The Reel Rejects - EUPHORIA SEASON 2 FINALE REVIEW–THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF EMOTIONAL WHIPLASH!–FIRST TIME WATCHING

Episode Date: April 11, 2026

THIS FINALE WAS CHAOS…. With Euphoria Season 3 premiering TOMORROW NIGHT on HBO, Tara & Johnald RETURN to complete their EUPHORIA Season 2 reaction, recap, commentary, analysis, breakdown, & spoiler review! Start your online business with a $1 per-month trial when you visit https://www.shopify.com/rejects! Euphoria Full Reaction Watch Along:   / thereelrejects   Gift Someone (Or Yourself) An RR Tee! https://shorturl.at/hekk2 EUPHORIA 2x5 & 2x6 REACTION    • EUPHORIA 2x05 & 2x06 REACTION – WE ARE PHY...   EUPHORIA 2x3 & 2x4 REACTION    • EUPHORIA 2x03 & 2x04 REACTION –WE WERE FUL...   EUPHORIA 2x1 & 2x2 REACTION:    • EUPHORIA 2x1 & 2x2 REACTION – FEZ JUST WRE...   Tara Erickson & John Humphrey react to and break down Euphoria Season 2 Episodes 7 & 8, the HBO drama created by Sam Levinson and starring Zendaya (Dune, Spider-Man: No Way Home) as Rue Bennett, as the season builds to one of its most ambitious and emotionally charged finales. Follow Tara Erickson: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@TaraErickson Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/taraerickson/ Twitter:  https://twitter.com/thetaraerickson Intense Suspense by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Follow Us On Socials:  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/  Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.com/@reelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/reelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ Music Used In Ad:  Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Happy Alley by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM:  FB:  https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM:  https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER:  https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Uh, where are my gloves? Come on, heat. Any day now? Winter is hard, but your groceries don't have to be. This winter, stay warm. Tap the banner to order your groceries online at voila.ca. Enjoy in-store prices without leaving your home. You'll find the same regular prices online as in-store.

Many promotions are available both in-store and online, though some may vary. Thank you to Shopify for sponsoring this video. them in just bit. The strap in people. Get your boots on. Let's do it. Let's do it. Three, two, one.

Maybe not. Hold on. Three to one. That was hilarious, guys. All right. If you're here at this moment in time, don't forget. Please leave a like on the video if you could. Also, if you would be so kind as to subscribe.

And when you subscribe, don't forget to. Ring the bell, yeah, yeah, ring the bell. So you can be notified when the next batch of Euphoria episodes comes your way when season three begins. Yeah. Or when they drop two additional special episodes between seasons so that we can finally see what the production of Oklahoma at the school was like. So that we can then judge which play was better between Oklahoma and our life. Because they did make a big deal out of the fact that, like, Oklahoma was for, was for, ninnies. And that, you know, Lexi's play would be much more, you know, pertinent and real.

So I hope we get that special two episode part. Pertinent and real indeed. Also, though, check it out. Thanks to the team over at Prepper for chopping these highlights together, for running the play, for being the Lexi and the Bobby and the lighting guy of this endeavor right here. It's one of the most difficult shows we cover in terms of content. that you can show on a YouTube channel and not get blocked or age-restricted. So we do appreciate their efforts. Mightily, also, if you want to get the full and complete euphoria experience

alongside Tara and I see every morsel and moment that doesn't make these reaction highlights, at least of our experience, we can't show you the entire episode or movie or whatever. If you see reaction highlights on the channel, there's a watch along over a Patreon, most likely. You'll sync up with your own copy there. HBO Max is where we watch this show,

but however you got it, sync up. time code and pretend you're in the room there with us. You also get a look at our shooting schedule each day. You get to ask us the questions that will help guide this review portion after the thing and you can save yourself a little discount on some teas or

sweaters such as these over at rejectnation shop.com. I also just got a lovely community of people over there. It's a good time. All right. That's all the housekeeping. Tara. Euphoria.

Yeah, man. Two Foria, Season 2, Electric Bugaloo. How are you feeling? These two episodes were very engaging, very enthralling. There's just, like, so much that went down that, like, I was, I was like, I can't even, I'm so enthralled by it that I can't even say anything because I'm like, this is wild. Like, I'm so locked in, but also, like, internally, dying inside.

Yeah. Yeah, these were a couple of really, you know, obviously the show's really great, well written, but it really did get to the emotional core. Absolutely in these two episodes. So I loved it. I'm excited for more, even though, sure, it's just depressing AF, but it's a great TV show. That's where I'm at. Yeah, I would agree.

