‘Euphoria’ Season 3, Episode 4: Fairytale’s Over

4 May 2026 · 52 min · 24 chapters

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In short

Instant reaction to Euphoria Season 3 Episode 4, “Kitty Likes to Dance,” focusing on character arcs, religious imagery, cost/price themes, and how plotlines intersect during the strip-club/robbery setup.

Guests (podcast hosts)

Joanna Robinson and Rob Mahoney (Prestige TV Podcast). They discuss fan theories, visuals, and performances.

Key claims

Rue’s arc is strongest; Cassie improves after being moved from Nate’s orbit to Maddie’s. Jules has the most criticized storyline: her workplace art commission feels inappropriate and her rebellion/transgression writing disappoints. The episode literalizes “cost” via numbers and reckoning. Religious motifs (Ave Maria over strip club; crucifix imagery) support the season’s “religious journey” theme but can feel muddled.

Notable examples

Rue watching surveillance monitors; Kitty’s transactional awakening; Jules painting with dicks; Cassie’s coke reaction; Nate’s “I can’t be bad” zoning-board pitch; poker scene with Bishop/Rue/Alamo; robbery plan targeting Big Eddie’s office safe; Ave Maria in strip club; snake imagery; leaf-blower gag during a pool scene.

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Episode Overview and Impressions

1:30 to 2:52

Join the hosts as they discuss their instant reactions to 'Euphoria' Season 3, Episode 4.

“to episode four of season three of Euphoria.”

Cassie's Character Development

2:52 to 5:18

Explore the shift in Cassie's storyline and its impact on the episode.

“I mean, but even the Nate stuff with the toe at the beginning of the episode worked.”

Jules' Controversial Storyline

5:18 to 10:06

Discuss the reception of Jules' character and her artistic struggles in the episode.

“Even when something's like really, really working, it's like, what if we threw this other thing into the mix just because we can?”

Themes of Cost and Price

10:06 to 11:27

Delve into the underlying themes of monetary cost and personal sacrifice in the episode.

“I mean, this is an episode about, I think if not revelation, like a realization for Rue in particular, right?”

Intersecting Plotlines Analysis

11:27 to 14:01

Examine how various characters' stories intersect and what this means for the narrative.

“Like, all of these numbers are hanging over these characters inside of this episode, and that is, like, a reckoning.”

Nepo Baby Roll Call

14:01 to 15:01

Exploring the connections of cast members and their famous relatives.

“Gideon Adlon did post on her Instagram a photo from episode one, but I don't know, like of her at the apartment complex.”

The Mystery of Smiles

15:02 to 17:28

Discussion about a minor character and his surprising background.

“on a pretty deep rabbit hole on some guy named Smiles.”

Nate's Zoning Board Dilemma

17:29 to 18:30

Analyzing Nate's plotline and his struggle with the zoning board.

“Like, I was kind of looking forward to the idea of Nate versus, you know, the board that could finally give him the clearance necessary to commence construction.”

Theories Around Nate's Actions

18:31 to 19:41

Discussing fan theories regarding Nate's mysterious behavior.

“Do you think he believes that or that's just a story he needs to sell to possibly not get more toes clipped off of his feet?”

Jules and Love Island

19:42 to 21:06

Examining Jules' character and her relationship with reality TV.

“A really popular theory off of episode three was that when Nate disappeared the night before the wedding.”
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Pacification Through TV

21:07 to 23:20

Talking about different forms of escapism and entertainment preferences.

“But in season one episode four, Rue, of course, watched 22 hours of Love Island in the episode where she couldn't get out of bed to pee.”

Visual Storytelling in Euphoria

23:21 to 27:38

Highlighting the artistic visuals and their significance in the episode.

“But is that an everyday pacification or, like, the particularly hard day, particularly tough week, I need something to just, like, zone out, turn my brain off, whatever it is you need in that moment.”

New Characters in Euphoria

27:39 to 28:00

Discussing the introduction of new characters and their impact.

“I want to give the show a lot of credit because I feel like whenever you have a break, a long break between seasons or a revival of a show of any kind, there's always this tension, right?”

Analyzing Euphoria's Storytelling Techniques

28:00 to 30:20

Explore the effective storytelling arcs and character dynamics in Euphoria.

“And they're not given like a ton of screen time, but it's like very impactful, very well framed.”

The Intrigue of the Poker Scene

32:27 to 34:39

Delve into the dynamics and tension of the poker scene in Euphoria.

“Predict the spread, the total points, and even the game winner.”

Juxtaposition in Character Development

34:40 to 36:50

Examine the character interactions and their artistic representations in Euphoria.

“But I think we're going to get more screen time regardless whether he is another informant or someone chasing down the informants, right?”

Symbolism and Cultural References

36:51 to 39:38

Unpack the symbolism in Cassie's character and cultural references in Euphoria.

“I think we should implore the people to go to Instagram right now.”

Exploring Themes of Fame and Desperation

39:39 to 42:00

Discuss the show’s exploration of fame, desperation, and personal identity.

“It had the aesthetic power and emotional resonance of a genuine performance art, Marina Abramovich by way of John Waters, particularly as she kept on rambling around the city over the decades while she aged.”

The Appeal of Theater Kid Energy

42:00 to 43:12

Explore the nuances of theater kid energy and its cultural implications.

“But TV person energy, clearly it has a kind of appeal and hold for me.”

Heists and Their Execution

43:12 to 44:26

Discuss the unexpected heist elements in the episode and their execution.

“She was an accomplice in this whole thing.”

Rue's Dilemma and Identity

44:26 to 45:56

Analyze Rue's character development and the pressures she faces.

“on A Different World, famously had on that show a pair of glasses where the shades part sort of like flipped up.”

Zendaya's Performance and Range

45:56 to 47:14

Examine Zendaya's multifaceted portrayal of Rue in critical scenes.

“And so then I was like worried about going on that scene.”

The Symbolism of Green Apples

47:14 to 48:58

Discuss the significance of green apples in the narrative and character arcs.

“As a green apple advocate yourself, how did you feel about Big Eddie joining your ranks?”

Listener Feedback and Engagement

48:58 to 51:02

Share listener insights and reactions to the show, enhancing audience engagement.

