Episode 7: Rue Describes What Depression Feels Like
It doesn't take long after her manic episode for Rue to slip into a depression. It happens swiftly and seemingly out of nowhere, and Zendaya handles the transition with such nuance and care that it doesn't feel forced. It's a depiction of depression that isn't romanticized or glamorized; it's days spent in bed like "one suffocating loop" where you can't and don't want to do anything. Where you're so disinclined to get up even to pee that you develop a kidney infection and have to be taken to the hospital. "Eventually all you can think about is how life has always been this way," Rue explains to the audience. "And it will only continue to be this way."