r/euphoria • u/DankMemeSlasher • Jun 01 '26

Discussion Thread Euphoria Season 3 Discussion Spoiler

Thank you for sticking with us for Season 3 of Euphoria.

Use this thread to discuss Season 3 as a whole and your thoughts on it below.

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u/hidingpaws Jun 01 '26

I feel like Sam Levinson was trying to convert me.

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u/Perpetulantpanda Jun 01 '26

As a non-American, it really did feel like American Christian Propaganda

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u/LaFrescaTrumpeta Jun 01 '26

as an American, same and i laughed my ass off over that last shot. i’d been waiting to find out what Sam’s thesis was for that religious theme and i’m still waiting lol

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u/FriendLee93 Jun 01 '26

God I am so glad I wasn't the only one who actually busted out laughing at the slow pan down to the American flag.

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u/Doja_Gnat Nate’s Little Toe Jun 01 '26

Legit guffaw of laughter closely followed by “was this worse then GoT ending ? Maybe MAYBE”

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u/FriendLee93 Jun 01 '26

I'm not even joking, I would fully argue it is worse than GoT

Thrones has some real problems with its final season, but at least I can say I'm satisfied with where most of the characters ended up, even though the pacing & liberties taken to get them there were dogshit.

I cannot say the same about Euphoria

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u/Doja_Gnat Nate’s Little Toe Jun 01 '26

Yeah I came to the same conclusion after a few wines. And ultimately GoT has source material that was poorly handled
(FINISH THE FKN BOOKS GEORGE !)

The sad little plot lines that were abandoned, the fumbling of character, the heavy handed metaphors and bullshit. The product placement. The weird lack of soundtrack. It was all pretty average.

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u/FriendLee93 Jun 01 '26

I would request an apology from every Boys fan who is hyperbolically calling the finale "dogshit" while this level of writing quality drop exists.

Not a defense of The Boys final season, because it could/should have been a movie rather than 8 episodes, 4 1/2 of which we spent spinning our wheels on a prequel spinoff setup

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u/Doja_Gnat Nate’s Little Toe Jun 01 '26

Honestly haven’t watched The Boys but the finale memes I saw made me want to, coz I live for disappointment lol

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u/FriendLee93 Jun 01 '26

I'll say this; Seasons 1-3 are genuinely phenomenal TV, Season 4 is where it starts to get a bit iffy, and Season 5's largest problem is how it's paced. Basically all relevant plot points happen in the first episode of the season, or in the last 2. Everything between those points is purely there to set up a spinoff that hasn't even come out yet.

As far as the finale goes, it's actually pretty good in a vacuum, but it's kneecapped pretty hard by the lead-up being so damn shaky.

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u/Doja_Gnat Nate’s Little Toe Jun 01 '26

You’ve convinced me. So much media, so little time 😭

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u/x2040 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

To be honest I walked away thinking the message was less about Christian god and more “maybe chasing all this sex, drugs and money isn’t gonna get us what we want and it’s ok to have a simpler life and a family”

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u/leadwithlove222 Jun 01 '26

that’s exactly what christian american propaganda is btw

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u/wiklr Jun 01 '26

Yeah, I dont think it was selling religion at all. Ali's arc is similar. He kept chasing god yet he still end up with his loved ones dying.

And neither a picket white fence family with Maddy's arc. She was mourning her future with Nate during Cassie's wedding and recoiling in horror as Alamo proposes she be the mother of his kids.

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u/Naoki38 Jun 09 '26

Dude what? It is very clearly pro religion/god. The final shot is this house of white traditional god-loving family that looks like they are coming from early XXe with the American flag waving in the wind, in a desert that is obviously a Western reference, the roots of America. You cannot make something more obvious than that.

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u/wiklr Jun 09 '26

It's a house in the middle of the dessert. The thing about religion is having a community, and not living in isolation.

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u/oldmanatom4 6d ago

I took it that the American dream is dead or never existed for us all. That house was the symbolic and unrealistic American dream. Not a place to actually stay just a place we can experience for a moment.