'Euphoria' Season 3 Finale

Caleb is back with a spoiler-filled review for the season finale for the final season of 'Euphoria'. 

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Monday, June 1st, 2026. This is from the television podcast with our preferred from the television. My name is Caleb. Uh no takes today. I'm here to talk about Euphoria Season 3, Episode 8, the season and series finale. And I also want to talk about season three overall and the show overall. This finale was long as hell, bro. This should be near two hours. Uh I'm laying here on my bed. It's currently uh 1 11 a.m. Uh on uh Monday morning, June 1st. Uh it's late as fuck. Um, I just got done recording a uh Spider-Noir podcast with my brother Chase. That's gonna be dropping on Tuesday. So watch out for that. We also preview the uh NBA Finals. Uh we got Spurs Knicks coming up this Wednesday evening. Um, so yeah, we're looking forward to that. But I heard about Euphoria, Euphoria season three, episode eight. I'm just gonna get right into it. Um, I'm just gonna make a little overview of what happened. Um episode begins. Uh Ru, she's still at Lori's. You know, she's trying to get out of there. Uh, she manages to escape, but she gets injured pretty bad, fucks up her hand and whatnot. Uh Alan gives her some type of medicine, and he tells her to take the week off. Um, she goes to the hospital and then she goes and stays with Ollie on his couch. Um she wakes up and she sees that uh Fezco broke out of prison. She goes in a panic and she goes and looks for him. Um it's clear at this point there's some type of hallucination. Um, and then it goes back to Ollie's place, and it's pretty obvious that you know she OD'd on Ollie's couch, and it's later found out that um Alamope, I guess, laced her, whatever he gave her with uh fit and all. Um we get a bunch of flashbacks of her and her mom, her and her sister, her and Jules. So very sad, very sad music. Um it's very sad stuff. We don't really see the aftermath of it as far as like other characters. Um we do see Lexi and Cassie talk about it, and that's that's really it. Um we do we do see Jules, he's crying and she's you know painting a picture of her or whatever. But that's that's really, really it. Um flash forward up. Ollie shows up to the strip club with a shotgun. And uh we essentially get the basement scenes from Inglorious Bastards. Um that shit made me so mad. I'm gonna talk about that later. Um, but Marshawn Lynch, she ends up getting killed, Alamo gets killed, um, Bishop he portrays Alamo. Um, and that's really it from that story. Ali he goes and visits the family on the farm that was that at Ruizworth in episode one. That was a nice call back from that. Um, but yeah, that was really the episode. Um, so yeah. All right, I'm gonna go right into it. Um, through death, it was it wasn't overly sad because like I mean, like she died in her sleep, so we don't we don't feel we don't actually see her die. Um but the I I'm gonna be on a key road man, like I have hated this season. I thought it's been like really bad, like really bad writing. The performances have been okay, but I I I think it's been like a bad season of TV, um, just all over the place. Um, but I'm gonna be honest with you, like I shed real tears watching this episode, and I'm gonna tell you why. Um, the Lexi part. It goes to Lexi and Cassie talking about Rue, and you know, Cassie's pretty much like she was a drug addict, you know, you can't be surprised at this, this, and that. Which kind of pisses me off because it's like Rue, she um she's been sober this whole time, but you know, when when you're known for being a drug addict, man, people aren't gonna believe you when you tell them that you've changed or you're not doing this or that anymore. So that was rough. But you know, just like the Lexi part of it, Lexi being like, you know, things weren't great when she died. Um, and it just it just brought back some like really like traumatizing and bad memories for me. Um, where that happened with me, where I had a family member die, and me and the family were on bad terms. I was holding a grudge over them, and we just weren't communicating at all, and though they so surprisingly died, and it it kind of like it like it really like just it really like fucked me up like in a not good way. Um, and I immediately thought of that when it came to this episode to be when it came to that specific thing, like he's talking about that. Um it's one of those things, man. Like, like please don't hold grudges and like please tell your people you love them. You never know what's going on, and you never know what's gonna happen. Like, life life is so short. Um life is just so short. Um, Ali, he refers to Lucia's daughter, and like that, that that that kind of broke me, bro. Cause like, you know, Ru's dad was I'm pretty sure he's like died. I don't we never really know much about her dad, but from the beginning, like he's like a mentor to her. Like obviously he's not her father, but he's like a mentor to her, and yeah, he was always there for her. Um You know, it's just sad, you know. Um, but shout out to Coleman Domingo, man. Like, he's obviously a great actor. Um, but like he puts on an acting clinic in this episode, and like I'm watching I'm watching this shit like like holy fuck this dude's taking over right now. Like it was it was kind of like NBA analogy. It was kind of like a role player who's like solid and consistent, but like in a big spot he steps in and he's like and he's like, Yep, I'm that nigga. Um like yep, I'm that nigga. And this is this is very apparent when it came to uh sitting at the Twitter club. Um and I I mentioned it earlier, but the Glorious Bastard scene I truly, I truly, I truly hated that scene. Um I hated everything about it. Like if I swater place, like you know, Rue she dies, and it's so sad. Then we go to this crazy over-the-top action sequence, which to me, those are like the worst parts of Quentin Tarantino. And you know, Sam Levinson, he's obviously not Quentin Tarantino, so it's just not gonna be as good. Um, you know, it's just one of it's just not gonna be as good. Um, because like Reddit, she's on shout out to the Euphoria saw Reddit. They always compare Sam Levinson to Quentin Tantino, and I'm almost like, nah, man, I just I don't see it. But these last few episodes, I'm just like, yeah, it's obvious, and I really am sorry for doubting you guys. Like, I'm sorry, you got y'all right, I was wrong. I'm a dumbass. Um, I noticed at the last episode though, with with the with Alamo like rubbing Maddie's feet or whatever, and then you know, this episode with the