“I don't know how to feel about it because it's both an incredible honor and I love this Faye.”
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1:17Hello, welcome back to the Prestige TV Podcast feed. I'm Joanna Robinson. I'm Rob Mahoney. It is late at night on a Sunday. I've had a lot of caffeine. I'm feeling jittery. And we're here to do our sort of very instant reaction. to episode four of season three of Euphoria. Yes. Joe, have you ever been to the moon? No. Have you? Just wondering. Do you have a photo of me on the moon? Definitely not. Did someone tell you I was on the moon? I would say like posing you as one of the fake astronauts in the definitely fake moon landing. I could buy it. I could see that as a future for you. All right.

1:49This episode is called Kitty Likes to Dance. Written by, directed by, and the whole show is created by Sam Levinson. I don't know if you've heard. I have heard. And let me tell you, from this episode, I can tell. Okay. We have a lot to talk about. This felt like a very long episode. I just wanted to delight you. I promised you right before we started recording that I just read a Reddit comment that I wanted to delight you with, and it goes like this. Nate and Jules have the worst plot lines. They should just hook up. That would be the solution to so many problems. I kind of agree. As much as we railed against the Nate and Jules shippers, I was like, oh, huh.

2:25Do they have a point? Oh, no. The worst person you know has a point. Okay. Overall impressions on this episode? I don't know what the show is. We're kind of all over the place. I think I feel similarly as to previous episodes that the Rue stuff is often the strongest of everything that's happening in a given episode. I do think we got a significant upgrade this week in the Cassie dynamics, just moving her out of the Nate orbit into the Maddie orbit. Cindy, sweetie, I'm sorry. You were so funny in this episode. Super funny. You were really good in this episode. And it's just as simple as like put her in a place where like she gets to bounce off some more interesting side characters with a change of scenery with like actual life happening around her and not Nate Jacobs getting his toe cut off.

3:03Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was great. I mean, but even the Nate stuff with the toe at the beginning of the episode worked. I had the same thought. I was like, oh, you took Cassie out of the Nate plot line and all of a sudden I'm way more engaged with her. I didn't, like, we were watching it all together here in the studio. Very normal workplace environment. Really normal episode of television for us to all watch at work. And I definitely, I think I laughed the most at Cassie's stuff. Like, it was really good. Her response to the coke hit alone. Yeah. Wonderful. Really good. Her, it's just me, Cassie, and that's my handle.

3:35Really great stuff. Bellybuttoncoke at gmail.com. Should we have gone with that email, do you think? It was right there for us the whole time. We just didn't know. We didn't know how good we could have it. Okay. But if folks do want to email us. They should email us for starters all the time. Yeah. Prestigetv at spotify.com. Sure. For Euphoria specifically, Maddie's number one boy at gmail.com. We did ask, you were a guest on House of R, my other podcast last week. What day is it? Thank you for having me. We asked listeners if they wanted us to check in on the Apple show Widow's Bay. And we heard from a lot of people.

4:14Yeah, they sure do. They want us to cover Widow's Bay. So what is roughly our plan for the rest of this month? Do you want to say it into a microphone right now? I don't. Okay. I think it's still being hashed out slightly. We're going to do some Widow's Bay. We are. We're going to do Euphoria. And we have some other ideas as well. Does that work for you? That works for me. And I'm just going to, I'm going to commit us even harder than that, perhaps, Joe, and say, if you want to hear a lot of Widow's Bay, listen to the episodes as they come out and invest in the coverage, you know? Like, help us get this off the ground floor.

4:45Oh, yeah, exactly. If those episodes do well, we will do more. Yes, we would, look, I would love the excuse to podcast about this show. It is super funny. It's great. It's very fun so far. It's really good. But yeah, so if you haven't watched Widow's Bay, Apple did not pay us to do this ad, but no free ads except for Widow's Bay, which is a really good show. I also, I liked this episode of Euphoria. Am I confused by this show? Yes, but I actually had a really good time watching this episode for some reason, except for the parts where I had a really bad time. Yeah, that's really where we are right now.

5:14It does feel ever more like a show that just like cannot get out of its own way. Even when something's like really, really working, it's like, what if we threw this other thing into the mix just because we can? even if it disrupts the things that are like really fun and engaging and dramatic to watch. I think I agree with the Reddit shipper. I think the Nate storyline, and especially in this episode, the Jules storyline. Yeah, do you want to start there? I, like, Jules is getting raked over the coals on the internet, as she should, because this is just a baffling thing. You want to, I always want to root for Jules.

5:48And this, I don't know if what the show is trying to depict depict as some sort of like young adult entitlement of some kind of like you don't understand the realities of a workplace, you know, like, but for Jules to be commissioned to do, I actually thought the painting was very cool. Just like wildly inappropriate for the job that she was hired to do. Sarat, but with dicks. Yeah. I'm interested. I thought it looked great. And, but obviously not a good fit for a nighttime soap opera that pulls in 7 million viewers, by the way. 7 million viewers. Not too shabby in this day and age. Not at all.

6:24The Pitt season two finale, 9.5 million viewers. So we're like approaching Pitt season finale territory with L.A. Nights. Very excited. We have more L.A. Nights thoughts coming up. But Jules, she just does not come off well in this episode. And I don't know if it's to demonstrate that sort of like naive youthful entitlement or if it's to depress her so much about her art career that she's driven even more into this like sugar babydom is my only future. sort of thing. I think for me, it's like if it was just a young person, specifically a young artist who has been like patronized by her sugar daddy into like doing art on her own terms in whatever way she wants for however long.

7:04You mean that in like the patronage sense? Yes, like literally patronage. Yeah. Being put in this corporate environment of like art for hire, art for money and chafing against those strictures. I'm cool with that. I had a bigger problem with like, do you remember when this show was able to draw this like very intricate, detailed personality forward portrait of a trans person that wasn't all about being trans all the time. And it's like the fact that Jules like active rebellion or transgression in this episode is like the one thing that the show has been really good about not making it all about with her every scene she's in.

7:37Just like super disappointing for a character that I really love. Yeah. Like not just one in the character, just one in the writing. No, I agree. I think this is a really tough Jules episode. And I had some, you know, I really liked a lot of the visuals of the Jules stuff in episode three. We'll have to stay tuned to that. But this was a really tough Jules episode. I want to circle back to the larger theme of the season, which is the stated theme of like a religious experience, a religious journey. We didn't get to check in. Well, we did actually do a Bible check-in inside of this episode. But they played Ave Maria in the strip club.

