{"id":836153,"date":"2026-06-01T05:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/836153\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T05:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:36:17","slug":"euphoria-rue-dies-season-3-finale-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/836153\/","title":{"rendered":"Euphoria: Rue Dies, Season 3 Finale Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from\u00a0the season three finale of Euphoria, \u201cIn God We Trust.\u201d]<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tOver the last seven years, audiences have followed the lives of those in the fictional world of Euphoria and watched many of its young stars rise to household names. Following last week\u2019s episode<\/a>, the series\u2019 first major death \u2014 the killing of Jacob Elordi\u2019s Nate Jacobs \u2014 shocked audiences. And Sunday night\u2019s finale continued the surprises.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode begins with Rue (Zendaya<\/a>) escaping Wayne (Toby Wallace) after Faye (Chloe Cherry) turns on her and screams to wake him up while Rue attempts to rob the drug cartel. Audiences also see Maddy (Alexa Demie<\/a>) and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) grieving after discovering Nate\u2019s dead body.<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter the traumatic night, Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje<\/a>) gives Rue money and time off but intentionally leaves a bottle of pills out, knowing Rue will take them. As Rue heads to Ali\u2019s (Colman Domingo<\/a>) home, Laurie\u2019s (Martha Kelly) drug cartel is raided and she takes her own life after saying, \u201cI can\u2019t go to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile at Ali\u2019s home, Rue sees on the news that Fezco (Angus Cloud) has escaped prison and goes to find him. A clip of Fezco and Rue in a field is then shown, making for an emotional moment for fans of the series, as Cloud died in real life<\/a> of acute intoxication following an accidental overdose in 2023, one year after season two aired.<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, the sequence is revealed to be a dream Rue is having, along with a reunion with her mother, Leslie (Nika King)<\/a>, as Ali wakes up to find Rue dead. After testing her Percocet pills, he discovers they were laced with fentanyl and that Rue was poisoned after Alamo learned she was a rat. Given that Rue has struggled with addiction throughout the series, her death is especially heartbreaking.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing her death, Ali sets out to avenge her, even showing up at Alamo\u2019s strip club to confront him and fatally shoots him.<\/p>\n

\n\tAs for Maddy and Cassie, they plan to rent out bedrooms in Cassie and Nate\u2019s house to other OnlyFans models in an effort to pay off their debt, and turn it into their own hype house.<\/p>\n

\n\tRegarding Euphoria\u2019s other original main cast members, including Lexi (Maude Apatow) and Jules (Hunter Schafer), they feel like an afterthought in the finale. Jules appears in only one scene and has no dialogue, though she is shown crying, making it unclear whether it\u2019s because she knows Rue is dead. She and Rue also don\u2019t have a last moment together in the finale, but in Rue\u2019s dream sequence, a flashback shows Rue watching Jules ride her bike, as she did in the pilot.<\/p>\n

\n\tLexi, meanwhile, declines to help Cassie and Maddy while grappling with losing Rue to drugs. Cassie also doesn\u2019t tell Lexi the truth about what happened to Nate, instead claiming that he disappeared.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode ends with Ali visiting the family and the farmhouse Rue stayed at in the season\u2019s premiere. He tells them that she\u2019s now \u201cin a better place\u201d and prays that Rue\u2019s memory is a blessing. During his prayer, he imagines Rue at the end of the table and the two share a smile. \u201cMay God bless us all,\u201d Rue says in a voiceover as she bids her farewell to the series.<\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the season\u2019s premiere in a post-show segment, Levinson said season three was about choices and consequences. By killing off Rue, the finale leaves many questions about how the show could continue, if it does.<\/p>\n

\n\t*** <\/p>\n

\n\tEuphoria\u00a0<\/a>season three<\/a>\u00a0is streaming on HBO<\/a> Max. Check out all of\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter\u2019s\u00a0coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[This story contains MAJOR spoilers from\u00a0the season three finale of Euphoria, \u201cIn God We Trust.\u201d] Over the last…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":836154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[38469,5560,51,50,276927,52,32773],"class_list":["post-836153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-euphoria","tag-hbo","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-sam-levinson","tag-top-stories","tag-zendaya"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116673235312058488","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836153","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=836153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/836154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}