EUPHORIA Season 3 Episode 7 BREAKDOWN | SNAKEY NATE!!!

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]So, in this scene, we hard cut to this crazy over-the-top scene with Cassie, and she's like, "Oh my god, I finished so many times. Can I finish again?" He's like, "Again?" Right? Euphoria season 3, episode 7 just dropped. I'm here to talk about it. Now, I am limited on clips I can use because unfortunately, the episode isn't uploaded anywhere I can download it, but I'll be using what I can. We're going to go through every single major plot beat, lines of dialogue I found interesting. I thought this episode overall was pretty spectacular, actually. Up until this point, it was a very easy statement to make that season 3 of Euphoria is easily the weakest season of the show so far.

[00:00:34]However, at the same time, I think compared to most other shows on TV, it is still utterly addictive. Every single time Monday rolls around here in Australia, here we go, another episode of Euphoria. Even the weakest episodes of this season have had sequences in it that I found utterly compelling. This episode, pretty much every single story line and plot beat I found utterly gripping and riveting. There are major things happening with Nate, with Ru, with Maddie, with Cassie. It's all super compelling. Let's just get into it. So, we open with a cold open and exploration of Ali as a character. And I thought this sequence was one of the show's best, not just the season's best. I think in the totality of the show, this is a fantastic cold open. Yes, it doesn't have the over-the-top style and narration of the previous cold opens.

[00:01:18]This is more of a fly onthe-wall exploration of this guy and his journey.

[00:01:23]We we explore Ali's character in a lot of depth. All right, they're watching him become a drug addict. We're also watching his family unit crumble. We've had illusions to all of this stuff in previous seasons. The, you know, the abuse he inflicted on his family, the drug addiction itself, you know, paying for escorts and then rehab, then becoming a sponsy. And I thought the book of the dead motif as well as the montage of all these different sponses he had passing away, taking their own lives, I thought it was a wonderfully touching and moving section. and again brings up something that the show has done really well, which is exploring the good and bad of characters. You know, Ali, I think, is one of the more morally virtuous people of the show at this point, but he's also someone who has inflicted abuse. And I appreciated the kind of unflinching look at this man's journey in this life. I also think Coleman Domingo is one of our best living actors today. And being able to have an HBO show where he still commits fully and we get this wonderful section, I think, set this episode off on really good footing. On top of that, it also adds this looming tension of is Ru going to be taken out? Is she going to be yet another sponsy that passes away under Ali's watch. So going into the episode, I think it was really well done. I thought Coleman Domingo's ability to play a younger version of Ali was really well done. We see multiple sections of his life. We see him when he's in rehab.

[00:02:37]We see him when he's a family man. We see him when he's paying for escorts.

[00:02:40]Notably a cameo bit part played by Natasha Leon who is also wonderful in this section. I love how this section looks. I love how it feels. the costumeuming, the set design, all of it really adds this like very livedin feel.

[00:02:52]What I also liked is how brief this section with his family is. It feels like this distant memory at this point.

[00:02:58]It feels like we're going into Ali's subconscious and kind of like looking back on what his life is. And they almost feel like a blip before he obviously, you know, lost his cool and committed abuse, right? But I think it's a really well done section because you are seen there and it just feels like a brief flash of this life that could have been for Ali. I also really love the cut from Ali wailing on his wife in the other room to to then him shadow boxing and watching boxing on the TV. I thought it was just nice, good visual storytelling. This this whole boxing montage sequence and him getting high in the apartment really did remind me of a film Drugstore Cowboy. If you're interested in this sort of subject matter, I strongly suggest you check that movie out. I did really like the section where he's in hospital and the doctor goes to put him on morphine. It's relatively subtle storytelling. You can piece together that this is where he really got addicted to drugs and if he wasn't addicted already, it was causing him to relapse. But just good effective storytelling and I love the way everything was framed in this section as well. The world feels isolating, cold, and detached for Ali, but not in a way where it feels like they just didn't get proper extras or proper set design in a way that feels intentional. I've been watching Halfman, that new Richard Gad show, and there was a section in a hospital where I was like, does no one else work here? Is no one else around?

[00:04:05]Thankfully, this section didn't lean into that. We meet one of Ali's first sponses. He's talking he's young. He's talking about how he wants to stay clean. We we hard cut to his funeral. A really good edit. I also love this section where Ali was calling sponses during co and there's like a direct implication that like lockdowns and stuff exacerbate these things further and led to many more lives being lost. I also just love how lonely this section feels watching Ali, you know, in the wait room just kind of waiting to get a call back. He needs this as much as they need it, too. I I just thought there was so much in common in Domingo's physicality that was really bringing out a sense of emotion and dread here. There was a really well done for feel to this section. Like really just a lonely, sad, morbid feeling to this entire section.

[00:04:48]Him going up to the garage where the guy was hanging from the roof. Shattering, earthshatteringly sad. I love that the diary of dates he has is multiple pages long. It is then labeled as the book of the dead. And then we get this beautiful title card. I I think the title cards for this season have been pretty wonderful. And this is another great one. It does remind me of how Atlanta used to do their title cards, but with a bit of a twist. It's good. We then catch up with the dude who got shot from Lor's Guys. He now has a clusty bag and he's stitched up. Great practical effects, great makeup work. I think there's a lot of good storytelling here between him and Alamo. Alamo is saying that he has a road of redemption to work. He's essentially victim blaming. I mean, I know that's a such an oversimplification for how violent and morbid this world is, but like he is kind of being like, "All right, you got to make it up to me the fact that you got shot trying to protect the safe." And then you see him walk off in this walker while Alamo is basically like guilt tripping him. You know, Alamo is seen there being like, "Cover up the colossity bag. Cover up the scars. It's nasty. No one wants to see them." I think this episode in particular did a really good job of simultaneously making Alamo at times captivating and enthralling, especially after the cold open we had last week, but at the same time also reminding us of the cold, bleak, cruel man he can be.

[00:05:57]I think we see both sides of the coin in this episode really well. This is probably the best stuff we have from Alamo in the present in this season. I also think this is where the crime stuff was really, really working. I found some of the crime stuff up until this point sometimes compelling, sometimes not.

[00:06:13]Sometimes I do miss all these characters just interacting, but here it really started to sing in this episode. I also like that we're getting direct confirmation of what's going on with the ambulances. You know, they're now driving these ambulances around. The guy that had been shot is now driving the ambulance with Lor's men. I will also say at this point I think there's a really great contrast between Lor's men and Alamo's men just in the way they speak, in the way they carry themselves.

[00:06:35]Notably, Bee wasn't in this episode. I do miss him. He's a fantastic character.

