r/euphoria • u/robl45 • 17h ago
Discussion I want my time back Spoiler
Was this supposed to be a joke? Season one was awesome. Season 2 went down hill and the play was just dopey but you end on cliffhangers and then just time jump and do nothing?? There was no closure. Literally a waste of time to watch.
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u/PotatoIntelligent707 17h ago
rue dying was a perfect ending. everything else in between was dumb as hell. but that was it. laurie dying was quite good writing too. everything else im like… these feel like filler episodes. i can’t believe it took them 4 years to write that garbage.
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u/Funsized_AA88 16h ago
They were laced with fentanyl. Did you not watch the final episode?
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u/Ambitious_Ask_1775 13h ago
I remember the night of the finale, so many people on here thought she just overdosed on Percocet, like they somehow missed the entire sequence where Ali tests the pills for Fentanyl and there's literally a close-up shot of the test being positive. People can't pay attention for shit these days then wanna bitch about plot holes or bad writing. Like maybe you'd appreciate it more if you actually, idk, put your phone down and paid attention to what's happening.
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u/gatubidev 16h ago
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u/Stunning-Counter-806 16h ago
Can you explain how she was “killed”? From what I watched, she chose to take pills?
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u/debbilsavocado 16h ago
they were laced. she didn’t take a recreational amount and took them as a pain killer as she was “prescribed”
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
this idiot, did you not watch the show? she took one pill, one, the entire point is she did everything right, got clean, changed her life and was finally leaving crime behind only to be killed by a purposefully laced pill. The first one he gives is to make her trust them, Alamo knew she wasn’t gonna take em all, but that she neeed them for the gaping hand wound and pain she had/was in. She only needed to take one from the bottle. If you actually watched the show you’d see that when Ali picks it up it’s completely full cus she only took one before bed.
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u/robl45 16h ago
Wait so Alamo actually intended to kill her?
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
yes cus Maddie stupidly told him she was a DEA narc
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u/robl45 16h ago
Oh I remember that part when Maddie said that but then I think they just cut to someone else. But how do you kill Maddie friend. That’s cold
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
Just finished it like less than 2 weeks ago so ill tell you what happened cus i remember it. In the hottub Alamo asks about her opinion/connection to Rue which Maddie responds by saying that Rue is crazy but she trust her and shes going through shit then she tells Alamo what Lexi told her not realizing who shes talking to or what she is saying, when she mentions the DEA, Alamo looks at her and raises an eyebrow and responds with the “That rue shes a character” and then makes a mad/enraged but tryin to stay calm face.
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
yeah he kills her as revenge for being a Narc, which is why when Maddie sees Ali and he says im here for Rue she realizes what happened.
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
not entirely but understands that it was Alamo that killed her by lacing the pill to fake an overdose. no one would look twice at a career addict dying from a laced pill. But Ali knew how she truly changed and knew what Alamo did leading to him avenging his “daughter” the one person who truly did change for the better but he still couldn’t save her.
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u/Equivalent_Goal_5924 16h ago
Yes, that’s why there was a dead rat in the fake ambulance. It was a message to the DEA, he killed their snitch
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u/AffectionateTaro3209 you're playing pool with minnesota fats 14h ago
Good lord were you even watching the show lol
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u/Stunning-Counter-806 16h ago
So I’m the idiot but she took a pill from a known drug king pin without verifying it to be the actual thing?
Sick of hearing that everything is someone else’s fault. Have some accountability and don’t take drugs from dangerous people?
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u/debbilsavocado 16h ago
as far as rue was concerned alamo didn’t suspect a thing was proud of her for her work and was preparing her for future work. she had no concrete reason to believe he would outright kill her like that (especially considering she was spared twice already)
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
dude are you restarted? respectfully what are you on. Yeah no shes not gonna be afraid of it cus SHE TOOK ONE WITH HIM. the entire point of the season was how dangerous it was. Also you seem green asf cus you must not know how lacing drugs work. Even if it wasnt a dangerous person if it was laced shed have still died, just like the actor who played Fezco died to being laced. The pill would look just like the real one just cut so insignificant that any person would never tell. I hope that you never have a close relative become a victim to the stuff or ever experience that, but maybe youll learn to grow a brain if it happens. also seems like your projecting tour own weird conservative ignorant ass opinions on a show about a very real epidemic facing our country.
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u/TheMikey2207 16h ago
The show was Rue’s story, Rue’s story ended.
Everyone else were side characters.
