Euphoria is as chaotic as ever in the first official trailer for its long-awaited third season. The HBO series returns on April 12 after more than four years.
“A few years after high school, I don’t know if life was exactly what I wished,” Rue (Zendaya) says in the preview. Now in her early twenties, she’s still mixed up in the drug game, though it seems her role may have shifted from excessive user to a middleman on the sales side. Let’s hope it’s a well-paid gig, at least, because she has some unsettled debts.
Laurie (Martha Kelly), the drug dealer Rue crossed in Season Two before escaping from a bathroom window, has come back to collect. “You owe me money,” she tells her. Laurie tracked Rue down at the smoke shop she’s presumably been working out of — and she brought backup. Rue, as we know, has never been great at facing high-stakes scenarios head-on. She typically prefers to deflect and run, but that isn’t an option here. Her sponsor, Ali (Coleman Domingo), urges her to lean on her faith, though there’s a question of how much it can really help her now.
Naturally, Rue is captured by Laurie again, only to later become a bargaining chip in an exchange with another nefarious figure (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) who apparently oversees some kind of escorting empire. “It’s not that weird, every girl I meet is a sugar baby,” Maddie (Alexa Demie) says, but not her. “I’m not a fucking hooker.” Jules (Hunter Schafer) might be, though, and the character Rosalía has been hired to play is a stripper at the Silver Slipper. There’s some gray area everyone seems to exist within now.
Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) is an OnlyFans content creator, much to the disgust of her fiancé, Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi). “I work all day,” he says. “My bride-to-be is spread-eagled on the internet.” The state of his character arc isn’t pristine, either. Nate is now running a construction company, but can be seen in a brief scene, his eyes filled with terror. He looks like he’s been caught red-handed. Cassie’s sister Lexi (Maude Apatow) seems to be doing OK, at least.
Euphoria Season Three will also see the return of Eric Dane, Dominic Fike, Chloe Cherry, Nika King, and more. It will be the first season of the show since the death of Angus Cloud, who played Fezco, in July 2023.
