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The the third season of Euphoria has become impossible to ignore for anyone who owns a smartphone. The HBO drama, which began 2019 following the hedonistic group, young people, it has turned into a video response to anger-bait, creating moments that are specifically designed to dominate news and memes and anger. Even before we reach the end of the season, we have seen Fan-only stories, puppy drama, sugar daddies, magical wizards, a disastrous wedding, fingers and toes being chopped off, poisonous snakes, killing numbers (RIP Paladin), gunfights and (many) burials.
In the third season, Euphoria picks up its story five years after the characters have graduated from high school. At times, the show feels a bit out of place high school stabilityexploring a confusing mishmash of genres and plots, some of which have been happening he called for glorifying feminism and violence. Despite these criticisms, the show has a history of taking artistic risks, something that is often lacking in a genre that values quantity over quality. It turned Sam Levinson, its creator, into one of Hollywood’s most exciting (and polarizing) visionaries, and took a new generation of actors into the A-list to the point where it looks like they’re going to leave the show). As the third season ends, Euphoria represents a strange – and “2026” – conflict, which sounds ridiculous and interesting.
This season of Euphoria has taken me on a journey. In the first three quarters, I was afraid that almost all the women followed jobs that involve the pleasures of men or slavery. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) asked her husband Nate (Jacob Elord) to allow him to do OnlyFans. Jules (Hunter Schaffer) dropped out of tech school to become a “sugar baby” who fulfills the magic of married men. rue (Zendaya) began working for a brutal club owner as a drug dealer. Like I wrote it last month, it seems like the show took a group of strong headed girls and turned them into shallow, manosphere-fantasy, where women only deal with me so I can spend money.
In the fourth episode, my opinion began to change as the show began to question the idea that women could be “empowered” in this way. Kitty (Anna Van Patten), a dancer at Rue’s boss’s club, is gang-raped by a group of customers in a private room – an incident Rue witnesses through the club’s security cameras. Then in episode five – an episode so bad it has to be seen to be believed, where a giant Sweeney interrupted next to the skyscrapers like a Thotzilla monster – we see Cassie starting Only Fans and working hard to achieve magic for her customers. Nate, her husband who was once very selfish towards her and eager to provide for her, slowly begins to see her as a cash cow to pay off her debts. He also encourages Cassie to make a “dirty” video with a man with 30 million followers, so he can send her more money. They both risked being together, but now their relationship has been reduced to trading.
As Cassie pursues each and every scandal, she and Maddy (Alexa Demie), her former friend turned manager, purposely try to stir up conflict, leading to a series of dating scenes. “The more idiots get angry,” says Maddy, “the more money you make.” At this time, I realized that Euphoria was trying to investigate the misogyny of economic interest – a media space that we all participate in differently, which benefits people by polarizing and cultural value. Watching this show, I found myself thinking about the generation that has grown up with the most creative people in the world Andrew Tate and Bonnie Bluewho are all Frankenstein creatures of economic interest. How has this changed the way they see the world?
Euphoria’s choice to focus on how algorithms are dehumanizing us is “meta”, not because Levinson is known to use them. emergency procedures to attract attention to his work. It’s also fitting that Sweeney is at the center of the show. In 2025 American Eagle’s advertising campaign caused a political uproar, with critics criticizing him”.using white to sell jeans“. Political rights – including Donald Trump himself – immediately he encouraged around him, while American Eagle’s stock price to climb. Sweeney capitalized on all of this attention by launching her own lingerie line, SYRN, which Cassie owns to wear on Euphoria while cosplaying as a dog.
Chloe Cherry, who plays the vulnerable Faye Valentine, also has an autobiography that foreshadowed the show. At the age of 18, Cherry started acting in major films and later appeared on OnlyFans before starting acting. When I he was asked Cherry earlier this month, I asked her about the fine line the show walks between beauty and criticism. “In my opinion, I think Sam (Levinson) is using these girls as a vessel to show how people view girls,” she said. “I think Sam is trying to say: ‘Look how far we’ve come in society.'”
Although its portrayal of women is consistent, the downside is that the third season of Euphoria took a serious hit. The show is part horror, part gangster movie, part Tarantino entertainment, and part soft pornographic film – sometimes all in one part. Viewing feels like having three different conversations with the same person, on different messaging apps, at the same time, in ALL CAPS. Some of the characters are annoyingly broken, too. Jules was at one point very important in the story but spent the rest of the season as a character without a voice. Nate was a good-looking young man who seemed to be using the tools of machismo to hide some very complex (and possibly sarcastic) feelings. But in the third season he was reduced to a loan.
That said, even Sweeney’s staunchest critics would be fools to say that his portrayal of Cassie wasn’t artistic. And the return Cal, Nate’s father – the last play of the actor Eric DaneWHO he died in February – it was very painful. At his son’s wedding, Cal confronts his secrets, his mistakes and his own destruction. But Levinson seems to have forgotten that Euphoria was built on the difficult relationship between the characters – this is how the show ushered in a new generation of stars.
If this end being the final season of Euphoria, the show’s legacy is difficult to describe. The first two Seasons existed in their world, giving a picture of young life that was deliberately made vague and dream-like, to the point where it was not even determined in which region the characters lived. TikTok housesOnlyFans is an unofficial online search. It is a warning to the generation that has been awakened not to expect anything from anyone.
I think this show might be more like gen Z Lena Dunham‘s Girlswhich led to the 2010s, my millennial generation taking action. But when Dunham high-cringe comedy tired of the last hope of the Obama era, Euphoria pulls us in deep. It shows an algorithm-driven Lord of the Flies, where young people are encouraged to see life as a series of events, where “power” can be gained by manipulating other people. It’s uncomfortable to watch, but when the world is so broken, how can it be?