8:13Yeah, as one does. How did that work for you? We got an email from a listener, Rebecca, a while ago after. after episode one. Rebecca wrote, I was struck by the Garden of Eden imagery during the final scene with Rue and Alamo. His snakeskin boots with a cobra, hood ornaments, the apple on her head, and with Rue's curly hair, it really flashed. Meets the Renaissance Garden of Eden imagery. I wondered about who Alamo represents. Is it Adam, the devil, et cetera, and what that means for his relationship to Rue. In general, I think it'll be fun to tie the visual language of the show to biblical allegory.

8:44I really agree. I don't know how consistent the show has decided to be with this, but like we get more snake cam inside of this episode. There's that snake in the strip club. So, you know, I think that's - There's a snake in the strip club at gmail.com? Yeah, absolutely. There's a snake in my food. I think that's interesting to contemplate. I'd be interested to hear from our listeners who have identified more, who maybe have like an art history background or something like that. But how do you think that's working? And is it as simple as putting Ave Maria over a strip club sequence? Is that driving home the religious, the big picture religious theme that we were promised this season.

9:18Here's my inner conflict. Sure, Rob. Ave Maria in a strip club, again, with like some very interesting like reverby kind of effects around some of this stuff sometimes, like really does work for me. Like those sorts of juxtapositions. Is that your Catholic boy jumping out? I don't know. Did you feel the same way with the, we forgot to check in on this, is Maddie's number one boy and a former Catholic. How did you feel about the like crucifix dangling like over the like delicate amount of ass crack she was showing at the wedding last episode. Well, father, son, holy, daddy, obviously. Yeah, a religious experience for you.

9:51How could it not be? Okay, great. Just making sure. Our queen in all of her splendor, we can do nothing but support her. Okay. No, I think that part of it really works. I mean, as far as the metaphor goes, I am trying to make heads and tails of it as you are. It feels maybe muddled or maybe just not entirely clear yet. I mean, this is an episode about, I think if not revelation, like a realization for Rue in particular, right? Like the scene in which she's looking at what it, like Kitty with the guys in the champagne room on the monitor of the surveillance cam is definitely like a pit of your stomach, like drop sort of, I think for Rue, it's the understanding, like this is not the pole dancing wonderland maybe that I've convinced myself that it was or that I was pretending that it was and I've instead been participating in this other bigger thing, which is like a kind of a bite of the apple and a waking up into the larger world.

10:41There is a way that it was shot where she was like on her knees sort of face up turn to this like light, you know, this almost like supplicant sort of thing. We definitely get Nate on his knees with like supplication and stuff like that inside of this episode. But yeah, I thought that was a really interesting moment. I mean, on the one hand, you're like, what exactly do you think is happening in this club, Rue? But on the other hand, for me, the bigger picture theme of this episode seemed to be literalization of cost and price, right? We get all these numbers are rolling at us at this episode.

11:12Like, Lexi, how much did this mistake cost us, right? That was tough. Don't be a net nag, like, on set, right? Nate, how much do you owe? Right. What is the price here? It's a brass tacks episode. Rue, how many years did you just rack up for yourself in federal prison? Like, all of these numbers are hanging over these characters inside of this episode, and that is, like, a reckoning. And it's a way in which this system that's like grinding them all down is causing people to turn on each other inside of a system where if they just helped each other. Like the way that Magic, the Rosalia character, narcs out Rue.

11:53And I'm like, why would you do that when she's asking a fellow dancer if she's okay? You know, I mean, I understand why, but I'm just saying like, workers unite. Like, what are we doing? You're looking for more class solidarity. Absolutely. That's what I'm saying. Stick it to Big Eddie or anybody. Well, someone did. Well, yeah. I was curious how you feel about the plots intersecting. This is something we were asking in a previous episode. It's like, how will all these plots collide? And we get a scene in this episode with Maddie, Cassie, Rue, and Lexi all ostensibly in one place. Jules is inside of Lexi's story in this episode.

12:27Maddie could become part of Rue's storyline because Rue goes to her for drugs. I don't know if that's the last we'll hear of that. in the preview for next week's episode which we did watch Sharon Stone does ask Lexi like that's your sister so is Cassie going to be in Lexi's storyline and then really that just leaves Nate out on a like a sort of Frankenstein-esque ice flow of his own outside the larger intersecting plot of the story in episode 7 he's going to show up off in the distance on the other side of the ice lake covered in rags tattered you know just he's at a whole time this season absolutely Absolutely, absolutely.

13:03The scars are already on his face. Let me tell you, the most baffling thing about that intersection though, like we talked about the Cassie and Maddie stuff. Yeah. I think most of that is very successful. Yeah. But that one scene you identified where they're all together by the pool with the leaf blower with Gideon Adalon, I guess also here. Yeah. Did not work for me at all. It didn't? No. Okay, the Lexi part didn't work for me. Yeah. Lexi is just like being a scold for five minutes. The Rue part, I was a little distracted once again trying to figure out if Zendaya and Sidney Sweeney were actually literally in the same place at the same time.

13:39The Cassie stuff did work for me. The way that she was talking while the leaf blower was blowing and no one could hear. The leaf blower's the one gag there that does work. That part does work. I gotta give it up for the leaf blower. Yeah. You mentioned Gideon Adlon who plays a character I believe named Gilly who shows up we think for the first time in this episode. I don't think we've seen her there before. Gideon Adlon did post on her Instagram a photo from episode one, but I don't know, like of her at the apartment complex. So I don't know if the camera maybe panned past her in a previous episode.

14:12But Gideon Adlon, who's Pamela Adlon's daughter, is Nepo Baby number one in the Nepo Baby roll call that we're going to do for Euphoria this season. Okay. So Maude Apatow has been here, so nothing new. Naturally. Homer Gear, Richard Gear's son, is playing Dylan Reed, the star of LA Nights who we met in a previous episode. Jeff Wahlberg shows up in this episode as Brandon, the like social media influencer who's hosting the party. Yeah, dirtbag. Jeff Wahlberg is Mark and Donnie's nephew of the Boston Wahlbergs. Of Wahlbergers. Of Wahlbergers fame, right. And then Anna Van Patten who plays Kitty, the titular Kitty, is Grace Van Patten star of Tell Me Lies, etc., etc.

