Zendaya and Rue’s desperate fight against craving and towards recovery Storm Reid and Nina King and Gia and Leslie Bennett’s coping with their sister/daughter’s addiction Dominic Fike and Elliott’s responsibilities when he realizes he’s the reason behind a relapse and the odd man out upsetting an already unstable couple Jacob Elordi and Nate’s physical and psychological violence, the one suffered and the one exercised with the most ambiguous intentions Hunter Schafer and her much less experimental, but much more grounded Jules, with her love for truth and people Maude Apatow and her stronger-than-ever Lexi, the wisest, the most authentic character, the only one with the courage of the truth Barbie Ferreira and that fight against toxic positivity that should be promoted in the name of a more pacific co-existence with ourselves Angus Cloud and his Fezco, who slurs his speech as much as his feelings, struggling to bring them out to the light, but with surprising consequences Alexa Demie and Maddy’s first time coping with hurt pride and showing a maniacally revengeful side. In season two, Cassie turns into a blend of those two states of being, more or less at the very moment when she realizes that her devotion for Maddy is not the staple of her life anymore because there’s something else – someone else – for whom she finds out she would give all herself, for whose approval she gives up her mental and physical health, for whose love she’d give away her own life. But between despair and breakdown, the line can get fuzzy, though it’s when the two feelings cross and merge that the possibilities of a happy ending are nullified. Cassie hangs off Maddy’s words, to please and imitate her she’s become who she is and does what she does, hers, towards her friend, is an almost unhealthy admiration, and the only thought of losing her drives her to despair. Her story is not the usual tale of a betrayed friendship because of a boy, of helplessness before infatuation her story is a tale of desire, of the need to be liked at any price. It’s precisely Cassie the one character whom it would be worth spending a few words on. Some friendships end, others begin, and new truths come to surface, between broken promises, double lives, sexual insecurities and, shielded by a thick glass that somehow always keeps her one step away from the other characters, one protagonist above all with one battle above all: Rue Bennett against drug addiction. So, here they come, Nate, his father Cal, Elliot, Fezco, and Ali to interfere with their lives and participate with more or less destabilizing contributions. But we know how these things go, how the actions of unrolling and disbanding can cause an order, somewhere, to self-destruct, especially if with those threads one wants to create something big, bigger than before and for which the original pairings suddenly feel overstated. Rue, Lexi, Cassie, Maddy, Kat, Jules. We met them at the beginning of season one as a solid group of girlfriends, a battalion of women aligned against the world, a tangle of threads of different colors and textures, carefully matched one to another and woven in a nucleus that seemed indestructible.
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