- Euphoria Season 3 Called ‘A Lopsided Disaster’ As First Reviews Arrive
- The HBO Max show has a 57% score on Rotten Tomatoes after its first 19 reviews
- Episodes air weekly from April 12 to May 31
The first criticisms and reactions to Euphoria season 3 – which drops weekly on HBO Max starting April 12 – is launching, and it’s not surprising news for creator Sam Levinson and his cast.
Five years have passed for East Highland High alumni, and their lives have undergone a significant but unexpected change. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate (Jacob Elordi) are engaged and living in the suburbs, and Jules (Zendaya) owes money to notoriously nasty new drug lords.
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If you search for them, you will find some rare positive comments about what to expect. Euphoria season 3… but let’s dig deeper into what wouldn’t have worked.
“It should be great, but instead it’s disgusting”
Our opening remark on the “unbalanced disaster” comes from the New York Post, with the reviewer going on to add that Season 3 features “ridiculous situations that seem Break the bad encounter Looney Tunes.”
Mashable agrees that “a time jump and drastic reinvention cannot save Euphoria of himself”, explaining that “the path that Levinson chooses to Euphoria Season 3 opens the series up to its worst impulses, squandering its technical splendor and strong performances with exploitative storylines that seem poised to spark internet outrage. »
BBC Culture concluded that Euphoria season 3 has “become a series with very little to say”.
I’m sorry, did people expect Euphoria season 3 to be good? https://t.co/wRs6c952JvApril 9, 2026
However, The Independent says it remains a “generation-defining show that paints a lucid and unflattering portrait of modern America.”
There are a few things to note here, particularly the fact that critics were apparently only able to watch the first three episodes out of the season’s eight. This means there’s a good chance that critics’ and fans’ opinions will change as the weeks go by, given that most of the series is still unwatched.
Then there’s the opinion ably summarized in post X above. Since the third season has taken a long time to film, especially compared to the first two seasons, there will likely be more teething problems than usual.
We won’t know for sure until Euphoria is starting to air, but we can rest assured that it will remain in the cultural conversation for better or worse.
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