HBO is still trying to make Euphoria season 3 happen
In a new interview, HBO execs insisted that series creator Sam Levinson was "working on it"
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Every generation has its entertainment Santa Claus. For some reason, there are certain sequels we occasionally decide to pretend are totally still happening, even when every shred of evidence points to them most likely never actually happening. Winds Of Winter has been the primary Claus for years now, and still is for obvious reasons. Recently, however, Euphoria—and HBO’s staunch insistence that season 3 is definitely still in the works and everyone should just stop bothering them about it and believe them already—has been giving dear old George R.R. Martin a run for his money.
Max chairman Casey Bloys once again trotted out the same old rhetoric when asked about the series in a recent interview with Variety. “Sam [Levinson] is working on it,” said Bloys. “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.”
We know the nature of some of that back and forth from a previous Variety report, which is namely that both Zendaya and the network hated all of Levinson’s ideas. Not great from a business perspective if you’re trying to get back into one of your most successful properties, but sober Rue as a future pregnancy surrogate (which was, for some reason, one of those brilliant suggestions) certainly wouldn’t have been great either, so it’s a real catch-22 they’ve set up for themselves.
Still, in grand George R.R. Martin fashion, Bloys insists that Levinson has “a take that he’s excited about, and he’s busy writing.” Not only that, but the “same core cast”—now consisting of bona fide movie stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and Hunter Schafer—are still on the call sheet. This whole time, the team has insisted the show is aiming for a 2025 return, but 2025 is fast approaching and it doesn’t seem like we’re going back to high school—or some identified time beyond—any time soon. If it’s any consolation, we’ll probably get a lot more of these “updates” to tide us over in the indefinite interim.
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let it go. that second season was shaky at best and levinson sucks ass. hollywood already strip-mined the cast for parts and angus cloud is dead.
I really want to disagree with you based almost entirely on how many amazing actors are on the show and lingering memories of series one. I really want to. But I can’t.
haha, i mean same! that first season really was good!
Agreed. We’ve all moved on.
They’re all too old or dead. The show launched several stars with good careers, so just let them do other projects where they play adults. Most people don’t still hang out with their high school friends when they’re pushing 30.
I actually just rewatched the second season over the weekend. Just leave it alone at this point, and generally speaking, stop waiting three and four fucking years between seasons in the first place. Even if they make another season I won’t watch it in principle of the above.
Angus Cloud’s story was the most interesting part of season 2 for me, so I just can’t see caring about a third now that he’s gone.
I’m excited for the 3rd season of euphoria because of Sam Levinson’s involvement. The Idol was a terrific detour and I’m curious to see what Sam does next. I love his commitment to having amorality and toxicity as centerpieces of his creations and love his confrontational and sleazy style of filmmaking. The Weeknd was great in the Idol as this creepy, unpredictable cult leader and had the perfect balance of being unhinged, volatile and insecure. Lily was also absolutely terrific in that show portraying the multiple layers of her complex pop star persona whether it be the naive, submissive side or the manipulative and uncaring one. Obviously everyone ganged up on the show and rooted against it which is par for the course in the current woke generation where everyone is super touchy about everything and easily triggered. I’m even seeing some of it here in this comment section where everyone seems to get a real kick out of berating Sam Levinson. Whatever, I hope he keeps making the kind of content he is currently making and ignores the circlejerk of these snobby and woke critics who only like things a certain way and have a laughably high opinion of their irrelevant selves.
I’m surrounded by enough f-ed up people that I’m not interested in seeing these charachters “Ten Years Later” having fulfilled their worst inclinations as they attempt to “adult”.
Fetch.