Euphoria Season 3 Rumored Religion Arc Ignites Heated Fan Debate Online
Euphoria season 3 just went celestial: Sydney Sweeney’s latest tease suggests the series is bringing God into the chaos, instantly splitting the fandom. She said little on Good Morning America, but the hint alone has viewers bracing for a divinely messy return.
Euphoria might be reaching for a higher power in season 3. Sydney Sweeney went on Good Morning America and casually dropped that some characters will find or experience God, and the new season leans more religious. That one sentence was enough to split the fandom down the middle.
The basics, in case you need a refresher
- Seasons: 2
- Episodes: 18
- Showrunner: Sam Levinson
- Main cast: Zendaya, Maude Apatow, Angus Cloud, Eric Dane, Alexa Demie, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney
- Rotten Tomatoes: 87% critics, 84% audience
Where the God talk came from
On GMA, Sweeney kept it vague, but the headline was clear: season 3 brings a religious undercurrent, and some characters will have a brush with God. Not everyone is thrilled. Euphoria originally made its name on messy teen dynamics, bad choices, worse consequences, and friendships that burned hot. A spiritual pivot is... a turn.
What the cast is saying, or not saying
Jacob Elordi told Variety that he does not really know what season 3 even is yet. He joked it is like the "FBI files," but he did call what he has seen "incredibly clever and cinematic." So, mysterious, but fancy.
Zendaya, meanwhile, addressed the time jump in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. She is into the idea of getting these characters out of high school and seeing who they are as actual adults.
"It will be fascinating to see and understand these characters outside of the context of high school and how all the stuff that we saw when they were kids and they were in high school affects the adulthood they have and who they become in a much bigger world. I'll be interested to see what happens, too."
So... religion and explicit content?
Here is the quirky part. Sweeney recently told E! News to expect explicit, intense material this season. That feels pretty different from a pensive spiritual arc. Put the two together and you get a season that might be toggling between raw provocation and a search for meaning. Which, to be fair, is a very Euphoria combination.
Does a religious arc fit Euphoria?
It could. Rue is an addict, and in a lot of recovery spaces, a turn toward faith or a higher power is common. That tracks for her, at least as a phase or a coping mechanism. The concern is tone: Euphoria thrives on moral ambiguity, not sermons. If it gets preachy, people will bounce. If it treats faith like another complicated, messy force in these characters lives, there is real story juice there. At minimum, it does not sound like the show is playing it safe.
Euphoria streams on HBO Max in the U.S. Whenever season 3 actually lands, it is aiming for something big. Whether that is divine or just divisive, we will find out.