With Euphoria season three wrapping up in the May 31 finale, viewers are already looking back at the moments that sparked the biggest debates in HBO’s latest run.
After the chaos of season two, the show didn’t exactly take a breather — it came back louder, darker, and determined to push boundaries again.
Even longtime fans, though, may not have expected just how far the season would lean into kink, brutality, and outright bizarre twists.
Need I say there will be ‘spoilers’ from here on out?
Across the episodes, the season delivered everything from Jules slapping the s*** out of Rue to a grim sequence involving an amputated finger, drug lords, and someone swallowing a huge amount of paraphernalia.
Unsurprisingly, the reaction online has been intense, with one Chloe Cherry (Faye) moment in particular leaving many viewers shocked.
With the backlash still swirling, here’s a rundown of some of the most jaw-dropping scenes people couldn’t stop talking about:
This season also puts Jules (Hunter Schafer) in the adult industry — not in the same lane as Cassie, but through sex work.
After meeting an older, wealthy man named Ellis, the two start exploring a form of edgy roleplay that raised eyebrows: “mummification.”
Lovense describes this as wrapping someone up (often using saran wrap), creating a tight, restrictive sensation.
For some people, the appeal is the loss of control — being immobilised, compressed, and restrained.
Another storyline that disturbed many viewers involved Kitty, a newer character played by Anna Van Patten.
She works in a strip club owned by the drug lord Rue is indebted to, and appears in a scene where she’s shown engaging in sexual acts with multiple men.
In the aftermath, she looks visibly shaken and tearful, while Rue watches on in horror.
And audiences weren’t far behind.
A user on X wrote of the scene: “i need justice for my girl kitty, that scene made me sick to my stomach.”
Then there’s the plot turn few saw coming: Faye (Chloe Cherry) developing feelings for a drug dealer named Wayne (Toby Wallace).
What unsettled viewers wasn’t just the relationship itself, but the imagery around it — including a scene in which they have sex in front of a Swastika flag, alongside Nazi tattoos.
One of the season’s most controversial sequences centred on Cassie (Sydney Sweeney).
In a scene that drew widespread criticism, Cassie dresses as a baby while recording adult content for OnlyFans.
Other clips take the same theme of escalation, with Cassie appearing 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.”
And Cassie wasn’t done fueling reactions.
Another scene that didn’t land well with many viewers involves Cassie and Maddy planning for Cassie to pursue influencer Brandon Fontaine in hopes of boosting her career.
She turns up at Brandon’s house party wearing a leopard-print catsuit and ends up doing coke with him.
From there, the scene escalates: he unzips her bodysuit to do a line off her body, then rubs some of the drugs into her crotch.
Predictably, social media lit up. One person 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 is finishing, the arguments over what worked — and what crossed the line — won’t be ending anytime soon. Love it or hate it, the series has once again made sure it won’t be forgotten quickly.