{"id":805259,"date":"2026-05-18T14:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/805259\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:39:14","slug":"euphoria-reveals-fate-of-major-character-after-death-cliffhanger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/805259\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Euphoria\u2019 reveals fate of major character after death cliffhanger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Warning: This story contains spoilers from the May 17 episode of \u201cEuphoria<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cEuphoria\u201d<\/a> fans can breathe a sigh of relief now that Rue Bennett’s fate has been revealed.<\/p>\n

The character portrayed by Zendaya<\/a> on HBO’s gritty drama (Sundays, 9 ET\/PT and streaming on HBO Max) lived to fight another day in the new episode, titled “Stand Still and See,” after a cliffhanger left her literally buried up to her neck in problems.<\/p>\n

Just as Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) was about to kill Rue with a polo mallet while she was buried, she characteristically managed to talk her way out of the situation.<\/p>\n

Rue frantically offered to help get Alamo’s money back, calling Faye (Chloe Cherry) up on the phone and devising a plan to get a safe key from Wayne (Toby Wallace). After some convincing, Faye agreed to help, and Alamo backed off.<\/p>\n

Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi light up ‘Euphoria’ red carpet<\/p>\n

1 of 40<\/p>\n

Zendaya led the stars who wowed on the red carpet for HBO’s “Euphoria.”<\/a> Season 3<\/a> was unveiled with a gala premiere on April 7, 2026, at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. See who else stepped out.<\/p>\n

The dramatic moment came after a dramatic start to Season 3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Debuting on April 12, Season 3 jumped five years into the future of the fictional East Highland students. Rue began the season working as a drug mule to pay off her debts to dealer Laurie. However, after meeting crime kingpin\/strip club owner Alamo Brown during one of her runs for Laurie, she starts working for him instead.<\/p>\n

By the end of Episode 3, Rue is pulled over by DEA officers. She ultimately becomes an informant to save herself from doing time for drug trafficking.<\/p>\n

But during Episode 5, titled “This Little Piggy,”<\/a> Rue’s concerns extend far beyond serving prison time. After one of Alamo’s dancers, Magick (Rosal\u00eda<\/a>), informs him that Rue tried to frame her by putting cocaine in her locker, he begins questioning Rue\u2019s loyalty \u2212 and sets out to get answers.<\/p>\n

\"Alamo<\/p>\n

Alamo Brown (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) has grown suspicious of employee Rue Bennett (Zendaya), now a DEA informant.<\/p>\n

After meeting Rue at a restaurant, where she’s dining with Maddy Perez (Alexa Demie), Alamo forces her into a waiting truck. She’s instructed to surrender her phone, driven to a remote location with a shovel sticking out of the ground and told by G (Marshawn Lynch<\/a>) to “start digging.”<\/p>\n

She obliges, digging until the soil reaches her neck, but when she asks for help out of the hole, Bishop (Darrell Britt-Gibson) picks up the shovel and begins to bury her.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Alamo pokes around for more information, asking Maddy if she trusts Rue. \u201cI do,\u201d Maddy responds. \u201cShe\u2019s a little crazy, but she has a good heart.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Rue<\/p>\n

Rue Bennett (Zendaya) was asked to dig a hole up to her neck on the May 10 episode of HBO’s “Euphoria.”<\/p>\n

Things come to a head \u2013 quite literally \u2212 at the end of the episode when morning arrives and Alamo is found standing in a stable beside his horse. \u201cSome people don\u2019t even deserve to be trusted,” he says.<\/p>\n

Back at the deserted location, Rue, with just her head poking out above the earth, says, \u201cI don\u2019t know what I did to deserve this. But this is extreme.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alamo, on horseback, comes quickly galloping while swinging a polo mallet. Rue repeatedly pleads for him to stop before the screen fades to black.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: \u2018Euphoria\u2019 reveals Rue\u2019s fate after Season 3 death cliffhanger<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning: This story contains spoilers from the May 17 episode of \u201cEuphoria.\u201d \u201cEuphoria\u201d fans can breathe a sigh…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":805260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[30],"tags":[171,322223,173,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-805259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-rue-bennett","tag-tv","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116596099565360603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}