Nate is a stark contrast to Fez in that he comes from a seemingly wealthy background, but basically makes no moral decisions - to the point where he’s a one-dimensional villain. That was never more present than at the end of episode 1 of this season when he hit Nate over the head with a bottle and started punching him in the face. Without much of a choice, Fez became a drug dealer and did the best given his circumstances.Īs he navigates the world of drug dealing, Fez’s moral decisions become all the more complex. Fez is a middling player not on the level of El Chapo. But it should be pointed out that he’s not really the CEO of McDonald’s - he’s more like an employee working there. Lexi replied, “Yeah, but if I were God, I don’t know if I would let McDonald’s CEO into heaven.”įez didn’t have even a decent rebuttal to that. This is where Fez reverts the McDonald’s analogy back to drug dealing. Lexi asks Fez how someone like him can believe there is a man upstairs judging his every action and still be a drug dealer. Are Fez’s actions justified in Euphoria season 2?īut can you entirely not count that? The justification for his actions bubbles up as he’s discussing God with Lexi at the party. In season one, he was arguably one of the most moralistic characters in the show, if you don’t count the fact that he’s a drug dealer. He acts rationally and shows that he has a kind heart, like when he’s hanging out with Rue or talking with Lexi at the New Year’s Eve party. In both cases, the onus is on the individual (more on that later).įor someone in his situation, Fez has always been cool headed. In a way, that can act as an allegory for drugs. His grandma, who raised him, helped show him how to deal drugs in the first place, doing so by treating him less like a kid and more like a business associate.įez’s grandma even gave moral rationalization for the trade as a whole when she said people don’t blame fast food chains like McDonald’s for killing people. The start of season 2 gives a backstory to Euphoria’s favorite drug dealer, detailing his upbringing and showing how he learned to navigate his current landscape. In the show’s season 2 opener, he was finally the focus. We know what you're thinking: did the show's villain Nate really just get a redemption arc? Apparently so.Fez has always been a lovable fan favorite in HBO’s Euphoria. Nate then opened the door for a number of police officers, who put cuffs on Cal and took him away. Viewers saw Nate head to confront his father, who seemed to be living in his construction site with a bunch of sex workers.Īs he raged at him for everything he’d put him through, even telling him about the traumatic nightmares he’d been having, it quickly became clear that Nate had a gun in tow.īut in the end, Nate didn’t resort to violence, instead telling Cal that he had a USB in his possession containing proof of all of his father’s crimes – all of the videos Cal had recorded of his encounters with prostitutes and dates, some of whom were underaged, like 17-year-old Jules. Eric Dane as Cal Jacobs in Euphoria Eddy Chen/HBOĪfter spending his entire life trying to protect his father Cal (Eric Dane), Nate decided to hand him into the police for child pornography in Euphoria’s finale.
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