The Euphoria Scene That May Have Foreshadowed Angus Cloud’s Tragic Passing
Two years after Angus Cloud’s death, Euphoria fans are rattled by how Fez’s final Season 2 showdown with his adopted brother Ash now plays like chilling foreshadowing — a finale confrontation that feels tragically prescient.
Angus Cloud left a big hole when he died, and somehow Euphoria keeps finding ways to make that absence feel even heavier. Two years on, a lot of fans are looking back at his final scenes and going, well, that hits different now. And yeah, it does.
The Season 2 finale that now feels like a ghost story
Cloud's Fez heads into the Season 2 endgame with Custer sniffing around, secretly cooperating with police on Mouse's murder. Fez clocks that something is off, Ash reacts like Ash does, and suddenly Custer is dead on the floor. The cops raid. Ash locks himself in the bathroom with a gun. Fez tries to yell to the officers that there is a kid inside. Shots fire anyway. One hits Fez. The episode never tells us if he lives or dies, and that ambiguity has grown a lot more haunting since Cloud's real-life death. Fans have been calling the whole sequence a chilling bit of unintentional foreshadowing, which is a grim way for a TV show to become timeless, but here we are.
Levinson almost killed Fez in Season 1, then rewrote the role for Cloud
Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has talked about how much he reshaped Fez around Cloud. In a 2023 interview, he said he initially planned to kill Fez at the end of the first season but changed his mind once he saw what Cloud was bringing to the show. He admits he sometimes prioritized the person over the plot because he wanted Cloud to have something to look forward to. Honestly, that tracks when you watch how the character evolved.
"Fez was supposed to die at the end of the first season."
- Sam Levinson
Keeping Fez around turned out to be the right call creatively. Cloud became a breakout and a fan favorite in a cast full of scene-stealers.
Remembering Angus Cloud
Cloud died on July 31, 2023, at 25, from a multiple-drug overdose. Beyond Euphoria, he popped up in North Hollywood and The Line, and he has roles in Abigail and The Garfield Movie as well.
Season 3 finally has a date, a time jump, and some big swings
Sam Levinson says Euphoria Season 3 will premiere in April 2026 and leap forward five years, moving the story out of high school and into adult lives. He is calling it their best season yet. The specifics sound... ambitious, and occasionally wild:
- Rue (Zendaya) is in Mexico, in debt to Laurie (the quietly terrifying dealer played by Martha Kelly), trying to get creative about how to pay her back.
- Jules is in art school.
- Maddy is working at a Hollywood talent agency.
- Lexi is assisting a showrunner played by Sharon Stone, which is an unexpected flex of casting.
- Cassie and Nate are engaged, with Cassie spiraling into an obsession with social media. Those old rumors about her starting an OnlyFans in Season 3 suddenly feel less far-fetched.
- Levinson says they do get married and calls the wedding an unforgettable night.
What he has not said yet: how the show will address Angus Cloud's absence. That is the delicate piece hanging over all of this.
Where to watch and what to tell me
Euphoria Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming on HBO Max. Season 3 lands in April 2026. In the meantime, who is your favorite Euphoria character, and why is it probably someone you hated for at least two episodes?