This trope casts an eccentric woman who comes into people’s lives to fill them with color and joy and quirkiness as if her only purpose is to inspire and heal other people. How She Avoids The Manic Pixie Dream Girl TrapĮuphoria’s deconstruction of how the world sees Jules, through how Jules sees Jules, helps audiences reconsider the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope. So here’s our Take on how Jules became a new kind of love object. She represents an openness and facility with complexity that’s in part her personality’s special gift and in other ways something she’s had to cultivate in order to survive as a transwoman. And that’s likely why everyone is made to be so obsessed with her: She’s in touch with a kind of aliveness that many are not yet ready to face. She follows the advice that director Sam Levinson gave Jules’ actor Hunter Schafer: “Feel everything”. On top of everything, though, she is mature in a way most other characters aren’t: She is open to knowing all parts of herself outside of socially-prescribed norms, insecurities, and all. These overwhelmingly come from people projecting their own ideas onto her – including the gender binary. Through her own eyes though – which we don’t see as clearly until her special episode in-between seasons 1 and 2 – Jules has her insecurities, traumas, doubts, and demons. Through Nate’s eyes, she’s also some sort of mystical, innocent, perfect being – not unlike a manic pixie dream girl. Whimsical and wild, but also stable and sweet. And in others’ eyes, especially Rue’s, Jules is pretty much an angel – at least at first. Jules Vaughn is just one of the many magnetic characters in HBO’s Euphoria – so why does everyone seem to be obsessed with her? From Rue, to Nate, to Anna, to Elliot to the show’s audience – as Cosmopolitan’s Hannah Chambers writes, it’s impossible to watch the show “without becoming ridiculously obsessed with Jules Vaughn”īut who is Jules, anyway? In Euphoria we see her first through everyone else’s eyes.
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