[00:06:39]Uh maybe he's off with Ru's mom. I will say I've seen a lot of Tik Toks and Instagram reels really speculating like these deep insane theories about, you know, Alamo and being these grand grand crime plots. I don't think this show has ever been that sort of show where you can like connect all the dots and there's some grand theory. You know, it was never really planned out the way Breaking Bad feels. It was planned out or anything. I feel like this show, for as much as I love it, has always had this very loose feeling. Like sometimes season arcs will be picked up and dropped. I mean, you don't need to look much further than Tyler. At this point, I'm just kind of used to going along with the ride and fully expecting some things to never be paid off and just kind of being like, well, maybe, maybe not. But I will say this episode really does feel like it's building some momentum. We also have this section where Ru is chatting with Lexi. And Lexi is a really interesting character to me.

[00:07:27]On one end, she comes off extremely prudish, extremely snobby, extremely judgy. I mean, the play was a narcissistic humiliation ritual for pretty much everyone involved except for her. However, at the same time, sometimes she is kind of the voice of truth. And I find the way we oscillate between agreeing with Lexi and being perturbed by Lexi's sort of like worldview is a fascinating push and pull. Ru is talking to Lexi in this scene about how God showed himself.

[00:07:53]She's now reading the Bible. Lexi is busy. And I will say Ru is being [ __ ] annoying. And what how many times does Lexi need to go, "Hey Rue, I need to work on something. Like I'm happy for you to hang around, but I've kind of given you everything I can socially. I I have nothing more to add to this god conversation." And after Lexi finally is like, "Yo, like I've got work to do." Ru then goes like, "I think I'm kind of an evil person." Which, like, we've all been in that situation where you're like, "What's up?" You know what I mean?

[00:08:21]Like, of course, like, she's like, "Okay, well, I do need to respond to that." At least though, Roose starts acknowledging that she's done some evil, which I do want to talk about for a second. I think people are really upset to see, say, Cassie doing OF, for example. And truthfully, it doesn't phase me too much in terms of what these characters are doing and who these characters have turned out to be. If Cassie wants to make some money off being objectified the way she has been her entire life, I think there's a more nuanced discussion there. I don't instantly think, oh, as a character, she's been completely degraded and put in the dirt. I don't look at Cassie and her lot in life and go, "Oh, Sam Levenson as a writer has been incredibly cruel and unforgiving to her character."

[00:09:01]And maybe that's just my worldview, but it hasn't landed as too bad. And the reason I bring that up is what Rue has been doing in terms of like being part of a system that is actively disposing of women, treating them like property, you know, bolting on boobs like they said the last episode, sending women off to be changed and murdered and hidden.

[00:09:21]And also on top of that, Rue contributing to the drug system that she was a victim of, right? You know, I'm really thankful that this episode starts to interrogate that. You know, Ali brings up to Ru at a certain point, you know, have you thought about the effect the fentinol you're helping push has on people's lives? And I appreciate that, and I appreciate Rue here reflecting on what she's done and how she might actually be engaging in evil stuff. Lexi says that Ru is being harsh on herself, and I actually disagree. I think Rue is worth some interrogation. Truthfully, you're welcome to disagree, but out of all the characters we've been watching this season, for me personally, the hardest watch has been Ru. seen her go from someone who is trying to take care of themselves constantly in this push and pull of whether they will be able to stay alive then falling into a system of exploiting other people and exploiting other people's addiction and like contributing to yeah women being hidden and sent off to these hospitals and kind of and hiding the truth from certain people. When I look at Cassie and her only fans, I struggle to be super mad at what's going on there compared to what's going on with Rue. Now Ru, I do like this exchange though where R starts telling Lexi that she's been working with the Yatsis and then says that the Yatsis introduced her to the Black Cowboys. Lexi is sort of baffled by these two worlds colliding. Lexi then in a very judgy way calls out Ru saying that she's being Yuzi again. And I guess this is coming from the fact that what Ru is saying sounds so unbelievable and so out of left field. I guess she's going, "Okay, she's clearly tripping balls. Like she's clearly high as a kite. What the hell is this?" But again, this is where we get Lexi being properly judgy and kind of properly really cruel.

[00:10:48]You know, Lexi comes out with the line, "No wonder your mom doesn't talk to you anymore." Which one is not true, but also like, where is this coming from, Lexi? Like, I get you're frustrated and you want to work on your writing, but what the hell is this? In the last episode where Ru and Jules kind of had that like verbal smackdown with one another and then Jules got physical, there was a perspective where I could kind of see why Jules was frustrated.

[00:11:07]There was a bit of back and forth where I was like, "Okay, Ru might have been poking her here." But in this situation, I'm like, Lexi, where the hell did that come from? I also will say I forgot to mention in a previous video, but it's interesting to see Ru and Cassie reconnecting. The last time in season 2 that they ever talked was when Ru ratted on Cassie for sleeping with Nate. You know, Rue, when was this? That whole scene. So, it was interesting. A couple episodes ago, they were just Ru was kind of hanging out while Cassie was getting her photos done. It does really capture that feeling of like high school [ __ ] you know, you you leave high school and these things that feel like the end of the world are kind of like bygones at that point. But I do really love this section where Ru is checking in on Cassie. She notices the blind and she's like, "Let me just see how Cassie is."

[00:11:46]Like something doesn't feel right. It's almost this instinct, this intuition.

[00:11:50]And then the episode goes absolutely nuts from here because we have Ru looking into the little like peepphole, right? And then we have a gun coming on the other side of the peepphole going, "You better not come in. You better not come in." So Ru has no idea how close she was to copying a bullet in this scene. And this is where the episode goes from really good. I mean the Alley section was great. The the dialogue between Lexi and Ru was occasionally quite stilted. I was finding which is strange because I've previously really enjoyed Maud Appetile's performance, but I I did find Maud Appetile's line delivery here and there with Rue a bit clunky. But the moment we get this gun, the show just goes completely nuts. All right. It's like the writers had crack in their system in a good way. Like I was absolutely hooked throughout the entire run of this episode, but we just go absolutely bananas. Hey guys, just quickly, if you're enjoying this video, please consider gaining a membership to this channel for the cost of a couple of dollars a month. Get access to a weekly podcast where I talk about every single show and movie I've watched in a given week. These are movies on the shelf behind me, movies and shows on streaming that I don't have time to cover on the main channel, as well as stuff that I see at the movies that I don't have time to cover on the main channel. It really helps out the channel. Links are in the description below for both YouTube memberships and Patreon. Thank you so much for considering. And back to the video. So, we flash back. All right.

[00:13:02]This this episode is really structured almost like Pulp Fiction where you're like going back and then you see people come up again, but from a different perspective. Most notably, we see Ru come up to Cassie's door again, but from the other side of the door. Good, effective, fun storytelling. Like, occasionally you'll have to give Sam Levenson some credit. And I do think he managed to craft a couple of excellent sequences of TV in this episode. All right, whether whether you are opposed to the content or not, I found it pretty gripping. Cassie is missing Nate. Cassie is stressed. Cassie goes on and sees that her OAF is still deleted and starts freaking out. We then cut to Sharon Stone in a meeting with a higherup executive where she's getting kickback.

