How 'Euphoria' Brought Back Its Origin Story Prologues for Episodes 6 and 7

Season 3 largely lacked character prologues, but the last two episodes reinstated them with memorable origin sequences. Episode 6, set in 1978, follows strip club impresario Alamo Brown as he learns to be both captivated and wary of women after his mother betrays the man who loves her for money. Episode 7 provides a look at Ali’s life as a drug addict before he cleaned up and became a sponsor to Rue. Both prologues are built to align with the characters’ eventual outcomes in the series. Alamo’s prologue uses visual design and environment details to trace links between his childhood and his later tastes, showing “seeds being planted” through carefully connected decor and color palettes.

"The sixth episode of Season 3, “Stand Still and See,” opens with a 1978-set origin story for strip club impresario Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), who learns to be both entranced by and wary of women when he sees his beloved mother (Danielle Deadwyler) betray the man who loves her for money. In Episode 7, “Rain or Shine,” we get a look at recurring character Ali’s (Colman Domingo) life as a drug addict before he cleaned up and became a sponsor to “Euphoria” heroine Rue (Zendaya)."

"Both prologues are reverse-engineered from the rest of the series to tie in with where we know the characters will eventually end up; in the case of Alamo, the visual design is particularly interesting in the clues it provides to links between his childhood and his later tastes. “Young Alamo's relationship with his mother speaks to the choices that he's made as an adult,” production designer François Audouy told IndieWire. “You can see the seeds being planted.”"

"Audouy, costume designer Natasha Newman-Thomas, and the rest of the crew carefully drew a line from Alamo's childhood to the environments over which he exerted total control as an adult, like the Silver Slipper strip club. We're told early in the series that Alamo picked all the decor in the club himself, so its color palette and Western style is incorporated into the apartments where he lives with his entrancing and treacherous mother in the origin"

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