Four years after audiences last watched a new episode of HBO’s Euphoria, the edgy coming-of-age series’ long-anticipated third season has a premiere date. While the network didn’t specify the exact day that the dramatic coming-of-age saga will continue, the month is April 2026.
The eight-part season will star Zendaya, who reprises her Emmy-winning role of Rue Bennett. Sydney Sweeney also returns to play even “crazier” version of her character, as she revealed earlier this year. Other returning stars include Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Martha Kelly, Chloe Cherry, and Maude Apatow, with Colman Domingo back as a guest star. While Barbie Ferreirra, who played Katherine “Kat” Hernandez in the first two seasons, left the show due to creative differences, veteran actress Sharon Stone is also set to appear in an unspecified role, according to Deadline.
Season 3 will be set five years after the events of the previous season, putting the characters firmly in young adulthood. In an interview with Elle, series creator, writer and producer Sam Levinson previously described the season as a “film noir” that will see Rue “explore what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world.”
“I think it’ll be exciting to explore the characters out of high school,” Zendaya elaborated to the Hollywood Reporter in August 2022. “I want to see what Rue looks like in her sobriety journey, how chaotic that might look. But also with all the characters, in the sense where they’re trying to figure out what to do with their lives when high school is over and what kind of people they want to be. What was special about this season was that we got to dive into [the other characters] in a much deeper sense. I think we can do that again with the third season.”
It’s worth noting that Levinson and Zendaya gave those comments well before production began in February of 2025. The delayed date was due to multiple factors, including the 2023 Hollywood labor strikes, the deaths of both star Angus Cloud and executive producer Kevin Turen, and the considerable cast and crew’s numerous other projects.
As for the fate of future seasons, there’s no official word of a finale. But in a 2025 interview with Deadline, Francesca Orsi, HBO’s head of drama, insinuated that Season 3 will likely be Euphoria‘s last, especially given the heightened profiles of Zendaya, Sweeney, and Elordi.
“I don’t think anything is over until it’s over, but it’s been discussed that this is the end,” she said. “I think you will be very satisfied with this season, and how we bring each of the characters’ whole narrative.”
