‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Is Doomed. Here’s How to Save It.
Will we ever see a third season of Euphoria? Despite HBO’s insistence, it’s looking increasingly unlikely. The hit teen drama was originally set to begin filming some time in the spring, but the network announced this week that production had been pushed indefinitely. With Season 3 already delayed once and initially set to return in 2025—and the show notoriously taking several months to film, due to writer-director Sam Levinson’s chaotic filmmaking style—it’s hard to say whether it’ll make that target.
Levinson faces a series of challenges in starting things back up again. For one, it’s not like the cast has been sitting around since Season 2 wrapped in 2022, twiddling their thumbs. Zendaya has been walking red carpets around the world for two months straight; Jacob Elordi is working with Guillermo Del Toro; Hunter Schafer has a Yorgos Lanthimos film to promote; and Sydney Sweeney somehow gives us new reasons to talk about her on a weekly basis. Finding time to get the gang back together to pretend to be several years younger than they are—even with a proposed time jump—is looking harder and harder to do.
On top of that, Variety reported last week that the production has been all kinds of messy thus far. (Not shocking, if anyone’s been following anything Sam Levinson has done in the last five years.) So messy, in fact, that the entire season is being rewritten from the ground up. Part of that is due to some of the terrible ideas that Levinson and, frankly, Zendaya (sorry bae) have had thus far—like an older Rue working as a pregnancy surrogate (what) or gallivanting in the background as a private detective (well, okay, I’m actually kinda into that one). Does anyone know what this show is supposed to be anymore? I don’t even think the show does.