Streaming on:<\/strong> Sky \/ NOW \/ HBO Max <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMan, I miss high school,\u201d sighs Rue, two episodes into the long-awaited new season of Euphoria<\/em>. It\u2019s a line that doesn\u2019t just jog your memory as much as jolt it with a cattle prod \u2013 that yes, you\u2019re still watching the same show that began as a tale of teen hedonism in 2019, minting a new wave of stars along the way. Creator Sam Levinson\u2019s drama is almost unrecognisable in this third and seemingly final instalment, which picks up four years after the SWAT raids and scandals that closed out season two.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rue is now a drug mule, swallowing condoms full of fentanyl to traffic across the Mexican border. Cue a hail of homages to Westerns, Tarantino and Blaxploitation classics, as the corridors of East Highland are left behind for a seedy desert strip club called the Silver Slipper, and an even darker descent into American decay begins.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Zendaya in particular is in formidable form once more.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n <\/p>\n It\u2019s not just Rue who finds herself in new surroundings. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) is now an OnlyFans entrepreneur, living in luxury in Los Angeles, but for how much longer, it\u2019s hard to say; her fianc\u00e9, Nate (Jacob Elordi), is drowning in debt after inheriting his father\u2019s real estate empire. Lexi (Maude Apatow) and Maddie (Alexa Demie) have both begun climbing ladders in Hollywood, while Jules (Hunter Schafer) is now a sugar baby in New York. Their storylines all feel scattered, united solely by Rue\u2019s narration. What sort of overlap their arcs will have, and whether their stories will converge to form any point about Cassie and co\u2019s generation by the series\u2019 end, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Some constants remain, the good and bad of Euphoria<\/em> past. This is still a sumptuously-shot show, not to mention a well-acted one: Zendaya in particular is in formidable form once more, letting glints of sadness surface from beneath Rue\u2019s veneer of languid detachment. Less appealing is how the camera still hovers longingly over shots of its female characters\u2019 bodies, as one-by-one, Levinson\u2019s scripts nudge them into sex work and skimpy costumes. A common criticism of the showrunner is that there\u2019s seldom much insight or commentary to go with the degradation of the women in his work. Two episodes into Euphoria<\/em> Season 3, that criticism is yet to be answered.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Amid all the chaos of this season is a captivating existential question for Rue to consider. Flirting with religion, she begins to wonder: how much can someone ever really reinvent themselves? It is possible to carve out a new identity for yourself \u2014 or are we forever burdened by who we were in the past? As it reaches its endgame, Euphoria<\/em> seems trapped by a similar tension, torn between the show it wants to be \u2014 a crime thriller with a side helping of satirical swipes at the entertainment industry ecosystem \u2014 and all that came before.<\/p>\n <\/span><\/div>\n Euphoria is still bold, still daring, still lavish in its production. But it\u2019s also still in search of a point to make. Its legacy after this final season depends on its ability to find one.\u202f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five years after the events of Season 2, Rue (Zendaya) and her friends have splintered off into disparate lives. But addiction, chaos and self-destructive habits still follow them all. 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