It's very effective, very permeating, gives you a lot of different. ways to look at stuff. It's very thoughtful, again, for everything I hear about how, you know, good of a guy Sam Levinson is or not. Tremendous talent, writing, directing all the stuff. This is such a piece. And, yeah, it's big harsh. It's got really saturated emotional content. It's very pulp. But God, if it isn't effective. And, yeah, to be intercutting between this play and then the tragedy of everything with Fez and Ash and watching this fallout happen, it was good because it, you know,

this has a fun, you know, it's like if you're a movie nerd or a theater nerd, these episodes have like so much for you. You know, it's like the show already has, you know, built itself upon looking really beautiful and being stylistically evocative.

But then to see these things like interming, with an actual play that it seems like they would have had to have put on in some fashion to shoot this which again these are not actual gripes but I am fascinated that this school A allowed this play to happen B that they had all

these means to get these incredible sets these great costumes all of this like yeah interesting stage craft and they have like a facility at their school that can handle this. I'm like, what the hell school did you guys

go to? We had to fight tooth and nail to like, you know, we'd go out of pocket if we wanted cool shit at our play, and we went to a private school. Anyway, suffice it to say. This was really fun and really harsh, and I liked the emotional payoffs of it. It's weird. It feels like

you could end in the show here. I know there's a massive time jump to season three because it's been so long. I don't know anything about what season three is supposed to be. I assume we're going to probably embrace them not being in school anymore. But either way, just the way it ends off with Rue, you know, giving this monologue and being like, I finished out the school year and I have at least this idea about, you know, how and why and

what now after this talk with Lexi about, you know, choosing to do better for anybody else and for yourself and why and all these different things. You have to give it purpose. Yeah, it's like one of those things where I'm like, I don't know if Rue's drugs journey is over, but she does seem like she has convincingly grown. It turned a page. And the play is really cool because, yeah, like you could imagine any number of ways in which she might freak out

but like to watch her and Jules and watch them each kind of experiencing it and taking it in and even getting into it. It was just like really fascinating and the idea that yes she would then be like, you know, after seeing it from a third person perspective it does seem as though I can afford myself a little compassion

because when you look at it, this way. Boy, have I been through a lot. And I'm like, yes, yes, you have. Sue's MVP, absolutely adored watching her reaction to all of this. Ethan, he's going to be fine. He was playing half the characters in

the show. Love to see that. He looked very happy. The freaking gym scene, iconic and insane. The whole dance number that goes on for the entirety of that song. That was the best. Nate is dead.

I need a hero. Yeah. Belt, you got the pipes, Tara. You should do an Elliot. Like that scene, there's just like a lot of thoughtful, a lot of really like well-crafted coming of age, you know, the mess of life type stuff in here. Yeah.

And, yeah. God. It's intense. R-I-P. Ashtray. That was crazy work. Yeah. That kid, I don't know. It's damaging episodes, man.

God. Ash is rad. Like, he's cool. he's cool as a character in the fiction but like at this point in the show you're like this is how this was gonna go down ash has been doing this too long from too young and age to have really the good sense to think bigger than this yeah no he's yeah and he's just gonna fight he's a baby snake you know he's a very well-trained baby snake but he's a baby snake and uh that was tragic fess i'm sad that he has passed angus cloud rip because i was looking for forward to part of me was like oh weird is he going to actually die and i wonder if they're just going to maybe say that that's what happened right or if they're going to have him live on off-screen in jail or something but suffice it to say i was heartbroken obviously by the circumstances of him not making it and also uh that was i guess that's one thing where i'm like ah god damn it

that's a little plot mechanic like i'm not mad about it because it made for good intercutting intention but the fact that like ah custer you had to fucking come over today right now all times to do this yeah uh but the fact that it is something that's like carrying over from season one i guess is kind of a nice thing yeah uh but yeah big sad for him i'm glad he like ostensibly maybe possibly sort of survived that but still very very sad uh fay fascinating that actress that character fascinating strange you know good looking out by the end but also ugh uh yeah and then cassie the whole meltdown her and freaking maddie going at it it was crazy that was great it felt like i was watching a housewives or something by that point

oh yeah it's like oh this is full on reality popcorn tv wild dude but uh i have a feeling you guys quite you know both of our brains are a bit scrambled and our and our emotional cortexes are juiced so let's let's check with you guys and you guys can help guide us here let's do it sam Levinson, creator of the show, is commenting. Because obviously, big patron over at the Patreon page. Dumb. Sam. Hi, Terran, John.

