Joanna Robinson

uh beef season two is dropping on netflix and we will be doing a couple episodes on that so there's a lot going on in the feed uh we hope you'll join us for all of it i really hope you guys join i mean i know a ton of you are watching the pit and listening to us talk about the pit that's great i think you should hang with us for euphoria even if you think euphoria isn't your thing like even if you i actually what do you what do you make of this rob do you think someone could jump into season three of euphoria not having watched the first two seasons

No, you shouldn't.

If that's a barrier of entry for you, I think it's enough of a soft reboot that you could figure out how to join us for Euphoria, if not for Beef or something like that.

In terms of mailbag, I don't have a ton of mailbag to get to this week, but we did get a bunch of responses from people for our coverage of last week, where when Robbie sort of gives this revelation to Dana about his mother, a lot of people were sort of curious why we didn't dig into that more.

And I want to talk about it here at the top, but I will just say it in sort of like a blanket way.

I think because we learned in season one that he was raised by his grandmother, I wasn't terribly surprised by this revelation.

But

being specifically abandoned by his mother, could shed new light on the Baby Jane Doe situation, his sneering at Samira about her mommy issues.

Oh, yeah.

You know, all this sort of stuff.

I do want to read this, a bit of an interview that Noah Wiley gave to Megan O'Keefe at Decider at the end of season one, just about sort of

how they think about the personal lives of these characters and how they want to sort of roll that information out, right?

So in response to her asking about the Robbie raised by his grandmother info that we learned in season one, Noah Wiley said, I love that this is a clue path that engages people because I think it's interesting.

And I think the less detail you give sometimes, the more you engage that clue path.

So when we started writing the show, it was like, okay, where do we begin?

Does Robbie wake up in his house, apartment, townhouse?

Is he flopping on a friend's couch?

If he's got an apartment, what's on the wall?

Is he alone?

Does he have a dog?