- Euphoria Season 3 Called ‘A Crazy Disaster’ As First Reviews Come In
- The HBO Max show earned a 57% score on Rotten Tomatoes after its first 19 reviews
- Episodes air weekly from April 12 to May 31.
The first criticisms and reactions to Euphoria Season 3, coming to HBO Max weekly starting April 12, is now available, and it’s not great news for creator Sam Levinson and his cast.
It’s been five years for the East Highland High alumni 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 lords.
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If you look for them, you will find a few positive comments about what is to come. Euphoria season 3… but let’s delve into what supposedly hasn’t worked.
“It should be great, but instead it’s disgusting”
Our initial “unhinged disaster” comment comes courtesy of The New York Post, and the review adds that season 3 has “ridiculous situations that seem Breaking Bad meets looney tunes.”
Mashable agrees that “a time jump and drastic reinvention can’t save Euphoria of himself”, explaining that “the path that Levinson chooses to Euphoria “The third season opens the series to its worst impulses, marring its technical splendor and solid performances with exploitative storylines that seem 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 maintains that it remains a “generation-defining show that paints a stark and unflattering portrait of modern America.”
There are a few points worth noting here, notably that critics were apparently only able to see the first three episodes of the season’s eight. This means there’s a good chance that critics’ and fans’ opinion will change as the weeks go by, considering most of the series has yet to be seen.
Then there is the opinion cleverly summarized in post X above. Because the third season took so long to film, especially compared to the first two seasons, there are likely to be more teething problems than usual.
We won’t know anything for sure until Euphoria is starting to air, but we can be sure it will remain in the cultural conversation for better or worse.
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