{"id":450452,"date":"2026-04-23T20:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/450452\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T20:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T20:34:14","slug":"euphoria-episode-2-ratings-8-5-million-viewers-equal-to-season-3-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/450452\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphoria Episode 2 Ratings: 8.5 Million Viewers, Equal to Season 3 Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe second episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/euphoria\/\" id=\"auto-tag_euphoria\" data-tag=\"euphoria\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Euphoria<\/a>\u201d Season 3 hit 8.5 million viewers across <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/hbo\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hbo\" data-tag=\"hbo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HBO<\/a> and HBO Max in its first three days, matching the viewership of the season premiere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tStatistics for both episodes were measured by Warner Bros. Discovery and refer to viewership in the U.S. alone. WBD notes that Sunday\u2019s episode outperformed the second episode of Season 2 by 32%; that reached 6.4 million viewers in three days. It should be noted that it aired in 2022, and \u201cEuphoria\u201d stars such as Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney and Jacob Elordi have skyrocketed in popularity since then, making a viewership increase expected. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tTo date, the Season 3 premiere has jumped from its initial three-day tally of 8.5 million to more than 12.3 million viewers in the U.S. The global total has surpassed 20 million viewers, a 68% improvement on the global viewership reached by the Season 2 premiere in the same amount of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWBD notes that Season 3 of \u201cEuphoria,\u201d is among the three most-watched returning HBO seasons in the history of HBO Max as a platform, though exact metrics for that achievement were not provided. \u201cEuphoria\u201d has been the No. 1 series on HBO Max globally since the premiere of Season 3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAlong with Zendaya, Sweeney and Elordi, \u201cEuphoria\u201d stars Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Hunter Schafer, Colma Domingo, Eric Dane, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Martha Kelly, Chloe Cherry, Toby Wallace and more. The series was created by Sam Levinson, who executive produces alongside Ashley Levinson, Sara E. White, Kevin Turen, Ravi Nandan, Drake, Adel \u201cFuture\u201d Nur, Ron Leshem, Daphna Levin, Hadas Mozes Lichtenstein, Mirit Toovi, Tmira Yardeni, Yoram Mokady and Gary Lennon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second episode of \u201cEuphoria\u201d Season 3 hit 8.5 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max in its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[265],"tags":[18,117,12264,9540,19,17,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-450452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-euphoria","11":"tag-hbo","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116455936320119667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}