With each passing episode, Euphoria becomes more and more popular. The HBO show is a commercial and critical smash success, and it has already been renewed for a third season.
21.02.2022 - 06:19 / variety.com
Mónica Marie Zorrilla Lexi Howard, indisputably one of the most underrated and underutilized characters in Sam Levinson’s glitter-and-grit-infused teenage fever dream “Euphoria,” has finally been given more purpose than being the preppy-in-plaid sidekick to her sister Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and best friend(ish) Rue (Zendaya) in Season 2. Fans of Lexi, portrayed by Maude Apatow, have gotten to see the character not only open up a potential romantic relationship with other fan-favorite Fezco (Angus Cloud) but also work on her high school theater magnum opus, a play about always being the ancillary character and never in the spotlight — not even in your own life.In Episode 7 of the show’s second season, entitled “The Theater and Its Double,” viewers are given a glimpse into Lexi’s complex relationship with the young women around her, her father, her mother and herself.
Meanwhile, the problems that Cassie and Rue contend with are given significantly more attention through a meta-theatrical production that Apatow told Variety was fun, but challenging to film — a difficulty that is evident when watching the intricate episode. Lexi’s theatrical debut ends with a high note — literally — as Austin Abrams, who plays Kat’s boyfriend Ethan in the show, gyrates his hips in golden spandex with hordes of high school boys clad in what can only be described as “football, but make it sexy” costumes, dancing around him to the tune of Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” and striking suggestive “workout” poses.
The choreography, orchestrated by Ryan Heffington, flings an over-the-top middle finger to Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi)— and Abrams had a blast filming it.“We filmed that over a three-day span, and it was a lot of work. It took a
.With each passing episode, Euphoria becomes more and more popular. The HBO show is a commercial and critical smash success, and it has already been renewed for a third season.
Maude Apatow), since Sunday’s season 2 finale of .Cloud’s character, Fezco, was all suited up with flowers in hand and a card that read “Lexi,” ready to attend his love interest’s play. However, he never actually made it to the show because police kicked in the door and a shootout ensued. The action had crescendoed after his adopted brother, Ashtray (Javon Walton), killed local drug dealer Custer (Tyler Chase) when it was revealed that he was trying to set them up.
Maude Apatow), since Sunday’s season 2 finale of.Cloud’s character, Fez, was all suited up, with flowers in hand and a card that read “Lexi,” ready to attend his love interest’s play, when the police kicked in the door and a shootout ensued, after his adopted brother, Ashtray (Javon Walton), killed local drug dealer Custer (Tyler Chase) when it was revealed that he was trying to set them up. In one of the final scenes, bullets fly between Fez and the cops, as Ashtray fired off shots from the bathroom that he locked himself in. Next to Fez, who was accidentally shot in the stomach, was the note to Lexi, riddled with blood.
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Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“Euphoria” is now HBO’s second-most-watched show since 2004 behind only “Game of Thrones,” per the pay TV channel.The Zendaya-led drama hit yet another series high with its Season 2 finale episode Sunday, drawing 6.6 million viewers. According to HBO, “Euphoria” Season 2 episodes are now averaging 16.3 million viewers, the best performance for any season of an HBO series other than “Game of Thrones” since 2004.
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season 2 has come to a close. But not before the cast opened up to ET about the unexpected ending, which “feels like the end of days,” Jacob Elordi said. “It’s madness.”The finale, “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” written and directed by creator Sam Levinson, picked up immediately following episode 7’s cliffhanger, which saw Maddy (Alexa Demie), Jules (Hunter Schafer), Kat (Barbie Ferreira) and a recently sober Rue (Zendaya) all having various, bemused reactions to Lexi’s (Maude Apatow) provocative play while Nate (Elordi) walked out and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) was left fuming.Not only that, but one seat in the audience remained empty as Fezco’s (Angus Cloud) whereabouts remained unclear. The missing half of Fexi was last seen getting ready at his apartment where there was mounting tension between Ashtray (Javon Walton), Faye (Chloe Cherry) and Custer (Tyler Chase), who was wearing a wire in hopes of narcing on Fez. The episode opens with Fez letting Lexi know that he’s on his way to the play when Custer wants to talk to him “about everything.” Luckily, Faye turns on her boyfriend and warns Fez not to reveal anything while also trying to frame Laurie (Martha Kelly), the drug dealer that almost kidnapped Rue at one point.
Maude Apatow went to extreme lengths to prepare for one of her costumes growing up.
Maude Apatow was born into a family of actors so it comes as no surprise that she's one of the stars of hit show Euphoria.MORE: Who are the cast members of Euphoria dating?And ahead of the finale on Sunday, her famous father Judd Apatow showed his support for his daughter in a tongue-in-cheek comment posted on Instagram.Last weekend, Maude wrote on Instagram: "SUNDAY!!! @euphoria," to which her dad replied: "I will watch right after I finish Yellowstone."VIDEO: Euphoria season two in a nutshellWhat's more, the official Yellowstone account then replied to Judd's remark, replying: "We support these priorities."Maude is the oldest daughter of Judd and Leslie Mann, and has a younger sister, Iris.MORE: Euphoria's Barbie Ferreira stuns in curve-hugging bikini on sun-soaked vacationThe pair grew up on movie sets and have both starred in a number of their dad's comedy films, including Knocked Up and This Is 40. Maude shares a close relationship with filmmaker dad Judd ApatowWhat's more, a camera was rolling a lot of the time during their childhood.
Ellise Shafer SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not seen “Euphoria” Season 2, Episode 7, “The Theater and Its Double.” When Ryan Heffington set out to choreograph the dance number in the penultimate episode of “Euphoria” Season 2, he took a cue from the song it’s set to, Bonnie Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero.”“I knew it was — and had to be — larger than life,” Heffington tells Variety of the dance, which takes place during Lexi’s (Maude Apatow) play and features over a dozen men in shiny gold football pants gyrating against work out equipment — and each other — in the locker room. Ethan (Austin Abrams) stars in the dance as a character mirroring Nate (Jacob Elordi), whose sexuality (and homophobia) has been bottling underneath the surface during the past two seasons.
Euphoria fans have taken to social media as they believe Tom Holland secretly featured in the new episode.The actor has recently been “petitioning to secure a role in the show”, opposite his Spider-Man co-star and romantic partner Zendaya.In the most recent episode, Maude Apatow’s character Lexi Howard put on her play at school, which most of the show’s other characters attended.Some fans on social media claimed one person in the audience looked eerily similar to Tom Holland, sat a few rows behind Cassie and Nate.Take a look at the post here, which has been liked over 225,000 times at the time of writing.DAMN LEXI EVEN GOT TOM HOLLAND AT HER PLAY?? pic.twitter.com/ztnsKYSG9v— nevaeh
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There is just one more episode of Euphoria left in season two and the sneak peek for the finale has been released online!
season 2 has been building up to this moment, with Lexi’s (Maude Apatow) semi-biographical play taking center stage in the penultimate episode, “The Theater and Its Double,” written and directed by creator Sam Levinson. Austin Abrams, who plays Ethan, talks to ET about his show-stopping, homoerotic dance routine he performs as a version of Nate (Jacob Elordi) and how he feels about where things ended up between Ethan and Kat (Barbie Ferreira) this season. After first appearing in season 1 as Kat’s geek-ish lab partner who takes an interest in her, Ethan has slowly grown into his own over the course of the first two seasons of.
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