2022 Rewind: Watch: Could 'Euphoria's' High School Musical Get Any Gayer?

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On this week's "Euphoria," Lexi Howard had her moment with the premiere of her autobiographical play, which included a gay locker room number that got under Nate's skin.

There was finally a moment for Lexi Howard (Maude Apatow) on "Euphoria" this past week with the production of her long-awaited play "Our Life," which cleverly (Kudos, Lexi!) encapsulated many of the show's plot points into a slick stage production that would be right at home off-Broadway. How it got past the school administration is another story, nor is it revealed who the angel was who financed its "Hamilton"-level production values; but it is safe to say that Lexi pushed nearly every envelope with her deeply personal exposé of her friends. It did deliver a rousing and very homoerotic moment at the end of the first act with a musical number that pleased everyone, save Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi). The number also ended the second season's penultimate episode, which concluded with the words "to be continued."

Lexi's play is called "The Theater and Its Double," which draws its title from French playwright/actor/poet Antonin Artaud, who invented "Theater of Cruelty," whose goal was to shock the spectator into seeing the baseness of his world," according to the Encyclopedia Brittanica entry on Artuad. If that was Lexi's point, she certainly succeeded on some level, which basically put on stage all the relationship drama between the principals as observed by the keen-eyed Lexi. No one seemed to mind and most even cheered at the end of the first act finale. But Nate, after feeling the gaze of audience members throughout the increasingly sexual musical number, made a fast exit, followed by Cassie, who said she had no idea her sister would write that.

"We filmed that over a three-day span, and it was a lot of work. It took a lot of physical exertion. I was doing that dance a million times over those days. But, I loved the dance, I loved the guys that I was dancing with and it felt very real," Abrams told Variety during a press junket in January. "I loved the energy exchanged between the performers and the actors and the audience because there was a crowd there."

Variety added that Abrams "has fond memories of the [Bonnie] Tyler pop anthem. His earliest memory of the song was hearing it for the first time in 'Shrek 2' as a kid. 'It's one of those songs that makes me so happy. It puts everyone in a great mood, honestly.'"

Abrams also praised choreographer Ryan Heffington for designing the sequence and his fellow dancers for making "coming into work everyday...so much fun," Decider said.

The point of the number seems to be to criticize jock culture and throw shade at Nate, as well as visually connect with the scene last season when Nate looked uncomfortable in the shower, that time with his real naked teammates in a scene that featured some 30 penises by HBO's own account. But, as Decider said, Jacob Elordi was wowed by his castmate and really needed to act in that scene. "Testament to Austin, though. I don't know, it felt like...Sitting there I watched you do that dance 100 times and every single time the ferocity and intensity just went up, and up, and up, and up...it never lacked," Elordi said.

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