The Reel Rejects - EUPHORIA Season 3 Episode 1 REVIEW – HAS RUE BEEN TOUCHED BY FREAKIN' GOD?!

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Starting point is 00:00:34 And it's been 20 years in the making, but we're finally here for Euphoria Season 3. Everyone is middle-aged now. But they all look like the Stranger Things kids. They're immortal. Tara. Yeah. How are you feeling? Are you excited?

Starting point is 00:00:50 I'm good. And I'm very, very, very excited. I've been waiting for this. I can't wait. I can't, too. I am currently not waiting. I got tons of questions. quality sleep last night, and it's not been an incredibly long and interesting week,

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Starting point is 00:04:30 how are you feeling? What did you think? I'm deal good. I miss Jules. Yeah, we didn't see her at all. Yeah, she wasn't here at all. But I am liking where we're going with Rue's story. And also, Cassie and Nate, it was very engaging.

Starting point is 00:04:48 Like, hate him again right away as much as I did before, which is, you know, good writing, gets under my skin. can't stand him I can't believe him and Cassie are still together I like that we had a glimpse at Maddie we're not really sure

Starting point is 00:05:06 we're Maddie and Cassie and Nate stand but my guess is there's not contact between them right now that's what I'm thinking that's what I'm thinking too yeah

Starting point is 00:05:15 but I find the Rue story of her like being like I want my own little slice of heaven in her kind of doing what he's doing and owning a bunch of

Starting point is 00:05:27 you know, strip clubs and whatnot with all these beautiful women. I like that right now that's her dream, right? It goes, it so follows in the story of Rue. And I like that. I like that writing. Yeah. I like that they're going there. What about you?

Starting point is 00:05:44 No, I've been, I enjoyed this episode quite a bit. I mean, there's been a fair amount of, oh my God. Freaking Dominic Fike is Elliot. I totally never got that. Wait, what the hell? Sorry. This is a very delayed reaction from the previous Leon, but apparently Dominic Fike is an actual, like, I know.

Starting point is 00:06:05 What else has he been on? He's a musician. Oh, that's why he sings the song, John. Yeah, he's like an actual, I know him's name because he's a musician. Yeah, okay, okay. Yeah, hot chip, man. Yeah, this was, I like this episode. I mean, it's, it's definitely like a kind of, uh, what am I trying to say?

Starting point is 00:06:26 I don't know. like the first couple seasons, and especially the first season, like, did a thing where they end off on these, like, crazy revelations. Yeah. Whereas this isn't doing that quite as much, although I really did like the last moment of the whole, yeah, Apple and the moment of faith thing. And yeah, coming back after so long and getting a very sort of rue-oriented episode made sense to me. And yeah, I was liking the textures, just the different settings and stuff like that. I think it's the part of the challenge I imagine they'll face here is, you know, anything that involves high school and pulp, I feel like, is it's got its own unique kind of sensibility. And then when you make characters graduate and go out into the world, I think it can be difficult to replace the structural charms of whatever that high school thing is with something else. So like, you know, there's there's like a parameter that that provides you and there's a certain element of danger. because you know that all these kids are kids.

Starting point is 00:07:27 And they're no longer in the same location. Yeah. And so now you're in a more adult situation with more adult circumstances for all these guys. So not that that's, I mean, it's always been a bit of a slice of life and it's always been more than a story about high school. In fact, most of the time they're not even at school or anything like that. It's true. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:07:44 But yeah, just like having a situation where now it's more just like the lives and times of these, you know, young folks trying to get it all together. You know, I'm interested. they've got me at least hooked to see what the feeling and flavor and the overall kind of impact of the season will be. But, uh, yeah, that border hopping moment crazy. Totally wild with the truck. Yeah, a lot of fun. Uh, the mule stuff horrifying, painful to watch. Hated that. Oh, yeah, that was terrible. Um, and yeah, it's got that definitely euphoria sense of like decadence and horror because it's so unflattering at times, even though there are the highs and stuff. Um, totally.

Starting point is 00:08:23 great moment with Ali just a brief one but a nice one I thought and and yeah shouts out to uh I got this guy I'm gonna butcher your name but Ottawaale a canio a can you ohia Agbaji uh this guy has been in so much stuff he's Mr. Echo on Lost I was trying to I was like I think it's him because he's obviously he's got a different build now um he's like the born identity he's in Game of Thrones yeah he's in tons of stuff. So it's cool to see him in a totally different mode. And I feel like he often, like at least in roles I've seen him in like, I feel like he's often tasked

Starting point is 00:08:58 with playing like a guy from Africa. He's in the mummy movies also. And so here just having to be like a, you know, like a boisterous cowboy dude was fun because I imagine for some people who haven't seen all of his work, you might yeah be like, oh shit, it's that guy.

Starting point is 00:09:14 You know, context I didn't quite expect. But I at least am curious about what the transition from being Lori's mule to being this guy's troubleshooter could be. Right, right. Nate and Cassie makes a lot of sense. It's an interesting shaped episode

Starting point is 00:09:36 because we check in on a few characters. We check it on Lexi and Maddie basically. And we don't, we just check in. And then we're out. We don't get a lot. Yeah, we're just like, these are where they are. We're mostly with Rue. And then we get with Nate and Cassie's

Starting point is 00:09:48 interesting, although it's not like super substantial. It's, you know, we pretty much set the place for them. We're like, okay, Nate's struggling to figure out how to run his dad's business properly. Cassie is bored of being a housewife with everything and is trying to make her own something or other and also fund this insane wedding that is really more for her than it is for them, it seems like. And I get why she's so adamant about it because she is in this sort of gold cage. Yeah. And her deciding the only fans thing and no face just but or no body and face in the same phone right it's interesting and you they've spelled out the beginning of the conflict but you know we don't get quite as much of the

Starting point is 00:10:29 slice of their life so much as it stands yeah not really i don't know it's interesting it's like i i i'm curious to hear what the responses are to this episode because it doesn't necessarily have like i don't know it's weird i like it doesn't have the juice that we would have gotten that we did get in like season one, season two, sort of the pilots where we were really like, oh, snap. But I did really love the ending was great, you know, with the Apple stuff. But I do agree with you that like where we kind of were with the characters in the other seasons in those, in the first like episodes, we were really like, oh my God. Yeah. And I don't feel as strongly now as I did, you know, in the beginning.

