^ were, not we’re // and now #EuphoriaS3E1 aka #Season3Premiere, where I’m definitely still making sense of some of its more abrupt tonal shifts — and the purgatory with Nate that Levinson forces on Cassie’s character (and by extension, her actress) into. // here’s hoping Maddie can help Cassie >>

#spoilers #TVYellingWithKat #EuphoriaYellingWithKat #EuphoriaA24 #EuphoriaHBOMax #EuphoriaS3E1 so from the season 3 overview after the credits, looks like Rue et al are venturing into the edges of society (including multiple forms of organized crime). See y’all next Sunday night.

from Lori. To another boss-man who has no problem threatening her life, even if he is a very good shot. // how dare you Sam Levinson! // and this is the credits of #EuphoriaS3E1 #spoilers #TVYellingWithKat #EuphoriaYellingWithKat

that anyone would think to test the drugs for overdose-latent filler? When fentanyl testing kits are widely available to consumers? Why Lori? Maybe she thought she’d used Rue all up and was dumping her ass after one less unscheduled drop? #spoilers #EuphoriaS3E1

Poor Cassie: “are you happy?” The more things change the more they stay the same. Making herself small enough, desperately trying to be loved, by a man, this man. Nate of all people. #EuphoriaS3E1 #spoilers

Lori would be a horse lady… and of course there’s a full-on lab basement under the horse barn. A whole drug making operation. Of course, Lori… a true sub-basement of rock bottom. // chicken butchered. Back on the road. #spoilers #EuphoriaS3E1 #EuphoriaSeasom3Premiere

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1

Because HBOMax won’t let me take screenshots. Here is an approximation of this scene with Rue and Ali at the diner, late at night, raining outside.

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1

Rue is fully ready to jump into religion. Which doesn’t seem like a super good idea — she does this, though, testing Ali — thankfully, Ali at least believes in the book of context (good! So do I!).

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1

Despite everything in her life, having reached the sub-basement of rock-bottom, Rue actually seems to be working her [12] steps with Ali, her sponsor, meeting at a diner, late at night. So she’s trying. There’s hope in that (?).

Is this Sam Levinson’s attempt to be extra meta- this season? #spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1

So I guess Cassie has *a friend*? And actually has a pretty good sense of how to monetize her existence // general vibes via only fans. Kay, Sam. Kay. // Meanwhile, Lexi and Rue are doing laundry. // Maddy is managing actors?

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1

And so Cassie is fully trapped in this gilded cage. Because Sam Levinson couldn’t, wouldn’t, imagine anything better for the poor woman.

#spoilers #EuphoriaS3E1

Of course “Nate is in the real world making deals, or so he says.” This is the most likely outcome for white boys with money like Nate. But why Sam Levinson did you doom her to be tied down by his awfulness! Just let Cassie go to community college and fuck around some.

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1 wrong-headed slight. Because the fuck, Sam Levinson, this is the darkest timeline you had for Cassie. And with that sociopathic white boy, Nate! Really, my dude! Just let Cassie be free and happy already, instead of this farce.

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1 so the Fez of this universe is in prison for 30 years (this may be the show’s accommodation for the actor’s death). // Lexi works in Hollywood, mostly bringing coffee. // and then there’s Cassie. Is Sam Levinson punishing her for some misplaced >>

>> debt + hella interest. 2 years unpaid + 20% interest = a sum large enough for Laurie to justify human bondage. Rue’s bondage. // So Rue continues to have a double life: mule-life and sometimes crashing on Lexie’s couch (paying in a lecture). // understandably, Rue is lost. #spoiler #EuphoriaS3E1

#spoilers #EuphoriaSeason3Premiere #EuphoriaS3E1 In which we we learn that Rue’s rock bottom does in fact have an even further rock bottom. In this case, this rock bottom’s basement is her being a drug mule for Laurie, the schoolteacher turned drug kingpin who tracked Rue down for her suitcase >>