March 7, 2022

Euphoria Is A Mess, And Yet, We Keep Watching

Exploring my tangled, complicated feelings on season two and Euphoria as a whole.

SPOILERS FOR EUPHORIA SEASON TWO AHEAD

If you’ve been on Twitter at all these past two months, you’ve probably had your timeline or explore tab filled to the brim with tweets about Euphoria, an HBO Max original spearheaded by Sam Levinson with additional help from lead actress Zendaya and composer Labyrinth. Most people reading this likely have an idea of what Euphoria is about. A high school drama where every letter in “drama” is capitalized and bolded. It’s an intense show with graphic depictions of drug abuse, addiction, sex, violence, and tension between friendships and relationships that range from petty teenage melodrama to life-threatening abuse and danger. But I also know a handful of people have only observed the Euphoria phenomenon from a distance. Seeing the memes and vague subtweets against the characters and their actions. Pretty frequently the explore tab will feature repeated fragments of sentences like “Not Rue” or all caps names of characters who had a major moment that episode. But not all of those tweets are positive. Most of the time, the fans are yelling at that character or fighting with other people about who was truly in the wrong. That, or their threatening violence against Sam Levinson for making them attached to characters who get kicked while they’re down. Makes you wonder what insane things are happening in the show for the fans to react so passionately.

See, the thing is, Euphoria isn’t really that insane of a show. Certainly not to the level of Riverdale or even Glee at its absolute most unhinged. It’s more that the characters in this series are so well-written and brilliantly acted, the fans freak out when the show’s plot is essentially built to make all of them miserable and constantly at their worst selves. It’s like an angsty fanfic in a popular fandom given a budget and a worldwide audience. Heavy, pretentious, personal, beats down on its characters out of love, and MASSIVELY flawed. That’s another thing that makes an outsider’s view of Euphoria so confusing. It’s unclear if the people who watch the show actually enjoy it. The constant blame on its creator, the memes mocking the show’s interpretation of what “high school” is like, and most recently the season two finale that the fans HATED for its lack of closure and needing to wait another two years for the next season. I’d also throw in its “glorification” of drug abuse, but anyone who’s watched the show knows that Euphoria does the exact opposite, especially in season two. I don’t know how you can watch Rue get addicted to drugs and think that it’s even remotely fun.

And yet, despite all our problems, we still tune in every week to make our little tweets and try to go viral repeating the same language we use every time one of the characters acts up. This is probably the show’s peak in popularity, but I’m sure the discourse machine will start up again once season three comes around, even if it’s quieter. Plus, this show has already kickstarted the careers of several of its actors, especially Zendaya, Hunter Schaffer, and Sydney Sweeney. No matter how insufferable people want to be about the show, this will likely be among the biggest TV seasons of the year. Does that mean it’s good? I remember really liking season one and its subsequent special episodes, even if a few moments left me rolling my eyes or questioning why several of the underage characters were regularly having sex with adults twice their age. The last episode of season one especially deflated my hype for the show a little bit. You can tell this series only has one writer because it gets so self-indulgent with its auteur-type pretentiousness that half the episode might as well be slow-motion montages set to music. Don’t even get me started on the “All For You” number that depicts Rue relapsing after Jules runs away. So on the nose that you can see it when you cross your eyes.

Season two is… better? No, that’s not it. On par? Maybe? Worse? I don’t think so? It’s kind of weird to gauge my feelings on season two because I was really engaged with it from beginning to end, yet I walked out of this season wishing there was more to it. I guess part of the problem is that the season was built on a lot of tension that never really hit a satisfying resolve. That tension was what kept me watching to see how every episode played out. Maybe that’s why everyone hated the finale so much. We got some closure, but it didn’t really feel like the big blowout the show was building towards. Plus, a lot of plot points were either seemingly dropped or quietly shelved for the next season. Worse off, certain characters got less focus than others and as a result, ended the season with no arc or given any real importance for a subplot that could have been more interesting if Sam Levinson cared enough about it. At least the show’s pretentious moments have been restrained a little more. They still take way too long, but there’s some really good imagery and excellent music choices that make these otherwise overlong montages nice to look at. The scene with Cal at the gay bar and Cassie at Maddy’s party while “Stand By Me” by Ben E. King plays, in particular, are a highlight of the season for me. Two characters forced to confront a truth about themselves they’re no longer afraid to hide, finding that “euphoria” in just letting all their emotions lose and embracing their true selves. It’s for the better, but mostly for the worse. 