[00:13:41]They're like, "Look, why do we need a real cornstar when you can get a regular actress to pretend to be a porn star?

[00:13:48]It's like hiring a real life serial to play one in a movie. Is this the most subtle writing in the world? No. But I do kind of appreciate this interesting metatextual commentary. The show has had a lot of push back from certain circles for hiring Khloe Cherry, who is a real life OFA star. She plays Fay in this show. I think this point about the serial kind of highlights how like silly this reasoning is, how judgmental this reasoning is. And yeah, again, not the most subtle thing in the world, but I thought this dialogue was pretty effective in getting me to kind of feel bad for Cassie here. Sharon Stone, on the other hand, is almost sort of performative, right? You know, in the early episodes of the season, she was sitting there being like, "We can change culture. This is TV. We can really like push people to think the way that they should think and like push ideas forward and yada yada yada, right?" She was being all she was like grandstanding at the start of the season. And now when she gets the slightest bit of frankly shitty push back that isn't particularly like cohesive or even well thought out, she kind of buckles. You know, he says, "Why hire a real porn star? Just get an actor." And I think that's a bit of a bummer. I do think it's a bit of a bummer. Now Sharon Stone then goes back to Lexi and says, "Look, the network loved your story that you wrote. Um, but we don't want to deal with the complications of hiring a sex worker."

[00:14:58]And Lexi seems pretty chuffed about this. And on one end, I will say maybe I was a little harsh on Lexi in the last episode. I do get her being a bit put off by the fact that Cassie is here and like, you know, Lexi's had to work blood, sweat, and tears and now Cassie is having an easy ride. But at the same time, I do also think it's not like Cassie is taking Lexi's job. It's a completely different feel. There is a major difference between being a writer and a producer and then an actress. All right, there are a bunch of actresses that aren't particularly good. There are a bunch of actors that aren't particularly good that climb the ranks because of their looks or Nepo baby connections or whatever. Right. On one end, I do kind of get her being a little like, oh, Cassie's here. But at the same time, I also think there is just some inbuilt resentment and inbuilt jealousy and inbuilt sibling rivalry coming out in a really gross way here. And the fact she doesn't even push back slightly just feels a little disappointing from Lexi.

[00:15:49]You know, I think Lexi has come off as a bit morally grandstanding throughout this season. I think she's come off incredibly judgy. Yes, on one end she has made some valid points about the fine line between exploitation and empowerment. All right, that's a lot of what this season has been about, but at the same time, I think the way she's talked about Cassie and everything she's doing here is frankly judgy and kind of off-putting. And it's a disappointing moment where she doesn't even give any pause or any push back. If anything, if anything, she's almost glad that Cassie is being [ __ ] shamed, which isn't a surprise after what she did with the play with Cassie last season. to double down on this sort of like theme of women being punished for OAF and sex work, etc. We then cut to Maddie getting fired for sending a porn star to an audition from her boss. Her boss isn't having any of it either, and Maddie loses her job.

[00:16:37]Now, Maddie gets home and starts really engaging with Cassie with a lot of aggression. She starts acting like a flatout pimp. All right, the the parallel is fully coming to fruition here. Mattie gets home and he's kicking Cassie. It's like, "Get to work. I can't believe you deleted the account. Get to work." Like, it's a pimp. It's she's being a pimp to the point where she even says the line, "I should beat your ass."

[00:16:56]Now, this I think people wanted this moment from Nate where these people kind of revert back to their high school selves, but I think here we're seeing Maddie really lean into old tendencies that we saw in season 1 and season 2.

[00:17:07]And on one end, maybe it's a bit disappointing to see a character revert like that, but at the same time, it was kind of like a bit of like, I don't know, cold water to the face. It was nice to see some of that energy from the previous two seasons come back. We also have Cassie crying in that way that only Sydney Sweeney and Cassie seem to be able to do. It's such a good performance. This whole like hysterical crying she does. Maddie then says, "I should never have let you back into my life. When someone shows you who they are, believe them." This is a clear reference to what Cassie did with Nate and the fact that, you know, Maddie tried to see a silver lining in them becoming friends again and like rooting for one another. And yet again, she feels [ __ ] over and betrayed. Shen says she wants to hit Cassie and she follows through with this and does hit Cassie. Jen says, "You're going to work, not [ __ ] not moan, not listen." So, at this point, Maddie is going full-on pimp mode with Cassie. Your world is mine, not your manager, not your boss. And then Cassy's response is purely just, "Can I get my account back?" So, Mattie concocts this scheme of sending Cassie to go hook up with the star of LA Nights, Dylan Reed. He's wearing this cap that says sex in movies and violence on TV. Like, obviously the Family Guy reference, but also feels like this meta commentary, this poke at what Euphoria is kind of known for. We also have this clear paid for paparazzi that Maddie had clearly hired in the background to show up and film them and take photos. I found this part interesting. Meanwhile, Maddie is at home cleaning up any kind of like evidence that she is a sex worker or does do of, right? Despite the fact that Cassie was just in the car like saying this to the camera, it's getting at this interesting dichotomy, right? This guy is happy to hook up with an OF star, hook up with someone who he knows does that, but at the same time, he doesn't want to be reminded in that intimate setting. We then have Cassie being a total cringe lord with the drinks. It's a fantastic performance from Sydney Sweeney. But I think what I like about Sydney Sweeney as Cassie is she's able to capture a bunch of different vibes in different settings.

[00:18:54]Both with yes, her sexuality, the way she holds her body, the way she talks, the way like it is really well done. All right. Like there's a huge difference to the way she was like engaging in capturing the attention of Nate in season 2. the way she embarrassed herself in the whole hot tub scene compared to what she's doing here.

[00:19:12]There's this inauthenticity, this desperation. It's it's a really well done multifaceted performance. All right, I know a lot of people do not like Sydney Sweeney and think she's part of the problem with Sam Levenson, but I do think this performance here is utterly compelling. Like, it's a good performance. It's over the top. It's crazy, but it's good. You know, she can't even handle the shot that she's giving to this guy. And I love this line from Dylan Reed where he's like, "Sorry about LA nights. Like just just so you know, I like really fought for you."

[00:19:40]It's like, "No, you [ __ ] didn't. No, no, you didn't." He's just saying that cuz he thinks he's about to get some.

[00:19:45]And he [ __ ] feels bad. Cassie then says, "I'm used to being judged. Once I got my boobs, people underestimate me."

[00:19:50]And then this guy's like, "Oh, yeah."

[00:19:52]It's like the same with fame. Like, I don't know. I thought this scene was like, yes, over the top, but it was reminding me of these crazy like erotic thrillers from like the 80s and '9s.

