We knew this season of Euphoria would be intense. It’s third, fast-forwarding five years, has the kids adulting their issues, which are darker than ever. While I’m trying to remain a completist through what is presumed to be the show’s final season, especially after last night’s episode left us wondering whether a few cast members are about to be unalived, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to stomach the relentless on-screen carnage.
I’m not alone in my thoughts.
I’m definitely not a prude or anything but ima tap out of Euphoria after this episode. So many things making me uncomfy and feel kind of exploitative. Like what kind of story telling is this? And the way the black people and almost all the FMCs are being portrayed? Yeah I’m good. pic.twitter.com/eLlLBKX1zu
— Film&TV Rants (@FilmTVRants) May 11, 2026
“I’m definitely not a prude or anything, but ima tap out of Euphoria after this episode,” Film&TV Rants posted on X after its latest episode. “So many things making me uncomfy and feel kind of exploitative.”
That’s how many die-hard fans who waited four years for the show’s return feel, from its depiction of women to what they’re not hearing.
Euphoria has never exactly been subtle when it comes to voyeurism or hypersexuality. But this season feels excessive. From Cassie’s OnlyFans storyline that’s irking real-life sex workers, to an exotic dancer getting penetrated with a bottle in a lewd brothel, there seems to be no safe spaces for women of this world.
Euphoria creator Sam Levinson has defended his highly sexualized storylines for female characters by saying it’s a raw and purposely uncomfortable look into a world “cauterized” and “influenced by pornography and social media.” But this explicit violence is feeling less like a reflection of societal behavior and more like glorification.
At the same time, the performances remain undeniable. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, as strip-club mogul/drug kingpin Alamo Brown, is giving a performance that earns Emmys. He, along with his on-screen henchman, played by Marshawn Lynch, Darrell Britt-Gibson, and Asante Blackk — who had his most gripping episode to date as he feared for his life in Alamo’s fierce grip — are making the most of the material before them.
Levinson has written diverse characters across Euphoria‘s three seasons, but some fans are questioning why he believes he can accurately capture the Black experience, especially when the interpretation is that a Black man would believe being called a pig is worse than the N-word.
Levinson gave his justification for this choice to Variety: “I just thought it was interesting to play with the racial dynamics of these two crews. With the pig comment, it just seemed interesting as an entry point into this man’s psychology.” But as one viewer on social media wrote, “A Black man being more offended about being called a ‘pig’ than the hard N.. yeah, no Black people were in the writers room.”
And then there’s the missing ingredient many fans didn’t realize mattered this much: the music. Labrinth, who orchestrated Euphoria‘s musical odyssey in its first two seasons, abruptly exited the project for season three, reportedly after creative tensions with Levinson. Without his music, fans say the show feels emotionally colder, stripped of the dreamlike atmosphere that once balanced its brutality.
One viewer wrote on X, “With each episode, it becomes clearer that Labrinth’s soundtrack did a lot of heavy lifting for Euphoria, the cinematography can do its part, but it’s his music that truly gave every scene its emotional weight…” Some fans have even begun re-editing scenes on TikTok using Labrinth’s latest music.
Labrinth told GQ that he exited because, “I just felt that the family and the fluidity started to deteriorate, and the creative camaraderie started to dissipate, and it felt like it was happening for no reason.”
That’s the real issue with Euphoria now. @TopherAqil summed it up on X: “Euphoria has absolutely lost both the plot and its mind. This show is nothing but Sam Levinson’s fetish palace. There’s barely a coherent story anymore, just all flash and no substance.”
Maybe we aren’t quitting Euphoria because it’s too disturbing. Maybe we’re quitting because it doesn’t feel like there’s anything meaningful under all that shock value.