Nadia Santiago
Nadia Santiago is a writer who lives between the clouds and the coastline, and writes about all the things your heart knows but your mouth can never quite say.
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The $1 Fentanyl Test Strips That Could Have Saved Rue Are Illegal to Carry in Several States Where People Are Dying From Laced Pills
The fentanyl test strip Ali pulls out the morning after Rue’s death isn’t a prop. It’s a real harm-reduction tool, sold for about a dollar a strip, that can detect fentanyl in a dissolved pill residue within seconds. That single scene does more public health work than most government campaigns. Rue didn’t buy pills off…
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Chloe Cherry Says Nobody at Euphoria Consulted Her About Sex Work for Season 3
Chloe Cherry plays Faye Valentine on Euphoria, recurring in Season 2 and promoted to main cast for Season 3. Before acting, she spent a few years in the adult industry under the name Chloe Couture, starting in 2015 after she turned 18. Sam Levinson cast her after seeing her social media presence. She was asked…
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Why Did Maddy Tell Alamo About The DEA?
A TikTok breakdown from @gentrificationkayak is the cleanest read of Maddy’s arc this season. “A lot of people are confused why Maddie told Alamo about Rue and the DEA,” she says. “That scene is there to illustrate that Maddie is out of her depth. It literally takes place in a hot tub.” Alamo Brown is…
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Will Rue Survive The Euphoria Season 3 Finale? One Fan Theory Says The Preview Just Gave Away The Answer.
TikTok creator @ItsNickHoliday laid out the theory. The facial scar across her nose is real: it’s a self-inflicted ploy to gain trust and access to Laurie’s ranch. The last episode ended with Faye calling out to Wayne, ready to throw Rue to wolves when the safe they schemed to rob turns out to be empty.…
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Is Rosalía’s Euphoria Character An Undercover Cop?
Rosalía, the Spanish pop superstar behind Motomami, made her acting debut on Euphoria Season 3, which premiered April 12. She plays Magick, a dancer at the Silver Slipper, the club run by Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). She’s a longtime fan of the show, and in one scene she even whistles one of her own songs.…
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Alexa Demie Hints the Euphoria Finale Isn’t Happy but Is “Close” as Fan Theories Demand a Thelma and Louise Exit
The theory took over Euphoria fan spaces after the May 24 episode “Rain or Shine,” when Maddy slapped Cassie, told her “I should have never let you back into my life,” then ended up holding her over Nate’s snake-bitten corpse. MadCassie shippers read the whole sequence (rage, grief, the refusal to actually let go of…
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Maddy Perez Has Been Sam Levinson’s Stand-In As Euphoria Season 3’s Resident Creative Director, But Stealing The Spotlight From Cassie Would Be The Ultimate Revenge
Cassie Howard stole Nate Jacobs from Maddy Perez when they were teenagers. Our reading of Season 3 predicts an ending where Maddy steals something Cassie can’t replace. The version of revenge worth watching for in the final episodes is stardom. Maddy can take everything Cassie has been chasing just by being the person the camera…
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Sam Levinson Wrote A Federal Drug Investigation In Real Time In This Week’s Euphoria. Here’s How The Real One Works.
Rue Bennett’s phone was recording when Laurie blackmailed Alamo Brown into running 80 kilograms of fentanyl across the U.S.-Mexico border in last Sunday’s Euphoria. Two DEA agents were listening live from a car. The recording is admissible federal evidence. The conversation Laurie just had is the first count the U.S. attorney will charge. The episode…
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5 Ways to Read Rue Bennett’s Emmy-Worthy Church Monologue In Euphoria S3E6
In Episode 6 of Euphoria Season 3, Rue Bennett sits in a pew and takes a call from her mother. She says she believes in God, then narrates her logic. If God exists, redemption exists. If redemption exists, salvation exists. And she needs salvation, because she can’t face the mistakes she’s made and just wants…
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Sam Levinson Put His Foreshadowing For Rue’s Death Inside Euphoria S3E6. Here’s the Receipt.
In Episode 6 of Euphoria Season 3, Rue Bennett walks into a church, reads the Ten Commandments, and takes a call from her mother. She tells Leslie she just wants to be forgiven. The scene plays as a peace beat after a season of escalating violence and addiction. The next scene cuts to Lexi Howard’s…
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Rue Proposed Marriage To Jules In This Week’s Euphoria Episode. Jules Slapped Her. It Was Their Opposite Defense Mechanisms Clashing.
Euphoria’s main timeline takes place in 2026, 5 years after the show’s original high-school cast graduated. The major characters are in their early 20s. The relationships from high school are mostly still in some version of motion. Rue Bennett is 22 in Season 3. She’s an opioid addict, a federal informant, and currently working as…
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Sam Levinson Wrote Two Different Women Using The Same Psychological Defense In This Week’s Euphoria. There’s 50 Years Of Research On It.
Rue Bennett spent half of last Sunday’s Euphoria in Jules’ apartment proposing marriage and kids. Faye spent the other half doing cocaine while her boyfriend tried to get her pregnant. Both women are in immediate, life-threatening danger. Neither of them acknowledged it once on screen. Euphoria’s main timeline takes place in 2026, 5 years after…
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Sam Levinson Didn’t Invent The Con Alamo’s Mother Runs In This Week’s Euphoria. The FBI Has A Name For It. Americans Kost $929 Million To It Last Year.
Euphoria’s main timeline takes place in Los Angeles in 2026, 5 years after the show’s original high-school cast graduated. Half of last Sunday’s episode left that timeline entirely and went back to the 1970s. The flashback followed young Alamo Brown and his mother through what looked like a perfect summer with a man named Preston,…
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Tatum O’Neal Won An Oscar At 10 Years Old For Playing The Same Scene Sam Levinson Wrote For Alamo’s Flashback In This Week’s Euphoria
Peter Bogdanovich directed Paper Moon in 1973. The con man at its center is Ryan O’Neal. The 9-year-old playing his daughter is his actual daughter, Tatum. Tatum won Best Supporting Actress at the 1974 ceremony for the role. She’s still the youngest person to win a competitive Academy Award. The film is set in Depression-era…
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ChatGPT Told a Grieving Doctor She Could Digitally Resurrect Her Brother, but the Conversation Ended in a Psychosis Diagnosis
Her first prompt got a refusal. By the end of the conversation, ChatGPT was telling her she could build a digital version of her brother that would talk to her in a “real-feeling” way. She was 26 at the time, a physician with no prior history of psychosis or mania. Her brother, a software engineer,…
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Sharon Stone had to become the best quick draw in America to make “The Quick and the Dead” because there were no women to double her.
“I had to become the best quick draw, and because there were no more female quick draws in America when we made the movie, I couldn’t have a stunt double.” Sharon Stone was 36, fresh off Basic Instinct, and using every bit of pull she had to get The Quick and the Dead made the…
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Chelsea and Kwame from Love Is Blind Season 4 shut down divorce rumors on April 29. On May 15 they confirmed them.
Chelsea Griffin and Kwame Appiah met in the pods on Love Is Blind Season 4, filmed in Seattle in early 2022 and aired on Netflix in April 2023. They both said yes at the altar at a cherry-blossom-themed wedding that Kwame’s mother declined to attend. They legally married in May 2022. The show edited Kwame…
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Zendaya plays Athena, goddess of weaving, in Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey. At home, she and Tom Holland crochet together.
Athena invented weaving. She taught it to mortal women. The loom is her symbol across every surviving Greek source, sitting alongside the spear and the owl as the three things that define her. Zendaya was cast as Athena in Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey, releasing July 17, 2026, opposite Matt Damon as Odysseus, Anne…