[00:20:01]Stuff like Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction and Body Double, these like over-the-top, sleazy, campy, crazy sort of like sex thrillers. I thought this was hilarious. Cassie then insists on taking a photo of them together. She takes note of the passcode. So, this is like a very premeditated plan. All right, she's like, "I'm going to hook up with this guy and then I'm going to make this post." We hard cut to a sex scene in typical Euphoria fashion, right?

[00:20:24]You'll have these characters talking.

[00:20:25]You hard cut to a sex scene that either completely validates the dynamic you've just been watching or completely subverts it. And I'm going to be real, this sex scene here, not in its literal presentation, but in terms of like plot development, reminds me of the sex scene, if you guys remember in season 1 where Nate is banging Maddie. Meanwhile, she's like kind of looking at the phone the whole time cuz she wants to get access to the phone to then, you know, research his sexuality, see if he's cheating, and she finds a bunch of photos of knobs. Right. So, in this scene, we hard cut to this crazy over-the-top scene with Cassie, and she's like, "Oh my god, I finished so many times. Can I finish again?" He's like, "Again?" Like, I I don't know. It got a good laugh out of me. All right.

[00:21:06]Sorry, everyone. This this circles back to classic euphoria where a lot of time the way these characters use sex is ends to a mean. It's not the act itself. It's not the pleasure. It's not intertwining souls. There's always this moment of we are going to get something from one another. I'm going to get this thing from you. And in this scene, she's sleeping with this guy to basically like smash his brains out and then get into his phone. In a fantastic moment of framing, right, Dylan Reed goes off to the fridge, gets some ice, and you can just see at the bottom of the screen Nate's finger, and you see it go into the glass. And if you miss that, then when he's filling up the glass, you see the finger fully. But this is a great section. At this point, I was like, this is cooking. I am utterly transfixed by how this is going to go down. I'm nervous for Cassie making this post.

[00:21:50]There's all this [ __ ] going on. He's about to drink a finger. Like, is it over the top? Is it crazy? Yes. But am I enjoying it? Also, yes. He then blurts out to her, "Oh, that was like the world's greatest fuck." So then she posts that on his Instagram, puts his phone away. He's like knockout drunk. He doesn't even notice the finger in the glass and he's out for 7 hours. Now, I do love the section of Maddie and Cassie snooping around and kind of laugh at him. It's a sort of dark moment. All right, if you look at it from his perspective, he's basically being coerced into a sexual exploit where he's being used and manipulated. This is bordering on a flatout like essay, right? and they're walking around giggling and laughing. It reminds me of very like high schooly high school situations. I mean, you know those things where at parties people would kick in the door and take photos like these awful things that people used to do where they think it's kind of funny and all a bit of tongue and cheek and you grow up later and you're like, what the [ __ ] was that about? Like this to me feels like that he's obviously a victim in this situation. The whole thing is [ __ ] wild. He's been passed out. This post is going viral. And it is interesting to think, right? They set it up earlier, this idea that Sharon Stone and the TV producers kind of look down on sex work and look down on sexuality in general, right? And now in their eyes, Dylan Reed has made this post like being like, "Oh my god, I just had sex with this sex worker. It's absolutely amazing. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, oh my god." Uh, he's probably going to be in trouble himself. This is going to be a big controversy. All right, so it's kind of unfortunate to think about the ramifications for him. Uh, again, like I don't have any issue with him sleeping with Cassie, but we know that the world that these characters live in and the world in general is probably going to shame him for this and and he's probably going to have some serious like career repercussions because of this. I also love Maddie spotting the finger in the glass. She goes, "Is that a finger?"

[00:23:33]She goes, "Is that Nate's?" And you can see some care here. You kind of see this throughout the episode, which I appreciate. You get some insight into how Maddie kind of feels about Nate. And I will say to validate some criticism of the show in general. I did feel like in last episode it was pretty clear that Nate kind of was not on set when everyone else was. It's clear he kind of showed up and I don't know, it felt like they were stringing along very minor scenes. I do really like what we get with Nate in this episode to an extent.

[00:23:58]We'll talk about that more as we get to it. It's like in isolation they are fantastic scenes in this episode, but at the same time I also wish we got more with him. So we'll talk about that later. But yeah, now we now have Nate zip tied. They go, "How tall are you?"

[00:24:10]He says 6'5. There's this pretty good line of dialogue where they're like, "Look, if you were 6' 3, we could just fit you. 6'4, we'd be kind of squishing you. Uh 6'5, it's too big. All right, 6'3 is kind of coffin size. You're too tall." I really love the line from the the lone shark, the head lone shark, being like, "Is it possible that Cassie is enjoying her freedom too much?" Which is interesting because she is actually like going the extra mile to try and save Nate's life here, and it's a matter of time. I love this section where Ali is telling Rue, "Do not go to this drug meetup. Just go to the DEA. like get your mom in witness protection. Like do something anything but this. This is not going to end well. I I actually think hot take. I think Rue dying would be relatively satisfying. I'm not saying I want Ru dead, but I'm saying the the story we've been following, this dark descent into this criminal underworld.

[00:24:56]Every season, Ru has had this sort of like like she almost feels like she's from a crime movie. And I feel like it's almost where it's heading. If it's not the drug addiction that gets her in the end, it's the the world she's entered through the drug addiction. I also think it is interesting to note that this entire world of Euphoria in season 3 almost feels shaped by Ru's crime exploits. They've all come into Ru's world that she's introduced them to to an extent minus Nate and the lone sharks. But even that, all right, was being solved by Alamo who Ru brought into the picture. And I just think it's I'm not saying I want Ru dead, like it would be sad, but at the same time I do feel like there's almost this inevitable feeling to that. I'm curious how you guys feel, but it wouldn't be the worst plot line, even if her narration was so omnicient and did feel so kind of like godly was because it was like from beyond the grave, but maybe I'm reaching. Ali then offers to go with Rue to this whole drug deal, this whole situation, which was a really kind offer from Ali. Run and Ali then talk about the burnt tree from the end of the last episode. Ru then clarifies that she spent 2 years with Lori. We then have this scene with the strippers. I actually quite like this scene. I like this scene because it reminded me of like the Magic Mike movies or even hustlers if you guys have seen this like somewhat humanizing strippers and showing that they're just kind of like everyday people and they get along and they have their own sort of friendship groups. And I did kind of just like this scene where they're all talking and getting along. Yes, they are talking about a BBL that Kitty is about to get.

[00:26:20]I understand. But I did quite like the scene itself. And I also like the line where they said, "Just don't die. Uh it's not funny. We actually do need you back. We want you back." There's this acknowledgement that to an extent a lot of these strippers kind of know that a lot of these women are being disposed of and taken away and they're part of this system that will eventually churn them out. Again, we have this line from Ali where he says, "Do you ever worry that the fentinel you smuggle will actually kill people?" It's a line I really appreciate because I felt like people weren't really calling Ru out and I appreciate the show going down this line. Ru then asks Al, "Do you still think anyone can be redeemed?" They finally agree that Ru will not go back.

