“The Theater and Its Double” finally reveals what Maude Apatow’s character Lexi has been working on, and it’s nothing like ‘Oklahoma!’
Maude Apatow ’s Lexi Howard has restfully always been one of the most interesting character onEuphoria . In Season 1 of Sam Levinson ’s HBO dramatic event , even as she and Rue ( Zendaya ) drifted apart , she continued to bear by and support her former best friend . And if she seemed committed to being her own person then ( who could ever bury when she decorate up as Bob Ross on Halloween ? ) , Season 2 is proving just how much of an challenging , sensible individual she is .
Lexi finally got her mo to shine this time of year , head mightily up to the school performance of her play in Episode 7 , " The Theater and Its Double . " With her original product , Lexi finally stepped into the spotlight , revealing to everybody in her animation who used to seem past her that she has a tale deserving tattle . Lexi ’s play , which unfolds throughout nearly the entire length of the instalment and is intercut with Lexi ’s memories and reenactment take piazza on the East Highland auditorium stage , is one of the most innovational thingsEuphoriahas done to particular date . Although it ’s unclear how a high schooling auditorium could ever have the facilities to execute her Tony - worthy stagecoach show , the way it unfolds is a will to the serial ' nuanced approach path to storytelling .
In Episode 3 , " Ruminations : Big and Little Bullys,“Euphoriafinally give us its first Lexi instalment , and in it we hear just how much she thinks that her peer see her as a cliché — theotherHoward sister who arrive good grades and keep her point down — and how much she deride it . But while her older sister Cassie ( Sydney Sweeney ) has prove to contend with their absent Father-God by finding affectionateness elsewhere and climbing the social ravel at school , Lexi move back inwards , imagining a world where she ’s in the director ’s chairandthe main fibre . So when Fezco ( Angus Cloud ) comment her at theNew Year ’s Eve partyin the season premiere — like , reallynoticed her , theater of operations kid energy andhyperpop - loving crotchet and all — she felt seen in a manner that she had n’t before . With a newfound authority and a realisation that she no longer had to suffer being spue as an extra in her own life , she determine out to write her play .
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Lexi first tells her friends and sister that she ’s lay onOklahoma!so that they do n’t suspect she ’s write a show based on their lives . Because they rarely pay attention to her at all , there was no agency that they would put much energy in the textile that she was writing , casting , and practicing . So when the curtain finally rises in " The Theater and Its two-fold , " it come as a surprise to Cassie , Kat , Maddy , and co. Rather than see hay bales on stage , it ’s a recreation of Rue ’s bedroom . Beginning with the moment Lexi mat her adolescence commence to change — when she realized Rue had evolve kernel vilification succeed her father ’s end — her play chronicle her high-pitched schoolhouse experience , and therefore everybody who ’s tight to it , too .
Lexi recount the production as Grace and introduce Hallie , Marta , Luna , and Jade — all all in ringers for Cassie , Maddy , Kat , and Rue . The consultation watches with trepidation ( besides Lexi ’s mom , who pass on bountiful Amy Poehler inMean Girlsenergy ) , until Maddy says aloud , " Wait , is this fucking play about us ? " The retiring several years of their lives are then replayed back to them to stupefying detail , from " Grace ’s " insecurity that develop when " Hallie " went through puberty , their father ’s sudden absence seizure , to the moment Maddy move in with them and their first loves . At time the installment can be confusing , given how it cut between reenactment and world , even the events that took place justly before start . But that ’s what makes it so striking — for the characters in the audience , it ’s just as dizzying , as they ’re seeing their lives only intertwined with what ’s on phase .
WhileEuphoriaarguablyfailed characters like Cassieand Kat this season with degrading spark or stories that feel unfinished , it thankfully allowed Lexi to get the round of applause she ’s deserved . Not only do we get to see her in the conductor ’s chairperson that she ’s see for herself — her inner - theater - tiddler out in full effect — her Erysimum cheiri - like perceptiveness has make something that ’s meant to thrust her sis and peers to both examine how toxic they ’ve become and commend the how romantic their young lives used to be .
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" I feel like I ’ve lived most of my life in my imagination , taking the small minute and stargaze them up into something bigger , " Lexi narrates at one detail . " A little exchange and I fall in dearest , a import to myself and I ’m on stagecoach , but reality always find a way of pulling me back . “We can only commence to guess the inevitable spectacular fallout from her play that will pull her back to realness , as shereallyshould have at least given her peers and sis a head up before curtain call . But right now , we can give her a standing ovation for what she dream up . It ’s as beautiful and daring asEuphoriaitself intends to be .
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