I think this is where my general problems with season two get mostly overshadowed by what I love about this show. These characters are so dynamic in their personality and experience that you find yourself invested in how they grow as people and want the best for them, even when life kicks them while they’re down. One problem with the Twitter discourse around this show is how onlookers want to characterize these characters down to one mistake they can’t be forgiven for. Rue’s drug addiction making her a manipulative, apathetic person, Jules cheating on Rue repeatedly, EVERYTHING Cassie did this season, and it’s made people react in really toxic ways against people who do like those characters or feel the need to take sides in whatever personal drama the characters are going through. I hate this discourse because one, it’s very telling which characters you have less sympathy for and pick on more vocally than the others for reasons that are frankly petty and single-minded, and two, it does the characters a disservice to boil down their long trail of trauma down to a general flaw that is only a piece of the bigger picture. I mainly target a lot of the Jules dissenters when I say this because this has the added concern of internalized transphobia, but it applies just as much to someone like Cassie.

Cassie is probably the best character of the season, which is by no means an endorsement of her actions. When I say that, I mean she’s the most interestingly written character, with some tremendous acting from Sydney Sweeney capturing a lovestruck teenager falling for someone she shouldn’t. She’s so massively insecure about herself that she’s willing to take that validation from someone like Nate, who sucks and is a bad person and who sucks. Cassie’s moral struggle on whether or not she should follow her heart or listen to the voice in her head that tells her not to sleep with her best friend’s ex is one that a high schooler just can’t process effectively. Especially after Cassie dumps McKay for being a shitty boyfriend (remember McKay? Neither does the show), she doesn’t like the idea of staying single because she doesn’t like herself enough to validate her own existence. That’s why she runs to the only person who gives her that love and affection, Nate. Who, I reiterate, is a piece of shit, bad person who sucks. Okay, I’ll be a little more fair to Nate, I applaud this season for giving me more of a reason to at least understand Nate. The show makes no excuses for his manipulative, controlling behavior over the women that fall for him, but the extended focus on Cal and how he traumatized his family at least ties it back to why Nate is so cold-hearted and constantly angry. He’s full of resentment for Cal over enforcing toxic masculine ideals while living a double life fucking younger boys and girls and recording them for his sick pleasure. Even when Cal finally abandons his family, Nate still feels that resentment bubbling inside of him. I REALLY liked the conversations he had with his mother after Cal left, which show him at his most likable and human, only for that resentment to come back and revert him to that shitty, impossible-to-be-around person that his dad built him up to be. His mom even calls it straight to his face. Nate fucking sucks. And Nate hates the fact that he sucks. I almost found myself rooting for Nate at points, particularly when he actually protects Jules and gives her the recording of Cal having sex with her so she can destroy it and when he calls the cops on Cal to prevent him from living a happier life without him. Incredible acting on Jacob Elordi in that scene, holy shit. Unfortunately, that sympathy goes away once I remember he held Maddy at gunpoint and traumatized her into giving him said disc. Once again, Nate sucks and is a bad person and also sucks.

I don’t have many thoughts on Jules this season. Not that she didn’t do much, but I think a lot of my feelings on her are mostly tied to her relationship with Rue. And Rue I have MOUNTAINS of thoughts on I’ll save until the end. One of the more interesting additions to the series this season was a third person who ends up third-wheeling Rue and Jules’ relationship until he ends up getting involved himself. Elliot, played by Dominic Fike, is a really interesting foil to Rue. He’s similarly addicted to drugs but has a more level head on his shoulders. Obviously, he isn’t an angel himself, encouraging Rue’s drug addiction and later falling for Jules and hooking up with her behind Rue’s back, but Elliot is also more aware of his drug usage and doesn’t overdo it to the point of being reliant on them. He’s also generally kinder and more receptive to Jules’ emotions, something she desperately needs as a trans girl who needs that validation from her partners and hasn’t gotten from anyone aside from Rue. Even then, Rue didn’t exactly give her that validation when they were actually dating. Him telling Jules about Rue doing drugs again, causing her to tell Rue’s mom and begin the nightmare of an intervention from “Stand Still Like a Hummingbird”, was the push needed for Rue to hit rock bottom and snap out of her addiction so she can actually take care of herself. Of course, the show ends up forgetting about him after that and he only really shows up in the last episode so Dominic Fike can get a song in and promote his own music, but hey, for the little time he had, I thought he was a good addition.

