And even though Fez continues to be sweet and supportive, telling her that as long as her intentions are good, she’ll have nothing to worry about when all her friends and family see the final product, I couldn’t help but feel there were going to be some upset feelings.Įuphoria’s seventh episode - part one of our season two finale - is all about Lexi’s play. After all, it is a play about Lexi’s life. Out of all the characters, Lexi is the one we can count on to not stress us out.We all knew that the play Lexi (Maude Apatow) has spent much of this season of Euphoria working on was going to cause some drama. Many Twitter users have glommed onto the fact that amid Kat’s webcamming and Rue’s hard substance use, it’s Lexi’s so-called boringness that most accurately reflects their own teen years.
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Yet within the confines of a series that routinely pushes the boundaries of what can be shown onscreen, there’s something strangely comforting and endearing about Lexi’s comparatively ordinary life. The supposed lead of a show would probably not get dolled up for her crush and then barely speak to him, but that’s exactly what Lexi does when she puts on a red lip and goes to visit Fezco at the gas station. If Lexi were an actual creator pitching an HBO show, Cassie getting an abortion and later sleeping with her best friend’s abusive boyfriend is a story that’s much more likely to get optioned than one about a girl wearing tartan and playing second fiddle to the rest of her friends.
The joke at the center of this dream is that supporting characters are often sidelined because their storylines are deemed less dramatic or interesting. In her world, the sidekick is the lead, which is presumably what her “anti- Oklahoma” play is about that she gets the green light to perform at school. “Look, the sidekicks are usually the more sensitive, smarter, or compelling characters, but for some reason they just get overlooked,” Lexi explains. Producer Lexi tells us that This Is Life follows Grace, a 16-year-old girl who’s outshined by her older sister Hallie. When Cassie walks onstage to play her sister, Lexi tells the wardrobe department that her dresses need to be “sluttier,” “tackier,” and “sloppier” - a nod to the hyper-sexualized aesthetic of Euphoria that Lexi’s own clothes are at odds with. Her house is a set, and all of her friends are simply actors in her production. We then see Lexi imagining that she’s the showrunner of her own life on a series titled This Is Life. “That it was just a movie, one that she was writing.” “She often imagined that her parents weren’t really her parents, and her sister wasn’t her sister, and that her house wasn’t even really her house,” Rue says. Lexi is always just kind of there, but Season 2 reveals that’s because that’s how she prefers to be.Īs Rue explains in her narration during Episode 3, after Cal (Eric Dane) confronted Fezco at the convenience store, Lexi realized that she enjoys being an “observer” rather than an active character. She’s the kind of girl you can imagine guys referring to as “cute but not hot” because she wears quirky clothes and isn’t overt in her sexuality the archetypal overachiever and sole character who might actually do her homework. In the Season 2 premiere, while Rue got high and Cassie hid in a bathtub with Maddy’s (Alexa Demie) pee rag, Lexi sat on the couch and patiently explained the origins of Christmas to Fezco (Angus Cloud). She didn’t have many scenes, but we did get whiffs of her sharpness and humor: She appeared in a fourth wall-breaking buddy cop skit with Rue, always seemed ready with a clever retort for Cassie, and iconically attended a Halloween party in a Bob Ross costume. Lexi was introduced in Season 1 as the childhood best friend of Rue (Zendaya) and sister to Cassie ( Sydney Sweeney), largely living in the shadow of the cool girls who orbited her. But amid it all is Lexi Howard (Maude Apatow), the patron saint of boring girls everywhere who just want to get good grades and maybe star in the school play. The characters attend rave-level parties, engage in heavy drug use, and have tons of very graphic sex - sometimes with their classmates’ parents.
Spoilers ahead for Euphoria Season 2, Episode 3.Įuphoria is a show about wild teens doing wild things in wild outfits.
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