14:55That's her sister. Yeah. So that's my Nepo baby roll call. Well, I feel like you missed one. You know, we went down before the show, Joe, on a pretty deep rabbit hole on some guy named Smiles. I don't want to talk about Smiles. You don't want to talk about Smiles? You want to talk about Smiles? You're the one who found out all the info. There's a guy in the party scene who for a second, all three people who were in this room watching the show thought was Dominic Fyke who played Elliot in the previous season because of the blonde hair. It was strictly a bleaching problem. And the face tattoo. He's involved in the sort of door shenanigans that happen.

15:26he's a rapper named Smiles with a Z and we found out that he is sort of like a scion of in fairness I think a broader musician and singer maybe sometimes rapper sure Jack Bruno aka Smiles scion of the bedhead hair product family the Tony and Guy fortune and his hair looks like that that's my question that's gonna cut deep on the naming front and shout out the Euphoria subreddit where I spent the last hour just like really enjoying the comments rolling in. Someone pointed out that a lot of the people associated with the strip club have the same names as X-Men. Bishop, Magic with the K. Kitty, obviously.

16:11Angel and Kitty. Holy shit. This is House of R. Welcome, welcome. You asked last week after the wedding episode, you asked our listeners to weigh in about whether or not Get Low was like merely a millennial wedding anthem, if Gen Z was enjoying it. Yep. Resounding response. We heard from a lot of DJs. They love Get Low in a way. A lot of wedding guests. Yeah. A lot of people who have been wed. All of whom are like very excited about Get Low, rightly so. It's true. We also got a couple emails in response to my assertion that I thought that Maude Apatow's character Lexi would have cleaned up in college.

16:51We got an email from a listener who prefers to remain anonymous. Can't imagine why. Who says, I was in Maude's class at Northwestern. This is all positive, so I wouldn't read this if it was like someone just being like, what a bitch. Talking shit about Maude Apatow. I was in Maude's class at Northwestern. We ran the same social circles until she dropped out to film Euphoria. Can confirm that she was the object of a lot of male attention. Even within a small school that had many children of celebrities, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Steve Carell, etc., etc. She was always kind and down to earth too, surprisingly normal given her upbringing.

17:23So, Maude Apatow. Professionally charismatic person. Cleaned up at college. Turns out. Lexi, I think you could have done quite well if you wanted to, no pressure. It's about what she wants. Lexi didn't seem interested. No pressure. You want to talk about Nate? I mean, literally if we have to. Okay, what do you want to say? I just don't understand. Like, I was kind of looking forward to the idea of Nate versus, you know, the board that could finally give him the clearance necessary to commence construction. You love zoning laws. I mean, I genuinely kind of do. No, but Nate versus the zoning board.

17:55Okay, there's something. Like we've been building up to this. There's been a lot of conversation over the last couple of weeks. And it's just this. It just like fell super flat for me in terms of the anticipation. And some of this is just the larger frustration with Nate's general plot line. I mean, the one part of this that sticks out is just this, like his insistence that like he needs this to go right to basically like do something good. I can't be bad. I can't be bad specifically. I can't be bad is a really interesting line, I thought. Very interesting. I mean, certainly maybe we'll get him closer to the Nate we know over the back part of the season.

18:28Does that mean I can't be a failure or does that mean I can't be like more, like, you know, because as he works on his, I mean, he's no Don Draper, but as he works on his pitch for like what this, you know, old folks home will be and the hospice care and what he's doing is like, we are doing good for the world. Do you think he believes that or that's just a story he needs to sell to possibly not get more toes clipped off of his feet? I think he believes it just enough to like sleep well at night. Okay. But like in his heart of hearts, does he think profiting off of old people and their families is like doing intrinsic good for the universe?

19:04No, I don't really think so. And he doesn't give a shit about these flowers. Like it's not an accident. Fuck those flowers. I mean, this guy gets up in front of the board, the zoning board of all people, a sacred space. Okay. It's like, of course you wouldn't sign off on this. He's full of shit to say nothing about whatever environmental studies need to be done. Right. I just, I don't believe that Nate actually cares about this beyond having money, period, and having enough money to not die. I agree, but I just thought the I can't be bad line was so interesting. It is the most interesting he's been all season.

19:38Correct. But that's a low bar. Did you see a really popular theory, which I think is incorrect, but hey, listen. No bad ideas in a brainstorm. A really popular theory off of episode three was that when Nate disappeared the night before the wedding. Yeah. That he was actually with Maddie. I think there's no evidence that that is the case. Right. I feel like we would have gotten more from, I mean, I understand that she was like upset at the wedding. But like, I don't think that's something they're going to reveal later. unless you think this like you know detente between Cassie and Maddie in pursuit of money could be blown up I mean it feels like it's gonna be blown up by Cassie being dumb in the very next episode per the trailer but you know I can't wait I also can't wait of all the things happening on this show I need a scene in which Suze finds out about Cassie's I assume fledgling OnlyFans career like I need that scene I don't even care what she says I don't care what her reaction is I just want to know what Suze thinks about it in season two she says she needs an exorcism?

20:40Is that what she said? That girl needs a fucking exorcism. That girl needs a fucking exorcism. Hide the knives. Hide the knives. She's sitting there with a wine opener. Honestly, one of my favorite moments. On the Jules front, I know we already talked about this storyline, but we just wanted to check in on the Love Island situation. Jules is watching America Love Island. That's a cry for help. Not UK? Come on. It's the hat specifically on this episode that really screamed US Love Island. But in season one episode four, Rue, of course, watched 22 hours of Love Island in the episode where she couldn't get out of bed to pee.

21:19And there's this like really disturbing shot of her organ like swelling and stuff like that. Love Island seems to be shorthand for not everything's going great with these characters. Is this supposed to tell us that Jules is just not like before getting hired by Lexi, not in a good headspace? What do you think? I mean, here's the thing. At this moment in time, just given everything that's gone on over the last 5, 10, 50, 1 ,000 years. I don't know. The state of things currently around the globe. It's like our baseline level is, I need some pacification. Like I need some Love Island just to get through the day.

21:53So if we're not living and working through a constant state of active depression, like what are we doing? It's a great point. I know that you're a fellow fan of Taskmaster, the UK show. Did you see the cast for Celebrity Traders UK this next season? No, who's on it? Okay, sorry. Quick sidebar. Hold on. I gotta pull this up. As a fellow fan of like UK comedians, here's what I'm gonna say. James A. and Castor. James A. and Castor's there. Joe Lycett's there. Rob Beckett is there. Okay. Okay? The boys are in town, right? They really are. But Michael Sheen is gonna be on it. Richard E. Grant is gonna be on it.

