As we move closer to the long-awaited third season of ‘Euphoria,’ it feels like we are not just anticipating another chapter but preparing to say goodbye to a part of ourselves. Although HBO hasn’t made any confirmation whether ‘Euphoria Season 3‘ will be the last season of the show or not, HBO’s HOD Francesca Orsi‘s statement in an exclusive interview with Deadline gave us a hunch that this might be it.
Sydney Sweeney, who has played Cassie Howard since the show’s beginning, recently said in an interview, according to EW, that wrapping this season will be “bittersweet.” She reminded us that she began this journey at 20, growing up alongside the cast and the character. That kind of connection, where actors and audience evolve together, is rare. When she teased that season three could be summed up as something that would make everyone cry.
Euphoria Steps Beyond High School and Into Adulthood
The show’s creator, Sam Levinson, has built something that reflects both beauty and mayhem. Jacob Elordi, who plays Nate Jacobs, called the new season “incredibly clever and cinematic.” He explained that he shot a lot of his material without his castmates and that each storyline feels separate, like “FBI files.” That gives us a sense that season three might fracture the narrative, showing how each character faces their demons in isolation. After all, that is what growing up often feels like, everyone drifting into their own story while trying to make sense of what remains.
Zendaya, who carries the show as Rue, has already confirmed that this season will feature a time jump, moving the characters beyond high school. She said it is important because there is only so much teenage chaos one can endure before it becomes repetitive. Seeing them as adults forces us to think about what those choices in youth become when the world stops excusing them. We will see Rue, Cassie, Nate, Maddy, and others trying to rebuild lives shaped by trauma, love, and regret. The idea that Euphoria is no longer about adolescence but about what follows it makes this season feel like both a continuation and a reckoning.
New Faces and the Legacy of Euphoria
The cast has also expanded, with names like Sharon Stone, Rosalía, Natasha Lyonne, and Danielle Deadwyler joining. Their addition hints at a wider world, one that may show us how the original group fits into something larger and less forgiving. While HBO has not confirmed if this will be the final season, Sweeney’s comments make it sound like a farewell. Still, head of drama Francesca Orsi said, “I don’t think anything is over until it’s over.” That uncertainty feels fitting for a show that never gave us clean endings.
The reason Euphoria is still powerful, even after all these years, is the way it reflects us, and the mistakes we make as mere teenagers. The meaning we search for, and the scars we learn to live with. When Sweeney says she will cry after wrapping, we understand because we, too have grown up with these characters as well. And when the show airs this 2026 Spring and wraps up to its finale episode, we may not get closure, but maybe that is what it was always leading to. Like life itself, Euphoria might not end cleanly or quietly, yet it will leave us thinking, feeling, and questioning long after, if HBO does, in fact, conclude the franchise after its third season.
