[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from the season three finale of Euphoria.]
Over the past seven years, audiences have adopted the lives of these within the fictional world of Euphoria and watched a lot of its younger stars ascend into family names. Following last week’s episode, the collection’ first main demise — the killing of Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs — shocked audiences. And Sunday night time’s finale continued the surprises.
The episode begins with Rue (Zendaya) escaping Wayne (Toby Wallace) after Faye activates her and screams to wake him up whereas Rue makes an attempt to rob the drug cartel. Audiences additionally see Maddy and Cassie grieving after discovering Nate’s lifeless physique.
After the traumatic night time, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) provides Rue time and cash off however deliberately leaves a bottle of capsules out, figuring out Rue will take them. As Rue heads to Ali’s dwelling, Laurie’s drug cartel is raided and Laurie takes her personal life after saying, “I can’t go to prison.”
Whereas at Ali’s dwelling, Rue sees on the information that Fezco (Angus Cloud) has escaped jail and goes to search out him. A clip of Fezco and Rue in a area is then proven, making for an emotional second for followers of the collection, as Cloud died in actual lifetime of acute intoxication following an unintentional overdose in 2023, one 12 months after season two aired.
Nonetheless, the sequence is revealed to be a dream Rue is having, together with a reunion together with her mom, Leslie, as Ali wakes as much as discover Rue lifeless. After testing her Percocet capsules, he discovers they had been laced with fentanyl and that Rue was poisoned after Alamo realized she was a rat. Provided that Rue has struggled with dependancy all through the collection, it makes her demise particularly heartbreaking. Following her demise, Ali (Colman Domingo) units out to avenge her, even exhibiting up at Alamo’s strip membership to confront him and kills him.
As for Maddy and Cassie, they plan to hire out bedrooms in Cassie and Nate’s home to different OnlyFans fashions in an effort to repay their debt, successfully turning it into their very own hype home.
As for Euphoria’s different authentic fundamental forged members, together with Lexi and Jules, they really feel like an afterthought within the finale. Jules seems in just one scene and has no dialogue, although she is proven crying, making it unclear whether or not she is aware of Rue is lifeless. Lexi, in the meantime, helps Cassie and Maddy whereas grappling with guilt over Rue’s demise. Cassie additionally doesn’t inform Lexi the reality about what occurred to Nate, as a substitute claiming that he disappeared.
Forward of the season’s premiere, Levinson stated season three was about decisions and penalties. By killing off Rue, the finale leaves many questions on how the present might proceed, if it does.
Extra to come back.
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Euphoria season three is streaming on HBO. Take a look at all of The Hollywood Reporter’s coverage here.
