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Crazy, Stupid, Love dir. Glenn Ficarra, John Requa | 2011
I need another movie with this ICONIC dou.
Hollywood later decided that Ryan gosling and Emma stone are a really believable couple, but honestly the best chemistry in the movie to everyone who really paid attention was Ryan and Steve.
bring my babies back to me 😭😭😭
it’s like a one two punch
really tough week for male characters who experienced sexual trauma(abuse) by their father, that resulted in some seriously f**ked up view of muscularity and violent anger issues. Ruben dying by the hands of his co-defendant abuse victim that he murdered, and Nate dying by a snake bite but really it was the bad writing that killed him (and the decision to let actors conflicts to dictate the plot).
I mourned Nate’s death for the wasted potential of what his character could have been, how bad the writing got but the show somehow spiked in popularity? More proof that complex storytelling is a dying art.
but then, thank god for Richard Gadd!!! for restoring my enjoyment from a heart crushing tragedy on a tv show, really turned the week around and turned it to devastating, in a non derogatory way.
so Sam Levinson decided to kill all the substance of Euphoria’s main characters between season 2 and 3.
And then let the rest of them get killed by the end of this season or turn evil 👿 👿 👿 WTF!!!
Up until about episode 5 I had some hope that even though the first half of the season was kind of basic and unimaginative, that maybe it’s just a set up (a bad set up) for a twist to come at like episode 6 connecting some of the storylines together and making us feel like OHOoooo O.K, now this all makes sense. Especially with Nate’s “story line” and Jules’s “story line” that were barely part of this season at all. If season One was so af**ing good, and season two was pretty good, then season three should be “good-ish” at least…
But no, my hopes that this is going somewhere were way too high. This season and the conditions of it production were Unbelievably Unprofessional. I’m not very much chronically online, but It’s seems like all the gossiping turned out to be true. So how in the Hell could we have gotten a good final Act if:
1. too many actors didn’t have time in their schedule to shoot. And sadly one tragically died and another one got diagnosed with terminal ALS before production.
2. Some of the actors are unwilling to work with other cast members because “they don’t like each other”? Or “can’t get over personal feelings at work”? (What a way to signal to future show runners to not hire them to any tv show ever again🤨🤨).
3. The show’s musician which was integral to the show’s success quite a little before Airing time with a major diss.
4. The show runner lost the plot and the audience, due to being incredibly misogynistic and gross.
5. No one understood the direction the writing was going, to the point that actors didn’t even wanted to come back to another season (remember fallen heroes Cat, McKey, Gia and Ethen?)
HBO should have just canceled this season at the start!!!!! this season is tarnishing the legacy of the show. I don’t think there is a reason anymore to watch the show finale. Even if some of the characters will make it out alive in the end, why should we care? None of them are sympathetic or interesting anymore. For any of them to leave the situation they are in now with a sliver of our empathy, the show will need some serious deus ex machine devine intervention - Christmas Carol style miracle. one burning tree isn’t enough.
We will now:
never find out wtf is the deal with the third Jacobs child? what’s going on with Nate’s sexual identity crisis? How he got involved with Naz in the first place, and why didn’t he just gave him his car or his house to pay for the debt? It’s borderline insane to not just, go back to live with his mom, or go to college and start over. Nate is still like 20 something, which is barely adult. Why we pretending he is too doomed to start over? How is this ending at any way relevant to his Arc?
why Jules needed to quit Art school? What was the problem with dating rich married men who pay for everything, and also go to classes? How is she expecting to work at this profession? what happened to Cassie’s interests, or Maddie’s ambitions? The ice skating, the abortion, Maddie’s family? All not relevant anymore.
How the heck Lexi got a job working personally with a major studio executive, without any experience or even college degree? How is Rue working for a drug dealer > human trafficking pimp > the DEA, and somehow all this time still hasn’t relapsed at all? At this point I think even AI could have written a better plot, that is soooo bad
Listen. I got to meet you. I got to do all this amazing stuff. I'm good. I made peace with it.
super interesting and important video for everyone who wants to be in "the industry"
My dream is to be a writer in Hollywood and write for big productions, but part of me will always appreciate and cherish the visual Effects and animation community.
