Mike and Lexi: the storytellers
I remember noticing this distinct scene in episode 6 of season 3 of euphoria (see further below), but I IGNORED IT, I thought METAGATE WAS SILLY, I did NOT want to read into, and I did NOT want to believe in metagate, but it's relevant now that we know how the finale ends!!!!
Remember - Mike and Lexie? Our storytellers? Who are both depicted as feeling guilt/regret for not having said 'I love you', in the series finales of their respective shows?
You know our theories that Mike was the storyteller and made up El's death, and felt so much guilt over the fact that he could say I love you back?
Lexie adopts the same fucking role in the series finale of Euphoria. This is a 4th wall break scene from episode 6 of season 3, that I chose to IGNORE on first watch, yet it lingered at the back of my mind!!! It's Lexie describing how she'll write her episode of LA Nights (where she's been hired as screenwriter):
'Why don't you just kill her character?'
'Cause I'm supposed to build her up'
'If someone doesn't die periodically, people get bored'
How are more people not catching on that episode 8 of euphoria might just be Lexie's narrative/screenplay? The same Lexie who staged a fake version of Oklahoma, to cover up the nitty, true play that she decided to put on... Where have I head that before...
This specific line below is FISHY AS HELLLLLLL!!!!! I THINK I'VE HEARD THAT SOMEWHERE!!!
'OK, so, build up to kill her'
'The whole episode is building towards "Eleven is going to kill herself"'
Lexie is literally describing that she's writing a story where the story builds up to the main female protagonist getting killed...
One thing that Sam Levinson cannot do is subtlety, which is why this feels so much more blatant and less hard to believe than conformitygate in and of itself...
Why is no one talking about this? Or are people talking about this? Am I going crazy?
I didn't even intend to watch Euphoria under the guise that it was possibly metagate, because that felt SO SILLY, but that finale????
I got played TWICE this year! TWICE!!!!!
I kept accidentally posting an incomplete comment to this rad post, and honestly it’s way better with pictures! @thebestofmyrmidons, I’m so sorry this took so long. Note: there are some spoilers for Euphoria below; please know this before you proceed.
So -
I was not a Euphoria head, but caught Finn’s SNL appearance and didn’t think about this skit again until APRIL - when one of the resident brains at the CG SubReddit brought THIS PART up while posting the names of the upcoming S3 episodes:
I cleared my throat and started watching that shit from the beginning!
Awww. This was from S1E5!
YES, 🎶SMALLTOWN BOY IN S1E6
Ok ok be cool ok. It is a GREAT song!
Speaking of great songs that remind us of Mike,
Yes. So good!
And AGREED, the WOW is the OKLAHOMA FAKEOUT in S2.
ALSO in Euphoria S2: A special flashback episode, featuring best friends with mad sexual tension. They are lively, they have sex with their girlfriends; when they graduate high school they go out to celebrate by themselves and uhhhhh
bbs got their Snowball!
!!!!!!!
And this is all before the PALADIN episode! Paladin was a bird (may he rest). Huh. BUT THEN!!!!!
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(So yeah, I’m pretty pumped that @thebestofmyrmidons has eyes on Euphoria)
FYI - the Whole Love Never Tears Us Apart flashback sequence is of Cal Jacob's, who grows up to be a closeted and miserable person living a seemingly happy life, but ends up cheating on his wife relentlessly behind her back (including with Jules).
Am thrilled to have been flung onto the Euphoria carpet because it dazzles my ass, HARD. And the conclusion is confounding. And it indeed started out as incredibly psychologically meaty… and the ST parallels were wildly intensifying in S2 (see @thebestofmyrmidons note about Cal above + excellent blog posts)!
I was going into Euphoria S3 late to the party, and ST was my car service, and thank goodness because of these handy suggestions in the cupholders:
Pro Tip#1: When barreling towards the conclusion, it is totally fine to spend less time with Jules and more quality time with these druglords and their staff!
The show stars are also movie stars and they get tied up! 🍿 (Sam could tell you!)
Pro Tip#2: Nothing says Finale like a Let’s kill a vajay monster in a popcorn movie-style and then close out in the coziest setting we’ve ever shown you!
