It’s been four years since the second season of Sam Levinson’s hit teen drama, Euphoria, and the years leading up to the release of Season 3 have been a mess. Now, based on the newly released trailer for the third season, things are just about to get even more chaotic for the kids of the fictional town of East Highland.
The lead-up to the latest season, set to premiere on April 12, has been marred by controversy, just like past seasons. For one, actress Sydney Sweeney, who plays the character Cassie Howard, lost favor with the show’s Gen Z audience after her jean ad with American Eagle was criticized for allegedly using racist dog-whistles. There’s also her budding friendship with multibillionaire Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos and former journalist Lauren Sánchez, which seemed to solidify with her attendance at their Venice wedding in June 2025 and their appearance at her birthday party three months later.
Aside from Sweeney’s bad year in PR, much of Euphoria Season 3’s production was up in the air only until January last year. In a podcast interview, costume designer Heidi Bivens said shooting would start in May 2023, after the show was renewed in February 2022. But by August 2024, even actress Hunter Schafer didn’t know when filming would start, telling podcaster Alex Cooper on Call Her Daddy, “The real tea is I have no fucking idea what’s going on.”
Well, after watching the second trailer last night, I have to say, I don’t know what’s going on either, Hunter. So, as Euphoria Season 3 approaches, here are three burning questions we desperately need answers to.
Will we still hear Labrinth’s soundtrack?
It’s hard to imagine Euphoria without its soundtrack, for which British musician Labrinth wrote several songs, including the Emmy-winning “All For Us.” But in a now-deleted Instagram post shared on March 12, the artist wrote, “I’m done with this industry. Fuck Columbia [Records]. Double fuck Euphoria. I’m out. Thank you and good night.”
Almost a week later, Labrinth posted another message on Instagram, which said, “We walk into this industry as pure creatives that wish to share color, and get turned into wolves of Wall Street dribbling over stocks and shares […] Who the fuck said this is normal or okay to turn what I call God’s noise (our music) into business transactions? I don’t subscribe.”
In 2025, HBO announced that German film composer Hans Zimmer had been enlisted to join Labrinth in scoring Euphoria. What we don’t know is what went down between Columbia, HBO, and Labrinth, and whether we’ll still hear tracks like “Still Don’t Know My Name” and “Formula” in new episodes.
Are Rue and Maddy… a thing?
In the trailer, we see that Rue Bennett (Zendaya) and Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie) have gotten closer over the five-year time jump the story takes between Season 2 and Season 3. A clip shows Maddy in lingerie, complaining about seeing Cassie again, and Rue gleefully exclaiming, “Round two, baby!”
It warms my heart to see that they have come a long way from almost-stranger status in Season 1 (“In all fairness, last summer, there were, like, three weeks where I thought you died,” Maddy tells Rue in the season finale). But some fans have gone so far as to speculate that there may be something more between the two. Is it because together, they give 070 Shake-and-Lily-Rose Depp vibes? And what then about Rules (or Rue and Schafer’s Jules Vaughn)? Could this be TV’s much-needed sapphic love triangle?
Why does Cassie put up with Nate?
We also learn that Cassie and Nate Jacobs (Jacob Elordi) are still together, even after being found out by Maddy, Nate’s ex-girlfriend, in Season 2. But we know that Nate hasn’t been a good partner to Cassie, who seems to have a lot of self-respect issues, and the trailer hammers that home in one clip.
Cassie’s now a camgirl, and confesses to Nate that Maddy’s been helping her make content. He — married to Cassie, mind you — replies, “My Maddy?”
The hold that Nate has on Cassie has been excruciating to watch, but still necessary to explore. And after the hell she’s gone through in previous seasons, especially when it comes to relationships, I’m holding out hope that this is the season she finally stands up for herself. But Cassie’s arc, like many others in Euphoria, may end in tragedy.
HBO Max’s Euphoria Season 3 premieres in the Philippines on April 13.
