EUPHORIA Is Finally Over After 3 Too Many Seasons

Published: June 3, 2026

By Michaela Gordoni

The graphic show EUPHORIA is officially over, and we hope nothing like it ever exists again.

The show is known for leaning heavily into shock. It held nothing back in regards to visuals and teens’ involvement in sex, drugs and violence, and people are tired of it. It made these things seem normal, but they’re not.

After two of Season 3’s main characters met their demise, the show’s creator Sam Levinson said, “This feels like the end to me.”

He added that EUPHORIA’s story is “a tragic one in the end — but it’s also the truth. If you are experimenting or taking drugs today, it’s very possible it’ll kill you.”

But the show doesn’t really teach a lesson — it tells you that life is an empty, meaningless void; there is no hope for anyone.

If Levinson’s intention was to create this message that addiction kills, why did he do it in this way? It’s not appropriate for tweens, teens or even adults to watch, so who was he warning?

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Teenagers are still children. They still lack development and are incapable of predicting or handling serious consequences in ways the adult brain would, according to research. If their parents and the world treat them like adults, as depicted in this drama, then maybe these things will happen to some degree. Yes, teenagers have struggles, and it could be beneficial for Hollywood to tell those stories, but not like this.

Yahoo! Entertainment wrote, “Critics…accused the HBO drama of leaning too heavily into shock value, with The Guardian calling it ‘a grubby, humorless work of torture porn’ and The Hollywood Reporter saying the series ‘leaps closer to flashy irrelevance.’”

One viewer wrote, “The way the director sexualizes all these girls for this show is very disturbing to me and like I will never watch EUPHORIA that being one of the main reasons.” Another said, “It had so much potential and so many different story lines to dive into to keep the story true to different teenage struggles. Now it’s just fetish SLOP.”

With each season, more drama around the show has grown.

In 2023, one of the actors, Angus Cloud, who portrayed a drug dealer, died from a drug overdose. Being in a show that’s obsessed with drugs couldn’t have helped his drug struggles. Things might have been different for Cloud had he not been involved in EUPHORIA.

Ultimately, viewers have been repulsed by EUPHORIA. As they’ve watched, they’ve become disgusted with its dismal and meaningless portrayal of the characters’ lives.

People don’t want excessive content. They don’t want shock value. They want wholesome stories with value.

Movieguide® honors shows and movies that accomplish that and that give viewers what they want: stories that show what someone does can have meaning. EUPHORIA doesn’t come close.

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