Starting point is 00:11:16 Yeah. And that's okay to me partly because it, again, I know. we don't have this experience, but for a lot of people, like it is a long time stretch afterwards. And I don't be grudges this season being in a position to, like, reestablish things and to set up...

Starting point is 00:11:30 Yeah, to set up the new status quo and to sort of shift slightly the, you know, you're on a momentum reset, obviously. This isn't coming directly out of what happened at the end of season two. So I'm not like mad about it. I thought this was solid.

Starting point is 00:11:42 And I would say that like for a Rue episode, this is great. Like, that's the best stuff. It's a pretty well-rounded Rue-asode. and then for the additional ensemble, that's the stuff where you're like, cool. Good to see Maddie and see what she's up to. Good to see Lexi for a sec and see what she's up to.

Starting point is 00:12:00 And I think that'll grow into something. And was that Sharon Stone? I recognized the name. Like, go, because this is an alphabetical order. So go all the way down to S and let's see. If. Eli Roth was in this? Rosalia?

Starting point is 00:12:18 what? Oh, Madison Thompson. That looks like, oh, nope, nope, nope, nope. That wasn't her. I don't know who that was. That wasn't, that wasn't. We gotta go back to the credits. But Natasha Leon,

Starting point is 00:12:31 and Marshall, we're getting, like, these people are eventually gonna come up, I bet an hour. I guess maybe. I don't know. I don't know who that was. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:39 But it was, yeah, like, I thought that that was at least like the right place for her to end up. And, you know, I'm curious, yes, to, I would expect

Starting point is 00:12:48 that the next episodes will go further into some kind of you know more ensemble territory but then again I don't know but it still has like all that texture that you like or that I enjoy about you for it like the places this definitely did I feel I lean into its Tarantino bag

Starting point is 00:13:06 in the way that you're drinking in all these yeah like desert landscapes and countryside and there's like a sort of weird beauty even though like all these you know, sorted and nasty affairs are happening. Yeah, Sharon Stone.

Starting point is 00:13:21 It was Sharon Stone. And Colleen Camp has been in, I think she's in like clue. She's been in stuff too. So yeah, that was cool. Yeah, it's like I like the texture. I love the settings.

Starting point is 00:13:31 It was cool to see the back lot. It was cool to see the mock-up of the nighttime soap opera and everything. Like it definitely still has like a ton of atmosphere and it still looks really good. Love the film grain. Love the, you know, lighting flourishes. Yeah. Dinner with all the candles looks beautiful.

Starting point is 00:13:46 I also like. the mention of like she's the she's she was saying these politics they're absolutely killing me and her saying this is why episode 712 is really important because where are we in the world which shows you try to do that you try to hit it to be relevant and i like that they're adding that in because that is still still difficult but i like that golf cart shot where she's like politics or i'm freaking out where you're like that's kind of how you know the world has felt for a little while and it's not, it's not as if when you're on the lot and you're a writer or an AP as if that doesn't affect you because it does. Oh, that whole, yeah, that writer's room meeting about like, you know, we got to think about, you know, our, yeah, our political responsibility and whatnot.

Starting point is 00:14:31 This is why we need to crack episode seven, 12 of LA nights. Exactly. And I was like, oh, wow, you know. Which is a very, yeah, it's a very fun rib because it's like, you know, that is what we do. We're like, we're just making this little thing. but by golly, we got to make it as best. We're going to use our opportunity, man. Exactly.

Starting point is 00:14:49 How can you use that a little opportunity for the little, like, a step stool that you have to display where your visions might be to help the world out? Like, that's a funny thing about exploitation films in general. And, like, I saw, like, a Russ Meyer movie a couple months ago. And one thing you never imagine is, like, these weird either, yeah, like, weird monster movies or, like, weird old nudie flicks or whatever. like they all or many of them like will surprise you with like here's the thought about the political state of the world yeah because we're here and we're making a movie yeah we gotta do something in

Starting point is 00:15:25 between the scenes where people are they're getting chopped up or you know loving on each other so like this is a secret manifesto on communism or something so yeah yeah so i i do appreciate the cheeky uh you know the way to add it in there yeah yeah i i like that too so that was a good a good good little area to put it in. Correct filmmaking as ever. And yeah, some good slice of lifing. I'm curious to see where the season goes. I'm still on board.

Starting point is 00:15:52 I was still enjoying the ride of this. Any other thoughts you got? No, I think like this will probably be a season where it's going to be like, oh, stick with it. It's going to get better and better as it goes. Like I feel like they're, you know, this season three, they're building it up and I'm excited to see the rest. I'm stoked on it.

Starting point is 00:16:09 Absolutely. Well, if you guys are excited to see the rest, let us know it on the comments. Let us know what you're looking forward to from season three. Let's know what you thought of season three, episode one. And we'll catch you back here next week. Don't forget Adameneve.com. Code rejects. Save yourself on some satisfiers.

Starting point is 00:16:27 Get her done. And we'll see you next time. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Amen.

The Reel Rejects - EUPHORIA Season 3 Episode 1 REVIEW – HAS RUE BEEN TOUCHED BY FREAKIN' GOD?!

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