“Lots of people ask what I have been as much as since highschool,” Rue tells us on the high of the “Euphoria” Season 3 premiere. “Actually? Nothing good.”
That is fairly the understatement, because the hour that follows illustrates. As we dip again into Rue’s life 5 years after the occasions of Season 2 — and greater than 4 years because the HBO collection aired that season’s finale — she’s working medication throughout the United States-Mexico border for Laurie. Rue nonetheless owes the vendor for the suitcase of provide that her mother, Leslie, flushed final season. Although the unique value was $10,000, time and curiosity have made that quantity balloon to over $43 million… although Laurie will settle for $100,000 if Rue can in some way scrape it collectively. “And that’s how I grew to become a drug mule,” Rue says flatly.
The way in which Rue goes concerning the work is each extremely harmful and really silly on the similar time. At one level, she drives Laurie’s automotive up a precarious ramp meant to get the automobile again over the border wall, however then will get it caught on the high, so she has to shimmy out with the products and hope that the teetering mass does not all of a sudden tip and run her over. (It does not.) Rue spends that night time sleeping within the barn belonging to a big, Christian household in Agua Dulce, Texas; they later purchase her story that she’s a school journalist, feed her, and warmly want her nicely earlier than getting her on a Greyhound bus.
We then obtain an training on the method of ingesting condoms filled with fentanyl with the intention to deliver them into the U.S. undetected; Okay-Y Jelly and plenty of gagging is concerned. Faye generally joins Rue on these runs with the intention to break up the load amongst two individuals. We watch one the place, after a really tense examine of (a unique) automotive by Border Patrol, Rue zooms again to Laurie’s so she and Faye can frantically poop right into a colander within the tub with the intention to get better the merchandise. (Facet observe: This present was at all times graphic, however did this scene really feel gross in a extra egregious strategy to anybody else?)
The remainder of the crew and what they’re as much as
Rue generally crashes at Lexi’s in Los Angeles, which is how we discover out that the little playwright is now a low-level staffer on “L.A. Nights,” a nighttime cleaning soap from big-deal producer Patty Lance (performed by Sharon Stone). Rue urges Lexi to name Fez, who’s in jail for 30 years following the raid in Season 2, however Lexi is hesitant. (Facet observe: Present boss Sam Levinson has mentioned that despite the fact that Angus Cloud died in 2023, Fez is alive and can have “an amazing arc” off-screen this season.)
In the meantime, Cassie and Nate are engaged and enjoying home in “some right-wing, suburban bubble,” Rue voiceovers. Cassie spends her days making an attempt to change into Tiktok well-known, having their housekeeper movie her in numerous male-gaze set-ups, whereas Nate is working Cal’s building enterprise cough into the bottom cough. He is betting large on a facility he calls Solar Settlers, “the premiere, end-of-life, transitional facility in southern California.” However in the mean time, he is chasing funding for the challenge and undecided how he’ll pay for his future bride’s very expensive dream wedding ceremony.
When she means that she begin an OnlyFans to kick in for the (checks notes) $50,000 floral preparations, Nate forbids it. However after she shames him for not with the ability to present, he relents, making her promise to not present her chest and her face in the identical photographs.
In different “The place are they now?” information: Maddy is managing the careers of some influencers and an actor named Dylan Reed, who’s “the heartthrob” on Lexi’s present, and Jules apparently is a sugar child within the metropolis.
Meet Rue’s new boss
Again to Rue! She has a meet-up with Ali on the similar all-night diner the place they spent the soul-crushing Christmas episode. Rue is not in as a lot of a foul means as she was that night, however that is not saying a lot. Once more, they focus on how she will get hung up on the higher-power facet of 12-step applications. When she will be able to’t cease selecting aside the Bible, Ali says she’s both obtained to have religion, or not. “In any other case, you are going to argue about this s**t without end,” he provides.
So proper there, Rue decides she’s going to consider in a divine presence — and he or she’s going to learn the Bible. “The miracles have begun,” Ali says within the realizing tone of voice of somebody who’s been aware about her — and her shenanigans — for fairly a while.
Rue thinks the Lord is working in her life when she winds up delivering medication to a person named Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, “Misplaced”), who owns a number of all-nude strip golf equipment. His staff embrace Bishop (Darrell Brit-Gibson, “Barry”) and Kidd (Asante Blackk, “This Is Us”). After Rue and Alamo share a drink and a joint, she begs him to rent her for no matter jobs he wants dealt with. It is all seeming very right-time-right-place… till one among Alamo’s dancers takes some ecstasy Rue introduced and dies proper then and there, due to the capsule’s being laced with fentanyl.
Rue is introduced earlier than a really indignant Alamo. She says she had no thought what was within the pouch she transported, and that “I believed that possibly God introduced us collectively.” Oh honey. She babbles about how a lot cash she owes Laurie and will get teary as she says Alamo’s curiosity in her gave her hope. “So, you consider in God?” he asks. She replies within the affirmative. “Let’s examine if he believes in you,” he says.
And that is how Rue finally ends up outdoors, with a VERY small apple balanced on her head whereas Alamo factors his gun at her and squints. He shoots the fruit clear off her head, inflicting her to interrupt out in hoots of relieved, hysterical laughter as she falls to her knees and the episode ends.
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