Unfortunately, “forgetting about characters” turned out to be a theme of this season. I joked about McKay being essentially forgotten after the first episode, but the character who got the shortest end of the stick is tragically one of the show’s best characters, Kat. Kat shined a lot last season with her journey in embracing her sexuality through the darkest, most perverted sides of the internet. It showed someone becoming more confident and happy with themselves while not shying away from how dangerous it can be for someone as young as Kat, something she realizes as she stops webcamming and finds a healthier relationship with Ethan. But this season ends up wasting what could have been a really interesting arc for Kat. Some speculate that an argument that Barbie Ferreira had with Levinson caused a lot of her scenes to be cut, but those are only rumors with no real evidence to back them up aside from hearsay. Still, it is disappointing that Kat is mostly ignored or relegated to Maddy’s friend this season. I don’t understand why. The second episode set up this really interesting concept of Kat being bored by Ethan’s affection and fantasizing about being fucked by a buff Viking-type guy who fetishizes her the way her pay pigs used to do. Plus a similar scene of her being overwhelmed by the pressure to “love herself” coming from models who don’t understand the insecurity she has about her image. Unfortunately, that’s all we really get out of Kat, since the rest of the series she’s only given minuscule scenes and no one to talk to about it. Not even Maddy, who’s busy with her own subplot that gets dropped without warning or any real development. Her subplot ends with an awkward dinner date with her and Ethan where she essentially self-sabotages herself by being intentionally irrational so Ethan breaks up with her. I thought they would follow this up, but they didn't! Ethan ends up being a big star in Lexi’s musical and his breakup with Kat is just. Never mentioned! Kat better gets a way bigger arc next season, because I hate how they just neglected her and gave her such a weak payoff.

Similarly, I’m not sure if Levinson fully tapped into Maddy’s potential this season. She was definitely not ignored, as the betrayal she felt over Cassie sleeping with Nate is a huge conflict for the season, but I’m also not sure if her development over that plus her babysitting subplot is made all that clear. She seems to be on the path to something healthier as she gets along with the kid she's babysitting. Plus, she finds a special connection with his mom who had been through similar things that Maddy was going through. I found their relationship in particular really interesting, because Maddy is confident in how she’s feeling and where she wants to go, yet she still values the mom’s hindsight on her own experiences and how she eventually found a husband that made her feel truly happy. I don’t know how much of those lessons really fed into Maddy though, because she’s still as vapid and catty as she was in the first season. Especially volatile when she finds out about Cassie and Nate. But there’s not really a moment of reflection for her, at least I don’t think so. She still has a seething hatred for Cassie and what she did, and even if by the end there’s a twinge of sympathy she expresses once Cassie mentions that Nate dumped her, I’m not sure it was enough to shed a new perspective on her friendship with Cassie. I dunno, I think the show needed more time between the reveal and the ending to show Maddy truly process her feelings about Cassie. She ended up not being a favorite of mine this season because they just didn’t do enough with her. 

Who DID become an unexpected favorite of mine this season was Lexi. Someone I didn’t pay much mind to in the previous season is now this season’s emotional core. It’s funny that around the time Euphoria came back up in the conversation, a lot of Twitter users expressed pride in being a “side character” in Euphoria who lived a normal life and wasn’t caught up in dangerous situations and trauma like the others. That was essentially the role Lexi played in the previous season, and turned out to be a major insecurity in her character. While Cassie, Rue, Kat and Maddy are off doing their own thing and living their best life, Lexi feels like she doesn't know how to be herself, revolving her life around her involvement with other characters. That is, until she meets the GOAT Fezco at the New Year’s Party. Fezco is my favorite character in the show, hands down, and this season does a lot to really flesh him out as a character, especially with his newfound friendship with Lexi. You see his friendlier side really come up when he talks to Lexi, fascinated by her thoughts and always willing to listen to her problems throughout the season. Their banter is honestly adorable, and they’re easily my favorite ship of the series, I just want good things for them! So of course they had to not only get Fez arrested and thus unable to attend Lexi’s play like he promised, but they took it a step further and fucking killed Ashtray to his face. People HATED this outcome which is understandable. Ashtray was an entertaining character, and him dying so brutally to the SWAT team only serves to completely traumatize Fez and kill off a character they clearly had no idea what to do with. I noticed early on that despite the added focus on Fez this season, Ashtray didn’t have any lines. I don’t know why when the show makes it very clear Fez’s entire life goal was to defend Ashtray after the death of their mother. A friend of mine grieved that they should have given us at least a scene of Lexi visiting Fez in jail or something to resolve that arc that was just kinda brushed off in the end. Knowing Levinson, he probably wants to leave that scene for the next season which is annoying. 

