![]() I’m not familiar with the typical budget or procedures of a Los Angeles high school theater department, but the ornate set design, which includes a revolving stage, costuming and makeup, lighting, huge, expensive props (there’s an actual streetlight) and eerily precise doppelgängers is excessive and seems unfeasible. However ineffective and redundant I personally found this episode, Lexi’s play is, at times, amusing and quite astonishing in terms of scale. However, as the episode goes on, it feels like Lexi’s purpose in writing the play is to hold up a mirror to her dysfunctional peers as opposed to putting a much-needed spotlight on herself. She alludes to her tragic relationship with her father, as they dance in a living room. The play begins showing Lexi’s once close-knit friendship with Rue and her strained relationship with Cassie that seems primarily rooted in body image. But it’s a glaring oversight throughout the episode. It’s unclear how Lexi’s play went from a character study starring her, as the idea was first introduced, to a drag session of her peers. This article came to mind several times watching this episode, which is mostly background that we’ve witnessed before and even some repeated moments from the past two episodes. It analyzed how the invocation of trauma in works of art can reduce a character to a set of symptoms, limiting the possibilities of their development and an entire story. Last December, The New Yorker published an essay by Parul Sehgal called “The Case Against The Trauma Plot” that went viral. Unfortunately, her production, which takes up the majority of “The Theater And Its Double,” only exposes the overarching defects in Sam Levinson’s storytelling this season, primarily his inability to look beyond the tragic pasts he’s sketched out for his characters and imagine a compelling present and future. ![]() One thing viewers have been able to look forward to, however, is Lexi’s autobiographical school play and what it will supposedly reveal about who she is beyond an observer of everyone else’s drama. With only one episode left, it’s hard to guess any one conclusion or whether certain plot points will even be addressed in the finale. Much of Euphoria Season 2 has been undermined by a lack of structure and general uncertainty about what story it wants to tell.
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