Holy Glorious Bastards thing, like that shit just does not work, man. Like, I I hated it. I hated it, hated it, you know. But I mean it's obvious though, like he's home and scared, he's wearing he's wearing the jacket like Christoph Waltz, and then you know, he he goes up in the street club with the shotgun, you know, him and Marshall Lynch are sitting there talking at the table, and he fucking fucking points the fucking shotgun at his dick. Um yeah, he ends up he ends up killing that man, blowing his fucking dick off. Um, Michael Fastbinder getting his fucking dick blown off. Um so yeah, that was that shit was rough. Um but oh but yeah, that's the episode for me, like it was just super it was the mix of like super sad and then also being super mad at the Gloria's bastard scrap. Um but you know, Rudying do I have a problem with it, not really it's the last episode. We're not we already know like there won't be in our season. Let's say hypothetically there was, there's no reason days coming back, so so yeah, I I have no problem with it. Um that being the way is I mean I guess it had to happen that way with her being a former drug addict. It's just one of those things, bro. Cause like it was like she got tricked into it, you know. Like she's gonna retire from being a drug addict. So I don't i I hate that it's gonna seem like you know, she like relapsed because like that that didn't really happen. It was just like an accidental thing, you know what I mean? Which you know, whatever. It's just one of those things. She's a fictional character, like who really gives a fuck? You know, it's just whatever. I I just kind of wish it would have happened differently. I mean, I'm glad she didn't like get shot in the head or anything. Um I also forgot to mention this earlier. Um, but uh Lori, Lori ends up killing herself. Um I I kinda get it. I kinda get it. Like she she she vainly mentions, you know, I can't go to prison, which you know, I'm gonna be honest with you, I probably have been on the same type of shit, bro. Like, I don't want to go to prison either. Um I don't know. Her dying is is it's whatever. I don't I'm not sure. She was a good character, she's a good actress. Um so yeah, that's that. Um the season overall though. Um, it was a bad season, too many storylines, you know, like Jules, there really was no point in her being in the short, like she literally served no purpose to the story at all. Like, not at all, bruh. Like Jules was a main character in season one, and these last two seasons, she's just gotten fucked over, especially here, man. It's like like what was the point of even showing her in this episode, you know. Like, I don't know, it was super, super weird. Maddie and Lexi, they're just it's just like I got like I guess, I don't know. Like Lexi, she also served no purpose in this story. Lexi's my favorite character. Um, but I'm just being real, she served no purpose in this show at all. Like, it was good seeing her. Shout out to Maud Appletow, she's a good actor, but it's just like like Maddie, like, yeah, Maddie was involved with the Cassie stuff and whatnot. So she served the purpose. I'm just like, I don't know. I I just I do kind of feel like her storylines were really dry. Like, I didn't give a fuck about none of the shit she was doing or going through. Like, I just did not care. Um, Cassie and Nate, they were like the main characters, and it just it just didn't work for me, man. Like, Nate's just not this, he just wasn't the same. And to me, like, shout out to Jacob Valorie. I don't know, like, just boring. Like, he's just boring as hell, you know. Sydney Sweeney, I mentioned this before, like, you know, I I just gotta respect what she's doing, you know, because we didn't see any titties this episode, but she just embraces her sexuality. Like, I gotta respect it. I gotta fucking respect it. Um, but yeah, I don't know. Like, Rue, Rue is a sober person, it never quite worked, you know. Like showed out as in Deia, but it just never fully worked this season. Um, Nate's death, it was a tough watch. Like, she was tough. Like, I was talking to my brother telling, like, my brother doesn't watch you for it, but there's one specific episode I want him to watch, and it's the last episode where uh where Nate dies, because that shit's just that shit is gnarly. Um, and like, yeah, his death, it just felt too late. Like, I've heard Sam Levinson say that like he knows people hate Nate and he knows that you know Nate deserves a specific type of death, but I'm just like bruh, it's just too late. I just think like too much time has passed, like the character of Nate isn't even the same anymore. Like, people don't hate Nate anymore, you know what I mean? Like, I can understand season one or season two, or like he beat the shit out of that one kid, or like he tried to like frame his dad, or tried to like frame jewels or whatever, or tried to get fucking Fez arrested. Then, yeah, it makes sense. But here now, season three, where he's like, he's gotten all these fucking bones worth the party's gotten the shit kicked out of him, he's had his girl fucking walk out of him, walk out on him. So like, so like I don't know, like Nate, I like I'm not sure. It's just one of those things. I just felt I just felt like too much time has passed, like he's not the same character anymore, you know. So it it just didn't it just didn't work for me. I mean, you know, and like I said, like I can't speak for everybody, but like I felt bad for Nate this season, and like his death, it's supposed to be like this satisfying moment, but it just wasn't satisfying at all. It just wasn't. Um, but overall, like yeah, euphoria is a good show. Because to me, like season one, great, season two, good, season three, bad. Um, you know, the labyrinth thing, it's a it's really a problem, bro. Like it really is, it really is a problem. And uh, you know, it obviously never got solved or whatever. He was never there, but I just watched this show and I think like, man, some of these scenes could have been so much better if the music was on point. And it just wasn't, you know. Shout out to Han Zimmer Legend. Um, but yeah, it it just didn't, it just didn't fully, it just didn't fully work for me as a show, this season at least. Um, I hope there's no like no spin-offs or anything. Like that should just rest in peace. Let the show just rest in peace. You know, rest in peace, Angus Cloud, rest in peace, Eric Dame. Um, but yeah, that's my review for uh Euphoria Season 3, episode 8, and then also Euphoria season three. Uh this I know podcast. My name is Caleb. Um, me and Chase will be back next week. I'm out.