Hi to you. I've really enjoyed watching you guys react to Euphoria. And I'm so excited for season three. Do you think it's possible for Maddie and Cassie to become friends again after the finale? Love y'all. I don't know, man. I feel like the only way they could ever be friends is in a. post-nate world for the both of them.

Bare minimum. And even then, I don't know, man. Like, that would have to take a lot of, uh, that would depend on Maddie's growth as a person. Right. Because like at the, on the one hand, and there's, there are more questions about this. So we won't go the full distance. But, you know, they end off in a place where you're like, okay, maybe we'll just go our separate ways and I don't have to murder you for all.

that talk, Maddie's like, I'm going to fucking murder and destroy your life and all that stuff, you know. Yeah, when they were sitting there and the fact that Maddie wasn't like shoving her head into the toilet, it gave us like an insight when it's like they fought it out and she's just like, it's just the beginning. But she says it as though she is happy to pass the baton on to Cassie and be free. of it in a way. So them being friends, it will never go back to the way that it was. They'll never be besties. But I believe it will stay civil

until if something were to happen again, we know Maddie can set off, but as of now, I think it would be civil. Friends, starting something is honestly terrifying. Before Real Rejects became like a business, I remember thinking, what if no one watches? What if this just fails? And the truth is, most people don't start

because they get stuck in that. And what helped us push through was having the right tools. And for us, that's been Shopify. We've used Shopify for years before we ever partnered with them. They are what helped power our entire merchline, Reject NationShop.com.

And what I love is how simple it made everything and continues to make everything. It's basically an all-in-one platform. Your store, payments, inventory, analytics, all-in-one place. There's no jumping between a bunch of confusing sites. And even if you're just starting, you can build a clean, legit-looking store with their templates, run email and social campaigns, and even use AI tools to help write product descriptions or improve your pages.

Plus, that shop pay button makes checkout insanely fast, which means more people actually complete their purchases. So if you've been sitting on an idea and you're hearing about this, this is your sign. It's time to turn those what-ifs into with Shopify. You can sign up for $1 per month trial today at Shopify.com slash rejects. You can go to Shopify.com slash rejects. That's Shopify. com slash rejects. Thank you, Shopify for sponsoring this video.

I am fascinated because, too, there was that whole exchange between her and the lady she babysits for the whole thing about like she's like, oh, she never spoke to me again. Yeah, but even in these episodes where she gives her the gift and it makes it seem like, oh, Maddie's going to leave. She's going to go. She's not going to stick around. Yeah, you're right. You're right.

You're right. And not to say that none of the other characters are going to do that too. No, you're right. Probably. But yeah, I feel like Maddie is going to be someplace where Cassie just isn't. Just isn't there. But then again, I'm like, we know drama. We know we know they got to.

Part of me is like they got it, though. There's got to be. We got to check back in on this dynamic and conflict. Yeah. I, I. I don't think. I think so. I don't know.

I think so. But let's go, because we're on the subject, let's go to Malique. Take it away. All right. When Maddie tells Cassie, don't worry,

this is just the beginning. Maddie is telling her to buckle up because she's about to go through the same cycle with Nate. Do you think that Maddie was giving her this warning as a friend? Or do you think this is her essentially saying that she's done with the both of them

and saying good luck? I basically just said that. I was like, I think she's passing a ton on. I think she's probably, saying it as a warning but we could already read that in Cassie's face in the acting like

oh shit she's right and Cassie has lived through all of those cycles with Maddie as her best friend so I think it's more passing the baton on in my opinion yeah that's that's very much like you know what was I going to say

it's a it's a I've been you kind of moment like ah I yeah You're, you're, you're, the precipice of a cycle that I am just beginning to learn how to let go of potentially and to, you know, reclaim my own self from. And so, yeah, I feel like it's very much like, oh, no, don't worry, kiddo. I know that he just broke up with you and all that stuff, but you also have to be pretty, oh, I've had our mics mixed up the whole time. You are louder than me.

Oh, no, John. It's okay. Don't even trip. Oh, God. I made a point to be extra loud today. They're going to kill us. It's okay. There's nothing we can do in editing.

