Warning: Spoilers ahead! Do not proceed unless you’ve watched “Euphoria” Season 3.
The death toll on “Euphoria” is piling up.
Season 3’s penultimate episode killed off one of the show’s original superstars — Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs — and, as the show approaches its finale, it’s time to take a look at who might bite the dust next.
The HBO drama is a strange candidate for a death-heavy show. First premiering in 2019, it followed high schoolers, and launched Zendaya, Elordi and Sydney Sweeney into their current levels of superstardom.
Sure, they were dysfunctional — but “Euphoria” wasn’t a “who will die next” show like “Game of Thrones.”
But after a five-year time jump, the third season tapped back into its central characters’ lives, which have spiraled into crime, sex work and Hollywood. These aren’t teenagers anymore, they’re flawed adults ripe for the Grim Reaper.
Ahead of Sunday night’s finale, here’s everyone’s status — and their likelihood of survival.
Nate
He’s already dead — and he got axed in a ridiculous way. Nate got buried alive, only for a rattlesnake to work its way down a pipe into his underground prison and bite him. He could return, if “Euphoria” suddenly turns into a horror show with zombies.
It’s unlikely, but Season 3 has been so off-the-rails that anything is technically possible.
Cassie
Before he died, Nate was in debt to gangsters for upwards of a million dollars. Cassie and her former best friend turned boss, Maddy (Alexa Demie), got involved with the kingpin Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) in an effort to get the money together. Even though the gangster Nate was indebted to is dead, Cassie — and Maddy — are now in Alamo’s palm.
Still, Cassie started Season 1 as a side character. By Season 3, “Euphoria” is practically “The Cassie Show.” It’s highly unlikely that she’ll die. She seems to be series creator Sam Levinson’s favorite — and that gives her plot armor.
Rue
Zendaya’s Rue is stuck between a rock and a hard place. She’s forced to work undercover for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) so they don’t throw her in jail. She’s also caught between drug dealer Laurie (Martha Kelly) and her gang of Nazis on one side and the volatile pimp, Alamo, and his crew on the other.
Last episode, Maddy spilled the beans to Alamo that Rue is working for the DEA. Rue’s mentor and sponsor, Ali (Colman Domingo) also revealed he has a book of names listing every other addict he’s tried to help, and ultimately lost. That seems like foreshadowing. Rue’s name could be added to his book of the dead. She may die, but the odds are that she’ll survive — she just may have to go into hiding.
Maddy
Similar to Cassie, Maddy is in trouble. She struck a deal with the devil, and now Alamo has her under his thumb. But Alamo is the season’s villain — so if he dies, then Maddy may make it out.
She’s always been a survivor. Don’t bet against her.
Jules
She’ll live.
Hunter Schafer has barely been in this season. The show would have to give Jules a plot in order to kill her.
Lexi
As Lexi (Maude Apatow) herself has pointed out, she’s the only “normal” character who has a job that doesn’t involve sex work or crime: working for a TV show. Odds are she’ll live, since she’s not involved in the dangerous part of the plot.
However, that’s also why it would be the height of cruel irony if she got caught up in her sister Cassie’s shenanigans and became a victim of circumstance. Chances are, though, she’ll survive.
Faye
Rue’s former friend Faye (Chloe Cherry) is literally in bed with drug-dealing Nazis. They’re all about to go to war with Alamo and his crew.
That won’t end well. We’re calling it: she’s toast.
Alamo
As the season’s big bad, Alamo’s likely to go out in a blaze of glory — or a hail of bullets.
He may take some other main character down with him, but we’re sure he’ll bite the dust.
Laurie
The laconic drug dealer and her crew of Nazis are no match for Alamo. In the upcoming conflict between the two crews, Laurie will be crushed.
Dylan
Dyan (Homer Gere) is an actor who stars in “LA Nights,” the TV show that Lexi is working on. As a newcomer, he’s the most likely to die. On top of that, he helped himself to a glass of water in her kitchen after he had a steamy hookup with Cassie in the penultimate episode.
Previously, Cassie had been sent Nate’s severed finger, and she tossed it into her ice bin. Dylan scooped ice into his glass of water, somehow didn’t notice the finger in it, and proceeded to drink the water. That can’t be good for his health, right? We’re betting Dylan keels over from some kind of parasite or plague from drinking Nate’s finger-water.
The “Euphoria” Season 3 finale airs Sunday, May 31, at 9 p.m. on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.
