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Fights, sex, deaths and glitter: The rocky road to Euphoria season three
Zendaya attends the Los Angeles premiere of Euphoria season three. (Getty: Monica Schipper)
Welcome to Cheat Sheet, where we give you all the intel you need about iconic shows your friends have been bugging you to watch! In honour of its long awaited return after four years, we're diving into teen (and now adult) drama, Euphoria.
In the summer of 2022, anyone who was anyone (and between the ages of 16 and 25) was watching the second season of American showrunner Sam Levinson's boundary-pushing drama Euphoria.
The show had already captured a dedicated audience with a highly stylised debut season depicting oversexed US teens taking drugs, getting into fights and looking absolutely beautiful doing it. Boosted by lead (and at the time rising) actor Zendaya's Emmy win for the show's first season, Euphoria wasn't just appointment viewing — it was a cultural movement.
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Euphoria Season 3 review: 'The show has lost its zeitgeisty edge' ★★☆☆☆
Four years on, the provocative HBO drama is back, with Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney all returning. Unfortunately, though, "it has become a series with very little to say".
Of all the twists you might have anticipated for Euphoria's third and (rumoured) final season, turning Rue's (Zendaya) story into a neo-Western – driving across a desert, walking by an actual tumbleweed, working for a boss in a cowboy hat who carries a golden gun – was probably not high on anyone's list of guesses. That's just one of the many turns that may make you say: "Huh? Why?"
When the show first appeared in 2019 it was provocative and zeitgeisty, notable for the matter-of-fact way it assumed that sex, drugs and gender fluidity in high school have become cultural norms. Since season 2 ended, four years ago, Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney have become major film stars. And although all three return to their characters comfortably after this long delay, the show has lost its zeitgeisty edge. Euphoria has become a series with very little to say, none of it very audacious or compelling. Based on the three episodes, of eight, that HBO made available in advance, it is a strained attempt to make the closed circle of friends it follows, now in their early 20s, somehow the same only different.
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