[00:26:55]They will pick up the mom in the morning to protect her because they're worried because they're worried about the mom's safety after be revealed that he's talked to her. I will say I really love this section with the DEA behind the scenes like this whole like playing out the section. They've got all the photos.

[00:27:08]They're talking they're talking about their plan. Again, it just felt very well thought out. Now, I did actually find out that Sam Levenson went to the actual like headquarters of the DEA and that's how he got the idea of the, you know, car that was over the fence and did actually like talk to them and get to know this world. So, I guess that's why it feels so lived in. It feels so well done. Like, it does really there's this tangible feeling to all the set design and everything like that. It's good. I do love Ru running off in the morning, leaving the note for Ali and then just saying, "Forgive me, right?

[00:27:39]She doesn't want to get Ali involved.

[00:27:40]She wants to handle this herself. She doesn't want anyone else getting hurt."

[00:27:43]And because of that cold open I'm seeing there, is this another sponsor that's going to be dead for Ali? You know, just another one in his Book of the Dead. We then have Ru self-inflicting a nose injury so she can get into Lor's camp and be like, "Alamo, beat me. Help me.

[00:27:55]I'm on your side now." Now, we cut back to Cassie. She now has a somewhat successful career again. She's holding up a Polaroid of a dude's wing and she says, "Honestly, at most I'd give it a solid three. Maybe it's good enough for booty, but that's about it." Funny line.

[00:28:08]Sorry. I thought it was funny. It got a laugh out of me. Sue me. Now, a dude breaks in and throws Cassie through a glass table. This is one of the lone sharks after Nate. This is one of the guys that works for the head lone shark.

[00:28:20]Throws her through a table and then drags her along the glass. Full-on violence. Like full on like very fullon situation, but I will say well shot, wellframed, well executed, properly tense and uncomfortable. Now, one moment where I think the writing is somewhat yeah, lackluster, I'll say. All right.

[00:28:37]Not perfect. I would love a bigger contrast with how some of these characters are dealing with this situation. Now, as I'm saying this, I am realizing that Cassiodori being confronted by this in like episode 3 with the wedding and then the finger being cut off or the toe being cut off.

[00:28:51]So, she's familiar with this, but at the same time, like obviously Ru is more built for this world. The only one I feel like there's a big contrast in terms of like hearing about this stuff and being like, "Oh [ __ ] that's crazy."

[00:29:01]is Lexi. And frankly, Lexi is kind of unlikable. Like, I'd love a bit more range of like, "Holy [ __ ] holy shit."

[00:29:07]And we kind of get that towards the end.

[00:29:09]The the difference in reactions between Maddie and Cassie. But again, like just because we're used to seeing this stuff and just because R used to seeing this stuff, this is [ __ ] crazy. Like someone just threw Cassie through a table. And I just wish the writing gave a little more like just some more lines or just some more scenes of just these characters being like this is [ __ ] insane. Like we're in a crime movie, you know? I think it would help me buy some of the situations a lot more. I think Cassie Sydney Sweeney is doing the best she can with the performance. It's definitely not a bad performance. She seems adequately worried, adequately scared, but I would just love more dialogue around this. Like even Ali, like you'd think you'd be like, "Hang on, what the hell is going on? This is [ __ ] crazy." Like just someone being like, "Holy shit." And the only one who seems to be doing that is Lexi, but it's about OAF. Which I don't want to harp on too much, but I will say like at least in the circles I've lived in. I mean, I knew a bunch of people from my school who ended up doing OAF. Some had success, some didn't. These are people that I'll see at the mall and say hi to if they cross me. To me, the stuff being explored in this season isn't as shocking as I think some people find it to be. I do think it's interesting how confronted Lexi is by that sort of stuff. And then when Ru is talking about like black cowboys and Nazis, it's almost like a passing thought, you know?

[00:30:22]Like I just want someone to be like, "This is [ __ ] insane." Side tangent over, right? We find out that they have 72 hours to figure this out. Cassie thinks it's because of her dehydration.

[00:30:31]going to go. No, it's because Nate has 72 hours before he'll be dehydrated. We see that Nate is buried alive. And this is where things get complicated. I think this section is as well done as it possibly could be. I would be lying to you if I said I wasn't fully in this scene. I felt incredibly bad for Nate, which is interesting because obviously he is a very morally dubious character.

[00:30:52]He's quite a bad dude. But in this section, I felt bad for him. I thought the situation itself was pretty terrifying. Yes, it is quite reminiscent of a section from Prisoners, but this section was pretty tough to watch. And I thought, you know, Aaron showing up and looking for him, the useless [ __ ] idiot brother from season 2 showing up looking for him, Cal looking for him. It was all adding a sense of sadness. I do think Jacob Lord's performance was really good. I loved how it was shot. I loved how it was framed. All of it was really good. But at the same time, I do think Nate is like top two or three Euphoria characters. I think he's incredibly well written, incredibly complex, and has been disappointing that if he's going to go out, we didn't get more scenes with him. I do think on one end, this is a relatively satisfying end for Nate. This is a guy who in season one and two, all his schemes worked out.

[00:31:39]Again, I've said this a bunch of times, but he felt like a god. He felt like things just worked out for him. You know, even the the one in the chamber section, the Russian rule section, like everything will always go well for him.

[00:31:49]Everything will always work out. He felt like a god in high school. And now in this season, he is utterly useless essentially. Like he's being and he's terrified. And watching this scene where he's in the coffin and he's screaming the same way Tyler used to scream when Nate beat him. It's all really working.

[00:32:04]And maybe these are dots that I am connecting, right? Maybe Sam didn't even think about it as deeply as we are. But I think it all still lands. The issue is I just would have loved more of Nate.

[00:32:13]You know, I would have loved if this was season 5 and we had the slow descent of Nate. You know, it just I feel like we did miss something with this 5year gap.

[00:32:21]So, it's hard because I love the end point here and I think this sequence in isolation is fantastic, but at the same time, I do miss characters having sort of like interactions with one another.

[00:32:32]You know, when everything is because of a crime plot, it now feels like a crime show instead of a character-based drama.

[00:32:38]You know, I would love some of the drama coming from internal conflict with characters with one another. Say what you will about season 2. I mean, I absolutely adore season 2, but I think the Cassie, Nate, and Maddie thing was so trashy and so addictive because you're like, "Oh, what happens when these people find out? Oh, what happens when this person finds out? Oh my god, is he sleeping with Bo? What's going on?" And I do kind of miss some of the stuff in this show just being character- based, but in saying that, I mean, this is a really well done sequence. I was tense. I was nervous for Nate. It is genuinely like it's hard to make me viscerally uncomfortable, but I was sitting there being like, "This is [ __ ] this is terrifying." So, all of that was really well done. We'll talk about Nate's death later, but I liked this initial introduction scene of him being underground. I I also like the timelines jumping around like Pulp Fiction. Now, we have Ru showing up to the door, but this time it's from the Goon's perspective, from inside Cassie's apartment. We then have a phone call.

