HBO is still trying to make Euphoria season 3 happen
In a new interview, HBO execs insisted that series creator Sam Levinson was "working on it"
Every generation has its entertainment Santa Claus. For some reason, there are certain sequels we occasionally decide to pretend are totally still happening, even when every shred of evidence points to them most likely never actually happening. Winds Of Winter has been the primary Claus for years now, and still is for obvious reasons. Recently, however, Euphoria—and HBO’s staunch insistence that season 3 is definitely still in the works and everyone should just stop bothering them about it and believe them already—has been giving dear old George R.R. Martin a run for his money.
Max chairman Casey Bloys once again trotted out the same old rhetoric when asked about the series in a recent interview with Variety. “Sam [Levinson] is working on it,” said Bloys. “There’s been a lot of back and forth… One of the issues I think that Sam is thinking about is that he doesn’t want to have it in high school anymore. That’s where it was set and what made sense then. So when you take it out of that, there’s a lot of back and forth about where to set it and how far in the future to set it and all that stuff.”
We know the nature of some of that back and forth from a previous Variety report, which is namely that both Zendaya and the network hated all of Levinson’s ideas. Not great from a business perspective if you’re trying to get back into one of your most successful properties, but sober Rue as a future pregnancy surrogate (which was, for some reason, one of those brilliant suggestions) certainly wouldn’t have been great either, so it’s a real catch-22 they’ve set up for themselves.
Still, in grand George R.R. Martin fashion, Bloys insists that Levinson has “a take that he’s excited about, and he’s busy writing.” Not only that, but the “same core cast”—now consisting of bona fide movie stars Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, and Hunter Schafer—are still on the call sheet. This whole time, the team has insisted the show is aiming for a 2025 return, but 2025 is fast approaching and it doesn’t seem like we’re going back to high school—or some identified time beyond—any time soon. If it’s any consolation, we’ll probably get a lot more of these “updates” to tide us over in the indefinite interim.