![]() If I’m being ungenerous I’d say, Levinson wants to make a point about Jules’ gender journey with the sports bra but still needs a visible thong to fulfill his weird sexual obsession with her. If I’m generous, I’d say this points to Jules trying all sorts of things with her gender presentation. But he is good at licking the hand of a girl whose partner is making her feel crazy and so when Jules does it to his hand it quickly leads to a make out.Īs they hook up, Jules is wearing a sports bra and has a visible thong riding up her pants like it’s the early 2000s. He shows her how to do it on her hand and I am sorry but I simply do not believe that this high school boy with the face tattoo is actually good at eating pussy. She says this makes her feel like a guy and Elliot says it’s not her fault if she’s inexperienced. He jokes that maybe Jules is just bad at eating pussy because his whole thing is complimenting her and then insulting her. But then Jules repeats what Rue did and he’s like oh. Jules and Elliot have become besties - or another word for when your girlfriend has relapsed with a hot boy and then you start hanging out with that hot boy because he’s better at validating you than your girlfriend - and he says that Rue is too lazy to fake an orgasm. Rue decides she needs to fake an orgasm and it’s somehow even less convincing than her performance of sobriety. And Rue may love Jules but she’s too high to feel whatever Jules is doing under the sheets. Of course, these are all either fiction or exaggerated portrayals of reality. And we get Rue and Jules as Magritte’s The Lovers, Yoko Ono and John Lennon, the Ghost pottery scene, the Titanic “King of the Worldwp_postsscene, Snow White’s kiss, and the lead up to the Brokeback Mountain tent sex. We get Jules in Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and a Frida Kahlo self-portrait. Narrator Rue tells us that she really loves Jules and we sink into a goofy montage of Jules and Rue as art and other famous couples. Jules is going down on Rue and asking if it feels good and Rue just keeps saying it’s amazing. ![]() It may want us to take it seriously, but it’s so much better when we don’t. But, ultimately, Euphoria is just a teen soap opera. Sam Levinson may think he’s a genius making a genius show, Zendaya may have won an Emmy and posted a statement about Euphoria being for adults. This episode of Euphoria made me realize I’ve been watching the show all wrong. The show didn’t pretend to be anything other than a teen soap opera. ![]() I was content to watch the hot 20-somethings play teens, to watch them gallivant around their fancy homes, to watch them get tangled up in increasingly absurd drama. When I watched The OC, I didn’t expect genius. The Autostraddle Encyclopedia of Lesbian Cinema.LGBTQ Television Guide: What To Watch Now.
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