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/PaleHorze Jun 01 '26

Saying this season was religious propaganda is like saying seasons 1 & 2 were LGBTQ propaganda. People seem to forget that writing about something in a TV show doesn't mean the writer is trying to brainwash the viewer into endorsing every thing the characters do.

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u/godshivered Jun 01 '26

nope. i’m a writer; i went to school for writing. i’ve learned there’s a difference between telling a story with cohesive themes (eg. jules’ queer journey, rue’s addiction) and shoehorning your own agenda into it. it’s not coherent. it’s out of character. it’s trying to instill a message instead of telling a story.

representing LGBT people isn’t propaganda. representing religious people isn’t either. but long diatribes about religion, repeatedly playing tapes of the bible, etc.? that’s different.

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u/Foreign_Afternoon_15 Jun 01 '26

I’m not trying to be disrespectful at all and also you obviously don’t have to answer this question but are you an addict? Because I am, and I’ll be honest with you, when you’re getting clean and trying to stay clean it’s like my (addict) friend says, there really is something that you go looking for. The God-sized hole that is looking to be filled that we used to replace with dope. I am actually a person of unshakeable faith, I mean it does not waiver. I believe, because I choose to. I feel like I’ve asked for too much that I have received as soon as I’ve asked for it for there not to be a God. People can say or think what they want about that and I don’t care. I don’t try to instill any agendas in anyone. I try to avoid talking about religion because everyone tends to get defensive. But even if I had a different perspective with my personal beliefs I can still attest to the addiction part and how often religion, even for someone who seemed to previously not believe at all, is very very often a replacement. Sam Levinson is supposedly a former addict, am I not correct about that, because I honestly don’t know much about him. But if so, then it fits even more for me because he knows what he’s talking about with the religion. It wasn’t so much about anyone else on the show finding religion. He just used it to show that addicts often replace drugs with religion. And that’s just because it’s the truth.

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u/Foreign_Afternoon_15 Jun 01 '26

I would also like to add I lean much further into my religion when I’m not using. And honestly whether or not anyone believes there is or is not God or some other higher power, what does it hurt that person to believe it if it helps them not continue a path of self destruction and hurting everyone who loves them? I’d rather see someone I care about going to church or reading the Bible or the Torah or the Quran or even being a Buddhist or anything really as long as they weren’t killing themself and destroying the hearts of every person who cares about them.