![]() Where Angus Cloud (Fez), Hunter Shafer (Jules), and Barbie Ferreira (Kat) were all either brand new or quasi-new to acting, she'd instead had the experience of acting in a couple comedy classics (her father, Judd, is a comedy legend she appeared in his movies Knocked Up, Funny People, and This is 40, all alongside her mother, actress Leslie Mann, as a child) as well as working with Euphoria creator Sam Levinson in his feature film Assassination Nation. It's worth considering, too, that Apatow came into the show one of its most seasoned stars. ![]() Maude Apatow, left, is seen with younger sister Iris, mother Leslie Mann, and Paul Rudd in Knocked Up (2007) Universal Lexi has served to this point as a 'good-girl' foil to Rue, so seeing her slowly but surely embrace the wild child spectrum has been a great bit of character development. "Fuck it," Lexi says, before taking a swig of Gatorade/Everclear concoction from the bottle. As the girls got ready to head to Winter Formal, Maddie hopped into the back seat with a Gatorade bottle filled with a certainly-not-Gatorade fluid. A week after playing sounding board to Zendaya's Rue during her big hard-boiled detective/Pepe Silvia rant scene, Lexi's biggest moments came simply sitting in a car, and sitting around a dinner table. Her appearances in the finale, titled "And Salt the Earth Behind You," were undoubtably brief. This moment played for some really great comedy, but the lightness of the scene didn't last long-instantly, as the rest of the episode did, it cut to another time Lexi joining Cassie, silently, solemnly, as she went to the clinic for an abortion. ![]() And it takes a talented performer, like Maude Apatow, who plays Lexi, to pull it off. But it's brief moments like the one described above that make side characters feel less like one-note sketches and more like fully-formed people. Now, obviously, every character in every show can't have their own subplot. ![]() It was brief scene, but one that nonetheless added a little to a character that has gone much of the show's first season existing in support of other characters, seemingly without a storyline or significant interest of her own. "Yeah.OK." *long pause* "I'm going to do that," Lexi said. "Then you go for whoever the fuck you want," Cassie again told her. "But what if they don't?" Lexi asked once again, leaned over and slurring her words as a teenager only drinking alcohol for one of the first few times would. "I don't know, they usually just come to you," Cassie told her. That moment was mid-school dance, when the timid Lexi (Maude Apatow), who had just taken several swigs of a Gatorade/Everclear concoction, asked her popular sister, Cassie, how she decides who to hook up with. But the best pure moment of the week might've actually- get this-come from the good girl. Sure, there was just as much wild stuff packed in the rest of the episode as the seven weeks preceding. Sure, Euphoria's first season finale ended with an insane dance/flashback/memory/rabbit hole sequence, scored with an original song from series star Zendaya and Labrinth, who composed much of the show's original music.
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