[00:33:29]Mattie is calling Lexi, and there is a photo of Cassie. There is a photo of Cassie and Lexi from season 1. That iconic season 1 outfit, I think, from the carnival is there. And then we cut down. I do like these inclusions bringing us back to when these kids were younger. Now, this is another moment of Lexi just kind of being the worst.

[00:33:45]Mattie is like, "I'm worried about Cassie. Do you mind knocking on her door?" Be fair, Lexi then calls out Maddie and the group in general. Now, I do think some of the stuff she called out Maddie on is fair game, but at the same time, it's like, "Listen to Mattiey's desperation. This is your sister. Can you show a little more interest, please?" Lexi then says she's probably doing corn because of you.

[00:34:04]Basically, [ __ ] off. I do like Nate banging the coffin, and then it essentially summons a sandworm. Well, not fully, but it does summon like this snake. This rattlesnake is like, "Oh, I'll go over to the dirt that's shaking." Again, it feels like this subversion of like sort of this like brilliant, flawless execution that Nate used to operate with. Now everything is going wrong. I love the snake going in the pipe. All of this is fantastic.

[00:34:27]Again, I just wish we had more time with Nate leading up to this. You know, even if he thought he escaped this or if he built a good life for himself or we did get more time with him actually changing, actually trying to be a good person. It feels like we were just getting used to this new version of Nate and now he's dying. It's like I think there could have been so much more emotion pulled from this. Again, it's a fantastic sequence. Really well filmed, really well executed, great performance, the snake coming up, like I felt sick.

[00:34:52]It's all so, so good. But again, wish we had more time with it. I love the shot of the snake coming down and I was sitting there being like, how would this work? Would the snake just go thump or would he have his mouth open and it would be like alien? Like, what the hell is going on? I love it. It it's almost more terrifying this shot of the snake kind of like inching down. You're like, "Fuck, man." And again, fantastic scene.

[00:35:12]He's as terrified as Tyler. It's a tough tough scene. Wish we had more time, but it is a great scene. The snake then bites his face. We cut to the yachts burning wood. This is a really nice parallel. I will say this this tree on fire or these bunch of sticks that are on fire and it clearly feels like this hellish subversion of the sign of God that Ru had in the last episode. To me, what that was saying is you're on the wrong path. At the end of the last episode, it felt like it was saying, "Turn around. Stop going this way.

[00:35:40]You're doing the wrong thing." All right. Ru has ignored this sign. Ru has ignored Ali, begging her not to go.

[00:35:45]She's sitting there, right, watching all this fire. It just feels like this hellish It feels like this hellish version of what should have been a guiding light in the previous episode.

[00:35:53]If anything, it almost feels like a mockery of the Joshua Tree situation. We also see that Jules is calling Ru's phone in the car, but Ru is not picking up. Nate's goons. then ask Maddie for a million dollars or they're going to cut up Cassie. Now, on one end, if you want to be cynical, you can make the argument that Mattie is just like, "Oh, no.

[00:36:09]That's my money-making machine. Let me go save her." But I think there is a genuine sort of friendship pool here, too. All right. Maddie hasn't been treating Cassie particularly well.

[00:36:16]Cassie wasn't treating Maddie well in season 2, but I do think there is some love there. There's some friendship there. We We almost have a confirmation of that later in the episode, but I think Maddie is like, "Okay, I better help her." Now, Maddie goes to Magic's house to get like this wonderful outfit.

[00:36:29]And we see Magic, played by Rosalia is in this like lavish, fantastic house.

[00:36:34]She says to Maddie, "Don't overthink it." Essentially saying, "Maddie, you're probably about to sell your body. You're about to exploit yourself, but don't overthink it. I would trade a thousand bad days to have a good life, to have an amazing life." And this is a quote that gave me some pause. It gave me some food for thought. I was tossing up myself like would I be able to do this stuff for that sort of lifestyle for that sort of house. Interesting thoughts were raised from this interaction. Mattiey's interesting too because she is a very sexual person. We saw in season 1, season 2, but at the same time she knew the power of her sexuality. You know, a big plot line in season 1 was her talking about like if you know the right way to smash, if you learn off certain videos, you can basically get a man to do anything you want, right? We saw that when she was getting the jacket off Nate. And it's interesting that eventually that sort of stopped working at a certain point with what happened between Cassie, Maddie, and Nate. Maddie is someone that holds her sensuality, her sexuality in high regard. She's someone who always had that thing of like, you know, I don't want to work. I want to be at home. I just want to chill out, and I know that that is going to get me there. But this situation here feels like a really dark version of that. You know, this doesn't feel like, oh, she's just doing what she was trying to do when she was younger. know, it feels like almost this like it feels like the dark side of what was being proposed of Mattiey's character in season 1. It feels like this unfortunate turn of events where it's like this isn't this isn't how I want it to go. We then have the rednecks intimidating Ru and I love Lor's demeanor here. Again, she seems sad and cold. Uh most notably probably after the bird has passed away.

[00:38:02]I think that was like a serious formative trauma for her. And I just want to say I had a comment on my last video kind of giving me flack for seeing the humanity in some of these characters. I thought this went without saying. I I mean I thought we've all enjoyed shows like The Boys and Breaking Bad and even what season 1 and two of Euphoria. I obviously don't think any of these people are particularly good people. And the reason I don't come at Cassie so hard for doing OAF and I don't think this is such a downturn for her is because every single character in this show is a colossal piece of [ __ ] The tension of the show is trying to find some level of humanity and someone to root for in this dark dark set of characters. So yes, all right. Lori is a terrible person. Alamo is a terrible person. You know, the violence they inflict on others, of course. It's absolutely terrible. At the same time, do I think Ru is a good person given what she's been doing lately? Absolutely not. Do I think Nate is a good person?

[00:38:55]No. Even Ali, one of the most morally virtuous characters in the show, beat his wife. This is a show full of awful people in awful situations. So, to address that first criticism, yes, I am not saying Alamo is a good person or is redeemed. He was a monster and most notably he's a full-on awful monster in this episode. But secondly, for the people that expect me to be more outraged at what I'm seeing in terms of Cassie's character and Jules's character, I'm simply not. I mean, given what these characters went through in season 1, I actually am finding what they've ended up doing here in season 3 a little less confronting. I mean, this is a show that in season 1 opened with jewels getting railed by a guy underage.

