Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched the Season 3 finale of Euphoria.” Move over, “Game of Thrones” and “Stranger Things,” there’s a new worst finale in town.
“Euphoria” Season 3 ended the way it began: tawdry, tasteless, and squandering its all-star cast with ludicrous writing.
In the Sam Levinson drama’s supersized, 93-minute long finale that aired Sunday, Rue (played by Zendaya) dies halfway through the episode.
It’s grim and anticlimactic.
She doesn’t even go out in the gang war between Season 3 drug kingpins Laurie (Martha Kelly) and Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) Rue swipes pills from Alamo, and overdoses on fentanyl.
Her distraught mentor, Ali (Colman Domingo) finds her unresponsive on his couch.
Ali later gets revenge.
He puts on his old military uniform, shows up at Alamo’s strip club with a gun, and fatally shoots Alamo.
This takes up the majority of the finale’s screen time – along with some unnecessary action from Laurie and her redneck gang, who get apprehended by the DEA and cops (Laurie ties a noose around her neck and throws herself off a building, rather than get arrested).
So, even if you were enjoying Season 3’s dubious focus on Cassie’s OnlyFans career, you barely even get that.
Cassie’s (Sydney Sweeney) screen time is surprisingly minimal.
The finale spends more time zooming in on Kitty’s (Anna Van Patten)’s derriere than it spends on some original “Euphoria” characters, like Jules (Hunter Schafer).
That sounds like an exaggeration; it’s not.
The show ends with Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) seemingly now living in her and Nate’s tacky mansion with Maddy (Alexa Demie) and her sister Lexi (Maude Apatow).
To the extend that anybody gets a “happy ending,” it seems to be these three women living together in a weird large house with yellow decor.
Nate (Jacob Elordi) doesn’t even get a funeral.
Cassie lied to Lexi about what happened to Nate.
Lexi thinks he mysteriously vanished, and may turn up someday.
It’s telling that Zendaya and Jacob Elordi were the standout stars of Seasons 1 and 2, shining so brightly that the show helped them become two of the biggest global superstars today, and they’re barely in the finale.
He only appears via a photo, and she’s only in about twenty minutes of it.
That says everything about....
