Everything We Know About ‘Euphoria’ Season 3

Get ready to say goodbye to East Highland High School.

In the years since Euphoria last aired, fans have clamored for updates on Season 3 of the drama. The popular HBO Max show spawned countless memes, inspired glitter-heavy beauty trends, and hard-launched cast members like Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi into stardom during its first two seasons. Interest reached a fever pitch when the Euphoria Season 2 finale aired in February 2022. Countless viewers took to X, formerly Twitter, to discuss theories and potential plot twists, helping crown Euphoria the most-tweeted-about-show of the decade (to date).

Now that the dust has settled, the fandom has finally received some news about the fate of season 3: the show is returning with the "same core cast", and there's going to be a time jump—which means we'll all have to say a collective goodbye to East Highland High School.

In an exclusive interview on June 11, 2024, HBO CEO Casey Bloys told Variety as much, saying, "Sam [Levinson] is working on it. There’s been a lot of back and forth … One of the issues I think that Sam is thinking about is that he doesn’t want to have it in high school anymore. That’s where it was set and what made sense then. So when you take it out of that, there’s a lot of back and forth about where to set it and how far in the future to set it and all that stuff. But I think he’s got a take that he’s excited about, and he’s busy writing."

Here’s everything we know so far about the upcoming season.

‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Cast

According to the aforementioned Variety interview with HBO CEO Casey Bloys, the show’s "same core cast" will return for the third season, including Zendaya as Rue Bennett and Hunter Schafer as Jules Vaugh. Jacob Elordi (Nate Jacobs), Alexa Demie (Maddy Perez), Sydney Sweeney (Cassie Howard), Dominic Fike (Elliott), and Maude Apatow (Lexi Howard) will also be returning. Eric Dane (Cal Jacobs) is also expected to be back for the third season in a “redemption” storyline, the actor said in an interview with Variety.

It’s unknown whether Ash (Javon Walton) will be in Euphoria Season 3. Barbie Ferreira (Kat Hernandez) has confirmed she won't be there, and of course, neither will Angus Cloud (Fez), who passed away in July 2023.

'Euphoria’ Season 3 Release Date

In November 2023, HBO announced that the third season of Euphoria was slated for release in 2025, citing the ongoing strikes and Levinson’s work writing The Idol for the delay.

In March 2024, Sydney Sweeney told MTV that she was finally heading back into filming Euphoria’s third season, but the network announced another setback soon after. They revealed that the scripts were still being written and that HBO was also working around their in-demand casts’s other commitments. According to Deadline, a 2025 release is still the goal.

'Euphoria' Season 3 Plot

Not much is known about the plot of Euphoria’s third season, but a key detail has just recently been revealed: the characters will experience a "time jump", with the show picking up after high school graduation. This leaves producers with a lot of questions about details like age, location, and relationships, but rest assured: writer Sam Levinson is hard at work finishing the script. Back in August 2023, he told Elle as part of Zendaya’s cover story interview that it will be a “film noir.” He also revealed that the season would “explore what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world” from Rue’s point of view.

The Dune 2 actress also weighed in on the upcoming season, telling Extra, "I would like to explore Rue's sobriety and that journey for her. We see her in the midst of it. It would be nice to see her closer to the other side." She also shared that she hopes Euphoria’s third season brings “a little bit of happiness and a little bit of joy” to the characters after the dark previous seasons.

Seeing Rue further along in her journey is exactly what viewers should expect, given that the characters will no longer be in high school when the show resumes.

On March 27, Sweeney weighed in on the then-rumored time jump in an interview with Who What Wear, saying she hoped fans would get to see a different side of her character who’d started dressing like Maddy and had just gotten dumped by Nate and the end of season 2.

“I actually like it because there’s so much room for growth for both me as a person and also Cassie as a character,” Sweeney told the publication. She stayed mum on what that would look like, just teasing that the season is “going to be very, very wild.”

Where to Watch 'Euphoria' Season 3

Viewers can only stream Euphoria on its original viewing platform, HBO Max, which starts at $9.99 per month with ads.

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