Euphoria and Jules seem to recognize that Rue — and we, the audience — have cast her in this role as an MPDG, and she starts to visibly reject it. From Rue quite literally comparing the feeling of being around Jules to the feeling of being on drugs, to Lexi (Maude Apatow) implying Jules is the only reason Rue is staying sober, to various people — including Jules’ own dad — pressuring her about whether not the two are dating, Jules expresses inaudible discomfort by growing increasingly distant. Episode 5 ends with Jules staring at us, the audience, with a perturbed expression on her face while Rue sleeps on top of her. In episode 6, Jules dodges a kiss from Rue that leaves both the audience and Rue pretty stunned. And in case we or Rue somehow just really don’t get that Jules does not want to be bothered with our overactive imaginations and reductive views of her, she straight up tells us that she’s fed up with this MPDG nonsense by quoting Shakespeare: “I have no joy of this contract tonight. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be”.