In season 2 of Euphoria, things get even more complicated for Rue Bennett and her fellow
classmates.
Rue’s friend and drug dealer Fezco finds himself in increasingly more dangerous situations.
His younger brother Ashtray kills their supplier Mouse in self defense putting the drug dealing
duo in a very precarious situation.
Rue tags along with Fez as he pays a visit to a new supplier, an unassuming but very
threatening woman named Laurie.
With his business affairs squared away, Fezco turns his attention to his personal life.
Faye, the girlfriend of Fez’s friend Custer, moves in when Custer needs to lay low from
the police.
Fez gets his revenge on Nate Jacobs for sending the police to raid his apartment for drugs
in season one by viciously beating him at a house party.
And Fez begins developing a romantic relationship with Lexi.
Cassie begins secretly sleeping with Nate and quickly becomes obsessed with him.
She also becomes racked with guilt due to Nate being her best friend Maddy’s ex-boyfriend.
This is all complicated even further when Nate rekindles his relationship with Maddy.
Meanwhile, Nate’s father Cal drunkenly comes out to his family and leaves them.
And then there’s Kat, who begins to lose interest in her boyfriend Ethan and fakes
a terminal illness to try to break up with him.
He sees through the lie and ends the relationship.
And that brings us to Rue, who rekindles her relationship with Jules, who is unaware that
Rue is slipping further into addiction.
Not helping matters is the fact that Rue befriends new kid Elliot, who secretly enables her drug
habits.
In her continued spiral, Rue pays a visit to Laurie and offers to become a drug dealer
in order to secure $10k worth of drugs.
As Elliot grows closer to both Rue and Jules, he begins to feel guilty about his part in
enabling Rue’s addiction.
After developing a romantic relationship with Jules, Elliot confesses to her that he and
Rue have been doing drugs together.
Jules alerts Rue’s mom, Leslie, who destroys Rue’s massive drug stash.
This sends Rue into a full blown breakdown, angrily cutting ties with Jules and Elliot
while destroying her own house.
While Leslie tries to take Rue to rehab, Rue flees to Lexi and Cassie’s house.
When Leslie arrives to stage an intervention, Rue reveals to Maddy that Cassie and Nate
were sleeping with each other, causing a fight that served as enough of a distraction for
Rue to escape.
Rue then takes refuge at Laurie’s home.
The drug dealer gives Rue morphine to help with her withdrawals, but also insinuates
that Rue could be sold into prostitution if she doesn’t pay Laurie the $10k that was
owed.
Following this traumatic and chaos fuelled day, Rue returns home to seek treatment.
Following the blowup between Maddy, Cassie, and Nate, and his father’s departure, Nate
decides to take his family’s future into his own hands.
Maddy had a copy of a sex tape that Cal had secretly filmed of himself with Jules.
To ensure she never leaked it and ruined the Jacobs’ name, Nate holds Maddy and himself
at gunpoint to retrieve it.
Nate then pays a visit to Jules and gives her the tape, apologizing for all of the terrible
things he’d done to her and confessing everything he told her when catfishing her in season
one was the truth.
All season long, Lexi has been writing a school play chronicling her perspective of the lives
of her family and friends.
During the play’s performance, there are a variety of reactions from the story’s
subjects.
Maddy begins to soften on her anger toward Cassie, Rue and Jules re-evaluate their feelings
for each other, and Nate becomes enraged at a homoerotic musical number centered around
him and the high school football team, leading him to breaking up with Cassie.
This causes Cassie to run up on stage to publicly confront Lexi for embarrassing her.
This escalates further when Suze runs up on stage to break up her daughters, and then
Maddy runs up to fight Cassie, chasing her off stage.
Lexi’s big moment was teetering toward disaster, but Rue rallies the crowd into a chant for
Lexi, coaxing her to continue on with the play.
Unfortunately, the seat Lexi saved for Fezco goes unfilled, as the drug dealer is having
major problems of his own.
Faye’s boyfriend Custer becomes an informant for the police in their investigation over
Mouse’s murder and he arrives at Fez’s apartment to try to record incriminating evidence.
Faye warns Fez, but Ashtray is unaware of the situation and thinks killing Custer is
the solution to their problems.
As a SWAT team prepares to storm the apartment, Fez plans on taking the fall for Mouse and
Custer’s deaths.
But Ashtray has different plans and locks himself in the bathroom with an arsenal of
weapons.
As the SWAT team burst in and Fez pleads for his brother to stop, Ashtray opens fire.
The police kill Ashtray and Fez is shot in the stomach during the crossfire before being
arrested.
Meanwhile, Nate pays a visit to his father.
Cal finally apologizes to his son for all of the emotional trauma he had caused, but
it was too late.
Nate had already alerted the authorities about Cal’s history of secretly recording his
sexual escapades with partners of varying ages.
As the season comes to a close, Rue forgives Elliot for his involvement in her intervention
and thanks him for saving her life.
Her relationship with Jules on the other hand was a bit more complicated, and Rue might
finally be ready to move on from her first love.
As the season fades to black, Rue narrates that she stayed sober for the rest of the
school year.
She didn’t know if that would last forever, but right now, she was trying.