Okay. Yeah, I think it's that. It's like a good luck you're going to need it. Yeah, absolutely. He's not got his hooks out of you yet. And even though he just broke up with you in this, again, intense moment, this is all part of the Nate cycle. And it does seem like while Maddie does love the fight,

obviously, it seems like she is at least breaking out of the nymph. Nate cycle. I agree. I'm totally with you on that. Yeah. So, golly. I am very worried for Cassie's future. And for her growth.

She's got some rough. She's got some growing to do. And it's going to be really tough. Yeah. She's a character who leaves off in one of the less closure adjacent places. Agreed. She's sort of free hang in there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And, you know, Nate's outweigh, wherever Nate is. I mean, he gets at least the closure of locking his daddy up, which is crazy. And I guess it is just that for right now. I guess we'll just assume that just because he if discovered the discs when he was such a young child, just all kind of, yeah, it made him see and understand stuff about the world and his dad specifically. But at the same time, you're like, I don't know. There's different ages, John.

Yeah, the age thing. As he said when I was 11, I found them. And there was a whole thing about him being nine. Your whole vibe changed. That shit is going to come for us because I clocked that. Yeah, I wonder. I'm like, this cannot be just like a bad script supervision detail or something like that. Yeah, no way.

But yeah. I think this, I think it might be the last of her friendship giving the warning. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think it's like, as someone who was once your friend and is now preparing to be done with you. Yeah. Good luck. Bye.

Because this will consume your life and it's all you're going to have the major energy for. Right. But, oh, my God. I think you're right about that, actually. Oh, my God. What a, what an epic crash out. Part of me was actually expecting more chaos between them. Not that I'm exactly mad that we basically cut from them running down the hall to the aftermath.

But I agree with you. I thought we would see a little bit more And then we just cut to her with the bloody nose I'm like, okay, I do remember shoving her head in there But I'm like, what the hell happened after? I wanted to see it. I'm so fascinated by their other friend. I think her name is BDBee.

Oh, who yelled. Yeah, he's been saying that for the last five episodes. He's like, I want to do a deep dive on that character. She is always with them in a group scenario. And she has like a unique presence. Yeah. And yet, every time. time we never learn

a thing about her. We don't. She's always hit in the fake. Says a line. She's kind of blissfully removed from all this chaos. Totally. And I love that actually. But at the same time, I do think it's kind of funny for that actor to be like, oh, I'm like a core part of this

friend group. I do. That's what, that's my name. He's like, why? It's my nightmare. I'm like, who are you? Yeah. Give us a backstory. You know, but it's got to be you know, good for that actor. Maybe she'll pop up more in the new season. There you go. There you go.

We'll shift focus once again. You never know. All right. Jay Dell, watching Lexi's play unfold. And thank you for chiming in, by the way. And mirror everyone's real lives. How do you think being forced to see themselves on stage effects to characters, especially in terms of what they've been avoiding or refusing to acknowledge?

It's like crazy free therapy. But not the good kind where it's. shoved in your face because that's what's happening. But it is, it's like they're having to be forced to have a reckoning because the information they know is true. It's factual. It's, it can't be like, well, she doesn't know.

It's like, no, she fucking knows because that's her sister and they're all really, really good friends, right? Yeah. So they're all, it's set up as like, oh, it's a reckoning, I think, for each and every character, which is why we see the, the, the downfall of it, the outlash, like between Cassie and Maddie and the fight and her and Nate break up. But then we see the comeback with Jules and Roo.

But Roo says Roo just gives her a kiss on the forehead and leaves, you know, because and the line of like, she was my first love. That's how I want to remember her. It's like the play gave them all a bit of a reckoning and had to face it. 100%. And I mean, it's the tough thing of like, you got to hope that Lexi is a good observer. you know and and how her perspective you know uh how truthful it affects all this yeah like trickles down but but yeah i mean it doesn't i really liked actually the illustration of this through rue because again i was like oh no because we know that they've been good friends over time but we've mostly

known their relationship through the show via strain uh you know i loved the the takeaway for her was like you know again to see all of this from an outside side perspective and to look at myself as I would somebody else. Yeah, like, you know, I think it's all in the, it's all in what happened here. It's like everyone gets confronted and some people are in a place where maybe they can see that and some people could not accept it. And then some people, yeah, could not accept it, not handle it and not, you know, sit with it. Yeah. So, you know, then you get Cassie lashing out and the whole, you know, oh, you weren't available to receive.

