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The show has, like its characters, grown up a lot. It’s a little sad that this has happened just in time for the show’s likely conclusion, but should this level of quality hold for the remaining episodes of the season, Euphoria might just go out on an, um, high note.
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After watching the first three episodes of Euphoria Season 3, it’s unclear whether there’s hope for Rue and her friends, but there’s definitely a chance this polarizing HBO show might end its run on an incandescent high note.
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Levinson also chooses shock value too often, leaning toward depravity in the third episode. Yet it’s easy enough to choose hope with so much visual excitement and star power on display — and, for us romantics, with Rue and Jules allowed to be in the same room again.
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Euphoria’s third season is every bit as visually arresting and stomach-churning as the first two.
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If anything, the new version feels more representative of what Euphoria’s tongue-in-cheek title was always meant to convey. The state of euphoria was something the characters were perpetually chasing, but never managed to attain. Out of all the seasons, this latest one feels truest to that cruel irony.
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Without the high school as the central location and a raging house party to kick things off, the premiere does have a fractured quality; by some miracle, the 62-minute runtime doesn’t drag.
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After four years, Euphoria is back, as tawdry and titillating as ever. And yet also, somehow, better.
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A vapid show about vapidity, a materialist show about materialism: Euphoria owns its contradictions, and, in this final season, shows it’s mastered them.
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But while the stage is set for more heartbreak and danger, you also sense that this show has grown up along with its ensemble.