HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ Season 3: Solid, Premiere Date, Plot Particulars

• HBO renewed Sam Levinson’s “Euphoria” for a 3rd season in February 2022.
• The present continues to be eyeing a return in 2026 and commenced filming in February 2025.
• Barbie Ferreira and Storm Reid is not going to reprise their roles as Kat and Gia, respectively.

HBO’s standard drama sequence “Euphoria” will likely be again for one more installment — however the characters will not be in highschool.

The present, which is created, written, and directed by Sam Levinson, facilities on a 17-year-old drug addict named Rue Bennett (performed by two-time Emmy winner Zendaya).

In early February 2022, amid a bonkers and wildly memed second season, HBO introduced that “Euphoria” was renewed for a 3rd season.

This is every thing we all know thus far about season three. 

The season 3 solid will encompass core characters, with a number of shake-ups

On February 14, 2025, HBO introduced that Zendaya, Hunter Schafer (Jules Vaughn), Jacob Elordi (Nate Jacobs), Eric Dane (Cal Jacobs), Sydney Sweeney (Cassie Howard), Alexa Demie (Maddy Perez), and Maude Apatow (Lexi Howard) will reprise their roles.

Colman Domingo, who gained an Emmy for his efficiency as Rue’s NA sponsor Ali, will return as a visitor star. Martha Kelly, who performed a drug lord named Laurie, and Chloe Cherry, who appeared as Faye, have been upped to sequence regulars.

Season three will characteristic two new sequence regulars, performed by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Toby Wallace, and a slew of visitor stars: Rosalía, Marshawn Lynch, Kadeem Hardison, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Priscilla Delgado, James Landry Hébert, and Anna Van Patten.

The identical day, Selection reported that Dominic Fike will reprise his position as Elliot. The musician joined the present throughout season two, along with his character driving a wedge between Rue and Jules. He additionally enabled Rue’s addictions.

HBO reps did not instantly reply to a request for remark concerning Fike’s reported involvement.

Do not count on to see everybody again, although.

Barbie Ferreira (Kat Hernandez) was the primary to exit the present in August 2022, months after she reacted to rumors and reviews of on-set pressure with showrunner Sam Levinson throughout an interview with Enterprise Insider.

“I’ve seen so many alternative issues and a whole lot of it’s unfaithful and a few of it is form of like mundane little issues,” she instructed BI in March 2022.

Throughout an look on the podcast “Armchair Professional With Dax Shepard” in April, Ferreira stated that her exit was a “mutual choice” as a result of her character’s arc ran its course.

Storm Reid, who starred as Rue’s youthful sister Gia, not too long ago instructed TMZ that she would not return resulting from scheduling conflicts. It is unclear if Nika King will reprise her position as Leslie, Rue and Gia’s mother.

Eric Dane stated that his character, Cal Jacobs, will get redemption 

In a 2022 interview with Selection, Dane stated that Cal’s story would proceed in season three.

Cal was final seen getting arrested after his son Nate referred to as the police on him. 

“There’s gonna be redemption,” Dane stated. “I imply, that is the trajectory he is on. I can not think about Cal’s life from solitary confinement. It is powerful to work Cal into the storyline when he is behind bars.”

Nevertheless, Dane’s promise of redemption for his character ought to be taken with a grain of salt since his feedback had been made lengthy earlier than the plan for season three was solidified.

There will likely be a time bounce, displaying the characters out of highschool

Heidi Bivens, a stylist and the costume designer for “Euphoria,” spoke about her work on the sequence in an April 2023 interview with Vogue and stated there was “discuss of it being about 5 years sooner or later, and that they don’t seem to be in highschool anymore.”

A time bounce would additionally make sense contemplating that Zendaya, a producer on “Euphoria,” beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter that she hoped the subsequent season would present Rue’s life past highschool. Plus, a lot of the stars are of their 20s, in contrast to their teenage characters.  

“I wish to see what Rue appears like in her sobriety journey, how chaotic that may look,” Zendaya stated. “But in addition with all of the characters, within the sense the place they’re attempting to determine what to do with their lives when highschool is over and what sort of folks they wish to be.”

Elordi additionally expressed skepticism that season three would decide up precisely the place followers final left the excessive school-aged characters. 

“I am assuming that we’ll need to go ahead, in any other case it’ll seem to be a bizarre bit,” Elordi stated throughout an look on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon” in January. 

“I will have a foul again strolling down the hallway, you recognize?” he joked. 

In March 2024, The Hollywood Reporter and Selection reported that season three would come with a time bounce. HBO and Max chairman and CEO Casey Bloys confirmed this throughout an interview with Selection in June. 

“One of many points I feel that Sam is considering is that he would not wish to have it in highschool anymore,” Bloys stated. “That is the place it was set and what made sense then. So if you take it out of that, there’s a whole lot of forwards and backwards about the place to set it and the way far sooner or later to set it and all that stuff. However I feel he is bought a take that he is enthusiastic about, and he is busy writing.”

Levinson beforehand stated he envisioned season 3 as ‘movie noir,’ however this might have modified

In Zendaya’s Elle cowl story in August 2023, Levinson stated that season three will “discover what it means to be a person with rules in a corrupt world.”

It is necessary to notice, nevertheless, that Levinson productions famously change path on a dime, even throughout filming. In a press junket interview for season two, Elordi instructed Enterprise Insider that the scripts for these episodes had been “altering fairly usually for the longest time.” 

The path for season three continues to be up within the air.

Selection reported in March 2024 that HBO wasn’t happy with Levinson’s revised scripts that he submitted in late 2023 and early 2024. These new scripts reportedly had Rue working as a personal detective, an concept that HBO shut down.

Selection stated that Zendaya pitched her character as a sober twentysomething surrogate mother. Insiders instructed Selection that her thought was additionally turned down as a result of it did not really feel aligned with the present’s tone. The publication added that despite the fact that Zendaya is an govt producer, “she would not have veto energy over the scripts.”

Per a report printed by THR in July 2024, Zendaya was against Levinson’s non-public detective pitch. Sources instructed the publication that Zendaya and Levinson’s once-close working relationship has change into strained and tense amid the present’s delays.

‘Euphoria’ will not return till 2026, and it will most likely be the ultimate season 

The present’s manufacturing was delayed by the 2023 Hollywood writers’ and actors’ strikes.

In a January 2024 interview with TheWrap, Bloys stated that Levinson was “within the thick” of writing season three. 

Two months later, Deadline reported that season three was delayed once more — this time resulting from Levinson’s scripts not being accomplished. Deadline stated that filming was supposed to start out “throughout the subsequent couple of months.” With the indefinite delay, the celebs had been allowed to tackle different jobs. 

In July, HBO confirmed that manufacturing on season three would start in January 2025. 

Throughout a 2025 slate preview occasion in November, Bloys stated that season three will likely be comprised of eight episodes.

At a tech and media convention in December 2024, Warner Bros. Discovery world streaming chief JB Perrette stated “Euphoria” was eyeing a 2026 return.

Filming for season three lastly started in February 2025, and HBO shared a first-look picture of Zendaya as Rue. Shortly after, Orsi instructed Deadline that nothing’s confirmed but concerning the present’s future past season three, “but it surely’s been mentioned that that is the top.”

“I feel you may be very glad with this season, and the way we deliver every of the characters’ entire narrative,” Orsi stated.