22:30James Blunt, the singer, is going to be on it. Bella Ramsey is going to be on it. My holla from industry is going to be on it. Like, this is going to be like, Miranda Hart's going to be like, it's just like one of the, Romesh is going to be on it. Like, this is just like one of the most insane lineups I've ever seen. So can I bring you over to the dark side? You're not really a reality TV watcher. Not typically. Can I bring you over to the dark side for celebrity UK traders with this lineup? I've got to be there. Yeah. Frankly, just given that lineup, I'm hearing a lot of prestige in that lineup.

23:03I know. I know. That's what I'm saying. I'm just saying. Richard E. Grant? Michael Sheen? We'll see what we can negotiate over here, but I will definitely be watching, that's for sure. Okay. Let me ask you this, Jo. Well, that's my answer to pacification. I don't watch Love Island, but I will watch The Traitors. I do watch Survivor. You know, like, I have my versions of this. But is that an everyday pacification or, like, the particularly hard day, particularly tough week, I need something to just, like, zone out, turn my brain off, whatever it is you need in that moment. Is this when you turn to bake off?

23:34What is your version of this? No, mine, unfortunately, is YouTube bushcrafting videos. It's a solitary man or woman, sometimes with their dog, out in the wilderness, just like chopping wood. What's bushcrafting? Oh, I'm so glad you asked. It's literally just like... Is it Australian specifically? No, no, no. It can be anywhere in the world. Okay. But it's just going out into nature and usually like building a shelter of some kind that then you sleep in overnight and basically just leave. Crafting in the wilderness. In, from, and of the bush. Okay. Why would you call it bushcrafting if it's not Australian-based?

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24:09I didn't name it, you know? I'm just consuming the content. Would you consume 22 hours of bushcrafting? I probably have. Would we be worried? It's been a lot, yeah. On the Lexi apartment complex front, I want to applaud Sam Levinson for, like, the Melrose placification of this apartment complex. So the fact that Cassie is now living there, Rue stays with Lexi sometimes, like, they all have reason to be in and out of that apartment complex. And I think that that is great setup for television. It's quite an elegant solution to the like, how do we not all congregate in the girls bathroom at the high school?

24:43You found a place. And within that, I even think like some of these moments visually, as is often the case with Euphoria, are awesome. Like Lexi staring out her window or typing by the window as like the camera flashes come from Cassie's apartment. Which is another call back to season one when those girls shared a room and Cassie was taking news for McKay, like sort of against her will, like under the sheets. And you could, you just had the, like the flash of her taking the nudes and Lexi, always the watcher, always the observer, always the writer sort of taking notice. I thought like, I actually thought there were a lot of incredible visuals inside of this episode.

25:19The way that the Rue interrogation scene is filmed with like, not just the way that the pale blue of her suit sort of just like blends into the wall so she just like seems like so faded against the wall in that interrogation scene but also the shot from behind her head where you've got like one interrogator on one side and the other on the other there's a similarly framed moment at the funeral for paladin which you were here that was my biggest laugh was the tiny coffin for paladin but you see the the cross on paladin's grave and then you've got the like nazi chuckle fucks and fey like framed two on two on like perfectly framed around that as they craft their very elegant scheme to rob the strip club what could possibly go wrong at the end of the episode.

26:05One more I want to shout out to on the visual front. And it's like, it's skeefy and it like makes my skin crawl, but the early visual. The Alamo and Kenny. Yeah, exactly. Like the spreading leg silhouette. And his hat. Yeah. Completely. Yeah, like that's like back to some like really euphoria, arty visual stuff that I really liked about the show. Yes. So I agree. And I think particularly for that one, thematically, given where we go by the end of the episode in terms of Kitty feeling the transactional nature of this so acutely, it's like, you know, again, like this is sort of the original sin bringing her into this world.

26:38And very worried for that character, but also she's already living in the shit of it in a lot of ways. watching like having um angel's name be scraped like having rue yes let's not use passive voice rue had to scrape angel angel's name off of the locker and then slap the tape on there and just write kitty and like here comes another girl for the meat grinder to watch her and then like to have her like she's from kansas right kitty from kansas she likes to dance um and just like her very like small little girl voice her like do you have any more ketamine to sort of like numb this whole situation for me.

27:13Like similar to the one episode Angel arc, like I thought this was, you know, obviously deeply disturbing watching those like absolute Chad Brad's like, you know, gang rape her essentially. Like that was horrifying. But this was like, I thought a really well-seated, like the way we check in with her throughout the episode, I thought that was really well done. I want to give the show a lot of credit because I feel like whenever you have a break, a long break between seasons or a revival of a show of any kind, there's always this tension, right? Of like, you want to honor your original characters.

27:50You want to bring them along. You're going to bring them up. But you have to introduce something new. And I think this show, both with Angel, with Kitty, as you said, also with Rosalia's character, with Magic, like these are interesting new people to add to this world. And they're not given like a ton of screen time, but it's like very impactful, very well framed. You get these complete arcs within a single episode. So I think that part of the storytelling is actually very well done. Something that we were really hoping to figure out before we recorded was what song Magic was whistling menacingly at Rue when she exited the bathroom.

28:21And we believe it is La Rumba del Perdón, which is a Rosalia song. So Rosalia was whistling her own song as she exited the bathroom. Incredible. And she, as a performer, I have to say, it seems like she's having a great time. Excellent whistling. Excellent whistling. Excellent menacing whistling from Rosalia. And to check back on some prestige lore, perhaps, Joe, in the Rue versus Magic fight that's happening now, is this a snitch versus a rat? Is this a rat versus snake? What is happening here? Well, thank you. That's a poker face callback. Thank you so much. Well, we got a hood rat entered the lexicon here.

29:05Rue is At minimum Magic is ratting out Rue Yeah Who is a snitch Who is a snitch But is a snitch a snake? Is a snake a mole? Is a snitch a mole? I don't know Were you thinking about The Departed The Departed Of course When Alamo claimed You could smell the rat Always Well I was also thinking In this episode This did feel like In a lot of ways And I think with Rue looking at the monitors With her scraping Angel's name off the locker We have shifted from The first half of Goodfellas to the second half of Goodfellas. I literally wrote when she said, and that's how I became a snitch. I wrote Goodfellas in parentheses.