Oh, what? Being in my shadow so hard there are people being beheaded across the world. Yeah. Wait a minute. Your life is hard and you're just dealing with fucking Nate all the time. Yeah, you're like, bitch, don't deflect. Yeah. So it's a fascinating display of psychology.

And yeah. And yeah, I mean, Nate storming out and being like, this is so homophobic and they're all laughing at it. Yeah, I was surprised that he said that, that he went. It's very telling. I went, oh, I thought he was going to be a bigger dick about it. I thought he was going to be like, say something mean, you know. But I was like, oh. Yeah, they're trying to make you look gay or something.

Yeah, this is so homophobic. Exactly. It's like a really nice. It's, it's. Gives us a look into how he is. Exactly. It's like it stands out just enough that you're like. Just enough.

Huh. That's not what I thought you'd say. Exactly. But also like, but because I know you, that makes a lot of sense. Exactly. And then he goes immediately to his dad. Yep. You know, yeah, lays down this revenge.

punishment, destroy, humiliates him in front of his own peers. Yep. You know, as his father, well,

it's all this stuff his father's handed down to him is like, you know, bubbling up in his subconscious watching the skewering of the jocks and all that stuff.

And yeah, like, it's good. Like, it's, yeah. I think it affects everybody the,

yeah, in, it's a good, like, device, I think. Because, yeah,

you see how it affects everybody and that says something about where each of them is at and it was really fun to watch this one thing they always told us in school was that like one of the most basic things that people overlook that will make your stuff and this isn't really about that necessarily but people overlook the reaction shot you know for things and that's like big important and one thing that i loved is that beyond just the reaction shot they brought an element of the story into the crowd so you can see everybody who's being depicted in this play going like, oh, wait a minute. Yeah, we got that. And then coming back around to like, you know what? Like, I didn't expect when the play started for Maddie to be in a position in the middle of the play to be like, you know, you're fucking G, Lexi for the whole like. Yeah.

Once you see what's happening and it makes sense that Cassie would be especially upset about this given who's writing the play and why and what her insecurities are. Right. Yeah. Like, it makes a lot of sense, but I think it was a really well utilized and thoughtful and fun device. It just does so many things this play. Yeah. motif. It puts a pedal to the metal. And that's what we kind of needed here at the end of like, well, we've got to not wrap up these storylines, but a little bit. We're left hanging. There's so much

that we got through emotionally and story-wise in these last two episodes because they really floored it. And it's too, like the play angle is cathartic too because it allows us to laugh at some stuff that we've seen before in harsher context. Yeah. And it allows for, you know, like a different layer of thoughtfulness and, like, spontaneity and real emotion to arise. Yeah. And, yeah, I love that they took the time for the interaction between, again, what we know that has informed the play, what we are now seeing in flashback that we didn't know.

That we didn't know. And then, yeah, how it is affecting both the characters that we know as well as the greater population surrounding. It was very catharty. Exactly. They freaking floored it. Yeah. With all that.

Yeah. So, you know, you see who's ready to embrace some truths versus who's still in avoidance and denial through that. And, yeah, hats off. And as a theater kid, you know, as someone who did a handful of plays in high school, this just brought me back. Yeah. And that's part of what I think got me a little emotional, too, is, you know, seeing Lexi and in those parts. I was like, dang. Yeah, you're like, man, to be in a play like this, to have written a play like this, to put it on for your freaking school.

Like, and the bond and the family that happens, you know, in that experience, along with all the shit backstage where she's like, you know, giving directions in a pretty direct harsh way or, like, threatening to replace the lights guy. Like, you know. Yeah, it was all great. I loved it. Lexi could be a little more genial behind the scenes. But if you've been there, you've been there, you know, or you've been in some version of some part of that conversation. So anyway, hell yeah. Jay Rushden

Take it Question, what plays Were you in? Are you ready for the next season? Dude, dude. My first play in high school, I did Stalog 17.

Okay. Love that. Yeah, I played a soldier who could do impressions. That was fun. We did 42nd Street. Ooh, that's fun. Yeah, a couple rolls

in 42nd Street. Then we did a Neil Simon called 45 seconds from Broadway. It was a more. a recent one, but it was actually, we got our best set out of it because we built this like cafe set in the gym. It was like the one time where they really let us throw down.

We did Joseph and the Amazing Technical or Dreamco. Yeah, I did that too. I feel like every high school is like has to do it. I don't know why. I'm trying to think if there's anything else major. What about you? Yeah, Joseph's an amazing Technic or Dreamcoe. I think we did

Sound of Music and then later on I was in A play for fringe called Alexa Turnoff Heartbreak. That was fun. Yeah. That was a good one. And then I can't remember the names of the fringe one that I was in like two years ago.

