But fans of the show are still curious about their new bond, considering the amount of time we’ve spent this season watching Maddy frolicking around her employer’s mansion.Īccording to Kelly, Samantha was originally supposed to appear in just one episode. Save for the whole “supplying a minor with alcohol” component, their dynamic seems pretty innocuous, at least by this program’s slippery moral standards. In a longer scene in last week’s episode, she invites Maddy to get drunk with her and go for a late-night swim while engaging in some standard girl talk about relationships. The camera, however, captures Samantha giving Maddy an oddly affectionate rub on the hand, as she tells her she’s “so sweet.”

We think Maddy’s left some evidence of her trespassing behind when Samantha beckons the high schooler to her closet, but she only asks that Maddy unzip her gown. After a night out with her husband, she returns home where Maddy has secretly just taken a bunch of selfies in Samantha’s designer clothes. In the second episode, we’re introduced to her in a tense and surprisingly sensual manner. With two episodes left in the season, Samantha and her relationship with Maddy remains a bit of a question mark. Now past the era of her career where she’s portraying teenagers while in her midtwenties, Kelly has entered the seedy adolescent world of Euphoria as one of the show’s elusive grown-ups-a glamorous housewife named Samantha who hires Maddy (Alexa Demie) as a babysitter.

Among the series’ new but instantly recognizable faces is Minka Kelly, who earned her television stripes playing the soft-spoken, romantically conflicted cheerleader Lyla Garrity on the NBC high school drama Friday Night Lights. Season 2 of HBO’s smash hit Euphoria has been a revolving door of fascinating side characters, background players, and guest appearances.

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