In college they were the only people in movie and video art making process that were kind to me. I wouldn't have survived university without them. I was told I'm too sensitive to be successful, and taken seriously by most of the teachers and classmates when I had questions or reservations, and tried to suggest a different approach to something.... But in the animation department, going to classes was fun again. Everyone hung together and we were a team, and not full of ourselves. They were the Hufflepuff of "Movie Magic" and Hollywood elite need to give them better treatment!, and respect!!!!!
They are artists with patience and with skills that are hard to value before the final product is done. I wish all the big Actors, Directors, and Auturs of Hollywood remember that a movie is a group project, and all the players in the team need to feel valued and respected for the work they put in to make the result A Masterpiece. Right now this industry feels as fake as the people they like to criticise and blame for spreading hate, and gross incompetence.
half man (2026) // industry (2020-) // x
OOO... How I love when the parallel lines are parallel..
Quality stuff is happening in HBO right now 🫣🫣🫣🔥🔥🔥
THANKS FOR SAVING US, GO BANGARANGAAAAAAA
the Irony of Antisemite and Israelis being United on "thank god Israel came second!!!"
honestly the BEST outcome.
I’m reading all those stories online about things that came out in editing of season 3 of Euphoria, or things that people tweeted that clue to a big twist coming in the next episode regarding Nate, and everything we know about him…
and without spoiling any of it, and also because I won’t be able to find all the sources I saw again… I’m starting to wonder if they are maybe using Roe narrations unreliably, and the twist will be that Nate is actually a masochist. Like he is so fucked up by his past that he started finding relief in physical pain, which is why he is so casual about getting beaten.. it’s just the losing of the limbs that bother him. But because he have to maintain his “image” he denies it, but when he met Jules at McKey’s and she cut herself and go “I’m invincible” he was like: 🎵“what is this feeling, so sudden, and new I felt the moment I laid eyes on you…”🎵
Do you ever go: How do I find a way to get a brain scan without paying for it?
just to let go of some ideas I have about my Autism…
SUPRIYA GANESH at the 5th Annual Gold House Gold Gala
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Euphoria's Weird love cube
Jules, Nate, Cassie and Maddie's relationships plotline: Can a Maddie/Cassie reconnection and a Jules/Nate one save the plot? - An analysis centered on character arcs
essay written by Hila Arussy (without AI)
So at this point I think most of us are watching Euphoria with nostalgia goggles on and minimal amount of hope that the show will somehow end in a satisfying way. But this season so far is giving us temu version of the first two seasons. It is if Sam Levinson decided to do his own version of Western and gangster movie mushed together, with the kink objectification element turned to 11 and more "style" over substance.
Putting the obvious faults aside. I want to focus for a second on the character arcs of four of the main characters (singling out Rue and Lexi for their solo cantered arcs) and how important their relationships with each other are to their individual plots, and ask: is there still a place their plots can go, that will make this season redeemable? Or are we too far "out of character" for the plot to feel like a proper act III for those four?
I'm of the opinion that none of those four is irredeemable, and to hope for catharsis from each character's plot by having them complete their development arc on an HBO show, is not an excessive demand. This final act of the show should focus on all of them navigating the damage of high-school years, to soft launch their adulthood lives. But too much of those characters is unrecognizable now, their personalities have been flattened into a single trait. The show seems to forgot they used to have substance and layers, turning them into caricatures of their former self, but I haven’t. I never thought that any one of them are inherently evil, Just stupid, selfish and damaged, the way teenagers can be. The way we are before we learn to reconcile our environment influence on us, with who we really are, and who we want to be.
growing pains
The four of them share the same desire to be successful, each in their own way or the way "success" has been defined for them. Each of them also established and built their identity or “persona” in relation to the trauma they experienced as children/teens:
Jules is a trans artist, her persona revolve around exploring the non-binary nature of her gander, and sexuality. But her "fatal flaw" comes from her tendency to lose herself in relationships, and give up on her ambitions at the first sign of struggle, going back instead to old self-sabotage patterns of seeking validation from others. Nate's worldview was largely shaped by his relationship with his father and the sexual trauma he was exposed to as a child. Before the "lobotomy" his character went through this season (which I think I can sorta make sense… in theory, but more on that later) previous seasons did a great job of showing all the layers in which his trauma affected his behavior - the attachment to binary gander roles, his internalized homophobia, his anger issues, his fear of having no control (being submissive), and the way he uses manipulation for illusion of control, and protection. Not to mention that the lack of real love in his family made him honestly clueless to how it feels to be loved even when you’re being unlikable.
