Euphoria Season 2 Episode 7 recap: Lexi puts on her play about the lives of her friends

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Lexi (Maude Apatow) steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight with the debut of her new play in the penultimate Season 2 episode of HBO's Euphoria.Lexi has been preparing her play for quite some time, though she's heard in the trailer for Sunday's episode saying she was nervous that people might be upset.Just brief glimpses of the cast members make it clear that the play is about the lives of her friend group, while Rue (Zendaya) continues her struggles with sobriety and her suicidal tendencies.

Lexi:Lexi (Maude Apatow) steps out of the shadows and into the spotlight with the debut of her new play in the penultimate Season 2 episode of HBO's EuphoriaThe episode begins with Lexi in her dressing room taking a few deep breaths before the play is about to go on.A girl comes in and says they're ready as she walks out to get the show started with an overture.We then see Lexi dressed in black at a funeral reception for Rue's father as she goes in looking for Rue, who is in her room doing drugs.Lexi asks how she's feeling and Rue just shrugs, as Lexi says she found a poem and she thought of her.Lexi says the poem is kind of sweet and she tells Rue, who says it's, 'not that bad.'Lexi reads a poem called Let This Darkness Be a Bell Tower by Rainer Maria Rilke, as she reads it to Rue, as we go back to the play where Lexi is reading it on stage.We see Rue in the crowd watching as Lexi takes pill bottles from Rue's hoodie on stage and walks out of her room.She says it happened in the summer when she turned 13 and she though they'd always be friends forever.The characters who all play Lexi's real friends as we cut back from the characters on stage to the real people in the audience, who are all seemingly stunned.They bring out.