{"id":619,"date":"2026-05-25T04:07:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=619"},"modified":"2026-05-25T04:07:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T04:07:18","slug":"euphoria-episode-7-after-a-shocking-death-cassie-makes-moves-and-rue-has-a-spiritual-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=619","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Euphoria\u2019 Episode 7: After a Shocking Death, Cassie Makes Moves and Rue Has a Spiritual Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<strong><em>SPOILER ALERT:<\/em><\/strong><em> This story contains spoilers for \u201cRain or Shine,\u201d Season 3 Episode 7 of \u201c<\/em><em>Euphoria<\/em><em>,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=617\">\u2018Passenger\u2019 Review: Andr\u00e9 \u00d8vredal\u2019s Roadbound Horror is a Stylish, Satisfying Thrill-Ride<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tOnce again, Rue Bennett ends an episode of \u201cEuphoria\u201d in peril \u2014 but one of her high-school classmates is even worse off.<\/p>\n<p>\nZendaya\u2019s character has had a rough season, recently narrowly avoiding having her head clubbed off with a polo mallet. Now, though, she\u2019s at risk of being discovered attempting to rob a drug cartel, after Faye (Chloe Cherry), who\u2019d been attempting to help Rue after being advised that Wayne (Toby Wallace) wants Rue dead, flips on her and screams to wake everyone up.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBut it\u2019s Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi) who ends the episode actually dead \u2014 seemingly incontrovertibly, as we watch his wife Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) weeping over his necrotizing body. Here\u2019s what happened in the season\u2019s penultimate episode.<\/p>\n<h5>\n\t\tDeath of a Golden Boy\t<\/h5>\n<p>\n\tNate Jacobs has changed a lot since high school. The character who, in the show\u2019s first two seasons, generated much of the show\u2019s intrigue and menace thanks to his barely controllable rage, had been brought low by life. His failures in business and his debt to loan sharks gave him a weakened, sorrowful resignedness. It was an interesting note for Elordi to play, and it led us to a sad fate he, by the end, was only barely trying to outrun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe loan sharks, who\u2019ve been holding Nate hostage over a $1 million debt, have buried Nate in a shallow grave with a small vent to the outside world, giving Cassie, whom they also kidnap in this episode, three days to come up with the money to buy Nate\u2019s freedom. Once Cassie wriggles her way out of it \u2014 she asks Maddy (Alexa Demie), who asks Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who shows up at the drop site and shoots one of the loan sharks dead, ending the standoff \u2014 she\u2019s able to reunite with Nate. But some time prior, a rattlesnake had come through the vent and bitten Nate, making the whole endeavor pointless. At least Cassie tried.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s a gruesome sendoff for a character who\u2019d previously shown no small capacity for violence toward others. And, as the season finale nears, it opens up an entirely new emotional playbook for a character who\u2019s gone from dissatisfied wife to, suddenly, a widow, all within the first months of her marriage.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=615\">How \u2018Obsession\u2019 Became an Unprecedented Box Office Horror Hit \u2014 and One of the Year\u2019s Most Profitable Movies<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>\n\t\tThe Fall and Rise of Cassie\t<\/h5>\n<p>\n\tOne might wonder at the fact that Maddy helped Cassie at all \u2014 the latter\u2019s rash decision, in the previous episode, to quit OnlyFans in pursuit of a legitimate acting career cut off a vital flow of income to her aspiring manager. Cassie, unfortunately, was fired from \u201cL.A. Nights\u201d after the production decided it didn\u2019t want the hassle of explaining its star\u2019s past work; after beseechingly (and futilely) trying to get her old account, with all its followers, back, Cassie needed a scheme.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tEnter Dylan Reed (Homer Gere), the actor who\u2019d shared scenes with Cassie before her firing and felt bad she had to leave the production. Before Cassie\u2019s kidnapping, she executed a scheme perfectly: On a date with Dylan, she got him drunk, had sex with him, and \u2014 while Dylan was in a postcoital haze and not paying attention \u2014 stole his phone to post from his Instagram that Cassie was remarkable in bed (in crasser terms). Cassie created the post while Dylan was in the kitchen, drinking a glass of ice water that he didn\u2019t notice contained the frozen finger of Nate \u2014 a morbid reminder of just how much suffering was playing out elsewhere.<\/p>\n<h5>\n\t\tAli\u2019s Backstory\t<\/h5>\n<p>\n\tIn a signature \u201cEuphoria\u201d Rue-narrated flashback, we see Ali (Colman Domingo) during his journey to finding sobriety. After an explosive fight with his wife, Ali hangs out in a flophouse with a character played by Natasha Lyonne; later, as he works the steps, we see him attempting to sponsor other addicts, especially during the dark days of COVID when in-person meetings went away.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAli\u2019s now trying to do the same, once again, for Rue, although he seems to have the sense that this is going to be an increasingly challenging battle. Rue, after seeing a burning bush as a sign at the end of last week\u2019s episode, tells Ali she has heard the voice of God, telling her, \u201cI heard your cries, I feel your pain; have faith and I will take you from Egypt and I will lead you to the Promised Land.\u201d Ali seems lovingly bemused, for now.<\/p>\n<h5>\n\t\tRue\u2019s Spiritual Awakening\t<\/h5>\n<p>\n\tRue, in her connection to faith, seems to have a new sense that anything is possible \u2014 she survived a near-car crash only to see a burning bush, after all. What can\u2019t she do? (Keep Lexi, played by Maude Apatow, from being annoyed with her, for one: After Rue tries to explain her connection to the divine, Lexi snaps, \u201cNo wonder your mom doesn\u2019t talk to you anymore.\u201d)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis may account for why Rue is playing an increasingly complex game between the two rival cartels \u2014 now working to convince Laurie (Martha Kelly) that Alamo distrusts Rue because he knows Rue\u2019s true loyalty lies with Laurie. (In service of this mistruth, Rue attempts to beat herself up and leave bruises.) To reward Rue\u2019s professed desire to swap sides, the cartel threatens her with all manner of violence before slicing her palm open with a knife. Their methods are questionable, but they\u2019re right to be suspicious; Rue attempts her robbery, with Faye\u2019s help, in the middle of the night, before the state of the safe (surprise! No money inside, just a bunch of IDs) convinces Faye that Rue\u2019s been lying the whole time. Cue the scream \u2014 and peril for Rue as the season reaches its endgame.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/relocationobserver.com\/?p=614\">Drake Sets Album Charts Record as First Artist to Hold Top Three Positions With \u2018Iceman,\u2019 \u2018Habibti\u2019 and \u2018Maid of Honour\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everything that happens in &#8216;Rain or Shine,&#8217; Episode 7 of HBO&#8217;s &#8216;Euphoria.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[621,475],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tv","tag-euphoria","tag-zendaya"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>\u2018Euphoria\u2019 Episode 7: After a Shocking Death, Cassie Makes Moves and Rue Has a Spiritual Awakening - 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