Out of three… came none
Cassie's identity built around her desire to be loved and wanted by the people around her. Her father, her boyfriends, and now strangers (men) online. all figures who end up disappointing her or breaking her heart. But with Maddie, it was different. With Maddie, she was the one who broke her friend's heart, and losing Maddie's friendship also marks her losing self-respect. As Rue said in the narration on Cassie and Maddie's reunion, 'Maddie realized at that moment... Cassie had stayed with Nate all those years to get that ring that clear her conscience'. The reason Maddie left emotional their wedding, isn't from some left-over feelings for Nate. That Door was sealed shut the night he came for that CD (in many ways Nate, and his family view of her, are Maddie's trauma). What hurt Maddie most is losing Cassie to this "fantasy life" she always wanted. From young age seeing her mom bust her back working for those rich ladies in the beauty salon, while they do nothing, was the future goal she set. Her relationship with Nate was already doomed at the start, as she was willing to pretend and lie for her goal. But eventually the "act" became more harmful than its worth.
She was denied that dream, for not being submissive enough, and white enough. In the fallout of that fantasy being shattered, Maddie is the first person Cassie runs to because more than anyone else, she will understand that disappointment. But for Cassie it might be too late, the damage been done. Years of relying on the attention she got from her sex-appeal and giving up her principals for her boyfriends, have led to Cassie believing this is all she has. This is her self worth and only value.
The second thing that this crumbling marriage made us realize, it's that there wasn’t any real love and honesty there to begin with. Nate don't really love Cassie. He almost loved Maddie, in his own f**ked up way. In one of their more honest conversations Maddie asked him what he loved about her, and he answer “you’re Smart and Cruel, but not really (cruel)”, which to me translates as he liked her good heart, and her confidence, the way she always go for what she wants. But It was his frugal binary view of gander roles, and lack of confidence that he is loved (also something that Maddie directly ask him) that blocked him from not ruining it.
inside Nate vs Outside Nate
Unexpectedly, it was Nate's relationship with Jules as "Tyler" that allowed Nate to show his vulnerable/softer side he buried, and be more honest, more himself. Their correspondence began under manipulation on his part, designed to protect his father's secret, but under the discreet anonymity of the internet, Nate and Jules truly bonded.
Unfortunately for them, the emotional baggage that Nate carries with him works against them. The binary gender roles that Nate clings to out of fear/rejection of his father, are at odds with Jules's being trans. And the anger problem he has trouble controlling, has forced him to use the card he held against Jules (to protect his father), to instead fix his own mistake, and get out of Juvey/anger management/community service/Maddie's parents restraining order... in some sort of combination (depends on how good the Jacobs lawyer is).
For a while, it seemed like things would stay cold between them and the emotional connection is gone. But Nate's storyline about his relationship with Cassie was set up to blow up in his face, and completely change his dynamic with Maddie/Cassie/Jules and force him to move on with only one. His intentions starting a relationship with Cassie was based on his attraction towards her appearance, that subconsciously reminds him Jules. At the same time he’s still trying to fix his problems with Maddie, whom personality-wise is closer to what he also liked in Jules (kind heart, intelligent, creative, confident). But unlike with Jules, with Maddie he never managed to be vulnerable, and every time she called him on his s**t his anger issues surfaced, and he would end up hurting her even when he didn’t wanted. Jules was the first person who saw through him and called his bluff (when they met at McKey’s party) and it happened to be in the same night she also met his dad alter ego. She experienced his recurring nightmare in reality and then moved on. which made her someone he can empathize with, be completely honest with, and respect and care about even when those feelings are not reciprocated.
