{"id":475831,"date":"2026-06-04T11:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475831\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:53:22","slug":"euphoria-season-3-finale-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/475831\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphoria Season 3 Finale Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

Full spoilers follow for Euphoria<\/a> Season 3, which is available on HBO now.<\/p>\n

Euphoria may end in a shoot-out, but the season itself feels more like it\u2019s been firing blanks. It\u2019s no surprise HBO has announced their once hit drama will end with Season 3<\/a>, because there\u2019s little left of the original spirit of the show. Even major character deaths can\u2019t shock the series back to life. What creator Sam Levinson has given us with Season 3 is a fun enough Western but a paltry conclusion to Euphoria itself.<\/p>\n

Euphoria Season 3 Photos\"\"<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not all terrible, despite a lackluster first three episodes<\/a>. So what exactly is good, bad, and ugly? Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) and his crew, Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson), G (Marshawn Lynch), and Kidd (Asante Blackk), are compelling to watch as they go toe-to-toe with Laurie (Martha Kelly) and her gang of drug-dealing white supremacists. After Alamo, Bishop makes for one of the best new additions to the series as he delivers violence and philosophy via hypnotic, stone-faced monotone.<\/p>\n

Really, valiant efforts by the cast are what keep the show worth watching. Alexa Demie reminds us just why Maddy remains such a fan favorite. Her calculating business acumen and stone-cold exterior crumble at times into stark vulnerability. Zendaya\u2019s Rue and Colman Domingo\u2019s Ali share several quietly contemplative scenes that echo something of the gravity of Season 1. Hunter Schafer, for all she\u2019s barely in Season 3, plays Jules with the soft wistfulness of a bird in a gilded cage. I\u2019ll miss these characters, even if I didn\u2019t always recognize them this season.<\/p>\n

The world of Euphoria is alight in Western technicolor this season, everything intense and sun-drenched. It\u2019s easy to see where Levinson tried to sketch his Old Hollywood inspirations. In one particular scene, Cassie\u2019s (Sydney Sweeney) stratospheric growth on OnlyFans is represented by her growth into a giant woman terrorizing the streets of Los Angeles. It\u2019s giving Attack of the 50 Foot Woman or, like, sexy King Kong vibes. We even got a saloon stand-off in the finale, set to something that sounds suspiciously like Amazing Grace.<\/p>\n

Season 3 is more a vanity project than it is a tragic or even heartfelt conclusion to the lives of characters audiences grew to love.\u201c<\/p>\n

The fun doesn\u2019t last, though. Levinson stuffs this final season with heavy-handed religious themes and metaphors, half-baked ideas about women\u2019s sexuality and power, and a confusing conclusion about good and evil. Where the first three episodes seemed meant to titillate in their debauchery, the rest try futilely to make a statement on the \u201ctraditional\u201d hawking of women\u2019s bodies via men (i.e. enterprises like Alamo\u2019s Silver Slipper strip club) versus new age, digital means like OnlyFans in which sex workers have more power. It\u2019s an interesting dichotomy to explore but done so poorly here that it feels more like an excuse for Levinson to throw almost all of Euphoria\u2019s women into some form of sex work for shock value.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a contradictory conception of women as both conniving and helpless. It\u2019s a madonna-whore complex wherein every woman is capable of great evil yet easily bested by the will of men. Levinson seems to think he\u2019s drawing some revelatory conclusion, but the fact that the major players in the climax of our finale are three men, none of which are any of the women who have long been the core of Euphoria, renders it all moot. Zendaya\u2019s Rue herself \u2013 who dies in the finale from a fentanyl overdose \u2013 is entirely absent from the last 50 minutes of the finale.<\/p>\n

\"null\"<\/a>Colman Domingo as Ali in the Euphoria finale.<\/p>\n

Euphoria becomes a quasi-parable with surface-level observations about \u201csalvation\u201d made through Rue\u2019s newfound preoccupation with (and, later, Ali\u2019s conversion to) Christianity. The promised land, according to Rue, is a Texas homestead of white, conservative Christians she visits briefly in the first episode.<\/p>\n

Euphoria is over, and has little to show for it. Perhaps what we can take from these tumultuous three seasons are the careers it\u2019s launched. Beyond that, Season 3 is more a vanity project than it is a tragic or even heartfelt conclusion to the lives of characters audiences grew to love. We end the series on a prayer, with Ali (now going by Martin) at the head of the table, Rue as a visiting apparition, and a family of characters we barely know. Fitting for a series that\u2019s become an unrecognizable whisper of itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Full spoilers follow for Euphoria Season 3, which is available on HBO now. Euphoria may end in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-475831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}