{"id":389323,"date":"2026-04-13T05:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389323\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T05:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T05:33:10","slug":"rue-is-a-drug-mule-cassie-does-onlyfans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/389323\/","title":{"rendered":"Rue Is a Drug Mule, Cassie Does OnlyFans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSPOILER ALERT:\u00a0The following story contains plot details from the Season 3 premiere of \u201cEuphoria<\/a>,\u201d now streaming on HBO Max.<\/p>\n

\n\tThough it\u2019s been four years since we last got a new episode of \u201cEuphoria,\u201d and five years have passed in the world of the HBO show, Season 3 begins somewhere familiar: with Rue (Zendaya) in a dangerous and chaotic position.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe premiere opens with Rue in Mexico as a group of men help push her car out of a ditch in a desert landscape. She thanks them in Spanish then drives off wildly, eventually using a makeshift ramp to drive up a wall at the border and leaving her car precariously teetering at the top of the wall when she can\u2019t find a way to safely steer it down onto Texas soil. On foot, she carries a duffel bag full of drugs until she stops to rest at the home of a conservative Christian family, who believe she\u2019s there to write a story about \u201cthe pure evil that\u2019s pouring across our border\u201d for her college newspaper. Eventually, Rue makes it back to California and brings the duffel bag to Laurie (Martha Kelly), who reprimands her for leaving the car behind and says she\u2019ll add it to her tab.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn voiceover, Rue explains that a few years after graduating high school, Laurie confronted her at the smoke shop where she worked and coerced her into becoming a drug mule; the $10,000 Rue owed Laurie for the drugs her mom (Nika King) flushed down the toilet in Season 2 had grown to $43 million with interest, Laurie claimed. So she moved into Laurie\u2019s home, bringing Faye (Chloe Cherry) with her, and the two entered the brutal business of obtaining illicit substances on Laurie\u2019s behalf dropping them off to her various shady clients. In one scene, Rue and Faye gag violently as they shove balloons full of drugs down their throats to keep them invisible to border patrol agents, then painfully defecate the balloons to retrieve them.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tMaude Apatow as Lexi<\/p>\n

\n\tNext, Rue is seen visiting Lexi (Maude Apatow) at her Los Angeles apartment. Lexi is now working in Hollywood as the assistant to a showrunner played by Sharon Stone. As she catches up with Rue, who lies about driving for Uber full-time, Lexi lectures her about needing to find a better career path. Rue in turn chides Lexi for not keeping in touch with Fezco (Angus Cloud), who is revealed to still be alive<\/a> but serving a 30-year prison sentence. (Cloud died in 2023 from a fentanyl overdose. Series creator Sam Levinson says his death inspired much of Season 3<\/a>, and the first episode ends with a tribute to Cloud as well as the late actor Eric Dane and executive producer Kevin Turen<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

\n\tFive years after high school, Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) is engaged to Nate (Jacob Elordi) and trying to become TikTok famous. She\u2019s first shown wearing a skimpy dog costume as she and Nate\u2019s housekeeper, Juana (Minerva Garcia), records until Nate comes home and angrily interrupts, disapproving of Cassie\u2019s side hustle. The couple argues about money, with Nate assuring Cassie that they\u2019re doing fine financially and that she doesn\u2019t need to turn to the internet for cash. But in the next scene, it\u2019s revealed that Nate is secretly struggling after taking over his father\u2019s (Dane) business. Cassie tells her friend Heather (Jessica Blair Herman) that she\u2019s considering starting an OnlyFans account. <\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tJacob Elordi as Nate<\/p>\n

\n\tBack at the apartment, Lexi says that Rue\u2019s ex, Jules (Hunter Schafer), has become a sugar baby. She heard it from Maddy (Alexa Demie), who also works in Hollywood now, at a talent management company.<\/p>\n

\n\tRue catches up with her sponsor, Ali (Colman Domingo), next. They discuss the third step of the 12-step addiction recovery process. \u201cHow am I supposed to give my life and will over to the care of God?\u201d she asks, saying that she\u2019s never been religious, though she reflects on how happy that family in Texas seemed to be. As they talk and joke about how the Bible talks about gay people, Ali tells her to look past all of that and decide whether or not she has faith. She decides that she does.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tColman Domingo as Ali, Zendaya as Rue<\/p>\n

\n\tRue drives to a house in the middle of nowhere owned to do a dropoff for Laurie. In the garage of the house, she gives a baggie to Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson), an employee of Laurie\u2019s client. As she enters the house to use the bathroom, Bishop warns her not to touch anything she isn\u2019t supposed to. Inside, she finds a party full of strippers who are drinking, dancing and swimming. In the bathroom, she helps a stripper named Tish (Emma Kotos) get dressed, then ends up joining the party. Bishop intervenes and takes her to talk to his boss, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who is in a hot tub wearing a cowboy hat and surrounded by multiple women.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cYou walk up into my house, dance with my girls and you don\u2019t even introduce yourself. That\u2019s mighty disrespectful, little lady,\u201d Alamo says. But Rue apologizes and the two get to know each other. She learns that Alamo is a strip club magnate, and tells him that working for him \u2014 \u201ctroubleshooting,\u201d not as a stripper \u2014 would be her dream job. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode cuts to Nate and Cassie as they eat dinner at home and get into another financial argument. Cassie has her heart set on a $50,000 floral package for their wedding that Nate has refused to pay for, but she says she can pay for itself if she starts an OnlyFans account. Nate is upset, but eventually agrees that she can start the account as long as she doesn\u2019t ever include her face and her breasts in the same photo.<\/p>\n

\n\tBack at Alamo\u2019s house, a woman screams as she discovers Tish foaming at the mouth and dead on the floor of a bedroom. It turns out that the drugs Rue brought from Laurie were laced with fentanyl. Alamo interrogates Rue, who swears that she didn\u2019t know. \u201cIf I did, why the fuck would I stay here?\u201d she says. \u201cYou tell me,\u201d Alamo responds. \u201cIt\u2019s gonna sound stupid now, but when were talking, I thought that maybe God brought us together. I don\u2019t wanna be working for Laurie. She\u2019s got me swallowing balloons the size of golf balls and packing my intestines and going across the border. It\u2019s fucking hell on earth, and it\u2019s over some shit I did in high school.\u201d She explains the debt she owes Laurie and says, \u201cWhen you started talking about how, in America, you can reinvent yourself, I thought, maybe this is God.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tAdewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Alamo<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tEddy Chen<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cSo you believe in God? Let\u2019s see if he believes in you,\u201d Alamo says. They go outside and put an apple on Rue\u2019s head while Alamo stands several yards away and points a gun at her. He shoots, and the bullet goes through the apple instead of killing Rue. She begins laughing and sobbing wildly, grateful to be alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPOILER ALERT:\u00a0The following story contains plot details from the Season 3 premiere of \u201cEuphoria,\u201d now streaming on HBO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,56442,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-389323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-euphoria","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}