Euphoria has never been a subtle series. The Season 3 premiere is no different, plunging viewers back into Sam Levinson‘s provocative story about young people searching for meaning and connection in a chaotic, often cynical, world. Now, those characters are five years older, but none the wiser.
In fact, they seem to have defaulted back to the worst versions of themselves, if they ever grew beyond them to begin with — only this time, the safety net of high school is gone. Levinson has repeatedly said he sought to explore “the Wild West of adulthood” with Season 3, visually drawing inspiration from the American West. Naturally, the first episode sets off on that circuitous journey through the lens of Zendaya‘s Rue Bennett, whose debt to drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly) has come due since we last saw her.
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