It has been 4 lengthy years, however HBO’s hit drama “Euphoria” is lastly returning for season 3, and a brand new trailer simply dropped! As Rue defined within the earlier trailer, the story picks up once more “just a few years after highschool,” which is a reasonably large time leap from season 2. And, like plenty of Gen Zers, it looks as if the previous college students of East Highland Excessive College are struggling to seek out course in a tumultuous world.
Collection protagonist Rue (Zendaya) is placing her expertise to work within the illicit drug-dealing trade, which may be profitable however is not an very best surroundings for somebody making an attempt to remain sober. Particularly when, as the brand new trailer for “Euphoria” season 3 depicts, the job requires you to smuggle medication by swallowing them.
The trailer additionally catches us up with Rue’s former classmates. Nate (Jacob Elordi) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) are married, and Cassie is pursuing a profession as a content material creator with the doubtful assist of her former finest buddy, Maddy (Alexa Demie). Lexi’s (Maude Apatow) controversial highschool play was apparently such a success that it is launched her right into a Hollywood profession. And Rue’s former flame Jules (Hunter Schafer) has settled into the luxurious lifetime of a sugar child, which brings her again into the trail of Nate’s dad, Cal Jacobs (performed by the late Eric Dane).
Is Rue child in a foul scenario… or simply plain evil?
Crossing the bridge from teenhood into maturity means coping with much more accountability, and it seems like that is one thing that Rue can be scuffling with in “Euphoria” season 3. Although minors have the privilege of getting their felony data sealed at 18, from that time onwards each stain turns into quite a bit more durable to clean off. The characters of “Euphoria” can not write off their wrongdoing because the misguided actions of troubled youngsters. From this level on, every little thing they do can have a tough affect on the trajectory of their lives, and upon the ultimate judgment of their character. The trailer’s tagline ponders: “Have we lastly gone too far?”
It is an attention-grabbing set-up that, in a means, retroactively justifies the present’s four-year hiatus. Had season 3 continued to discover glamorous teen melodrama, “Euphoria” may need began to stagnate. As an alternative, present creator Sam Levinson has a possibility to maneuver issues right into a extra mature and contemplative grownup area, the place actions have irreversible penalties.
“Euphoria” season 3 premieres Sunday, April 12, on HBO.
