![]() ![]() The characters on stage are thinly veiled caricatures of real people sitting in the audience at that very moment - which makes this whole enterprise not just Lexi’s story, but a public dragging of everyone she’s ever known airing dirty laundry, Broadway-style. And now, everyone and their mothers are in on it too. ![]() A public spectacle is made of everyone’s lowest points, their moments of deep vulnerability with Lexi that only she was supposed to be privy to. Do many of these people deserve to know the truth about themselves? Undoubtedly. Most significantly, Cassie gets her comeuppance, as she watches herself through her sister’s unforgiving eyes. Many, many friends and real-life acquaintances are dragged through the truth-wringer against their will. The problem, however, is that most of the pain explored here is not her own. In this episode, we finally see her long-awaited, highly-anticipated debut as director-writer-actor of a tell-all, an autobiographical account of high school life, a Bildungsroman about growing pains. Waiting in the wings - both literally and metaphorically - for her time in the sun. As the underdog, the only person certified by audiences worldwide as Normal or RegularTM, Lexi has spent most of her time in Cassie’s shadow. In the penultimate episode of Euphoria’s second season, it is Lexi’s time to shine. That, in fact, their observation was bang on and made a larger point about something: the finer points of human nature, selfishness, narcissism, race dynamics, call it what you will. It was further complicated by the fact that the writer may have had a point there. ![]() The essay sparked a heated debate about the “bad art friend” and on the ethics of using real people’s lives as fodder for storytelling, particularly the uncomfortable bits. The inspiree used that - specifically, a Facebook post talking about the donation - as inspiration for a character with a white savior complex. But there’s more to it: the inspirer donated a kidney to a stranger and expected a lot of praise from it. This article contains spoilers for season 2, episode 7.Ī New York Times essay that briefly took the Internet by storm went like this: two writer acquaintances fell into a long-drawn legal battle over the contention that one of them unfairly used the other’s real-life as inspiration for a story. ![]()
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