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Daniel D'Addario
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SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for “Stand Still and See,” Season 3 Episode 6 of “Euphoria,” now streaming on HBO Max.
The great cliffhanger of last week’s “Euphoria” was what was to become of Rue (Zendaya) as Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) charged her with a polo mallet. We learn near the start of the latest episode that Alamo narrowly spares her — but that revelation comes only after we learn in a Zendaya-narrated series of flashbacks (shades of “Euphoria” Season 1!) about what Alamo’s early life was like. “The coldest female Alamo ever knew was his mama,” we’re told, and that mama (played by Danielle Deadwyler) is attempting to raise young Alamo on her own, all while taking on a series of unworthy men as some combination of lover and mark. She cycled through beaus, leaving young Alamo with trust issues toward women and a hazy-at-best idea of how a man ought to act.
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