The same could be said for the now-infamous diner scene in which Kat dumps Ethan, citing a (fake) terminal brain disorder. It's absurdist and shocking but not nearly enough. Ten points for the HBO metaverse for thrusting Jason Momoa as Game of Thrones warrior Dothraki into said fantasy-he gores Ethan to death and sweeps Kat off her feet. I fucking hate myself,” then fails to go deeper. There was a classically Kat fantasy sequence in which visions of bikini-clad models visit her in her bedroom, commanding her to 'Love yourself!' Euphoria scratches the surface in her reply: “But that’s what I’m trying to tell you.

She questions why she doesn't love the adoring, functional Ethan-but the depth of her internal struggle is barely explored.

Her Season 2 screentime was scarce and, at times, confounding. But just as Kat's story was getting good, it was sidelined. So was the scene that immediately followed in Season 1's Kat-centric Episode 3:Įuphoria's showrunner Sam Levinson introduced Kat's backstory-a tween who binges virgin piña coladas on vacation and is dumped by her first love over her weight gain-early on, priming her for a meaty, central role. (See also: commanding them to fulfill her Amazon wishlist.) In the cinematic canon of slow-mo high school makeover sequences, Rachel Leigh Cook in She's All That can step aside Kat sauntering down the hall in a leather harness over a baby tee, her red lips in a sly smile-all to the growls of DMX's 'X 'Gon Give It To Ya'-was a pure triumph. But Kat stood alone as a fat (the word Ferreira uses to describe herself) prolific fanfic author-turned-virtual dominatrix who taps into her power-sexual and otherwise-through shaming men's micropenises via webcam. I'd seen some version of the beautiful-yet-tormented cheerleader (Cassie) or the emotional terrorist quarterback (Jacob Elordi as Nate) before on television. Even in a fictional friend group that includes Rue ( Zendaya) and Jules ( Hunter Schafer), Ferreira/Kat arguably stole Season 1. I have questions chief among them: why?Īs someone who binged both seasons of Euphoria in recent weeks alone, I found Kat singularly captivating. It's a sad, sidekick moment for Kat, and the magnetic Ferreira, who oozes main-character energy and indeed was a main character on this very show-until this season. The last we glimpse of Kat (in a magnificent corset top), she is chasing Maddy ( Alexa Demie), feebly crying 'Maddy, no!' as her on-and-off best friend scales the East Highland auditorium steps, preparing to bitch-slap Sydney Sweeney's Cassie as the well-funded production of Our Life devolves into chaos. When Euphoria's second season ended on Sunday night, so did my hope that Kat, the complicated cam girl played by Barbie Ferreira, would finally get a scene worthy of her greatness.

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