- Euphoria season 3 labeled as ‘an unhinged disaster’ as the first critic reviews roll in
- The HBO Max show has scored a 57% on Rotten Tomatoes after its first 19 reviews
- Episodes air weekly from April 12 to May 31
The first critic reviews and reactions to Euphoria season 3 — which hits HBO Max weekly starting April 12 — is underway, and it’s not great news for creator Sam Levinson and his cast.
Five years have passed for the former students of East Highland High, 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 some notoriously nasty new drug kingpins.
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If you look for them, you’ll find a few rare positive comments about what comes in Euphoria season 3… but let’s dig deeper into what allegedly didn’t work.
‘It should be great, but instead it’s ugly’
Our opening remark “unhinged disaster” comes courtesy of The New York Post, where the review goes on to add that Season 3 has “ridiculous situations that feel like Breaking Bad meetings Looney Tunes.”
Mashable agrees that “A time jump and drastic reinvention cannot save Euphoria from himself,” explains that “the path Levinson chooses Euphoria Season 3 opens the show up to its worst impulses, marring its technical splendor and strong performances with exploitative storylines that feel primed for Internet outrage.”
BBC Culture concluded that Euphoria season 3 has “become a show with very little to say.”
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However, The Independent claims that it remains a “generation-defining show that paints a clear-eyed, unflattering portrait of modern America.”
There are a few points worth noting here, most notably that critics were apparently only able to watch the first three episodes out of the season’s eight. That means there’s a good chance that critic and fan opinion could both change as the weeks go on, given that most of the series is still unwatched.
Then there’s the statement handily summarized in the X post above. Because the third season took so long to film, especially compared to the first two seasons, there will likely be more child issues than usual.
We don’t know anything for sure until now Euphoria is starting to air, but we can be sure that it will remain in the cultural conversation for better or for worse.
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