We Need to Talk About Fezco

The latest in pop-culture news, recaps, and reviews, plus close reads, profiles, interviews, and more from Vulture.com. [Brand Logo]( SPOILERS [We Need to Talk About Fezco]( And the Euphoria cliffhanger involving our softest neighborhood drug dealer. Photo: HBO Euphoria is as much about the fraught nature of young adulthood as it is about the perils of addiction, and the series has combined these themes in Fezco, portrayed by [social-media trickster Angus Cloud](. One of the breakout characters of the second season, Fezco is a spin on a particular [Dylan McKay](/[Ryan Atwood](/[Angel]( archetype. He hasn’t always made the right choices, but he’s trying to now. As a viewer, to like Fezco isn’t to explicitly approve of the fact that he deals drugs, including to teens only a few years younger than he is; this isn’t a [Walter White]( situation, in which rooting for the protagonist was a misunderstanding of how the series was presenting his megalomania and greed. But if the entire point of Euphoria is to probe at the limits of our empathy for characters whose actions are more often gray than black or white, then Fezco is more of a [D’Angelo Barksdale]( or a Bodie Broadus than the Greek. Can you make bad choices and do bad things but be a good person? What is the balance, and what tips the scales? [Read The Story »]( Devour pop culture with us. [Subscribe now](for unlimited access to Vulture and everything New York. The Latest TV Recaps • [Billions:]( The Gilded Age • [The Walking Dead:]( Eat the Rich • [The Righteous Gemstones:]( We Were First Borns • [Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber:]( The City Has Been Taken • [Euphoria:]( Reconciliation • [Power Book IV: Force:]( Tommy Gun [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( Stories We Think You’ll Like 1. [Bridget Everett Is ‘Bridget-izing’ Somebody Somewhere’s Sam “It’s nice to be around people who let you be the person you want to be, and that’s exactly the group she has found.”]( By Jackson McHenry 2. [Sunlight as Disinfectant: sandblasted, Pointed Comedy About Black Women’s Wounds If you’re falling apart, touch sand.]( By Helen Shaw 3. [Danny McBride Wants to Give You Closure The man behind The Righteous Gemstones talks season two, cliffhangers, and what led the Gemstone family astray.]( By Roxana Hadadi 4. [The Batman Is Sad, Scary, and Even a Little Sexy Matt Reeves and Robert Pattinson give us an austere, tense serial-killer thriller as much as a superhero action flick.]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( 5. [A Timeline of Euphoria Obsession and Sam Levinson Hatred Think of it like Dickens’s periodicals …]( By Iana Murray [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Today’s Crossword]( 4-Down: Rigged Ocean’s Thirteen set. Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos by Getty Images and Studios Vulture Recommends We consume it all so you don’t have to. To get your true-crime fix, listen to Last Seen. For season two, the WBUR-produced podcast continues its theme of missing treasures but expands to an anthology format, with each episode covering a [different lost item (or idea).]( [Read more from Vulture]( This week at Union Hall Vulture’s weekly comedy show, Pretty Major, with performers including Brian Bahe, Matt Barats, Marcia Belsky, Business Casual, Marie Faustin, Emily Wilson, and Zach Zimmerman. [Buy tickets here.]( Tuesdays at 7 p.m. Union Hall, Brooklyn, N.Y. If you enjoyed reading Vulture’s daily newsletter, forward it to a friend. Or dive deeper into the Vulture universe with our other newsletters: • [1.5x Speed](: Podcast recommendations and listening notes from Nick Quah, sent every Wednesday. • [Buffering](: Joe Adalian reports on the streaming industry, sent every Thursday. • [The Housewives Institute Bulletin](: For dedicated students of the Reality TV Arts and Sciences, sent every other Friday. • [Vulture 10x10 Crossword](: A puzzle for pop-culture obsessives sent to your inbox every weekday. • [The Critics](: A weekly dispatch on the cultural discourse, sent Fridays. [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe](param=daily) | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2022, All rights reserved