Can't remember. It was a good play, though. They bought the rights. You know how you could buy the rights from the and then put up a play? It was one of those. Okay, sure. But I can't remember the name. I mean, welcome to my life.

I also remember I was in a play. And I think it was called three monkeys. And it was funny. Okay. But anytime I tell someone, I'm like, you know, there's the three monkeys. It's a comedy. It's a play. That's what I was in.

They're like, most of the time, people go, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's this. Yeah. I don't. Okay. I don't know. It's that. There you go. Yes, I'm excited for next season.

Absolutely. Oh, I did tech on some stuff too. Anyway, yes, excited for next season. I don't know what it's going to be. It's weird. I feel like the time jump will be fascinating. And I feel like these two. seasons came out not infinitely far apart. I don't know if it's longer between season one and two

or seasons two and three. But I don't know, man. I wonder, actually, if it will be strange, given whatever time jump there may be going so quickly from this to then for us. Right. Because everybody else in the world. Everybody else has waited years, right? Has been here for years waiting for stranger things to end finally. So we'll see. But J. Dell, one more. after everything that happens in the finale. What stood out to you the most where Rue ends up emotionally compared to where she started this season?

I think what stood out to me the most is her relationship with Lexi and her coming around and recognizing that she needs to find the point, the reason why dad died. Even though you don't really need it, she needs to find the purpose

because otherwise you're stuck in the hole in the grave that you dug for yourself. So I think that that was the moment that stood out to me the most because of where we began, what we went through. You would have never

imagined that moment with Lexi in her room ever in your freaking life up here never would have I imagined it dude I love the just general just for a second Lexi

I already was curious about in season one but I really love as much as we've talked about like I'm kind of sad that like oh cat's not really a character much anymore I do like that we've you know faded in more on Lexi and got more of her POV and more of her as a key

part of the ensemble right because I mean people have highlighted several episodes and there have been a lot of standout episodes along the journey but uh these two i thought were a tour to force uh so good and i think you're right it's like we start the season off in this place of intense dysregulation after all this stuff with jules and them trying to run away and you know we have that talk with ali in the special episode but she's very much a drift and she's been very much kind of guided by the winds and currents of whatever the trauma and the surma and the circumstances telling her.

And I feel like by the end of the season, yeah, it's more of a, it's a slightly more regulated place. She was lost and now she's found a little bit. A little bit. Yeah, that idea of like, okay, it's not that it inherently means anything. It's that I have to choose meaning and I have to, you know, take a more active role in authoring this life. And, you know, even if you can't do that in the form of some like amazing, amazing well-observed

play or something like that, you can at least do it in the grace that you offer yourself and the perspective that you view your life through. Yeah. And it does at least seem like she ends off the season in a place as somebody who has a little better sense for their own, I don't know, will and experience and autonomy. And like, I don't know, it's weird. It's like not that she feels fully in control, so to speak, but she does seem like she's willing to be a more active participant. in her life in her own situation in her own story yeah i i actually very much agree with that and there's that helpful resign she says that thing of like i stayed clean for the rest of the school

year just because it was easier and like you know not that i've experienced any number of the things depicted in the show but i do know what that feeling is like when you're struggling with something and you kind of can use a level of apathy to your advantage or something where you're like you know what i even kind of want to do this but it's just not worth deal you. dealing with it. Totally. So skip it. And even if my mood is flatter, just the things happening will be slightly less crappy and then I'll be less

prone to outbursts and I'll be better regulated. Totally. I think we just go from a place of intense, extreme dysregulation to slightly less dysregulation, slightly more self-awareness by the end. And we'll see how that lasts. But oh my God, dude, this

was a steamroller. This was a wrecking ball. Very fun to see all the alternate casting of everybody and jumping back and forth between the play versions and the real versions and the sort of coalescence of that there was so much fun here while there was a lot of intensity there was a lot of celebration of craft like in some ways these might be my favorite episodes for the emotional crescendo plus all the nerds shit 100% all right gang any last words no i i love day can't wait we're juiced out we're gonna go drink uh power aid and eat a banana

and some pedi light or something like that that and we're going to sweat it out and take a nap and we're going to call our pastors or something and get right with the Lord. Anyway, be well. We'll catch you for season three.