{"id":662182,"date":"2026-05-11T12:13:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662182\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:13:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:13:10","slug":"did-rue-just-die-a-horrible-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/662182\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Rue Just Die a Horrible Death?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for \u201cThis Little Piggy,\u201d Season 3 Episode 5 of \u201cEuphoria<\/a>,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

\n\tThus far, the third season of HBO\u2019s \u201cEuphoria<\/a>\u201d more closely resembles \u201cTraffic\u201d spliced with a telenovela than Sam Levinson\u2019s original creation.<\/p>\n

\n\tGone are the Labrinth needle-drops<\/a> and kinetic camerawork \u2014 whip-pans and dolly zooms have given way to wide shots on 65mm, as its cast of hot young actors delve deeper into a vast wasteland where hope does not spring eternal.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen we last left the most depressing ex-high school clique ever<\/a>, Rue (Zendaya<\/a>) got caught with a whole mess of drugs and turned DEA informant; Kitty (Anna Van Patten), a new stripper at the Silver Slipper, gets a train run on her by a group of repulsive middle-aged frat boys; \u201cthe fairy tale is over\u201d between Cassie (Sydney Sweeney<\/a>) and Nate (Jacob Elordi<\/a>), as the former leaves the latter due to his $1 million debt; Lexi (Maude Apatow) gets Jules (Hunter Schafer) a job painting art for her popular soap \u201cLA Nights,\u201d only to land in hot water after Jules unveils a painting featuring a scene of nude trans folks; at the urging of Maddy (Alexa Demie), Cassie seduces an influencer at a house party in an attempt to go viral and drive traffic to her OnlyFans<\/a>; and Big Eddy (Kadeem Hardison) gets shot in the stomach and has the contents of his safe stolen at the Silver Slipper by masked gunmen in Obama masks who appear to be driven there by none other than Faye (Chloe Cherry), with the group carrying out the hit in retaliation for the poisoning of Laurie\u2019s beloved pet parrot, Paladin.<\/p>\n

\n\tDeep breath.<\/p>\n

\n\tHere\u2019s what went down this week\u2026<\/p>\n

\t\tAttack of the 50-Foot Cassie!\t<\/p>\n

\n\tCassie\u2019s viral stunt with mega-influencer Brandon Fontaine (Jeff Wahlberg, nephew of Mark and Donnie) worked, and she hits 50,000 OnlyFans subscribers. Now, Maddy has her engaging in a smorgasbord of fetish content for her dedicated clientele, from ASMR dirty talk to selling her panties to masturbation with comically large dildos, and going on a number of podcasts preaching the sex positivity of OnlyFans work<\/a> (with a Trisha Paytas cameo!). We\u2019re treated to a surreal sequence wherein Cassie transforms into the 50-Foot Woman, stomping all over Downtown Los Angeles like a monster movie, which all seems like a pretext for a scene where Sweeney\u2019s giant boobs burst through the windows of a building.<\/p>\n

\t\tNate the Cuckold\t<\/p>\n

\n\tNate is so deep in debt that he sweet-talks Cassie, who still has feelings for him, into wiring him $35,000 to make the mortgage payment on their house \u2014 and then another $30,000. He also encourages Cassie, who he calls his \u201clast hope,\u201d to move in with the thirsty Fontaine and film NSFW content with him<\/a> so she can \u201cbring home the bacon.\u201d Nate is such a fuck-up, however, that he doesn\u2019t pay off any of his debts with the money, leading to him getting his pinky torn off (again) as well as a finger by a thug.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\t\tMaddy Pulls a Fast One\t<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Cassie discovers that Maddy is not a talent manager in a doorman apartment building but a low-level Hollywood assistant in a basement apartment, she threatens to cut professional ties with her supposed \u201cbest friend\u201d and moves into a TikTok house \u2014 that is, until Maddy dangles an audition with \u201cLA Nights\u201d and its star Dylan Reid (Homer Gere), convincing Cassie to sign a managerial contract with Maddy. There is no audition, but Maddy strong-arms Lexi into getting her on the audition list, leading to a brilliantly acted (if wildly out of character) audition sequence where Sweeney\u2019s Cassie performs a monologue from Shakespeare\u2019s \u201cAntony and Cleopatra.\u201d She knocks it out of the park and lands the part. <\/p>\n

\t\tRue and Jules\u2019 Flirtation\t<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of the many things \u201cEuphoria\u201d has lost sight of is its bedrock romance between Rue and Jules. Here, we see Rue and Jules flirt in the sugar daddy\u2019s apartment while eating Chinese food: \u201cYou want me? Make me yours,\u201d Jules implores. The scene then cuts to Jules having loud sex with\u2026 the sugar daddy. Guess we\u2019ll have to wait a few more episodes for these two to get on the same page. Then, the sugar daddy discovers Rue\u2019s flannel shirt in his apartment and is none too pleased with his sugar baby, thinking she\u2019s been shtupping other men in their pad and worrying about contracting an STD: \u201cI like you\u2026 but I love my family. And I will not put them at risk,\u201d he tells her.<\/p>\n

\t\tRue Is in Deep Doo-Doo\t<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s a miracle that Rue is still alive at this point. But alas, I digress. After Rue tries to frame Magick (Rosal\u00eda) by sticking a couple coke baggies in her locker, Magick gets her revenge by convincing the big boss, Alamo (Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje), that Rue is a snitch who should\u2019ve recognized the voices of the robbers, since they\u2019re Laurie\u2019s henchmen. So, while Rue and Maddy are confabbing over milkshakes in a diner, Alamo sends Rue off for a drive with his two toughs, G (Marshawn Lynch) and the icy Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson). While that\u2019s happening, Alamo finds himself impressed by Maddy\u2019s OnlyFans racket<\/a> and the two get into business together, positioning Magick and Kitty as the next OF stars. Back to Rue: Alamo\u2019s guys make her dig a ditch out in the middle of nowhere and then bury her up to her neck in dirt. Alamo reenters the scene, galloping toward her on horseback while swinging a mace and just before he connects with her head\u2026 the scene cuts to black. Rue is conveniently absent from \u201cscenes from the next,\u201d so did she finally meet her fate?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for \u201cThis Little Piggy,\u201d Season 3 Episode 5 of \u201cEuphoria,\u201d now streaming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,13461,23483,8917,39778],"class_list":["post-662182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-euphoria","tag-jacob-elordi","tag-sydney-sweeney","tag-zendaya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}