[00:39:36]It was uncomfortable and full on. And then she slept with tons of guys while underage. Cassie is someone who's had her sensual photos leaked without her consent. She's been consistently used and abused and exploited. She had that awful scene with Daniel. So, when I'm watching her do in season 3, yeah, some of the scenes are a bit tacky and a bit go and the writing could be better, but at the same time, I'm not particularly disturbed. And also to go a step deeper, I work in the disability sector and part of my work a while ago was helping certain clients meet with ex-workers because, you know, they weren't able to fulfill those needs in general day-to-day life. I I've shaken hands with people that work in these industries. I know people from school that have gone on to work in these industries. So, when I come online and make videos talking about this show, I'm never going to take the stance of like this is inherently degrading work and I hate to see these characters doing this sort of work. I'm happy to talk about whether I think the portrayal is good or not. I'm happy to talk about whether I think the writing is good or not. But when this is a show full of violent, toxic, awful people, full of abusive monsters and evil people, and then I see Cassie doing OAF, I'm not going to come on and act like I'm super horrified. It would feel hypocritical. And also, if any of these people I know in my personal life who I've talking to, who I've spoken to were to watch my videos and see me really pearl clutch at the idea of doing X work or doing OAF, I I don't know. I think that would be a little mean. And truthfully, I just think it's a little insincere. I watch Lars Vontria movies. I watched Anora last year. Like, I'm watching movies about sex work and about confrontational material all the time. I'm not going to like get on camera and pretend that when I'm watching Euphoria season 3, I'm particularly horrified. I'm finding this season in general a lot easier to watch than season one or two. Like season one again, that opening episode with what Jules was going through, a lot of what Cassie went through throughout that season, even with McKay and that scene after he was hazed and what she had to go through with McKay. Like, I don't know. Truthfully, I'm way more disturbed by the stuff I saw in season 1 than season 3. And again, I want to be careful about saying that these characters are inherently being degraded when I just truthfully like my feelings around that are a little more complicated. So, some of these comments that have been meeting me with incredibly bad faith interpretations have kind of upset me a little. Circling back to the episode though, we have this scene where Ru says to Lori, "When you fronted me the drugs, I didn't have a plan. It was just a lie." She says she lies to her mom. She lied to her friend.

[00:41:59]I love that confirmation. Obviously, we know that Ru was never going to follow through with that plan. I like them referencing previous seasons. It felt natural. It was just well written. It was a good section. Then thanks Rue for Fay basically saying like, "Even though you suck, you've bought me the greatest thing on the planet." Now, we have a point where Lori proposes that what happens to Ru is she gets sold. Like we initially had that threat in season 2, right? She also talks about, you know, maybe paralyze her tongue, maybe do this, maybe do that. Now, Ru does seem confronted. She's like, "Oh, is that what Alamo does with these girls?" I'm like, "Babe, surely you had an inkling."

[00:42:30]Like, maybe not fully, like to the full extent, but you had to have known that something was off here, right? You you saw the ambulance pull off. You you checked in Angel to that rehab. You were kind of like skirting around fully talking about that. Like I was I was kind of surprised how surprised Ru was here. We cut back to Maddie. She goes in with this insane dress to meet Alamo in the hot tub. I will say Maddie at this point is really showing up for Cassie and Nate here. And it is a moment where I don't know, it feels properly unsettling. Alamo feels unsettling and threatening. It's an uncomfortable situation. It's a sad moment for Maddie.

[00:43:01]And I think that's the difference here.

[00:43:02]When I've been watching these scenes with Cassie doing OF, yeah, there's some tacky and some ghost stuff and the show knows that as much. All right. Like a substantial plot point in the first couple episodes was Maddie being like, "Cassie, this dog stuff, this baby stuff, it's cringe. It's tacky. What are you doing? No one likes it. Stop it."

[00:43:18]But when Cassie was making some money on OAF, I was kind of like, "All right, babe. Get that bag." Like, given what you've been through and how awful men have been up until this point. If you want to make some money off them, like that's your business. Go off. But this scene does have a dark, sad feeling to it. Watching Maddie even considering selling herself to Alamo here, something she clearly doesn't want to do. It's a tragic scene. It is sad. There's a point where Maddie actually mentions to Alamo in this conversation that Ru mentioned the DEA and I was like, babe, but like nothing seemed to have come from it.

[00:43:45]Maybe he stored that like wine in his mind for later, but I was like, you know, but whatever. Do you guys remember the moment where Matty let slip about the DA? I thought this was going to be a huge moment, but it kind of just went on. I I hope it gets brought up next episode. Maybe they already know and Ru is in over her head regardless. Alamo then says, "Come a little closer. Tell me about this problem." So, it's directly implied that Maddie has to sleep with Alamo to get some help. And there's a really interesting bit of writing that we get to here. All right.

[00:44:12]Mattie is going to ask for a million dollars from Alamo to get Nate and Cassie out of their situation. And the way this goes, I actually thought was a really good bit of writing and felt like it was actually like feeding into basically some of the commentary I wanted around everything to do with sex work up until this point. There's a really interesting thing we get to here, but we'll get there in a second. We have this beautiful We have this beautiful shot of Maddie under the three deer heads. This is something that's been brought up a bunch, right? These women when they are selling their bodies, they are under the watchful eye of these like animal heads. We see that in the strip club a bunch and now we're seeing it here. I think we saw it with that scene.

[00:44:46]We saw it in that scene where Kitty was being like violently abused by those college guys. We see it with the stripper scene with Angel. And we see it here with Maddie under the three deer heads. It's almost this like giveaway of exploitation to an extent. That's directly implying Maddie is now part of that same system. Alamo then says, "Are you sure she's worth this?" And then Mattie says, "She is a money tree. She's special." Finally, we get to like the faceoff section. Cassie comes out zip tied. And then and then the Lone Shark people say, "You must really love this girl." Maddie sort of has a look of like, "Yes." Or at least I used to.

[00:45:17]There's a sad look, but like a look of that's true. Which I did like. I thought Mattiey's like facial acting, facial expression, all of that stuff here was really, really good this episode. Now Alamo shoots the dude, which I think is an interesting moment, right? Because obviously Maddie kind of went through what she went through because she thought, "Okay, my body is worth a million dollars." All right, like to an extent I'm going to do that. I am asking Alamo for a million dollars. That's the transaction here. Now, yes, she was sad about that. And like for some people, there would be no amount of money in the world. For some people, a million dollars might seem like a lot. It's all a matter of perspective. But we could see that Maddie didn't really want to do it, but went, "Okay, for a million dollars, I'm going to sleep with this guy. I'm going to get Cassie and Nate out of this situation." And what's interesting is Elmo technically comes up with a more profitable, easy solution, which is just shooting these guys. But Maddie does seem a bit disheartened by the fact that there wasn't money in the bag. It's almost this thing of like, I feel ripped off. I feel duped. Part of the sort of like mental process of me accepting what I had to do with Alamo, sleeping with Alamo, was the fact that he was giving up a million dollars to an extent. I am worth a million dollars and he was never actually going to consider giving them the a million dollars. I I think it's actually a decent bit of writing. Feels like it is leaning into this idea of the commodification of women and how they are being exploited and the fine line between that and almost how like money or not they're being exploited in some way or another.

