EUPHORIA SEASON 3 EPISODE 5 – “This Little Piggy”

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This is a recap, so spoilers ahead!

Into the fifth episode

In the fifth episode, we start with Cassie, who has fit 50k followers and is doing whatever she can to make some money. Selling her underwear, whispering the client’s names into a mic, even getting her feet involved. It’s whatever the customer wants. You can clearly see that this is all weighing on her and with Maddy acting as her pimp of sorts, she’s nowhere near stopping. Especially with Nate at home encouraging his wife to do all these outlandish things for money.

Once the audience sees just how much Cassie is doing to remain on top, we’re then shown a bazaar “Cassiezilla” skit that leaves you scratching your head. But hey, if you were ever interested to see what Cassie’s breasts look like up close, then this is for you, I suppose.

Cassie finds out that Maddy isn’t an official manager, and more of an assistant to the manager, and she’s starting to think that she needs to cut her loose. When she finds this out, she’s offered to join Brandon’s TikTok team. So now, she has even more incentive to break ties with Maddy.

Rue

Rue feels like she is being looked at sideways by everyone on Alamo’s team. This is a huge problem since Rue is now playing a double agent for the feds. Maybe it’s Rue’s imagination, but the vibes certainly have changed ever since the robbery. Alamo is planning to get his revenge on Laurie. This seems like it’ll be a never-ending cycle between the two kingpins until one of them dies.

In this episode, we get to see how truly unhinged Alamo is, and unfortunately, so does Rue.

Cassie tries to move on

Cassie requests a meeting with Maddy to discuss her huge opportunity with the biggest TikTok house of all L.A., and the awkwardness in the air is obvious. Cassie doesn’t want to hurt Maddy’s feelings by dumping her, but Maddy has a few tricks up her sleeves to make sure that doesn’t happen. That includes a fake phone call canceling an audition for Cassie, which Cassie falls for quickly. Making Cassie sign a contract, with photo proof of her signing it, Maddy now has Cassie exactly where she wants her.

The funny thing is that Maddy never actually had an audition for Cassie planned, so she had to pull a few strings and get Lexie involved.

When the audition does happen, Cassie portrays a scene from Antony and Cleopatra. While the team goes over Cassie’s audition tape, Lexie walks in and finds out that Cassie said Lexie recommended her for the part, which is a problem because Lexie absolutely did not.

Rue and Jules

It’s been some time since we saw Rue and Jules just hanging out, but this turns into something a lot more. Asking Rue about her past relationships, Jules definitely makes the hang out a lot more awkward than it should be. Constantly asking “do you want to kiss me”, Jules clearly has ulterior motives, not that Rue takes any issue with it. This leads to an off-screen sex escapade between the two, and all in the comfort of Jules’ sugar daddy’s home. Speaking of the sugar daddy, Ellis, he finds Rue’s clothes and accuses Jules of having guys over at his apartment. Ellis isn’t pleased in the slightest, and tells Jules that he cares more about his family than anything else, so he can’t come home with an STD.

Again with the toe

Nate gets a notification that Cassie has wired him the money he needs, but that doesn’t change the fact that he missed a payment with Naz. While Nate is celebrating the wire transfer, he doesn’t see the hitman walk up behind him into his house. Knowing exactly what’s about to happen, he runs. But as every TV character does, he runs upstairs for some reason, where there’s nowhere to go. Getting the breaks beat off of him, Nate is on the floor when the man goes for his reattached toe. Pretty sure there’s no fixing it once it’s removed for a second time. But to add a little razzle dazzle to this beating, the man goes for his finger too. So basically, as the season progresses, Nate loses a body part. In the last episode, we saw his crash out in front of the council, but this is definitely much worse.

Alamo is on to Rue

Alamo isn’t pleased about the robbing that happened in the last episode that got someone shot, but what he didn’t know is that it all started with Rue being accused of being a rat. Rue completely forgot that she framed Magick for being a drug user by putting drugs in her locker, and Magick found it. Bringing it to Alamo’s attention, she says that Rue is framing her, which gets the gears turning in Alamo’s head. Alamo knows that Rue once worked with the robbers, as they were Lauries crew. But Rue also said that she didn’t recognize the voices, which makes it look like she was protecting her. So, Alamo takes matters in his own hands.

Maddy’s new business partner

Maddy and Rue are hanging out at a local diner when Alamo makes an appearance. He interrupts the women and takes a seat. Getting to know Maddy even better, who isn’t intimidated by him in the least, he answers a phone call. The person on the phone, which is Bishop, asks about Rue tnd then the conversation is over. Rue knows something isn’t right, and she’s proved correct when Alamo says that Bishop is outside and he will give her a ride, leaving Maddy and Alamo together. Rue asks where they’re going, and the men say “to another place”. Rue, didn’t anyone teach you about going to a secondary location? Don’t ever do it.

Rue is driven to the desert, where she has to dig a hole big enough for her to stand in. Clearly, things are about to get insane for Rue.

Alamo and Maddy get to talking, and Maddy tells him her business plan. Catching his interest, Alamo says he has a few girls she can work with. Taking her to the strip club, she makes her picks, which includes Kitty and Magick. I’m really interested to see where this goes, because we’re led to believe that Kitty was trafficked into this job, and Maddy is about to get to know Kitty really well.

Back to Rue, the team has her stand in the hole, and she’s making jokes to ease the tension, but she knows she very well could die. Her waiting comes to an end as she sees Alamo riding up to her with a golf club in his hand, assuming he’s going to use her head as the golf ball. That’s where the episode ends, and the audience is left assuming the worst. Is this the end of Rue? Does Alamo and his crew know that she’s working with the feds? I guess we will find out in the next episode.

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This review was written by Megan from the Vigilante Vibes Podcast! If you liked my review, be sure to check out my other reviews! Find me on my socials, and check out my Marvel podcast, Vigilante Vibes, by clicking here!