{"id":245014,"date":"2026-01-14T22:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245014\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T22:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T22:50:07","slug":"sex-drugs-and-sugar-babies-first-trailer-for-euphoria-season-three-drops-us-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245014\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex, drugs and sugar babies: first trailer for Euphoria season three drops | US television"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The first trailer for the third season of Euphoria promises more sex, drugs and violence, teasing a troubled life after high school for the show\u2019s characters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/zendaya\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zendaya<\/a>, Sydney Sweeney, Hunter Schafer and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/jacob-elordi\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Elordi<\/a> are among those returning for episodes four years in the making. The new season will take place five years after the characters were last seen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The trailer shows Zendaya\u2019s Rue involved in trouble with drug dealers, including a returning Martha Kelly, Sweeney\u2019s Cassie becoming a cam girl while married to Elordi\u2019s Nate, and Schafer\u2019s Jules becoming a sugar baby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The official logline reads: \u201cA group of childhood friends wrestle with the virtue of faith, the possibility of redemption, and the problem of evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Other returning cast members include Alexa Demie, Chloe Cherry, Maude Apatow and two-time Oscar nominee Colman Domingo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cWe\u2019re gonna have a devastatingly gorgeous, epic season that I think is breaking the mold of television,\u201d Colman told <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/01\/colman-domingo-euphoria-season-3-cinema-tv-1236679579\/\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>. \u201cI think it\u2019s gonna become more cinema than television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Newcomers this season include Sharon Stone, Rosal\u00eda, Natasha Lyonne, Danielle Deadwyler and Marshawn Lynch. This season will also see Oscar winner Hans Zimmer join as composer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The show\u2019s creator, Sam Levinson, has called it \u201cour best season yet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cThe one thing we all agreed on is we can\u2019t go back to high school \u2013 although many, many shows have had 30-year-old high school students, we\u2019re not,\u201d he said. \u201cFive years felt like a natural place [to jump] because if they had gone to college they\u2019d be out of college at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">It follows Levinson\u2019s second show for HBO, music drama The Idol, which received largely negative reviews. The Guardian\u2019s Rebecca Nicholson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2023\/jun\/05\/the-idol-review-light-bondage-and-lots-of-sleaze-make-for-the-ultimate-try-hard-tv\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">called<\/a> it \u201ca big, dumb spectacle\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Sweeney, who is now leading the hit domestic thriller The Housemaid, has called the season \u201ccrazier\u201d than what\u2019s come before. Zendaya, who led the hit tennis drama Challengers in 2024, will next be seen alongside Robert Pattinson in The Drama and Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey. Elordi is now on the Oscar trail for Guillermo del Toro\u2019s Frankenstein after winning the Critics Choice award for best supporting actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Euphoria will premiere on 12 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first trailer for the third season of Euphoria promises more sex, drugs and violence, teasing a troubled&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245015,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-245014","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}