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Euphoria: Analyzing Cassie's Real Problem... | Compilation

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Euphoria's Cassie Howard, played by Sydney Sweeney, has a lot going on, and no matter what she does her life never seems to go the way she wants it to. Underneath her hot girl shell are a few key issues that bubble up over and over and cause her to keep making bad decisions, and we're unpacking them in this compilation video. First we'll look at how the pressure (and creepiness) she's faced due to her looks from an early age negatively impacted her sense of self. Then we'll decode what all of her looks and outfits across Euphoria's second season were really meant to convey. After that, we take a look at the "daddy issues" trope and why girls like Cassie get blamed for problems that stem from their parent's emotional neglect. And finally we're digging into why some people like Cassie feel like love is a prize that they need to win at all costs, even when it makes them miserable.

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CHAPTERS
00:00 Why girls like Cassie get shamed
18:50 What Cassie's season 2 looks really symbolize
27:41 The truth about "daddy issues"
40:48 Why people like Cassie see love as a "prize" they have to win

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20 Comments

@thetake Creator 1 year ago Pinned

Thanks for watching! Where would you like to see Cassie's story go in the third season of Euphoria?

Up next, take a look at our recent video on the perils of public infidelity on screen & in real life, from Carrie Bradshaw to the Coldplay Couple (& why some people are willing to take the risk...): https://youtu.be/sJRF7oOr43I
Or, for another long watch, check out our compilation of our takes on SATC's Samantha Jones: https://youtu.be/XPMtkh2poOQ

@antadiao6178 1 year ago

Finally for me Cassie needed as much help and assistance as Rue cuz her behaviors were super self destructive

@Lifaye 1 year ago

We can admit that someone has had a tragic life while also admitting that they're not a good person

@VainJade_1990 11 months ago

I always really had a soft spot for Cassie because I’ve been Cassie. When I was a teenager I did a lot of promiscuous things hoping for a love that would stay forever but it never did. Every situation you hope for different and you do what you think they’ll like so they’ll choose you. You don’t realize until your frontal lobe is fully developed that you’ve been giving yourself away for nothing. Receiving nothing you can keep in return.

@longlivebeans 1 year ago

regardless of how people feel about her, cassie was a necessary character. we’ve all either known one, loved one or been a one. i’m kinda getting sick of all the moral policing lately lol nobody is going to watch a show about upstanding citizens who always doing the right thing & avoid messiness at all costs. that’s not entertaining.

@thegrimmlooper 8 months ago

It’s sad when you change to become what someone else wants, thinking they will love you more. They don’t. It just washes away who you were before them.

@malandune 1 year ago

I feel like what most people forget when they smash Cassie is that she is fundamentally still a child. I feel like the characters' ages get completely lost in the show, since the actors are all in their twenties and none of their actions have any consequences in season two. but I always related deeply to Cassie because when I was her age, maybe a bit younger, my entire self-worth and sense of happiness was related to guys and the way they treated and perceived me. I too got up way earlier to straighten my hair and make myself look perfect for school in the hopes of being noticed by the boys I admired so. Yes, pick me behaviour in adults is super cringe because they should know better but in teenagers it's simply tragic

@zsuzsiczel8158 1 year ago

i am a cassie defender and i think she just needs a therapist
nate was the real problem here

@TheBayouBabe 1 year ago

I think alot of people focus on the Cassie and Nate situation but forget that Cassie had an abortion. She had already been through a lot, but to me, that's what pushed her over the edge. Nate was just the perfect storm. Don't get me wrong, I'm not excusing her behavior. I'm only pointing out that trauma can (especially that of a teenage girl) have serious consequences on the way they see themselves and others.

@Karmacore23 1 year ago

She’s an awful person but her behaviour is clearly explained and well written, lexi’s play on the other hand was astoundingly cruel and horrific beyond reason

@BlitzBrown11 1 year ago

I empathize with Cassie. Her sense of autonomy was developed around her looks and being a good girl. She’s trapped between growing up and holding on to the sexualized little girl pedestal. Hopefully she branches out and find a new sense of self. Things like that need time to be reshaped in the brain

@JustHereForCats 1 year ago

I don’t hate Cassie, at all. She vexes me. I just want to sit her down and have a long talk with her. Just let her vent, and tell her all the things I’ve learned about self love since I was an adolescent girl. (In my thirties, for context)
My empathy for her gives me volatile feelings. She upsets me so much because I’m rooting for her

@Pancak3sarec00l 1 year ago

Here’s my take, I am currently 16 turning 17 soon. I have been to rehab 2 times and it all spanned about 4 months, I was never addicted to the typical heavy drugs, but I most definitely have an addictive personality type. I think some people might misunderstand that addiction isn’t just one thing and it’s not something that you just do because you’re a bad person. From my personal experience I used drugs to cover up unhealed pain and trauma, not to inherently rebel, so with Cassie I think she might be using S&% to cover up the fact that she doesn’t know her own self worth, which is something we need to figure out as human beings. When I used drugs, it was to “feel” something because I couldn’t find that out of life, with Cassie I suppose she might be doing it because she bases her self worth on what others think about her and not of any view she has on herself. Sorry if this comment is confusing, I’m still trying to analyze my own life and I’m also on the spectrum, love to all ❤! :D

@trinaq 1 year ago

Yes, I'll totally drop everything for this hour long video. I hope that you'll do an analysis comparison of Cassie and Lexi, and dealing with growing up in the same traumatic household.

@bethmoore3379 5 months ago (edited)

What's crazy is if she had half a brain she could have gotten revenge on every single dude that forced her into be recorded. Under 18 that's child pornography. So she should have gone to the police with her mother and start pressing charges on every boy who forced her into being recorded. Coerced and groomed into being filmed by these older men, thus getting put on the "Slut Pages" I wonder, how many of those girls, were underaged? Still kids. That would have opened a can of worms and ruined a lot of lives. That's what the season 3 story line for Cassie should be.

@SuperLadyDanger 1 year ago

39:43 Tiana ISN’T “fatherless” in the same way! Her loving & present father with whom she shared her restaurant ownership dream died thereby unwillingly leaving her!

@goldendiamon 1 year ago

She is a ppl-pleaser resulting in her daddy issues which explains she easily got tempted by Nate to be his partner even if it means cheating on Maddy cuz she's afraid to stand in her own self due to her insecurities

@junebug6134 1 year ago

What happened to McKay? He basically totally disappeared.

@cottoncandyskiez764 1 year ago (edited)

I think it would've been amazing to explore the love Cassie could receive from her platonic relationships (her sister and friends, and maybe even a male friend that gives her nothing more than friendship). She seems to be so focused on finding romantic love she sabotages her platonic relationships (with Maddy), or dismisses her sister Lexi in favour of male attention. I feel like she could've undergone an incredible character arc in which she rediscovers that friendships can be just as meaningful or even more than a romantic bond (specially taking into consideration how all of hers have been so shallow). Have her make amends with Maddy, have them both realise how important their friendship has been to one another (specially Cassie), and rely on each other to get out of the dark pit they have been in throughout the two seasons.

Or we could always scrap all those ideas in favour of more soap operish dramas.

I'm saying this on a hypothetical because I don't have any hopes of season 3 being that good or on actually addressing any of the characters' core problems. Or of coming out in the first place 😭

@OzTheGuy8224 1 year ago

I think we need to get better at judging people for the right reasons because theirs so much stigma about thing that don't matter that people get away with being awful in the way that do matter