

She says she prays to the ocean and cites her feminine transition as a spiritual awakening that promotes vitality, a both comparable and contrastable remark to Rue’s take at the diner. Photograph by Eddy Chen/HBOĬontinuing to consider what she might be like without the hormones, Jules compares her fears of broadening or thickening in the process to the beauty and strength of the ocean. Jules may want to give up on men “philosophically” or otherwise and I don’t think anyone would blame her, but to her this may be a defeat, having said in an earlier episode, “If I can conquer men, I can conquer femininity,” and now conceding, “My e ntire life I’ve been trying to conquer femininity and, somewhere along the way, femininity conquered me.” Hunter Schafer as Jules in Euphoria. Tyler was the animus of Jules’ unconscious mind and finding out it was all an illusion is something she’s not finished going through yet.

Jules reveals her complete physical and emotional attachment to the fantasy character during the course of her therapy session. ShyGuy118, before revealing a mountain of blackmail when she finally went to meet him. Over the course of Season 1 viewers watched as Nate (Jacob Elordi ) toyed with Jules by creating the false identity of Tyler, a.k.a. And then there’s the heart of this discussion in the anima/animus, the image of the perfect significant other we have in our minds. She then speaks to the terrifying nature of the female hierarchy systems which seemingly dig into the flaws of someone upon first meeting them, placing a value on the person and acting toward them in the appropriate manner-a reason for the layers.

There’s a lot of instances of the persona here, Jules acknowledging that there’s a million layers of personality traits she’s stolen from others that have curated the displayed persona she presents to the world, guarding her actual self. Calling men simple and unimaginative, Jules thinks about the person she is versus this exemplified persona they see and says she feel like a fraud.Įpisode writers Sam Levinson and Hunter Schafer dive deep into some Carl Jung archetype philosophy rather quickly while wading into Jules’ psyche. The therapist, like Ali, navigates the conversation to something that Jules wants to talk about-going off her hormones feeling as if she’s drawn a conclusion that her idea of femininity comes from what men consider to be idealistic feminine traits and trying to appeal to that aspect of male desire. Immediately a parallel to Rue’s similarly reserved discussion in the diner can be made. Mandy Nichols, she doesn’t want to talk about why she left for the city, admitting it was not well thought out and mostly reactive. Jules returns to from her memory to tell the therapist, Dr. Where Rue (Zendaya) told Ali (Colman Domingo) that she blamed Jules for all that had happened in the first special episode, we discover that Jules harbors some resentment about Rue as well. A therapist (Lauren Weedman) says the trigger words, “So why’d you run away?” A splash of color in Jules’ eye reveals the events her eyes have witnessed in East Highland through her first year in the city over the lyrics of Lorde’s “Liability.” This overture of images over Jules’ pupil becomes a hint for fans that there are two sides to every story, as the focus shifts from Rue’s viewpoint in the first special to spotlighting Jules’ experiences now. Part 2, titled “F*ck Anyone Who’s Not a Sea Blob,” enters on the distraught, distantly focused Jules (Hunter Schafer) against a beige backdrop.

If there is one underlying theme to take from the Euphoria special episodes it’s that you never know the pain someone else is hiding.
