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Euphoria season 3 is an empty spectacle. Fans are upset, they want it cancelled

Euphoria's characters, who once carried moral ambiguity and emotional density, now feel like flat archetypes of the people they once were.

The third season of the HBO hit series Euphoria is here after four years. With just two episodes out, fans want it to be cancelled already.

The show’s creator, Sam Levinson, is himself responsible for the show’s downfall. In the earlier seasons, Euphoria depicted teenage chaos in a way that translated it into a feeling. It was messy, hypnotic, uncomfortable, and yet deeply human. Now, with its latest season, rather than the question “what happens next?”, we are left with “what the hell happened to it?” Euphoria hit us in 2019 like a fever dream. It was a high of adolescence, addiction, desire, identity, and self-destruction stitched in mesmerising visuals and intimate storytelling. Narrated and anchored by Zendaya as Rue, the show built a fragile emotional ecosystem around characters played by Sydney Sweeney (Cassie), Jacob Elordi (Nate), Hunter Schafer (Jules), Alexa Demie (Maddy), Maude Apatow (Lexi), and Barbie Ferreira (Kat). Each of them once existed in shades of contradiction, each with grayness. They were all flawed, vulnerable, often unlikable, but always real. But that was the essence of Euphoria, a show that........

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