29:39Let's just call it out. Yeah, let's just call it what it is. Absolutely. And then I think this confirmed, like Angel's tragic disappearance, I think confirms that probably she was, like they removed her organs. I think that's what people think happens when, you know, those girls go in there that like they're still making Alamo some money. Or was trafficked or something. She was disappeared. Yeah, but I think based on context clues, I would say organ like because I thought you're gonna say based on my own firsthand experience. What have you been doing? No, but like they're already kind of being sex trafficked in the club.

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32:4118 plus trading derivatives involve significant risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Manage your activity with our consumer protection tools. Let's talk about the poker scene. So we've got Bishop and Rue and Marshawn Lynch, a.k.a. G. Yeah. And Alamo. Marshawn Lynch is so funny on this show. He's always a delight, but particularly on this show. Playing poker. I thought that was a really fun scene. I loved it. Adding the poker, the tension of the poker hand. especially I would say Bishop feeling so certain that he had the winning hand he's like are we gonna wanna show us that turn how about the river like let's get I call I check like all this other stuff he's like let's keep this game going let's not forget we're playing a poker hand because I've got a really good hand yes Ru had a better hand it's very 3PO and Han like 3 ,720 to 1 never tell me the odds nice you know that is kind of what's happening here on the very eve of May 4th we try to honor ourselves and our histories.

33:40But I think, yeah, I love for any game within a game in a scene like this is really wonderful. I think the heightening tension and the idea that the old, like the side road that deflates all that tension is that it hasn't even occurred to Alamo that Rue would be a snitch. It's just occurred to him that she's an addict and that maybe she slipped on the job in this other way that could potentially be destructive to him. I love that deflation. I love, you know, the kind of gradual reveal of perspective play on like who has what hand there and like who's actually winning and who is actually in control.

34:10Yeah. I just think it's super well done. I thought it was really well done. There are a lot of theories flying around about there being another informant inside the organization. Do you have any theories on that front? Well, it's not Paladin. R &P. A lot of people think it might be Bishop, that Bishop might be an informant or an undercover DEA agent. Yeah. He strikes me as very pragmatic. Yeah. So I could see it in some track for that. I would be most excited if it were Bishop because it would mean more screen time for Bishop. Yeah. And we both agree who's a real standout this season. One of the standouts, for sure.

34:40But I think we're going to get more screen time regardless whether he is another informant or someone chasing down the informants, right? All right, let's go back to Cassie and Maddie. Yeah. I really like the juxtaposition of Maddie crafting Cassie's look at the same time as Jules is making her painting. So it's like these two artists, you know, shaping something. We get to those with Cassie too because then later in the episode, we get Cassie and Kitty sort of juxtaposed in a similar editing way, right? Yes, absolutely. And I think very interestingly, as Maddie tells Cassie, basically like, do not sleep with this influencer guy, Brandon, because as soon as you do, you're basically like surrendering your power.

35:17Yeah. And then we see Katie like do a version of that exact thing in the now transactional part of her job. It's like, again, there's so many things as far as the construction of this episode I really, really like. Yeah. And then I'm just like left wondering and grasping at so many other things. And you like want to take a sanitizing shower. I need like the Gattaca, like scrape all my skin flakes off shower. Like I want no trace of the person I was while I was watching this episode. Again, we watched it over. Yeah, Cassie. And what I like about this episode is I was so certain that Cassie was going to fuck that up.

35:51Like, you know, just like going to a second location with him. Like, I was like, she's going to fuck this up. She's pretended she's done coke before. And then she clearly hasn't. And she's just like, woo! And like all of that. But then she crushes it. Completely. She knocks the other girl out of rotation. And then when the camera shows up, she drops the at. She did it. This Pomeranian's got a bite, you know? Not just the yips. But is there a worse place on earth, do you think, than this particular influencer party in which, like, everyone in attendance is jockeying for the attention of this guy with his, like, fucking gimbal walking around the party looking for two girls making out?

36:30You don't have a gimbal at your parties? I'm not a gimbal guy. I'm sorry. At any parties? No. Okay. Gimbal Friesels. At the famed Mahoney influencer parties? No. Absolutely not. Yeah. And the way he was like on high and they were sort of shot from below, sort of beseechingly looking up really good. Do you think we can, you know, like we can't let Brandon win. He has 20 million followers. I think we should implore the people to go to Instagram right now. Follow Prestige TV pod on Instagram. We got to get above Brandon. This guy sucks. Yeah, this guy sucks. Right? Do you want him to outrank us? That would be cruel and ridiculous.

37:06At Presti TV pod. You should. To go back to the beginning when Cassie is leaving Nate with her matching luggage. Thrown off the balcony. Over the railing. Over the railing. The roller bag on the shag carpet. Great physical comedy. But Maddie rolling up to this like swooning Hans Zimmer. This like romantic. Yeah. this is like the love of your life. Here's your knight in shining armor here to rescue you, Cassie. And then the like extremely sad cut to the little blonde girl and the little brunette girl across the street who are not there in the wide shot. And so I was like, I mean, obviously they're meant to represent like a young Cassie and a young Maddie, but like, are we meant to think they weren't even actually there?

37:52And it was just like literally their childhood selves across the street. I don't know, but they're not there in the wide shot, which I thought was interesting. Well, it's a metaphor, Joe. Like a toe. Or the scar. Unclair. Again, toes, scars, children. It could be any of the above. Maddie knocking again on the door like she did famously in season two. Did you enjoy it? I enjoy all the callbacks. I enjoyed Maddie in driving gloves, scarf on her head, of course. She knows how to make an impression in every possible way. Something that I raised to you before we started recording is that something that Cassie's like hyper blonde tan lets like enhance all of the enhancements, the head to toe leopard, the pink of her apartment really invoked this figure from, this famous Los Angeles figure from the 80s, which is Angeline spelled A-N-G-E-L-Y-N-E.

38:45If you're not, if folks listening to this or watching this are not aware, she was this person who in the 80s, like sort of before Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and sort of became famous for being famous. She came to town. I believe she put herself up on all of these billboards around town and used to drive around town in a pink Corvette. And just those things made her famous. Should I do that as a recent LA transplant myself? I thought you already did that. I had not. Was I supposed to do that? With the gimbals at your Mahoney functions. I didn't know that was supposed to be before you moved. I thought you get here first.

