The reason that I don’t see Rue’s death as Euphoria deciding to not be hopeful or it being cruel is because that happens in real life and addicts and others die from fentanyl overdoses and those people’s lives still mattered.
“Thank you Rue, let her memory be a blessing,” hits me hard because I hope that there’s people out there who realize how precious life can be and how easy and random it is for it to end. I operate from a know it all perspective so I always think people know everything just like me like (fentanyl bad, duh) but I’m thinking of all the young people who see themselves as invincible and will watch the show and realize a random pill can kill you.
And I think that this season was crafted the way it was because of Angus Cloud’s death. Sam himself has said that if he had been using the way he did in the past that he would be dead. This shit is meaningful and I don’t think he did it out of spite or malice towards anyone.
