After hearing that Barbie Ferreira’s Kat Hernandez will not be returning for season three of the smash HBO series Euphoria, viewers may use a pick-me-up. Production Weekly reports that the third season of Sam Levinson’s glittering drama will begin production in February 2023. The production date is planned for a year after the emotionally wrenching Season 2 finale aired, giving us plenty of time to digest the magnitude of what happened. Those of us who were hoping for live tweets from Angus Cloud realise how exhausted you must feel. Friends, please wait just a bit longer. Makeup artist Donni Davy estimates that a month is needed to film and polish each one-hour episode of Euphoria.
The narrative for Levinson’s programme is dense, and the show’s photography has a dramatic flair, therefore the last two seasons have each included eight episodes. In addition, it has been noted before that Euphoria lacks a writers’ room, and that filming days may be rather lengthy. Cloud, who portrays Fezco, the mellow and wise heroin dealer for Rue (Zendaya), told Vulture that filming the devastating shootout sequence “…took like a full three 12-hour days.” Some viewers felt dissatisfied after seeing the Season 2 conclusion. Ashtray (Javon Walton), Fez’s vicious and protective little brother, may have met an extraordinarily terrible end as the season concluded on a cliffhanger with a SWAT unit invading Fezco’s mansion.
It seemed as though certain crucial narrative aspects were ignored, such as Rue’s debt to drug lord Laurie for $10,000 worth of narcotics in a bag (Martha Kelly). No one wants to talk about what happened between Nate (Jacob Elordi) and his father, or where Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Maddy (Alexa Demie) will stand if and when the dust settles. Even while Zendaya is curious about the lives of these characters after graduation, her admirers are still reeling and hope that all of the loose ends will soon be resolved. After Ferreira leaves, the programme may jump ahead in time quite a bit. Given the calibre of the show’s ensemble, competing commitments on the part of its members have undoubtedly slowed down production.
In addition to Ferreira, Zendaya, and Cloud, the cast of Euphoria includes Sweeney, who will appear alongside Dakota Johnson and Emma Roberts in the Spider-Man spinoff Madame Web; Storm Reid, who plays Rue’s stressed younger sister Gia, who will play Riley in the highly anticipated series adaptation of The Last of Us; Hunter Schafer, who will appear as Tigris Snow in the Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes; Elordi, who Zendaya, who has been nominated for an Emmy and is a producer on the HBO series, has recently wrapped filming on the sequel to 2013 hit Dune and will next be seen in the upcoming romantic drama Challengers, directed by Call Me By Your Name’s Luca Guadagnino and starring Josh O’Connor (The Crown).
Levinson acts as the showrunner, writer, director, and executive producer of Euphoria. The prior prediction of a 2024 premiere is becoming more and more realistic, yet when we find out whether Levinson concludes Laurie’s narrative in January like Season 2 or in the summer like Season 1 is still up in the air. HBO Max now offers streaming access to both seasons of Euphoria, along with both of the bonus episodes.