $10,000 worth of drugs, which she realistically would not be able to flip. Rue shares some of the blame in her own relapse as she initially put Jules on a pedestal and made her the sole motivation for getting clean. Rue goes further in saying that Jules is dead to her and that meeting her is the biggest regret of her life. Rue’s verbal attack against Jules comes from a mixture of resentment and desperation as she points out Jules’ own self-righteousness. A possible distinction is that although Elliot is a fellow drug user, it may not be to the same extent or extremes that Rue uses. While Jules was right to inform Leslie of Rue’s relapse, it is almost hypocritical as she slept with Elliot, a fellow drug user. This betrayal has a double-edged nature to it. With the flushing of the pills, Jules unknowingly places a prime target on Rue’s back. A still from season 2 episode 5 of “Euphoria” (2022). While Rue searches for the pills, Jules, accompanied by Elliot (Dominic Fike), reveals from the living room that the pills were flushed down the toilet. Begging for the suitcase, Rue strikes at and breaks down the door while violently ranting about Leslie failing as a mother. Rue becomes more rattled by the suitcase’s disappearance, which leads to a more tumultuous scene that forces Leslie to hit Rue at one point and push her out of Gia’s room. Leslie then reveals that Jules (Hunter Schaefer) informed her of Rue’s relapse. However, Leslie is unaware of Rue doing weed, as she is talking about Rue’s venture into opioids, the ones in the suitcase Laurie gave Rue. Rue then violently barges into Gia’s room and accuses her of telling Leslie about her smoking weed. The episode opens with a shot of Gia (Storm Reid) in her bedroom listening to Leslie (Nika King), her and Rue’s mother tactfully confront Rue with knowledge of Rue doing drugs again. Suffering from withdrawal, and placed in a perilous predicament from her arrangement with Laurie (Martha Kelly), Rue is driven into hopeless desperation. The episode follows Rue as she’s confronted by friends and family over her relapse and foray into stronger drugs. While most of the episodes this season have slowly pushed the envelope in terms of tension-building, this one starts frantic and leaves no room to breathe until the end. What ensues is a relentlessly chaotic chapter that shows Rue at her lowest as she faces the most intense situations imaginable. This week, we are shown a grounded and more bleak picture of Rue’s (Zendaya) addiction that highlights her irrationality as a drug addict. In “Stand Still Like The Hummingbird,” “Euphoria” strips away the abstract artistry and vibrant visuals that lend a fantastical edge to the show. This review contains spoilers for episode five in season two of “Euphoria.”
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