The final act Oedipus complex
So What happened? when did Nate stop being Nate? And Cassie and Maddie settled on making careers based on horny men’s fantasies? Well, most of it its Just Sam Levinson lack of imagination and lazy writing, minimizing each of those characters to a single trait. Roe's drug abuse problem and criminal centered plot, are "fun trouble and chaos" easy writing. And Lexi is Levinson's self insert in case you didn't notice. Including her writer/director ambitions, slut shaming attitude, and “only rational one of the group”. Other characters are collateral damage... Lexi's play, while very entertaining way to close the show second season, and also establish that Lexi does “worth the hype” she thinks she deserves, It changes the stakes for those characters in a way that pushes them to new areas in their character development. Areas that they probably didn’t want to go towards to begin with, and are brought on by outsiders peeking in on their lives. It’s a great way to set up “to be continued…”, but one episode isn’t enough time for the audience to understand what they will land into when season 3 start and there is a big time jump. For Nate the effect of the play was probably the most drastic. He already “got the hottest girl in school”, and she is feeding him the fantasy he control every aspect of her life and that that’s what SHE wants. his dad left the house and his secret double life, are no longer something that he needs to hide from his mother and brother(s?). In his head he probably thought “now I can move on, the damage ends here”, but Lexi’s sequence about the inherent homoerotic nature of locker-rooms sport fields, really touched an exposed nerve with Nate. The show focuses on how triggering it is for him, and that the damage his dad did on him won’t really heal so easily with just his dad no longer being there. Nate breaks, leaves the theater and goes to confront his dad, “making him pay” and turning him in, even though he knows that it isn’t smart move for the future of the company his dad built. He took a loan from the likes of Naz probably because others refused him due to his dad reputation. Turning his dad to the police was an impulsive act of desperation, In the hope this might do the trick and release him, but it doesn’t.
The Nate that closes the door behind him while the cops take his dad is sad, not happy. More than anything else what missing for us to realize about where Nate is at season 3, is lingering moments of complete confusion and loss of direction that Nate got himself into. 5 years have passed and Nate is still lost and struggling but he settled into faking it. He’s lying to Cassie alright, but he is mostly lying to himself, that he is happy, that this is what he wants…. Because if he got the super sexy blonde wife, the big house, the successful business, and the support of everyone around him, and yet he is still miserable and dead inside, then what do he want? What would give him comfort, if everything he ever got told he supposed to want is really wrong for him? If “the fairy tale is over” the American dream is a scam, and his life is the embodiment of this big fat lie?
What now?
In order for the audience to feel like the characters really reached the end of their arcs, season 3’s plot needs to show us that those characters either finally learned how to stop the cycle of pain/trouble they keep getting themselves into, or they decided to lean into the darkness and embrace the rules of the world they choose to be in.
For Maddy a proper closure will rest on her willingness to use Cassie to advance her career and fortune. There will need to be a moment towards the show’s end where Maddie will face a choice between - “selling” Cassie to get what she wants financially and also maybe revenge. Or choose to leave the dangerous situation they will get into together, because even after everything that happened between them, Maddie still cares about Cassie. And whatever feelings of inferiority she might had in the past towards the Cassie’s of the world are now gone.
For Nate it seems impossible to properly close his arc without him reconnecting with Jules, whether it will be by physically meeting or through his “Taylor” account. If all his life he believed his role in life is to achieve this very specific idea of “American dream” that he actually can’t have, reaching out to the one person he know never cared about that fantasy at all, is like trying to grab a life preserver when drowning. Jules herself is struggling and losing confidence in her identity as an artist, and whenever she feels insecure her ego strategy is to seek validation from someone she likes (Anna, then Eliot, now Ellis). Jules needs to decide that if she really wants to be an artist, she will have to compromise and struggle without seeking shortcuts. That if she can’t gather enough confidence from the inside to get the job done, to out source confidence from someone else will always leave her dependent on others. What you are too scared to face head on - will be able to stab you in the back if you won’t turn around to see the knife coming.
I just can’t get over how beautiful she looks.
she and bad bunny really said my face is the fashion! Get into it.
Emma Chamberlain. I LOVE THIS. Ugh the colours and the silhouette. Probably one of my favs so far.
hunter schafer wearing custom prada inspired by klimt’s ‘mäda primavesi’. fashion is art!!
ate once again. ig this is why everyone wants to steal indian fashion lately
I love this cultural representation and delivery… both south asian and East Asian guests had some of the best looks of the evening.
really hoping that this will lead to maybe a future exhibition of the costumes institute inspired by non-western cultures…
Chase Infiniti attends the 2026 Met Gala celebrating "Costume Art" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 04, 2026 in New York City. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) pls help me get out of debt donating to: ko-fi.com/fashionrunways or dinahlance-shop.fourthwall.com
