The HBO show that helped launch the careers of Zendaya, Sidney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi and more has concluded its third season. Look what happened in the finale.
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“Euphoria” has finally come to an end after three seasons.
HBO’s Gen Z sensation, which first aired in 2019, concluded its third and final season on Sunday, May 31st.
The final episode gave viewers answers as to what will happen to Rue (Zendaya), Cassie (Sydney Sweeney), Maddie (Alexa Demme) and the rest of the gang after a season of ups and downs, including a big death in Season 3’s penultimate episode.
There was no shortage of drama in the final episode as another heartbreaking death unfolded while an epic showdown and intense drug investigation took place. Here’s what happened in the series finale.
What is the ending of “Euphoria”?
The final episode begins with Lou and Faye (Chloe Cherry) breaking into drug dealer Laurie’s (Martha Kelly) underground safe while Faye’s boyfriend Wayne (Toby Wallace) sleeps in a nearby bed.
Fay realizes there was no money in the safe as Lou promised, so she wakes Wayne up and throws Lou under the bus. Lou then runs away from the house as Wayne chases him with a shotgun. As she ran outside, one of Wayne’s accomplices caught up to her on horseback and lassoed her leg. G (Marshawn Lynch), who was watching from a nearby hill, shoots and kills Wayne’s accomplice, and Lou allows Wayne to return to Alamo’s (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) house.
After a dramatic ordeal, Alamo thanks Lou for his work and provides him with a bottle of Percocet and pills to ease the pain from the hand injury he sustained at Laurie’s house.
Meanwhile, thanks to information provided by Lou, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) finally raids Laurie’s property. Wayne and Faye escape from the compound just before the feds move in, but Laurie chooses to hang herself to avoid going to jail.
Will Lou die in the final episode of the Euphoria series?
Lou visits his sponsor Ali (Colman Domingo) and learns that his friend Fezco (the late Angus Cloud) has escaped from prison. Lou vows to keep his promise to help him if he escapes, and sets out to find Fezco. A series of scenes sees her driving erratically, dodging police lines, and revisiting memories and scenes from her past, many of them from season one.
She eventually arrives at her childhood home and is reunited with her mother Leslie (Nica King). More flashbacks of Lou and Fezco ensue, revealing that this is all a dream.
In reality, Lou took the medication given to him by Alamo and died on Ali’s couch, spending his final moments gasping for air and reaching out to his mother. Ali later found her, and at that moment he was completely heartbroken, but then he tested the drug and confirmed it was laced with fentanyl.
What will happen to Kathy, Maddie, Jules and Lexi?
Last week’s episode came to a gruesome end with Nate (Jacob Elordi) dying from a rattlesnake bite while buried underground in a coffin, leaving Cassie and Maddie shocked by his death.
As they continue to process the gruesome events, they decide to turn Cassie and Nate’s house into a home for content creators. They end up asking Lexi (Maude Apatow) to direct the content, but she declines, staying true to her morals and values. Cassie also refrains from telling Lexi the truth about Nate, saying only that she misses him, while Maddie continues to tangle with Alamo over debts.
As for Jules (Hunter Schaefer), she appears briefly in the finale, seemingly channeling her grief from Lou’s death into a picture of teenage love. She still lives in the penthouse apartment with her sugar daddy, and he kisses her on the forehead while she paints.
After Lou’s death, Ali begins his revenge.
Distraught over Lou’s death and tired of losing loved ones to addiction, Ali decides to take matters into his own hands and attempts to kill Alamo himself.
After showing up at his strip club, a showdown between Ali and Alamo ensues. Eventually, Ali shoots Alamo dead after his right-hand man Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) attacks him and secretly takes a bullet from Alamo’s gun.
In the final moments of the finale, Ali goes to the family farm that Lou visited earlier in the season, hoping to find the same level of peace he felt there. He told the family that Lou was his daughter and that she was “in a better place.”
Ali spends the day with her family, has dinner, and concludes the episode by praying in Lou’s memory around the dinner table. Lou is then seen sitting across the table and smiling back at Ali.
Sam Levinson defends his decision to kill Lou in honor of Angus Cloud
Creator Sam Levinson said in a post-episode featurette that it was always important to him that “Euphoria” tell an authentic story about addiction and grief, even if it meant killing off some of the show’s most beloved characters.
“It felt like an honest ending,” Levinson said. “The honest bottom line is that people like Lou don’t make it.”
But there was also a personal bond between Levinson, who lost Cloud to an accidental overdose in 2023, and the Euphoria family.
“I wanted to tell this story for people who weren’t given a second chance with Angus,” he said.
