Euphoria Season 3 Finale Reveals Shocking Character Death

The next morning, Rue learns that Fezco (the late Angus Cloud) escapes from prison and embarks on a mission to rescue him. During the mission, she crosses police lines and flees—during which she sees visions of Jules (Hunter Schafer) and Fezco—before she into her childhood home and reunites with her mother Leslie (Nika King).

The whole sequence, however, is a dream. In reality, Ali (Colman Domingo) wakes up to find Rue dead on his couch: She took one of Alamo’s Percocets, which Ali tests and discovers was laced with Fentanyl. The loss sends him into a pit of despair and anger—more on that to come.

Meanwhile, Jules (Hunter Schafer) continues to make limited appearances: In her one scene in the finale, Rue’s first love channels her grief for her former schoolmate into a moving painting.

As for where Cassie (Sweeney) and Maddy (Alexa Demie) stand after Nate’s (Elordi) death in the penultimate episode? The pair decide to turn Cassie and Nate’s home into a NSFW content house, rooming creators onsite—and they want Lexi (Maude Apatow) to direct (an offer the moral compass of East Highland High School declines).

Now, back to Ali. Fueled by rage that the people he tries to help continuously succumb to lethally-dosed drugs, he goes to Alamo’s strip club with the intention of killing the drug dealer responsible for Rue’s death. And in a showdown worthy of an old Western drama, Ali accomplishes his task after Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) secretly empties Alamo’s gun of bullets.

After the violent affair, Ali seeks refuge with the family Rue previously sheltered with, finding peace. 

The season three finale, which is also rumored to be the show’s last, set the stage for a perfect ending to the long-running drama series—which also starred the late Eric Dane, Storm Reid as well as Barbie Ferreira over the years—after fans waited a long four years for its return. 

And that was exactly what Levinson intended—as previously explained he was excited to break free of the high school mold from the first two seasons. 

“They’re in the real world, and the consequences are real,” Levinson told Esquire earlier this month. “There’s no safety net. I like this Wild West, frontier aspect to it where you can make something of yourself, but you’re going to have to live with the consequences.”

As their character became acquainted with the real world, the corresponding actors had already reached new levels of stardom. After all, Euphoria acted as a launching pad for its main characters. Earlier this year, Elordi scored an Oscar nomination for Frankenstein on the coat tails of playing Nate, while Zendaya nabbed two Emmys for playing Rue, and Sweeney scored an Emmy nomination as well as acclaim as a producer of box office hits since the show’s premiere. 

“It’s been such a journey,” Sweeney told Variety in October of her time on the show. “It’s been my entire 20s. They’ve been my family and friends for so long. I’ve been forever grateful for all of them.”

Zendaya—who got her start on Disney—also emphasized ahead of the show’s final season that she owes “so much” of her success to it. 

“Euphoria, it cracked my heart open,” she explained during an April appearance on The Drew Barrymore Show. “Rue taught me so much about empathy and about redemption. She taught me a lot, and I’m very grateful for all of it.”

While Euphoria is over, there are plenty more TV show premieres to look forward to. Read on for your next binge watch…