And Rue may love Jules but she’s too high to feel whatever Jules is doing under the sheets. Of course, these are all either fiction or exaggerated portrayals of reality.
And we get Rue and Jules as Magritte’s The Lovers, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, the Ghost pottery scene, the Titanic “King of the World” scene, Snow White’s kiss, and the lead up to the Brokeback Mountain tent sex. We get Jules in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and a Frida Kahlo self-portrait. Narrator Rue tells us that she really loves Jules and we sink into a goofy montage of Jules and Rue as art and other famous couples. Jules is going down on Rue and asking if it feels good and Rue just keeps saying it’s amazing. It may want us to take it seriously, but it’s so much better when we don’t. But, ultimately, Euphoria is just a teen soap opera. Sam Levinson may think he’s a genius making a genius show, Zendaya may have won an Emmy and posted a statement about Euphoria being for adults. This episode of Euphoria made me realize I’ve been watching the show all wrong. The show didn’t pretend to be anything other than a teen soap opera.
I was content to watch the hot 20-somethings play teens, to watch them gallivant around their fancy homes, to watch them get tangled up in increasingly absurd drama. When I watched The OC, I didn’t expect genius.
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