Spoilers follow for “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name,” the season-two finale of Euphoria.
Amid all the chaos of the Euphoria universe in season two — the heroin, the sexualized fever dreams, the difficulty in getting body glitter out of one’s laundry — the finale episode “All My Life, My Heart Has Yearned for a Thing I Cannot Name” actually wrapped up a fair amount of arcs and loose ends. Rue quits doing drugs as easily as Miranda kicked alcoholism in And Just Like That…, telling us through her customary voiceover narration that she stayed clean through the end of the school year. Cassie and Maddy reach a kind of detente after fighting over Nate, and even hint at a John Tucker Must Die team-up with Maddy’s “This is just the beginning” line….
