Rue is on the verge of that untethered, euphoric state that won Zendaya a deserved Emmy, and Ali is trying to lend her enough clarity to see that a downward spiral has no floor. Rue can’t hide from Ali, or herself, or her impulses, and all of these things become the topics of the conversation as it veers down and then tries to reverse out of the dead-end alleyways of self-loathing and despair. He wasn’t privy to the hazy, idyllic fantasy that opened the episode, with Rue and Jules living the life they might have done had Jules not left Rue behind, but even that ends with the snorting of a crushed pill.
Rue has relapsed, and it doesn’t take long for Ali to tell. I suspect much of the audience won’t be either. The conversation lasts an hour, give or take, and then it ends, and you get the sense that neither of them will be quite the same for having had it. They needle cold pancakes with cheap cutlery, laugh and cry. In it, Rue (Zendaya) and her sponsor Ali (Colman Domingo) sit in a diner on Christmas Eve and just talk. A part of me expected “Trouble Don’t Last Always”, a Christmas special no less, to be all this and then some, where the only trees are the ones you smoke and the only baubles are the ones your eyes resemble afterward.
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It’s neon and smeared lipstick and the grainy phone footage of motel liaisons music too loud to hear the lyrics, mirrors too cracked to see their reflections. It’s about shots of liquor and lines of crushed pills and the worst impulses of oversexed teens writ large. You can check out our thoughts on the first season finale by clicking these words.Įuphoria is, at least to me, about excess and indulgence. This recap of the Euphoria special episode, “Trouble Don’t Last Always”, contains spoilers. A remarkable hour of television, “Trouble Don’t Last Always” strips Euphoria bare for a special episode in which Colman Domingo delivers the small-screen performance of the year.
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