With Euphoria season three wrapping up in the May 31 finale, it feels like the right moment to look back at the episodes that sparked the biggest reactions.
The latest run has doubled down on the show’s reputation for pushing boundaries, moving on from the chaos of season two and diving straight into even darker, stranger territory.
Many viewers clearly weren’t expecting just how intense the kink, violence, and outright bizarre scenes would get.
Need I say there will be ‘spoilers’ from here on out?
Across the season, audiences watched everything from Jules slapping the s*** out of Rue to a particularly grim sequence involving an amputated finger, drug dealers, and swallowing a large amount of paraphernalia.
Unsurprisingly, the backlash has been loud—especially around a scene involving Chloe Cherry (Faye).
With so much criticism flying around online, here are some of the moments that left viewers most stunned.
Jules (Hunter Schafer) ends up connected to the adult world in a different way than Cassie—through sex work.
After meeting an older, wealthy man named Ellis, their relationship escalates into high-risk experimentation, including a kink referred to as “mummification.”
Lovense describes it as wrapping someone up—often using saran wrap.
For some, it’s framed as an intense form of surrender and restraint, appealing to those who enjoy having control taken away or being tightly bound and compressed.
Season three also introduced a new figure who became the centre of a scene that many people said was deeply upsetting.
Kitty—played by Anna Van Patten—works at a strip club connected to Rue’s drug-lord creditor, and appears in a sequence where she’s shown engaging in sexual acts with multiple men.
Afterwards, she’s seen shaken and in tears as Rue watches on, visibly horrified.
Plenty of viewers felt the same.
A user on X wrote of the scene: “i need justice for my girl kitty, that scene made me sick to my stomach.”
In another twist, Cherry’s Faye ends up romantically involved with a drug dealer named Wayne (Toby Wallace).
But the relationship is portrayed through disturbing imagery, including a sex scene staged in front of a Swastika flag and the presence of Nazi tattoos—details that many viewers found impossible to ignore.
One of the season’s biggest flashpoints involved Cassie.
In a scene that drew widespread criticism, Sydney Sweeney’s character dresses up as a baby while filming adult content for OnlyFans.
Other clips show her dressed as a puppy and even as a giant, prompting one fan to ask: “How Sydney Sweeney can agree to do something like this? It’s like a humiliation ritual.”
Cassie is also at the centre of another scene that many viewers said crossed a line: she and Maddy devise a plan to target influencer Brandon Fontaine in the hope he can boost her career.
She shows up to his house party in a leopard-print catsuit, and the night quickly spirals as the two do coke together.
At one point, he unzips her bodysuit to take a line off her body—before rubbing some of the drugs into her crotch.
People online reacted exactly as you’d expect. One wrote: “Between Kitty getting f**ked and Cassie snorting the coke off of the girl tummy uhm Sam Levinson once again disgusting.”
Another said: “Cassie rubbing coke on her meow meow this #euphoria s**t gets weird I’m OUT.”
Now that the season has reached its finish, love it or hate it, the show’s final stretch undeniably left a mark—and sparked a lot of debate along the way.