Dear Euphoria, You Didn’t Need to Ruin Lexi
From normal to ‘not-like-other-girls’ kind of girl
Euphoria, the most tweeted-about TV show of our generation is not for the clutching-my-pearls kind of audience. In a show that is constructed through dreamy, purple-tinted lenses that both romanticize and debases the life choices of highschooler dealing with trauma, drug abuse and love, there is little space for normality. And that little space is owned by Lexi Howard.
From the very beginning the show took the trope of ‘good girl’ and perfected it. Even with little screentime in season 1, Lexi is well-rounded, one of the most relatable characters of the show. She fully commits to a Bob Ross costume for Halloween because she can. She tries to not make faces when her sister talks and she is there for Rue, even when Rue is not there for herself. Maybe people like her because she reminds us of ourselves and the traumatizing experience of feeling alienated in highschool. Maybe she is just a fresh air among the craziness happening in the show. Whatever she represents for each one of us, she has won our heart, and so easily so.
In the finale of season 1, when Lexi said “I am gonna do that” to doing whoever she wants, there was a promise made to us. There was the promise of a change going to happen. That she would not be a mere second character. That she would stop being just…