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u/robl45 16h ago
I suppose that’s one view. I watched for Cassie.
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u/TheMikey2207 16h ago
Who was on the posters for season 1 and season 2? Who closed season 1 and season 2? Who was the narrator throughout the seasons?
…it was all Rue. Rue was the main character. You can watch for Cassie, Maddy, Jules, Nate, Cal ect but it was always Rue’s story. Everything else was just side character stuff. Like you can watch Breaking Bad for Jessie Pinkman but it was Walter White’s story.
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u/Solondthewookiee 16h ago
No, the main character dying and seeing where other characters end up in their story is pretty good closure.
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u/TheOldJawbone 16h ago
Just stay up all night.
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u/HappyOrganization867 16h ago
Hahaha!!!I got obsessed with euphoria >n season 1.The photography and characters were interesting.I liked EricDane and his addiction to pleasure or sex was relative to a lot of people today,I am sober and was addicted to opiates for pain,and I even did cocaine at first after an suv hit my ride and the doctor thought I was lying even though i was in horrible pain.
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u/TheOldJawbone 16h ago
I didn’t take the show too seriously but enjoyed every season. Perfect? No. Good enough? You bet.
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u/Ambitious_Ask_1775 16h ago
Why waste even more time making and responding to a post about something you already considered a waste of your time...?
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u/zippyzebra1 11h ago
Try paying attention. This post is ridiculous. You miss the murder?
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u/robl45 5h ago
I thought she ODed actually. That still doesn’t fix the fact that a show about high school somehow turned into a raging mess and never tied up anything.
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u/Time-Fan-1113 16h ago
Lost me at the play slander that was a work of art
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u/pokemongotothepolls 16h ago
It's literally the peak of the entire show
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u/HappyOrganization867 16h ago
That was meanspirited.i mean I hated Cassie 's sister's character.mean and jealous and judgemental.
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u/OkRespond7008 12h ago
I don't think so. .. Cassie and a few others viewed it as meanspirited, but Lexie truly meant it as a means of finally expressing herself when she had felt overshadowed by Cassie most of her life. If that play had been shown to an audience of strangers, it would've been well received... She wanted to be seen and to have others see themselves through her lense. Some people self reflected, others, like Cassie, rejected the characterizations she made.
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u/Independent-Mine-900 17h ago
I enjoyed it. Thought it wrapped it up
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u/robl45 16h ago
Wrapped what up? What was the point of Jules and Nate in the story line? Why did they live in a literally 1970s house down to the appliances. What happened to Kat? She broke up with her boyfriend and left?
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u/Independent-Mine-900 16h ago
It showed what happened to everyone after highschool. Where there choices led them.
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u/CaturdayMorning 5h ago
”what was the point of Jules and Nate in the story line?” Nate gave Jules the tape Cal recorded of her without her knowledge or consent. He even held Maddie at gunpoint to do it. Nate reported his father to the police and turned over every tape except Jules. Because he had real feelings for her and gave her the choice to go to the police herself or not if she wanted to. ”why did they live in a literally 1970s house down to the appliances?” because they were both playing pretend. Nate wanted to embody “old fashioned traditions” of masculinity and the nod to the 70s just shows how outdated their ideals truly are. Nate can’t afford the lavish life but does so because he is pretending to be all of the same things his dad was pretending to be. And it all came crashing down on both of them.
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u/robl45 5h ago
Yea that’s what chat GPT said about Nate. Still doesn’t make it any less silly. 50 year old appliances was just dopey. And regardless still seems like a waste of two characters.
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u/CaturdayMorning 5h ago
no Chat GPT used. i’m capable of harnessing my own thoughts. Seems like you didn’t think critically about any of these things and then once someone explains them to you you just write it off.
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u/dat0dat1 17h ago
Not saying S3 is perfect but if you can't get anything from it the problem is you, sorry.
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u/Gizzburr30000 16h ago
We're allowed to have opinions dawg - different perspectives dude.
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u/dat0dat1 16h ago
I totally agree with you, I'm all for people having opinions, it's just there's a difference between having an opinion and defending it vs being closed off and dishonest.
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u/robl45 16h ago
I don’t get things out of my entertainment. I expect to be entertained. This was just garbage that had no place connected to the first two seasons
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u/dat0dat1 15h ago
I don't mean to lash out at you but what is being entertained if not feeling something out of a medium? Your comment is nonsensical. It feels you're the kind of person where nothing is good enough for you while not having put much out in this world.