Back to Lexi though, I love the direction Levinson decided to take with her. It takes on sort of a metanarrative where Lexi takes her “side character” association and writes a play about a group of friends who fall apart over time. She makes the unsubtle and reckless decision to base the characters of her play directly off of the other characters in the show. Right down to picking actors who look like them. The thing about making art that’s representative of the artist’s real life is that it can be incredibly risky to pull off, especially when people involved see that art and have a response to it. Lexi even expresses this concern with Fez, wondering if she might hurt someone while trying to express herself. Even if Fez reassures her that sometimes people need to confront themselves to see a truth they may not want to hear, making that art so tied to real people in front of an audience without full context means however you depict that person, that’s the person the audience will see. This is something we saw when “All Too Well” by Taylor Swift became a sensation at the end of last year. People got so caught up in the complicated story of Taylor and Jake Gyllenhaal that people made it their mission to depict Gyllenhaal as 2021’s main villain. When in reality, both artists have moved on with their lives and this is only Taylor’s story. Then again, Gyllenhaal himself acknowledges that Taylor can’t control how her fans see their relationship. It’s just a part of art that will always be tricky to navigate, and though you may reach one person, you may also lose another who takes away the wrong message.

There’s a standout scene in the penultimate episode where Ethan portrays Jake, an obvious parallel to Nate, in a gym full of shirtless men doing a massive choreographed music number about their blatant homoeroticism. The audience in this scene EATS IT UP, adoring the absurd machismo on display full of explicit gay imagery and essentially demasculinizing the dudes who act like they’re manly, strong, and definitely straight. Even the queer characters are obsessed with this performance! Everyone loves it… except for Nate. This season makes it clear that all of Nate’s trauma and pent up issues with his sexuality stems from finding out about his dad’s secret life at a very young age to the point where he has a recurring nightmare thinking about his dad fucking him the same way he fucked the people he saw in those recordings. And considering Nate’s solution to expressing this trauma is bottling it up and blowing up at anyone who tries to press him about it, watching a musical number depicting a version of you that constantly indulges in gay sexual acts, stripping you of the masculinity you spent years building up as a shield and hearing everyone laugh and cheer like it’s some sort of sick joke? Look, it’s fuck Nate forever and always, but if I was in his shoes I’d probably have a mental breakdown too. It’s a fucked up thing to use against a real-life person. Even if Lexi didn’t know about Nate’s trauma, she still did something super fucked up. Did Nate deserve it? I honestly don’t think so. And it’s part of why I love the play subplot so much. I brought up how a lot of people felt pride in being a “normal” person like Lexi, but if anything this season exposed flaws we didn’t even know she had. I’m not exaggerating when I say this play is self-indulgent, uncomfortably revealing, and self-congratulatory as an outlet for Lexi to be the center of attention. The last two episodes call this out multiple times. There are more subtle hints like how when “Grace” is describing the way she thinks puberty will help her popularity, one of the male extras says “I wish I got to fuck Lexi Howard” instead of “I wish I got to fuck Grace”. But there are times where it’s more blatant, like the repeated assertion that Lexi is a genius for this play and how vulnerable she is. Even if she hurts several people in the process, including Nate and especially Cassie. Though, Cassie has no one but herself to blame for stopping the play to have a mental breakdown in front of everyone. And for what? A boy who dumped her for the petty reason of “your sister made fun of my insecure sexuality”? Season 3 is probably going to be a nightmare for Cassie because now the roles between Lexi and Cassie are going to be swapped. But I don’t think that’s really what Lexi wanted. It’s what everyone else wants though, and that opportunity to finally seize the validation she’s craved all season? It’s kind of fucked up when you really think about it.