39:18Yeah. Scout out the locations, put up the billboards. No, no, no. You got a billboard first. Well, I fucked that up. Yeah, you really did. Here's a quote from a THR article about Angeline. Quote, Angeline had single-handedly created and then inhabited a modern myth of LA, the platinum blonde bombshell and the bright pink Corvette forever circumnavigating the city, seeking to enchant by dint of her sheer superficial glamour. It had the aesthetic power and emotional resonance of a genuine performance art, Marina Abramovich by way of John Waters, particularly as she kept on rambling around the city over the decades while she aged.

39:50so like this all of this visual language for Cassie as she leaves the suburbs comes to LA drives past the Cinerama Dome is anyone going to tell her that they're not showing movies at the Cinerama Dome anymore I don't know I don't want to be the one to break it to her but like this sort of like girl comes to the big bad city a la Kitty everything is probably going to go terribly for her would be my guess Is anything going to go well for anyone this season? Well, I mean, that's kind of what the show is, unfortunately. But I do think there are installations, right? And within the structure of this season, there's kind of a tiered approach to versions of the same like selling yourself idea, right?

40:35Like there's the people who are at the Silver Slipper who are in more desperate circumstances, kind of on the edge of being angeled out into nothingness and never heard from again. A couple steps up, there's this like influencer culture of people like Cassie who are so desperate. Or Caitlin, Maddie's former client. Desperate to grab and hold attention and are doing like whatever they have to do to do that. And then a step above that, there's like the LA Knights's and the kind of like the actual Hollywood apparatus. And you're starting to see like, for some people, those lines are porous enough because they get famous enough to kind of like jump into the next tier of selling yourself effectively.

41:10But if you're already at the bottom or you're close enough to it, like you can get kicked out the side door really, really fast. Yeah, I'll be interested to see which direction this all goes. Cassie landing on LA Nights before the season is over. Do you think that's possible? Seems likely. And then we were discussing this idea before we started recording. Could the finale or maybe the penultimate just be an episode of LA Nights written by Lexi herself? What do you think? I want that to be the case. Is this fucking nighttime soap about us? It's about us starring Cassie. You didn't like the play stuff from season two.

41:46That's why I want another crack at it. Okay, I really liked it, so I would love to see this. But here's the difference. I am somewhat repelled by theater kid energy. Oh. Present company excluded. Sure, tough. Tough for me. But TV person energy, clearly it has a kind of appeal and hold for me. So yeah, the idea of doing the TV pastiche, I think would be much more interesting. Let me just say, there are, as you say, levels to these things. There are. There are porous gradations of theater kid energy. and I just want to say for myself I'm not the kind of theater kid who would like break out into rent at a party or something like that there are levels to these things and that's just not me I think if the if the two part is this play about us had been more people spontaneously breaking out into rent it might have been an improvement like it was it was somehow more theater kid than that right you were like give me glee or give me death okay the only time I've ever thought it heist heist heist we get a heist but not like this man I didn't want it to be the Nazis Not the Nazis.

42:47I thought it was going to be cool girl crime. You should have specified. That monkey's paw. Really killing you in this moment. This is what I wanted. We got the safe in Big Eddie's office. Yeah. Got broken into. There's still another safe out there, ready to be broken into. Faye and her Nazi boyfriend and his chucklefuck brother, cousins. I don't know. They all seem inbred and related. In Obama masks. Yep. come and rob the strip club dare to hope Faye's telltale lips you know get them caught in not 4k I would say but on the surveillance camera you don't need 4k when you have the most recognizable lips in greater Los Angeles I thought that was a great reveal it was very good I was like what are we gonna see on this grainy footage I know then it's just like the lips they're unavoidable how do you feel about Rue I mean like Bishop could have identified her too he met her as well but like how do you feel about Rue about Rue just like giving it up.

43:44I mean, she was held at gunpoint. Like there was a gun to her head. I think all bets are off at this point. Giving up Faye though? I mean, she was the driver. She was an accomplice in this whole thing. I know they have a history. I know they've been friends for a long time. I certainly don't want anything to happen to Faye. But I mean, I think things have changed. Tough, tough. Very tough. I want to shout out. So Big Eddie who may not, I mean, he's not dead dead by the end of this episode, but. Bishop is not very concerned about keeping him alive. Seemed very close. Yeah. I felt like we heard air come out.

44:15Like, I was like, let's take him to the pit. They got to fix this. But Kadeem Hardison, who's playing Bighetti, as I mentioned in a previous episode, famous for playing the character Dwayne Wayne on A Different World, famously had on that show a pair of glasses where the shades part sort of like flipped up. That was like his signature move. So they had him do it in this episode. before they gut shot him. So, you know. Do you remember what was the line or the moment? I remember he flipped them, but I can't remember what it was in response to. I don't know, but I was just like, there he is. It's Dwayne Wade himself.

44:49Here he is. This whole setup, this is kind of what I was so energized by and then somewhat frustrated by was the setup of Rue and Magic and Big Eddie in the room with the ringing phone from Mom. I was loving everything that was happening. And so then when we get to like, oh, what if we stack a clusterfuck on top of this shit show by having the robbery happen at the same time. I kind of just wanted to spend another couple minutes to like, you don't have to play that scene out to its ultimate conclusion and like out anybody, but let us sit in the tension for a little longer. Did you think he was going to put it on speaker?

45:22I really did. Yeah, me too. I think the great tension creating devices that they've instilled at this point, the fact that anytime mom calls, like if you throw it on speaker, it could be a huge problem. Right. Also, anytime anyone does a line of coke, there's like the implication in the moment of like, oh, is this also going to have fentanyl in it? Is this also, is this person going to OD? Is this, you know, this other woman that Cassie is competing with just going to drop dead right there on the bed? Or is Cassie going to drop dead? Because, you know, it can happen to anybody at any time. Like there is a ticking time bomb with all of the drugs in this show.

45:55And Brandon like calling it out and saying like, do you know where this coke came from? I don't want to die. And so then I was like worried about going on that scene. And even Caitlin, the other influencer, when she was just like coughing and then vomited, but I was like, is she about to like - Straight up. Is that what the gimbal's going to catch? I'm a murderer? I did want to go back to the beginning of this episode because it really rests on Zendaya holding down the whole thing, which, you know, because the first, I didn't put a timer on it, but like many minutes at the beginning of the episode has just ruined that interrogation scene.

