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‘That’s the Scottish way – euphoria or catastrophe’

‘That’s the Scottish way – euphoria or catastrophe’

Published by Daniella Wilson

Rachel Corsie captained Scotland to their first win over England in 34 years in 2011, and led the team into their first ever World Cup finals in 2019. She retired last year with 155 international caps and will now be in Salford as a BBC analyst for coverage of Scotland’s first and last group games. Scotland’s opener against Haiti will be played at 2am BST, with the next day a bank holiday. Will the anticipation be off the scale? It will. This squad is culturally very connected to the incredible feeling in the nation – lots of great career journeys, bringing humbleness. The players enjoy relating to the fans, and in return the fans can do their part. You were eight when Scotland last qualified for the World Cup finals in 1998 – do you remember it at all? I do! Scotland played defending champions Brazil in the opening match. We had a kickabout in the park beforehand, then we all piled back to a mate’s for the game. I remember our penalty most of …

Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Zendaya and Scott Peeley’s Newfound Freedom

Published by Daniella Wilson

LOSER: 60 Minutes: Scott Pelley arguably deserved to be canned for that rant against his new 60 Minutes boss Nick Bilton. It doesn’t matter if your job is on Wall Street or at a Wendy’s. Try telling your manager at a staff meeting they have “slender qualifications” and “will never be welcomed here” and the person who hired them is “murdering” the company and see how well that goes for you. Reportedly earning $5 million per year, Pelley had f-you money and that’s essentially what he told the new boss. But also: 60 Minutes has become a total mess, and that’s squarely on Paramount chief David Ellison and CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss. Leaks, drama, quitting, firings, pulling a topical segment about the Trump administration at the last minute, allegations of pressure to insert factual errors or political bias, and, now, bringing on print veteran and documentarian Bilton — a fine journalist, but somebody Ellison and Weiss had to know would spark more internal uproar as he lacks TV experience. 60 Minutes isn’t …

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Breaks Down That Shocking Ending

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Breaks Down That Shocking Ending

Published by Jenni Sidey

This story contains major spoilers for the series finale of Euphoria. In the grand legacy of great HBO villains, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje was there for the big boom. The British actor terrorized inmates and audiences alike as Adebisi, the unpredictable and ruthless convict on Oz, one of the Home Box Office’s first forays into scripted, rule-breaking television. So it feels appropriately full circle to see him two decades later again as a coldly calculating antagonist on Euphoria, one of the network’s contemporary hits—and another first, their maiden “teen” series. As Alamo Brown, a drug-dealing pimp fashioned in the mold of a classic Black American cowboy, Adewale—with all due respect to dearly departed shitheel Nate Jacobs—gave the series its first taste of true villainy, and helped cement the real life-and-death stakes of the show’s post-high-school era. Those stakes reached their extreme peak in the series finale, when lovable fuck-up Rue (Zendaya) met her end at Alamo’s hands after a season spent navigating his agendas versus a rival dealer with the DEA in the middle. With the exception …

Sydney Sweeney shares three-word message to critics after controversial Euphoria storyline

Sydney Sweeney shares three-word message to critics after controversial Euphoria storyline

Published by Daniella Wilson

Get the latest entertainment news, reviews and star-studded interviews with our Independent Culture email Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Sydney Sweeney marked the end of Euphoria’s third and final season Sunday with a carousel of behind-the-scenes images and a pointed, three-word caption Sweeney has played Cassie Jacobs (née Howard) in Sam Levinson’s star-making HBO drama since 2019. The third season saw her character marry her best friend’s abusive ex-boyfriend, Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi), while on the quest to become viral as an adult content creator on OnlyFans. Her latest character arc has drawn criticism from viewers and OnlyFans creators alike for its depiction of sex work and what fans have described as “humiliation” storylines. In her Instagram post shared Sunday, Sweeney, 28, shared photos of her in some of Cassie’s various, racy costumes from this season. Sydney Sweeney’s turn as an OnlyFans creator in ‘Euphoria’ has drawn criticism from real sex workers (HBO) In her caption, she wrote simply: “It’s …

Euphoria May Be Over, But Chloe Cherry Isn’t Saying Goodbye to Faye

Euphoria May Be Over, But Chloe Cherry Isn’t Saying Goodbye to Faye

Published by Daniella Wilson

[This story contains spoilers for the Euphoria series finale, titled “In God We Trust.”] Chloe Cherry has gone on quite a ride with Euphoria. The Pennsylvania native made her TV acting debut on the HBO hit as Faye, the adrift addict who bonds with Fezco (the late Angus Cloud) and later Rue (Zendaya), after previously establishing herself in adult films, with creator Sam Levinson casting her directly. She came in unsure how she’d fare among the cast’s heavy hitters, but eager to learn; years later, with the show officially concluded, she tells The Hollywood Reporter the experience completely changed her life. The series finale picked up right where the previous episode left off, with Faye screaming and thereby outing Rue’s delicate exit plan, and then escaping herself alongside her boyfriend-dealer Wayne (Toby Wallace). In an episode filled with tragic endings for various characters, including Rue herself, Faye sees some kind of hope on the horizon. THR talked about that and much more with Cherry.  What surprised you the most about the finale? I was really …

