‘Euphoria’ Sets Return Date, Drops High-Octane Trailer for Season 3
'Euphoria' Season 3 - Photograph by Patrick Wymore/HBO
After a five-year time jump, HBO’s ‘Euphoria’ is finally back — and the Season 3 trailer teases grown-up chaos, fractured relationships, and Rue’s most dangerous chapter yet.
HBO just officially locked in the return of ‘Euphoria’ — and the show is coming back exactly the way it left us: loud, emotional, and on the edge of a meltdown.
The network revealed that ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 premieres April 12, alongside a two-minute-plus trailer that confirms the long-rumored time jump and instantly re-ignites the show’s signature mix of adrenaline, heartbreak, and looming disaster. Set five years after the end of Season 2, the new season follows Rue, Nate, Cassie, Jules, Lexi, and Maddy as young adults — finally out of the high school “safety net,” but still carrying the same wounds, impulses, and self-destruction that made the series such a cultural lightning rod.
The trailer’s biggest shift is clear right away: these aren’t teenagers anymore — and the stakes look higher because of it.
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Zendaya’s Rue appears to be living south of the border in Mexico and still tethered to the shadow of Laurie (Martha Kelly), the drug dealer she owes money to. Rue narrates the footage with a fragile sense of reflection — almost like she’s trying to convince herself she’s capable of a new life — until reality crashes back in. Laurie’s return doesn’t feel like a subplot; it feels like a countdown clock, the kind of threat that could turn Rue’s already volatile world into something far darker.
And while Rue’s survival remains the emotional spine of the show, the trailer makes it clear she’s not the only one spiraling.
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Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie and Jacob Elordi’s Nate appear to have taken the most shocking leap forward: they’re engaged, living in the suburbs, and seemingly pushing toward marriage — a glossy surface that the trailer immediately punctures. Cassie is shown filming explicit content, which triggers one of the trailer’s most instantly meme-able lines when Nate snaps, “I work all day and my bride-to-be is spread eagle on the internet.” Cassie’s response is pure modern chaos: “I was just making content.” Even in adulthood, the dynamic still reads like a pressure cooker — obsession, control, humiliation, and power all fighting for the top spot.
Hunter Schafer’s Jules is now in art school, but the trailer teases that the emotional gravity between her and Rue hasn’t disappeared. Their brief reunion hits like a ghost of everything they never resolved — tender, loaded, and potentially explosive. Alexa Demie’s Maddy has shifted into a new world entirely, working at a Hollywood talent agency, while Maude Apatow’s Lexi is building a life behind the scenes as an assistant to a showrunner played by new cast addition Sharon Stone — a move that feels like a meta wink at Lexi’s own relationship with storytelling, performance, and control.
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Sam Levinson has previously described the new season as being about life after school — the moment where consequences stop feeling theoretical. The trailer reflects that shift in tone: it’s still stylized, still seductive, still chaotic, but there’s a new weight to it. These characters aren’t just making mistakes anymore — they’re building lives on top of them.
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Season 3 also expands the universe with a major wave of new cast members, including Danielle Deadwyler, Natasha Lyonne, Rosalía, Eli Roth, Marshawn Lynch, Sam Trammell, and Asante Blackk. Returning faces include Eric Dane, Chloe Cherry, Dominic Fike, Nika King, and Colman Domingo. Notably absent this season are Storm Reid, Austin Abrams, and Javon Walton. The show will also continue forward without Angus Cloud, who played fan-favorite Fezco and died in July 2023.
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The return of ‘Euphoria’ has been one of the longest, most scrutinized waits in modern TV — arriving more than four years after Season 2 premiered. Between scheduling challenges for the in-demand cast, Levinson’s work on ‘The Idol,’ and widely reported behind-the-scenes friction, the gap became part of the story. Now, HBO is clearly positioning Season 3 as a full-scale event: bigger, bolder, and ready to dominate the conversation again.
If the trailer is any indication, ‘Euphoria’ isn’t interested in a quiet comeback. It’s coming back like a siren.
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