46:27And she is like funny when she does her Laurie impersonation, all that sort of stuff like that. and then and then there's a part where she knows she's caught and she looks so young all of a sudden and just I think as we mentioned before I think Zendaya's extraordinary on this show but I think the range of Rue the like charming Rue and then like so watching her both in that moment and then later when she's watching what's happening to Kitty like thinking contrasting that with the Cavalier gun dealer sort of schtick that she was doing in the previous episode is just sort of like the fuck around and the find out.

47:07And here we are, episode four of an eight episode season. We're in the find out. So how far does this find out take us? Where do we go from here? I especially love, you know, later in the episode, you almost get the inverse of the interrogation route transformation where when she's first being pressed about the phone and kind of like where she's been and what she's been up to and like magic is putting her on the spot as far as like trying to actually show some concern for Kitty and wonder why is it that she's here. she's like so caught off guard and so nervous and so anxious and kind of like fumbling and mumbling her way through as soon as she gets the call from the DEA that's like magic is on to you it is you or her you have to sell her out right now or else everything's going to go south she turns into a totally different person hood rat that's when the hood rats come out and it's like I love that Zendaya can just flip that in either of those moments in any possible direction because it just unlocks so much of the story as far as like where you can take things emotionally Anything we didn't hit that you want to make sure we hit?

48:03I do have a couple things, Jo. As a green apple advocate yourself, how did you feel about Big Eddie joining your ranks? Because I was really happy to have him. I just wanted to make sure. You saw that I had a green apple earlier this evening. You literally did as we were watching. I felt great about it. Welcome. Do you think that's the last apple we're going to get in our, I'm sure, twisted and extended biblical metaphor? It's the second green apple moment of the season, at least. So what was the first one? The apple on Rue's head. Oh, of course. I know because I took a photo of it and I sent it to Mallory Rubin and I said, welcome to Teen Greens and Dea.

48:35So, yeah. Just new people by the day. And Joe, one other thing that I needed to clarify with you because this was news to me. I was not aware until recently that Faye, the character's last name is Valentine, a la Faye Valentine of Cowboy Bebop. Did you know this and does this mean literally anything to you? I mean, I know I have watched all of Cowboy Bebop. Yeah. So, like, I am aware. Both the live action and the animated. John Cho, I support you in all your endeavors. Maybe not that endeavor. Not his fault. Even that endeavor. What does that mean to you? It's complicated. Okay. I don't know how to feel about it because it's both an incredible honor and I love this Faye.

49:11I don't see any similarity between these characters whatsoever. I don't know how it happened. But it's also like, it would be like if you named a character Indiana Jones. Like, I don't know how you back that up. I don't know how you're supposed to be the second Indiana Jones. Something I want to mention. I believe for the rest of the season, we are going to be filming these episodes about Euphoria on Sunday nights. We're going to be here watching this totally normal show to watch at work with your colleagues and then hopping on to shoot these totally not unhinged over-caffeinated episodes of a podcast.

49:43You, if in between the time that the episode drops, East Coast time, 6 p.m. Pacific, and when we record, let's say 8.30, 9 Pacific, something like that, you can email us. Yeah, we would encourage it. We will read them. We just got an email in. Do you want to hear it? I would love to. This is from our listener, Mitch. And he wrote, to Joe and Maddie's number one boy, I have reached a point in euphoria where the plot is the only thing keeping me going and that plot is Maddie's screen time. And once she enters our TV, I glean with Joy Rob and the rest of us witnessing her greatness. If Rob has a million fans, then I am one of them.

50:17If Rob has 10 fans, then I am one of them. If Rob has only one fan, it's me. If Rob has no fans, then that means I am no longer on the earth. If the world is against Rob, then I am against the world. XOXO, Maddie's number one boy. is number one fan, Mitch. Holy shit. Yeah, so Mitch loves you and he just wanted to let you know. And I just wanted to let you know live. It's not live. On camera. I genuinely don't know what to do with this information. But I'm honored. I'm flattered. I'm trying to absorb it. I mean, look, again, I'll do credit to Maddie. We all are following her plot lines in this way.

50:48She managed to make, there is a significant portion of this episode where the primary driver of plot is like, we have to create content. And I'm like, this is cinema. Yeah. So I don't know how she does it. I don't know how Sam Levinson does it, with all due credit. It's incredible. One thing I will say is that in that party sequence, which had many moments, but I would say like Maddie having lost track of Cassie, like hunting in the crowd, that's when I really could have used some labyrinth music, I will say. Like I really was missing it, especially I think. And Cassie up on the table sort of like beseechingly, sort of like reaching up.

51:25that could have used some labyrinth sort of grandiosity to it. So many moments could. I think that's one of the ones where it's like textually just makes so much sense. Zimmer's barely Zimmering in this episode. It's definitely not Zimmer. It's definitely like a third string. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's an underling Zimmer. Yeah. Zim Jr. Not great. I'm very concerned. Who should we thank? Who helped us in this episode here late at night? We should thank Kai Grady. Absolutely. I don't know how we dragged him into this. I don't know. We should thank Dev Rinaldo. Also, I don't know how we dragged Dev into this.

51:54Absolutely. Jack Wilson yes of course who is here Chris Wallers Chris Wallers yeah just like the whole Sikamore crew here on a Sunday night to help us out Jo thank you thank you Ramani thank all the caffeine you consumed to get through the day that was a lot um I don't know thank you to we can just be done with the podcast the DEA okay thank you to the DEA that's it for now we'll be back with Widows Bay with some other special projects that we have set for this month and for every Sunday night ill-advisedly instant reactions to you. We'll see you soon. Bye.

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From the publisher

Jo and Rob go all in to recap ‘Euphoria’ Season 3, Episode 4.

(0:00) Intro

(6:58) Are the religious elements of this season working?

(11:11) Maddy, Cassie, Rue, and Lexi

(13:14) Nepo baby roll call

(16:35) Let’s talk about Nate

(24:17) Return to (visual) form

(25:51) Kitty’s tragic introduction

(29:21) The poker scene

(31:17) Cassie goes Hollywood

(39:13) We’ve got a heist!

(42:44) Zendaya’s performance

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