‘Euphoria’ Looked for Epiphanies and Found Nonsense

‘Euphoria’ Looked for Epiphanies and Found Nonsense

Published by Sam Flores

The following contains spoilers through the series finale of HBO’s Euphoria. Euphoria’s troubled protagonist, Rue (played by Zendaya), spends much of the drama’s final season dodging one potentially violent death after another. As a drug mule turned strip-club employee turned arms dealer turned informant, she barely survives being buried up to her neck, getting dragged by a horse down a dirt path, and becoming target practice in multiple shoot-outs. Yet when she does die, midway through the series finale, which aired last night, the scene unfolds quietly: Rue, recovering from a long day of double-crossing her employers and suffering a wound on her palm, overdoses on the fentanyl with which her painkillers have secretly been laced. The sequence stands out for its contemplative beauty. Rue, asleep, dreams of walking through her childhood home and seeing her mother, reaching for her before being embraced in return. Reality and fantasy blur. She smiles even as she gasps for air, then drifts off into endless slumber. If only Euphoria had maintained that restraint across the rest of its …

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Darrell Britt-Gibson on Bishop’s Decision and That “Cathartic” Shootout

‘Euphoria’ Finale: Darrell Britt-Gibson on Bishop’s Decision and That “Cathartic” Shootout

Published by Jenni Sidey

Throughout the third season of HBO’s Euphoria, Rue (Zendaya) has escaped death’s grasp like the protagonist of a Final Destination movie, surviving a series of chaotic, near-fatal encounters by pure cunning, good luck, or divine intervention. But in the 93-minute series finale, “In God We Trust,” Rue’s Houdini act succumbs to her greatest temptation: she ingests a fentanyl-laced Percocet, given to her by strip-club owner and drug kingpin Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) in a sinister act of revenge for her working with the DEA. Instead of reuniting and reconciling with her family and friends, Rue dies facedown on a couch, another statistic of an unrelenting addiction. But like any great Western, creator Sam Levinson’s Euphoria ends with catharsis in the form of retribution. In the finale’s penultimate sequence, he stages an old-fashioned showdown inside Alamo’s grimy kingdom, The Silver Slipper, transforming the nightclub into the setting for one last reckoning—not with rival Laurie, but with Rue’s surrogate father and avenging angel, Ali (Colman Domingo). He enters in full military garb, armed with a sawed-off shotgun, …

How Sam Levinson Said Goodbye to ‘Euphoria’

How Sam Levinson Said Goodbye to ‘Euphoria’

Published by Sam Flores

At this point it seems like Rue might get her happy ending. But that isn’t meant to be. We soon learn that this entire sequence has been a dream. After falling asleep on Ali’s couch, Rue never wakes up, dying of a drug overdose from Alamo Brown’s fentanyl-laced Percocet. (Why would Alamo kill Rue? In the episode before this one, Maddy accidentally tipped him off to the fact that Rue was working with the DEA.) While Levinson introduced the episode as the season three finale, rather than the series finale, it seemed clear by the end that this was the end of Euphoria. Two of the show’s major characters, Zendaya’s Rue and Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs, had been killed off—Nate in the show’s penultimate episode, after getting bitten by a venomous snake while buried alive in a coffin. This finale wrapped up plots for some cast members while leaving others more open-ended. After the DEA arrives at Laurie’s drug den, Laurie dies by suicide, choosing to jump off her roof rather than go to prison. …

Will there be a ‘Euphoria’ Season 4?

Will there be a ‘Euphoria’ Season 4?

Published by skeptic

Euphoria Season 3 came to a fittingly dramatic close on Sunday, but did we just watch the end of the season, or the end of the show itself? Given the massive time jump between Seasons 2 and 3, you could be forgiven for thinking that more seasons of writer, director, and creator Sam Levinson’s show wouldn’t be out of the question in future. But when asked, the man himself seems pretty definitive with his answer. SEE ALSO: ‘Euphoria’ actor has surprisingly funny reaction to being almost completely cut from the show Will there be a Euphoria Season 4? Levinson appeared on the New York Times’ Popcast podcast shortly after the release of the Euphoria finale, and was asked directly whether there would be more episodes. “In terms of the story that we set out to tell, which is a story about addiction and its consequences, this feels like the end to me,” Levinson told NYT reporter Joe Coscarelli and critic Jon Caramanica. “It was such a fulfilling journey in terms of this cast, the crew, …

Euphoria Will Not Return For Season 4, Its Creator Has Finally Confirmed

Euphoria Will Not Return For Season 4, Its Creator Has Finally Confirmed

Published by Sam Flores

Zendaya in character as Rue in what we now know to be the final season of Euphoria The season finale of Euphoria has now premiered, and with it, its creator has announced that the show will not be returning to our screens. Speculation has been rampant since even before season three had even started airing that the latest run of episodes would be the show’s last. Finally, on Sunday evening, it was confirmed that the award-winning drama has reached its end. After the episode aired, executive producer Sam Levinson said on the New York Times podcast Popcast: “In terms of the story that we set out to tell, which is a story about addiction and its consequences, this feels like the end to me.” In the run-up to season three’s release, series lead Zendaya indicated that she didn’t see a future for Euphoria past the episodes that had already been shot. “I think so, yeah,” she told Drew Barrymore when asked if she thought Euphoria would end with season three. “I think so. Yeah. Closure …