Does this mean Lexi’s play makes her a bad person or was a move so egotistical and awful it turns her character into someone self-absorbed? No, not really. She may become a bit more demanding and less patient, but the play wouldn’t have resonated with people if that honesty didn’t have humanity in there somewhere. The play ends with a conversation between Grace and Jade, comforting each other after a long time of being separated as friends. Though, the scene is depicted as if it happened between Lexi and Rue the day after the play. It’s one of my favorite pieces of dialogue in the series, as Rue comes to the realization that she didn’t hate the depiction of her as Jade in the play. She got the opportunity to see herself through someone else’s eyes, someone who didn’t know the whole story but still knew Rue really well. Living through the funeral scene should have been traumatic for Rue, but in a way, it also reminded her of where the pain inside her is coming from. The trauma of losing her dad and being so afraid to lose him she’d escape those emotions through drugs and essentially destroying her body to replace that pain. Going back to what Fez told Lexi about how sometimes hurting people is necessary for them to confront themselves, I think in this case that has a more positive effect on Rue. While Cassie and Nate are afraid to find themselves in an antagonistic position and resent Lexi for making them see it, Rue confronting herself means she remembers she’s not irredeemable as a person. She doesn’t need to keep alienating herself from others because they really do understand what she’s going through. Which leads to a lowkey, but optimistic ending for Rue this season.

Now Rue… Rue, Rue, Rue… 

A friend of mine was constantly reminded of Bojack Horseman this season, a show I only recently watched for the first time last year. While I don’t think Euphoria has ever gotten as soul-crushing or challenging as Bojack did, the comparison mostly lies in the gray morality of its main character. I went back and forth on Rue so many times this season. You can see in these tweets here I go back and forth between hesitantly not liking Rue, to outright despising Rue, to becoming sympathetic to Rue, even if I don’t entirely forgive her. Rue’s arc this season was STRESSFUL, seeing her fall back into her addiction and getting herself in incredibly dangerous situations for the sake of getting that fix. Worse off, this season she finally makes things official with Jules, but she’s constantly high and never gives Jules the emotional response she needs from her. Thus, leading to very awkward moments between the two like Rue being unable to orgasm or even feel anything during sex or Rue acting standoffish when Jules tries to interrogate her about Elliot. A lot of people were mad at Jules for cheating on her with Elliot, but when Rue is emotionally neglecting her and damaging herself behind her back, of course, she’s going to respond to whatever advances he puts on her, intentional or not. It leads to Jules finding out about Rue relapsing and telling her mom about it, which in itself leads to that terrifying fight scene where Rue verbally abuses Jules and goes through every shitty, negative, insulting thought she ever had about Jules in one terrible barrage. That was the point where I dove straight into “Rue fucking sucks” territory. Obviously, this is something addiction and withdrawal does to people, but the shit Rue spews at Jules to her face is frankly disgusting. Jules dared to give a shit about Rue’s health and in response, Rue essentially broadcasts her insecurities and berates her for wanting something more than sex. The most heartbreaking part is watching Jules take all of it. Stone-faced with tears falling from her eyes. She hears Rue accuse her of only being into her because she just “likes being loved”, which is something you should NEVER say to a trans person who is ostracized by society and only valued by her sexual partners for fetishistic, dehumanizing reasons, but she doesn’t snap. She just takes it, and in response says, “I love you and I want you to get better”. That part tore my heart to shreds. Jules has already dealt with addiction in her family, and she knows that Rue doesn’t mean any of it. But it still hurts, and all she wants her to know is that she loves her and wants what’s best for her. No matter how much Rue deflects, she doesn’t budge. But I can’t imagine how much it hurts to hear all this from someone you love more than anyone. Jules didn’t deserve any of that, and it made me so angry at Rue for being such an awful person. Addiction is poison, but it doesn’t speak for the person by itself. The person has to have those thoughts buried inside of them in order for that addiction to unleash it. 

