{"id":162407,"date":"2021-01-25T15:16:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-jules-euphoria-special-delivers-another-must-watch-deep-dive\/"},"modified":"2021-01-25T15:16:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T12:16:50","slug":"the-jules-euphoria-special-delivers-another-must-watch-deep-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-jules-euphoria-special-delivers-another-must-watch-deep-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Jules Euphoria Special Delivers Another Must-Watch Deep Dive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Jules Euphoria Special Delivers Another Must-Watch Deep Dive<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.7.8--><em>Welcome to\u00a0<strong>Previously On<\/strong>, a column that fills you in on our favorite returning TV shows. This week,\u00a0Valerie Ettenhofer reviews Euphoria\u2019s second special \u201cbridge episode,\u201d which is all about Jules.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p>\u201cWithout, like, getting melodramatic, I\u2019ve had a really hard six months.\u201d This is what Jules (<strong>Hunter Schafer<\/strong>) tells her therapist partway through the second <strong><em>Euphoria<\/em><\/strong> special in as many months. What an understatement. As if her relapsed, suicidal girlfriend and violent, catfishing transphobe boyfriend aren\u2019t enough, we learn over the course of this episode that Jules has also been dealing with her addict mother and some complicated feelings about her own gender and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>Like its Rue-focused counterpart, this hour is billed as a \u201cbridge episode\u201d between the show\u2019s first and second seasons. The episode, which is titled \u201c<strong>Part 2: Jules<\/strong>\u201d with the intriguing subtitle \u201c<strong>Fuck Anyone Who\u2019s Not A Sea Blob<\/strong>,\u201d is structured around Jules\u2019 first session with a new therapist. Unlike the Rue (<strong>Zendaya<\/strong>) special episode, this one \u2014 also shot during the COVID-19 pandemic \u2014 isn\u2019t particularly beholden to a single setting or limited cast. The therapy session with Dr. Nichols (<strong>Lauren Weedman<\/strong>) is the root from which the episode grows, but impressionistic scenes unfold on all sides of it like gorgeous tendrils.<\/p>\n<p>By not repeating the risky, two-person-play gambit of Rue\u2019s episode, Jules\u2019 chapter loses the actor showcase aspect that makes its predecessor so laudable. It still deserves high praise, though. The line about Jules\u2019 tough few months perfectly sums up what works so well about this episode. The soft-spoken transgender teen is a chronic under-reactor. Her formative life experiences have taught her to meet most situations with a shrug or a smile, and this makes her role among a <em>Skins<\/em>-like cast of attention-seekers and bold personalities particularly suited to deeper character study.<\/p>\n<p>Since so much of <em>Euphoria<\/em>\u2019s first season presents Jules through Rue\u2019s rose-tinted glasses, it was easy to imagine her as the sort of heavenly creature she dressed up as for Halloween. This hour shows us a version of Jules who is alone for the first time and gives us some of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a>\u2019 best character development to date in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Early in the episode, we see the type of sensational, self-contained shot that series creator Sam Levinson has become known for: an easily excerpted moment that\u2019s bound to find immortality on teen-fandom sites like Tumblr. In it, scenes of Jules and Rue\u2019s relationship play out in the reflection of her unblinking eye while Lorde\u2019s song \u201cLiability\u201d is heard in the background. Eventually, a tear forms in her eye, blurring the screen we\u2019ve become enraptured with.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-361525\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jules_Euphoria_Eye.jpg\" alt=\"Jules Euphoria Eye\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jules_Euphoria_Eye.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jules_Euphoria_Eye-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jules_Euphoria_Eye-160x120.jpg 160w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Jules_Euphoria_Eye-320x240.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a great shot, but its heady romantic overtones quickly evaporate as Jules begins to open up. Rue is only one piece of her story, and, in a surprisingly realistic portrayal of a therapy session, we finally learn more about all the other pieces. Just as the tear blinks away the love story, so the rest of the episode wipes away our attachment to the more stylized, melodramatic <em>Euphoria<\/em> we were used to in a pre-COVID world.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>Euphoria<\/em>\u2019s first season, everything seems like life or death in the way that only adolescence does. Rue\u2019s special episode, with its frank discussions of addiction and suicide, makes those stakes feel more real than they ever have before. Ironically, despite its own <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme<\/a>s of death and catastrophe, Jules\u2019 hour is the most grounded the series has ever been. The character is a complicated one; she\u2019s decidedly mature and self-possessed, but she\u2019s also acutely aware of her status as a teenager with outsized emotions.<\/p>\n<p>Schafer plays those emotions beautifully. For much of the episode, Jules doesn\u2019t cry, shying away from the topics that she knows will upset her and initially giving honest but guarded answers to her therapist\u2019s questions. When she finally breaks, Schafer\u2019s furrowed brow and trembling lip are subtly devastating.<\/p>\n<p>From here on out, the episode takes on a darker tone that matches Rue\u2019s chapter. A creatively shot, fantastically cross-cut love scene turns twisted when Jules\u2019 mystery beau turns into psychotic bully Nate (<strong>Jacob Elordi<\/strong>), who covers her mouth as she screams. She reaches for Rue, but she\u2019s already gone, into a bathroom where she overdoses. Nightmares, fantasies, and recontextualized memories all come together in a revelatory look inside Jules\u2019 mind. By episode\u2019s end, Jules is so much more than the glowing vision of love Rue has at times imagined her to be. She\u2019s real, flawed, and in many ways, painfully relatable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFuck Anyone Who\u2019s Not A Sea Blob\u201d ends on the same note of crushing despair that Rue\u2019s hour does, but it feels uncharacteristically bleak for someone as resilient as Jules. A more peaceful conclusion comes about earlier when she envisions herself at the beach as she speaks about her transness and femininity: \u201cI wanna be as beautiful as the ocean,\u201d she says. \u201cThe ocean is strong as fuck and feminine as fuck and both are what makes the ocean the ocean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Instead, we end with Jules in the rain, the ocean transformed and divided above her. Hers is an essential chapter of this series\u2019 story, and its unresolved ending is a keen reminder that <em>Euphoria <\/em>Seaso 2\u00a0can\u2019t come soon enough.\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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