How Euphoria Destroyed Rue Bennett

Sam Levinson killed Rue Bennett thirty-five minutes into her own series finale and spent the remaining hour on a cowboy shootout. This is a breakdown of how Euphoria's showrunner took the most devastating addiction story on television and wasted it, season by season, until the protagonist's death had the significance of a speed bump. Time Stamps: 0:00 Rue dies. The show cuts to a strip club. 1:30 What Made Her Real 4:00 Season 3 turns Rue into a drug mule with no interior life 8:00 The God arc that could have been everything 11:00 Jules and the erasure of the relationship that built the show 15:00 The death itself 18:30 The cowboy who stole her funeral 21:00 Why this happened: Sam Levinson's pattern 24:00 A word with Sam #Euphoria #EuphoriaSeason3 #RueBennett #SamLevinson #videoessay