The only way for the show to realign me to like, or at least, be supportive of Rue, is to put her in a situation so awful it snaps her out of it and leads her to at least make an effort to be better. In this case, it was reaching Laurie’s house at the worst of her withdrawal and admitting to her that she lost the drugs and can’t pay her back. If there’s one stand-out performance in the entire season, it’s Martha Kelly as Laurie. A kingpin with a terrifying amount of power and sway, yet the poise and calm of someone who has no emotion left to shed. She is TERRIFYING. She monologues to Rue as she’s melting from the withdrawal, calmly talking about how there are other ways of paying her back while injecting her with morphine to knock her out, all the while it’s strongly implied she plans to traffick Rue and use her body as a way for her to pay her back is impossible to sit through. She sells this tense situation almost too well, to the point where I felt genuinely unnerved and concerned that the show was going to cross that line. Thankfully, the show gives Rue an escape plan, but I think that was the moment when I let my guard down with Rue. Being shown the dark path you were about to take is enough for anyone to spook someone into avoiding it. The next episode kind of rushes through Rue sobering up, but I do at least like that it hints that you don’t have to forgive Rue in order to be happy for her. One thing I haven’t mentioned as part of my love/hate relationship with Rue is how her relationship with Ali nearly breaks this season. Once she gets ahold of the drugs from Laurie, Rue gets too cocky with herself and essentially shrugs off any warning someone gives her and disrespects them to their face. Especially Ali, who tries to confront her over her dishonesty and Rue coldly weaponizes his estranged family against him. To the point where Ali, after giving Rue so many benefits of the doubt, snaps back at her for using his trauma against him like that. And yet, Rue just stands there, smiling like a piece of shit as if to say, “I’m not sorry”. That was another massive breaking point for me, as Ali is the best character next to Fez in the show for being a layered ex-addict who genuinely strives to see the best in people, even Rue. But he knows his limits and when someone is a lost cause, which is where Rue was absolutely headed. But after Rue’s withdrawal episode, Rue finally apologizes to Ali, who readily forgives her and is willing to see her again as soon as the next day. Which, I get. Ali has been an addict before. He knew that Rue was headed down one of addiction’s darkest paths, and thus, he knew that if she ever talked to him again, it meant that the person he saw in her is clearly still there. Of course, he’s wise enough to know people like Gia will still feel hurt by everything she did. Which is why him reminding her that forgiveness isn’t required is so important for both Gia and the show. Because honestly, I still don’t know if I like Rue as a person. Obviously, she’s great as a character, clearly, someone Levinson is very passionate about, but as a person, I still don’t want to see her back with Jules, nor do I think she’s become a better person as a result of crawling out of rock bottom. But I do hope that next season could give her a break. Shift the focus onto characters Levinson forgot to give an arc to like Kat or Jules. Or focus on Maddy and Cassie’s fallout after the fallout, exploring the residual damage while giving them the chance to maybe change their tune in the future. Rue doesn’t have to be thrown to the background, but I think I’ve had enough heavy episodes with her for a while.

My prediction is that between seasons two and three we will likely see special episodes for Cassie and Maddy, the same way we saw them for Jules and Rue in between seasons one and two. And personally, I’m really excited to see whatever those special episodes might be. They’ve been the best episodes of the show, and the deep dive into each character is much stronger than the moments when they try to be super artsy or trying to juggle several arcs at once.

Eight pages of Euphoria talk later, what does this all say about my feelings on season two? I’m kind of glad I wrote this whole thing, even if no one reads it because the show has given me a lot to think about. I think in some ways I understand Levinson’s writing as a mirror to my own struggles in writing. Strong character writing, good at keeping people invested in the drama, but struggling to find the balance needed to make the more quiet, visual moments pop. Though in Levinson’s case, his self-indulgence is in the form of pretentious, drawn-out music videos and my self-indulgence is being too afraid the audience won’t get it so I don’t let my characters stop talking and just breathe for a second. Either way, I get the struggle of wanting to keep your vision intact while still having noticeable flaws that could easily be looked over and revised by other writers with different strengths. Though the big difference between us is that I’m a cartoonist in school honing my craft, and Levinson is in charge of the biggest high school drama of the 2020s. In which case, I think he should get more writers for the show if only to have someone hold him back and redirect the show when it starts flying off the rails. I’d call it on par with season one, with maybe the caveat that season one is a little better. So much of this season is built on cliffhangers and tension that by the end doesn’t get resolved as well as it should have. This season needed one or two more episodes for a more satisfying ending, because otherwise, a lot of this season’s strengths are muted and its flaws become more prevalent the more you think about it. Still, the best moments of season two are among the best in the entire series, and it’s kept me engaged for the past two months eagerly awaiting 9 PM every Sunday to hop on and watch the next episode right away. Could do without the awful discourse on Twitter, but that’s because Twitter needs to make a hot take out of everything, especially if it’s popular and beloved by people who go outside regularly. Everything aside, in my own perspective, I liked season two a lot, and eagerly await the next season which will also be filled with frustrating writing, crazy drama, forced memes, and more opportunities to shake my fist at the air at Sam Levinson for not letting good things happen to Fezco.