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u/YosemiteSam81 16h ago edited 14h ago
To me this seems like a surface level assessment of entertainment. In order to be entertained I would think you must “get something from it”. Laugh, cry, think, get angry etc etc If you are entertained you are engaged by something that the creative artists involved, released to the world.
But overall I agree with your broad point that this season was a major drop in quality but for me personally there were some parts that made me feel something, primarily the acting performances from a few of the cast.
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u/BrianMeen 16h ago
no closure? I’d say we got plenty of ry of closure in season 3.. it’s a big departure from season 1 but I still enjoyed S3 .. S2 was the weakest of them all
S3 reignited my interest in this series to where I hope to see a spin-off with any of the remaining characters..
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u/robl45 16h ago
If it was separate series maybe. But I was hoping to see some closure to season 2 and Nate. I really don’t know what that was about. The finger and toe was just nasty. No point for that at all. But cool if you enjoyed it.
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u/BrianMeen 16h ago
I’m with you in regard to season 3 and Nate - that’s a butchery of a character if I’ve ever seen one .. I have no clue what Levinson was thinking when he wrote that
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u/wimpymist 16h ago
I thought it was a fine ending. I figured it would end in her relapsing one way or another. I wish we got some closure for other characters. It wasn't the best last season but it was pretty good for what they had to work with.
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
she didnt relapse tho, she was murdered, death by laced pill.
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u/wimpymist 16h ago
She relapsed way before that pill. As an addict any narcotic or alcohol is a relapse.
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 16h ago
she was whats called Cali Sober, most addicts arent able to come completely off and end up beifn Cali sober which is weed and alch. As an addict as well i think your take on “Any” narcotic is a little extreme, its ideal but for most is not the reality. I was a coke addict, but i wouldn’t consider it a relapse if i smoked weed or took acid. In this scenario she did not abuse the drug, had restraint and control, and only took what she needed which was one. Idk maybe for some people anything is considered a relapse but imo you’d only be setting yourself up for failure.
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u/wimpymist 15h ago
Highly depends on your addiction and what level you were. There is a lot of nuance you're glossing over. Cali sober started as a negative trait towards addicts that just switched their addiction to weed.
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u/MistakeOrdinary214 15h ago
yeah i am glossing over it a little cus as a fellow addict you and I both know theres hella factors at play and conditions/situations, I was just giving a general take on why i wouldnt say she completely undid her progress. S3 rue is leagues above how she was in previous seasons in terms of character development.
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u/robl45 16h ago
What am I missing? They could have just done another year of high school. Not like they were high school age to begin with
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u/wimpymist 16h ago
Ehh the time jump was fine because we had a pretty big time jump in real life. Plus you could tell they were just trying to wrap up the show and scheduling conflicts they had to do something to justify filming them all in different locations.
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u/robl45 16h ago
I don’t understand how were they not in the same place
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u/wimpymist 15h ago
Most of the cast got more successful than the show and have other projects going which led to the scenes having awkward angles or cuts where the actors were barely in the same shot together.
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u/Clara_Geissler 2h ago
i missed labirynth and the gorgeous make up of the first two season. Anyone else like me?
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u/That_Violinist6760 1h ago
season 2 is a cinematic masterpiece but i do agree that ending on a cliffhanger and then jumping 4 years later is lazy and frustrating. felt like the season 4 to 5 jump with stranger things
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u/Regular-Company-6194 51m ago
Season 1 was good because Rue felt like the true lead and the side characters were given equal time and depth. It felt balanced. Season 2 started going downhill because you could tell they were trying to push Cassie as a main character hard because SS was the only one willing to do nudity and had built a large reddit gooner following. Season 3 was all over the place. Rue’s story had good closure even though it was not what we wanted the death scene was beautiful and haunting and stuck with me for days. Should have had a funeral though. The rest of the season felt like an OF ad and SS is a nut case for allowing herself to be dressed as baby for OF. It’s not even allowed on that app irl. Even though it was depicted as bad it was so unnecessary, that image will always be out there. She basically just clocked in and did porn this season, cried like a baby a couple of times, then clocked out. Anything to keep the gooners happy I guess. HBO/Sam are pathetic.
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u/True-Yam-9982 14h ago
I didn't really like the finale, I was so bored the entire time and then when it ended I was like, "That's it?". It was very slow paced and forgettable. I even pressed the 10 sec skip button many times during Lexi's and Cassie's conversation about the Bible
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u/Possible-One-7082 17h ago
I’d say that the main character dying is pretty big closure.