{"id":411202,"date":"2022-03-01T15:16:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/euphoria-season-2-finale-presents-a-tangled-web-of-abuse\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T15:16:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T12:16:32","slug":"euphoria-season-2-finale-presents-a-tangled-web-of-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/euphoria-season-2-finale-presents-a-tangled-web-of-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"#Euphoria Season 2 Finale Presents a Tangled Web of Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Euphoria Season 2 Finale Presents a Tangled Web of Abuse<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

     <span class=\"mx-1\">In our last recap of the season, we break down what the show is really about.<\/span>\n<\/p><div id=\"\">\n\n\n\n                <figure class=\"sf-entry-featured-media<\/a> \">\n            <img width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Euphoria-Season-2-finale-Zendaya.jpg\" class=\"articlethumb wp-post-image\" alt=\"Euphoria Season 2 Finale Zendaya\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Euphoria-Season-2-finale-Zendaya.jpg 800w, https:\/\/filmschoolrejects.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Euphoria-Season-2-finale-Zendaya-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\"\/>                                    <p>\n                    <span class=\"sf-entry-flag sf-entry-flag-creditline\">HBO<\/span>\n\n                        <\/figure>\n\n    <!-- START BYLINE -->\n    <div class=\"row align-items-center justify-content-center my-4 text-center medium dark-gray\">\n        By\u00a0Aurora Amidon\u00a0\u00b7 Published on March 1st, 2022 \n        <\/div>\n    <!-- END BYLINE -->\n\n    The <strong><i>Euphoria <\/i><\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Season 2 finale (\u201cAll My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name\u201d) sees one of the most chilling moments of the show so far. In the aftermath of a violent, long-awaited confrontation between Maddy (<strong>Alexa<\/strong> <strong>Demie<\/strong>) and Cassie (<strong>Sydney<\/strong> <strong>Sweeney<\/strong>), the latter, face caked in blood at the vengeful hands of her ex-best friend, muses that Nate (<strong>Jacob<\/strong> <strong>Elordi<\/strong>) had broken up with her earlier that night. Maddy then looks at Cassie and assures her: \u201cDon\u2019t worry. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/24UsXl-gfYg\">This is just the beginning<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d Then she leaves the scene of the crime and permanently washes her hands of Cassie, Nate, and the pair\u2019s doomed love affair.\u00a0<\/span>\n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The conflict between Maddy and Cassie has remained at the epicenter of <\/span>Euphoria<\/span><\/i> for all of Season 2. The way that it finally plays out is expectedly satisfying: the two interrupt Lexi\u2019s\u00a0play to air out their grievances on stage for their entire high school to see. But this rivalry doesn\u2019t just exist for entertainment\u2019s sake. When the altercation moves behind closed doors, it confirms that this is a show that is, at its core, about the consequences of generational abuse.<\/span><\/p>\n
The culmination of <\/span>Euphoria<\/span><\/i>\u2019s theme<\/a>s of abuse takes root in a single utterance: \u201cThis is just the beginning.\u201d Indeed, Maddy\u2019s parting statement to Cassie is the consummation of the girls\u2019 drawn-out conflict. While the former undoubtedly finds great pleasure in smashing the latter\u2019s face into the bathroom wall, Maddy ultimately realizes that there is no greater punishment for Cassie than simply allowing her to be with the erratic, abusive Nate.<\/span><\/p>\n
Nate <\/span>is at the core of Euphoria<\/i>\u2019s complicated roadmap of relentless cycles of abuse. A large part of what makes him tick is his complex and destructive relationship with his father, Cal (Eric<\/strong> Dane<\/strong>). As Nate entered teendom, Cal began to project a standard of heightened hypermasculinity onto his son in order to further conceal the fact that he was actually interested in men. This manifested in him both exhibiting abusive tendencies (getting physical with Nate when he wasn\u2019t being enough of a \u201cman\u201d) and egging on his son\u2019s budding abusive tendencies (Nate\u2019s physical and emotional mistreatment of Maddy), which he believed epitomized manhood.<\/p>\n
Nate\u2019s abuse of Maddy doesn\u2019t end when the two split up. In Season 2, Episode 6 (\u201cA Thousand Little Trees of Blood\u201d), Nate threatens Maddy with a gun to make her hand over an incriminating tape of Cal. And Nate\u2019s abusive behavior doesn\u2019t end with Maddy. If it\u2019s not Maddy, then it\u2019s someone else. And in this case, it is Cassie who draws the unlucky straw. Early on in their affair, Nate withholds any kind of attention from Cassie, grooming her to rejoice at a single glance in her direction. In private, things aren\u2019t much better: Nate threatens Cassie and yells at her when they\u2019re alone.<\/span><\/p>\n
Similar to how Cal\u2019s abuse of Nate breeds Nate\u2019s abuse of others, Maddy and Cassie\u2019s familial abuses allow for them to be the brunt of his mistreatment. In the first act of her play, Lexi (Maude Apatow<\/strong>) reveals that Maddy lived with her and Cassie for a couple of months while her parents were fighting. Presumably, Maddy learned from her parents that domestic violence was to be expected in a relationship. But at the end of the <\/span>Season 2 finale, after seeing the despondent state that Cassie\u2019s recent scuffle with Nate put her in, Maddy finally has the cognizance and strength to break the generational cycle of abuse she has been trapped in for most of her life.<\/span><\/p>\n
Cassie, on the other hand, isn\u2019t so lucky. Her father struggled with an opioid addiction throughout her childhood and abandoned her and Lexi when they were teens. And while Lexi is able to take the trauma of that loss and create art from it, Cassie looks elsewhere, reeling from the withdrawal of paternal love and seeking out male affection elsewhere. So when Nate approaches Cassie in Season 2, Episode 1 (\u201cTrying to Get to Heaven Before They Close the Door\u201d), she is powerless to him, despite knowing that their relationship will inevitably hurt Maddy.<\/span><\/p>\n
What is it, exactly, that keeps <\/span>Euphoria<\/span><\/i>\u2019s characters trapped in these vicious cycles? For a lot of them, it is the sheer familiarity of it. Recall the eulogy that Rue (Zendaya<\/strong>) delivers at her dad\u2019s funeral. She explains that the only thing that keeps her going in the wake of his death is the notion that, when she closes her eyes, she can be with him again. But with this remembrance inevitably comes a recollection of his death, and with that comes immense pain.<\/span><\/p>\n
Regardless of the discomfort that these memories conjure for Rue, they still play an integral part in keeping her father\u2019s memory alive. And so, for Rue, part of the reason that she inflicts pain on herself and others is that she associates pain with her dad. Similarly, Nate associates the tumult of a derisive relationship with Cal, whom he wants love from. And just as Maddy and Cassie associate Nate\u2019s mistreatment with their own absent father.<\/span><\/p>\n
Season 2 of <\/span>Euphoria<\/span><\/i> ends on a somewhat hopeful note. After Lexi\u2019s play, Rue remarks that the depiction of her on stage was the first time she\u2019d been forced to reflect on her actions and not hated herself as a result. Perhaps she was finally able to look at her traumatic history with compassion, realizing that the pain she has been subjected to \u2014 and the way she reacted to it \u2014 was never her fault. In voiceover, she explains that she managed to stay sober after watching the play. For a while, at least. <\/span><\/p>\n
It is the perspective, too, of seeing Nate with someone else that allows Maddy to distance herself from him. Let\u2019s just hope that, in Season 3, Cassie and Nate are also able to make sense of their own actions in a broader, more forgiving context.<\/span><\/p>\n
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