We not only got to see where McKay's head was at as a small-town football star realizing that his NFL dreams aren't as easy to obtain, but we witnessed his relationship with Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) take a dark turn after he was attacked by a group of guys during an intimate moment between the couple. Featured in that cast is Algee Smith, a rising star who was also a part of two of 2018's more talked-about pop culture moments: BET's The Bobby Brown Story (where he reprised his role as Ralph Tresvant from The New Edition Story) and The Hate U Give, where his character's death was the catalyst for all of the events of the film.ĭuring this week's episode of Euphoria ("The Next Episode"), we got to learn more about the college footballer McKay, the character that Smith (a Michigan native who is also a singer) portrays, and the events of the episode had people talking.
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Starring Zendaya and produced by A24 and Drake, the series tackles everything from drug abuse to having a whole psychopath walking the halls of your high school, with an intriguing cast of characters navigating the insane world of growing up in a post-9/11, smartphone-addicted America. While McKay’s frat brothers did not sexually assault McKay, they scared him and Cassie, so they still did harm.Without a doubt, the summer of 2019 should be remembered as the summer where HBO's hit series Euphoria dominated your Sunday nights. There were elements of lynching in that scene and I could not help but notice that his white frat brothers chose to bust into McKay’s room unannounced during an intimate moment with his white, desirable, and conventionally-attractive girlfriend.
For a moment, my PTSD flared up as those white men yelled out their frat name. Cassie is understandably horrified and a confused McKay is left breathless on the floor, as his frat brothers shout the frat’s name and file out of his room. Another instance is when a group of frat brothers barge into McKay’s dorm room while he and Cassie have sex, only to drag him out of bed and mock penetrate him. After all, it’s rush week and McKay wants to impress his fraternity. He’s so focused on drinking enough or being bro-y enough for his frat that he’s not having nearly the fun Cassie is. McKay rarely seems to be enjoying himself around this group of chosen “brothers.” Nowhere is this most evident than at the party where McKay introduces Cassie to his fraternity brothers. All of the interactions we see of McKay and his fraternity are fraught anxiety. If you weren’t valuable, then people wouldn’t be challenging you.Īnother strategic relationship McKay uses to solidify his place is in the mainstream is through his fraternity. When trying to do better in life, you will constantly be tested. And as black people, I think sometimes there’s this pressure to care too much what other people think when that thought process has never made us successful. Others will try to project their issues onto you, so it’s important to cling to your goals like it’s a lover – all your energy should go into the life you want – other people’s opinions be damned. Senior McKay adds that the world will constantly pit you against yourself and that you need to use that anger to fuel whatever goal you’re trying to pursue in life. Later, when McKay tries to tell his father why he was so angry, Frederick interrupts that he doesn’t care what the boy said to piss baby McKay off. I didn’t hear what the other boy said, but it was enough to warrant a butt whopping from McKay. Nowhere is this most evident than when an opposing teammate whispers an insult – racial or sexual - to McKay.
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