[00:46:41]I thought this was a really effective piece of writing. Look, and I I do like Cassie genuinely being horrified of people getting murdered here. Maddie, on the other hand, she does have sort of like violent tendencies we've seen throughout the first three seasons.

[00:46:53]She's a bit more like this is life, but uh Cassie is vis Cassie is viscerally horrified. It's a section I really like.

[00:47:00]I love Mattiey's sort of like forlorn vibe here. It's almost this disappointment of like I'm being exploited the same way these girls are.

[00:47:06]I thought I was above them to an extent.

[00:47:08]Maddie thought she was a pimp. Maddie thought she could, you know, exploit women and not be exploited herself, but she's being exploited by Alamo. And it's an interesting thing because at the end of the day, on some to some extent, it almost like feels like splitting hairs.

[00:47:21]Like either way, Alamo did help them out of a situation. Alamo did get Nate back, Alamo did get Cassie back, etc. But it's like the fact that the money was never going to be handed over makes Maddie feel a bit duped and feel a bit used, more so than she felt already. Now, we cut to Wayne. He's essentially telling the Kingsman story, but he, you know, applies it to the SS. If you guys have seen Kingsman, the whole story about, you know, you have to raise a dog in training and then the end of the training is taking the dog's life essentially. Um, now on one end, I do just need to address I do like the way the show tells all these stories and fables. Most notably, I brought up the opening with Alamo in last episode and also the snake section. And I had a lot of comments mention this to me. I also saw on Reddit that these are essentially longtime running urban legends. And even the Alamo story was lifted from a real life gangster. So watching this Kingsman scene, I can't help but feel like, did Sam just watch Kingsman and then applied here? Maybe not. Maybe this is true. But regardless, it does flow well. It is interesting to listen to, but it is that moment of like, I've heard this before.

[00:48:21]I've heard this a bunch before. Wayne then basically says to Fay, "You need to take Ru's life the way these soldiers take the dogs lives." I do love the line where he's walking off though, and he says, I'm getting hard just thinking about it. I do love this section of Cassie yelling down the pipe, Nate, I love you so much. We at this point know he's almost definitely gone. I It was almost like it would have been subversive or surprising if he wasn't dead, but we know it's coming. And it's unfortunate because I feel like we kind of knew it was coming just because of the limited screen time Nate has been giving the show. Feels like Jacob Bordi could show up for a week or two. So, it's unfortunate where it's like the the sort of outside of the show world feels like it's almost informing this decision. Maybe not. And again, I I like where we've ended here. It's just I wish we had more time or more build up or made it feel more owned. When it's characters that aren't directly involved in the plot doing something this big, it's a little less satisfying. You know, like I don't mind it, but you know, just random lone sharks. You're like, okay.

[00:49:12]What's worse about Alamo here is he says to Maddie, you're more than a million in the hole. You're more than a million in debt. I'm going to take 20% of what you make moving forward. So, even though he never gave the a million dollars, he was never going to give the a million dollars. He still sees it as, you know, she owes him a million dollars despite sleeping with him. I almost assume it's a definite definite thing that they slept together or or he at least sucked on some toes, right? Maddie then confirms as such cuz she goes, "Well, I didn't know you would do it for free."

[00:49:40]And then Almo says, "What? You think I've got a soft spot for you? You think I do this sort of stuff for free? You would have thought sleeping with him would have been enough. Again, there's they didn't exactly show it, but like I mean, come on. You going come on." Like, there's no way they're not implying they slept together, right? Like unless I'm totally misreading this, they definitely slept together. I mean, look, maybe they didn't sleep together. Maybe I'm reading into this too much and they just had an agreement that she would give 20% up, but I don't know. The way Maddie seems really hurt here feels like they did definitely sleep together. It cut away when she's going over. She dressed in that outfit. Like, we're surely meant to infer that they slept together. Like, surely. Anyways, we pull up the coffin.

[00:50:17]Nate is in the coffin. Fantastic practical makeup. It is sad to see Nate dead. I did really love the final scene of him struggling. Great performance, tense. Did feel a bit bad for him here despite everything he's done. Yes, he's still a bad per or he did do terrible things, but I did feel bad for him in that scene. Again, I just wish we got more time on that journey there. And I, you know, maybe I wish it wasn't just random lone sharks. I kind of wish it was more character related or something, but regardless, it's fine. I think it's unfortunate cuz I think he is one of the best written characters of the show and there was so much interesting material you could have had with him. But I still do hope we get more seasons of the show.

[00:50:52]And despite this, I still think this episode was pretty riveting. Fay then wakes up RZ, says, "Let's get the money." Fay actually Fay actually tells Ru, "Look, Wayne was playing on like taking you out." We see that the 3D printed key is not working at all, which is a cool scene. Fay then goes and grabs the keys. They then find Angel's license in the safe, kind of almost confirming, revealing that Alamo and Lori are clearly in cahoots together. And if anything, they're pulling a ruse on Rue to an extent, but we don't know the full details of this yet. But S's coming.

[00:51:19]There's no money in the safe, just girls. Which to me feels like some clear visual storytelling of the way that women are being used, being commodified in this world, in the world of the show, etc., etc. It feels like a pretty clear visual storytelling thing of like women are the true money. Women are the thing that are being exploited, sold, trade, etc. Now, Ru and Fay start having a fight. Fay starts going off at Ru being like lie and lie and lie. And and Fay does feel [ __ ] over, right? She was abused by her first guy, then she was abused and lied about with Kuster, and now she feels like she's getting [ __ ] over by Ru. Now, to be fair, it almost feels like she has a different [ __ ] reality of what happened here because Ru is like, "You told me there was money in the safe." And she's like, "You've lied to me. You said we'd get money and we'd go and then she finally yells out Wayne, the episode ends." Overall, despite some things I would change, which would need an entire series restructuring, you know, but taking this show for what it is, I thought this was a pretty spectacular episode. I was hooked every second. I was like white knuckling it for certain sections. The Nate death scene was as well done as it could have been. Does that make any sense? Like, they've kind of screwed the pooch up until this point. So, I was almost kind of impressed with how much tension and how mad I wasn't at this section. Again, could have been better. I would have had it a bunch of different ways myself.

[00:52:36]Like I would have ran it totally differently. But in saying that where we ended up, I did like the section. I thought that whole section with Cassie was great. I thought that whole section with Maddie was great. I thought it was really good. I thought it was a really good section. Thank you so much for watching everyone. I really like this episode. I will see you for next episode. Thank you so much for watching again and have a lovely day. Hey guys, just quickly, if you're enjoying this video, please consider getting a membership to this channel. For the cost of a couple of dollars a month, get access to a weekly podcast where I talk about every single show and movie I've watched in a given week. These are movies on the shelf behind me, movies and shows on streaming that I don't have time to cover on the main channel, as well as stuff that I see at the movies that I don't have time to cover on the main channel. It really helps out the channel. Links are in the description below for both YouTube memberships and Patreon. Thank you so much for considering. And back to the video.