Euphoria Recap Episode 5: Bonnie and Clyde

And it continues, this one’s called “Bonnie and Clyde” hehehe. Every title is literally perfect for the episode. This one took me on a car crash of a disaster. Last episode carnival rides, this episode vehicular destruction. Trigger warning again as this show hits on some issues that can really bring up some personal trauma. RECKLESS DRIVING This week Maddy gets the spotlight, not the G.O.A.T. Jules riding bike shot but the highlight from childhood to high school. We see Maddy as a kid, probably 11 years old, dancing to Madonna’s lucky star, and Maddy is a Pageant girl. Not surprising, and she loves the attention, she gets 10s across the board. Unfortunately, the pageant organizer in the area was a pedophile, Maddy was never assaulted but the pageant circuit was done for her after that, her mother saw to it. Not a bad idea to be honest. Bad thing is, Maddy was never nurtured in something else, and she never developed a drive or passion for anything else. She would watch the people who came into her mom’s nail salon just doing nothing. At home, her dad is a drunk and him and her mom hardly spoke. She decided those people getting their nails done did nothing, she liked doing nothing so… seems like a good fit. It’s kind of depressing. It reminds me of a story my friend told me once a long time ago. She used to talk to the kids in her building and there was this one girl she would see around the building all the time and one day she asked her, “What to you wanna do?” you know in …