This is huge new information that recontextualizes Jules and Rue’s entire relationship, including Jules’ reasons for not sharing it with Rue in the first place. She confesses to the unfair burden she feels as the person who is almost singlehandedly keeping Rue sober, and reveals that her mother Amy (Pell James) is herself an addict. (It’s in this sequence in particular where having Schafer co-write the episode seems especially valuable, because it’s territory she understands from the inside out.) She talks about the pain she felt when she discovered that her online crush “Tyler” was really Nate manipulating her(*). Jules admits to now having some agnostic feelings about her transition - “I feel like my entire life, I’ve been trying to conquer femininity, and I feel like somewhere along the way, femininity conquered me” - and contemplates going off some or all of her hormones. Over the course of this hour, the mysteries are laid bare. We saw her away from Rue, particularly when she was pursuing violent sexual relationships with older men like Nate’s father, and we heard her talk about her gender transition, but she was also something of a puzzle for both Rue and Euphoria to solve. This dynamic works to the story’s advantage, because we already knew so much about Rue - the show’s main character, narrator, and main point-of-view figure - where Jules previously existed at a slight remove. Nichols is there to listen, not share painful details from her own life, so this isn’t a two-hander like the last special.
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But while Weedman is excellent, the nature of her role as a mental health professional makes this a different conversation than the one Rue and Ali had. Mardy Nichols (Lauren Weedman), as if Schafer and Euphoria creator Sam Levinson, who co-wrote the episode and directed it, were huge fans of HBO’s late, great, and soon-to-be-rebooted drama In Treatment. Much of it takes place in Jules’ first session with her new therapist, Dr. “Fuck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob” is slightly less of an acoustic duet.
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