Euphoria 2 Episode 4 Ending Explained: Does Rue Die At The End Of 4? Or Is It Just A Hallucination?

Euphoria 2 Episode 4 is a turning point for the series. Arriving at the halfway point of this new batch of episodes, we find a completely destroyed Rue, stuck to the bottom of a well from which she does not know how to get out. He just knows how to keep sinking deeper and deeper. Zendaya already warned us: “When we got to the middle [of the season] is when it hits rock bottom, and that’s where seeing it became extremely painful for all of us. And portraying her going through that really hurt me,” said the actress in an interview with RadioTimes. That time has come and yes, it hurt.

In the new episodes of ‘Euphoria’, we pick up Rue’s story after her relapse at the end of the first season, which has led her to take drugs again and in an even more irresponsible way. She doesn’t even get her relationship back with Jules (Hunter Schafer) motivated to leave him, and the bad influence of her new friend, fellow drug addict Eliot (Dominic Fike), doesn’t help her either. We see how Rue is reaching a point of no return, that in the fourth episode she reaches her peak. The protagonist enters her room completely drugged by her, and still takes a handful of more pills. Immediately, she opens a door to a hallucination that resembles the one from her relapse in season 1. Now we are in a church and a choir that sings led by Labrinth, singer and composer of the soundtrack of the series. We see Jules and Eliot sitting on one of the benches, and the general feeling is that this is a funeral Rue’s?

The protagonist walks down the aisle wrapped in music and, upon reaching the altar, hugs the singer. Suddenly that hug transports us to another, one between Rue and her deceased father, the origin of the trauma that devastates everything in her path within the young woman’s psyche. She cries and apologizes because she says she is not a good person. And her father reminds him that it is not true, that he is. Also that they will always be together, no matter what happens. This moment of deep pain shows us a Rue more vulnerable than ever, and that is why many fans wonder if this could be the end of her. Rue already expressed in one of the special episodes released between seasons, ‘ Euphoria: The scratches are not eternal (Part 1: Rue) ‘, that she had contemplated the idea of ​​suicide. And perhaps this is the moment when she has finally decided to carry it out. What we don’t know is if she has succeeded or not.

Euphoria 2 Episode 4 Ending Explained: Does Rue Died At End?

Pending official confirmation next week, we don’t believe Rue is dead. Of course, it doesn’t help that in the fifth episode promo there’s no trace of Rue and instead we see ambulances and a multitude of tragic reactions, including Rue’s sister. However, this could be because she has overdosed or tried to take her own life and has been taken to hospital. Perhaps a scare of this caliber is precisely what the character needs to wake up and start (again) her struggle to detoxify.

On the other hand, there is a final image of Rue in the episode that gives us hope: in it we see Rue hugging the air, that is, outside the fantasy she is living in her head hugging her father. At the very least, this tells us that she has not entered this hallucination because she is deceased, although she may well be on her way to it.

Ultimately, it’s not feasible to think that ‘Euphoria’ could continue without Rue. Although it is a series full of captivating characters and full of personal stories told in a mosaic way, the heart of the story is and always will be Rue. Without forgetting that she is also the main narrator of everything that happens. This tragic moment will mark a before and after in her life. It is the moment in which she must decide if she wants to live for all the good that she has or leave because she lacks someone she would like to have by her side. Perhaps one day we will even get to see that happy ending that he so deserves.