{"id":402068,"date":"2026-04-16T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402068\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:52:07","slug":"euphoria-season-3-premiere-draws-8-5-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/402068\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Premiere Draws 8.5 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tHBO<\/a> is no doubt feeling euphoric. The Season 3 premiere of \u201cEuphoria<\/a>\u201d has pulled in 8.5 million U.S. viewers across HBO and HBO Max in its first three days of availability. <\/p>\n

\n\tPer HBO, that is a 44% increase over the Season 2 premiere, which aired in January 2022. The four-year hiatus did little to dampen enthusiasm for the series, which saw stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and more return. <\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the first two seasons focused on the characters in high school, the new season takes place five years after the Season 2 finale. Since then, Rue (Zendaya) has begun working as a drug mule for Laurie (Martha Kelly), Nate (Elordi) has taken over his father\u2019s construction business. He is also preparing to marry Cassie (Sweeney), who is launching an OnlyFans account. <\/p>\n

\n\tThis season also sees the return of Maude Apatow, Alexa Demie, Hunter Schafer, Colman Domingo, Kelly, and Chloe Cherry among others. New stars this season include Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Sharon Stone, and Marshawn Lynch. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe premiere episode also features tributes<\/a> to late series stars Angus Cloud and Eric Dane, as well as executive producer Kevin Turen. Cloud, who played drug dealer Fezco in Seasons 1 and 2, died of a drug overdose in 2023. Dane, meanwhile, died from complications of ALS in early 2026. Turen died on Nov. 12, 2023 from a cardiac emergency while driving.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere on the HBO schedule, the finale of the critically-acclaimed limited series \u201cDTF St. Louis<\/a>\u201d drew 3.5 million crossplatform viewers in its first three days. The show has seen consistent growth week-to-week, with the finale finishing 40% above the premiere. Per HBO, the show is averaging 6.5 million viewers per episode. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HBO is no doubt feeling euphoric. The Season 3 premiere of \u201cEuphoria\u201d has pulled in 8.5 million U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[149437,93,44225,3284,61,60,282],"class_list":{"0":"post-402068","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-dtf-st-louis","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-euphoria","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402068","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=402068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}