![]() But more than any Twitter thread or artist’s statement, a staged reenactment of events (on stage or otherwise) manages to capture both the narrative wrinkle all while ironing out some of the awkwardness around it. ![]() There’s a case to be made for high school being the scene of so many fitful, nonlinear transformations. Euphoria wrings the convention for all it’s got.Īfter all, the show is just as prone to emulate high art as it is to translate itself into incomprehensible choices, like Kat neglecting her boyfriend until he breaks up with her. It’s a convention that traces its roots back pretty far - Hamlet, notably, used the trope to make villains confront their deeds - but it’s made for some pretty fantastic moments of TV as well (see: The Simpsons’ recreation of Hamlet). With “The Theater and It’s Double,” Euphoria joins the grand tradition of staging a play within another medium in order to understand what the characters have been through. And while Lexi was most concerned with how her sister would receive it, the splash radius was actually much wider, considering most main characters were the inspiration for her very lightly fictionalized performance. ![]() It was, quite literally, by her own design: Throughout season 2, she’s been writing a play based on her life, and in episode 7 it became a full-fledged, very well-funded production. After weeks of being heralded as Boring Girl representation, Euphoria finally gave Maude Apatow’s Lexi her moment in the spotlight. ![]()
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