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‘Euphoria’ Season 2 Starts Streaming This Weekend, and We Already Know a Ton About It

After a remarkably difficult year, there is light at the end of the TV tunnel! After premiering two “bridge” episodes, Euphoria is officially back with season 2 this Sunday, January 9! Which—I cannot stress this enough—Thank. God.

Ever since season 1 ended, fans have been itching for more of the dark drama, which follows the life of a drug-addicted high school student navigating friendships and time in recovery. If you haven’t been paying any attention to the internet, it stars literally every young actor you’re obsessed with right now: Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Barbie Ferreira, Maude Apatow, Hunter Schafer, and, duh, ZENDAYA.

While details on the second season were pretty scarce until recently, there’s now plenty to get you hyped. Here’s all the info we have so far.

We have an official full trailer!

It sure looks like season 2 is going to be a wild time for everyone. From Maddy saying that she might want to get pregnant to Rue hiding something huge in her suitcase, everyone has a lil something going on with them. Check out the trailer below:

Okay, but when is the premiere date? When does Euphoria come back??

HBO decided to give us something extra special to be thankful for right before the 2021 holidays with a special teaser trailer featuring Rue having a little fun by herself. The teaser also gives glimpses of what we can expect with everyone else, including Jules.

Oh, and they also shared a release date! Mark your calendars for January 9, 2022—aka THIS Sunday!—because that’s when Euphoria will finally be back.

The season 2 plot has been kept under wraps, but there are some deets about Rue’s relapse.

There was some confusion after the finale about whether Zendaya’s character did, in fact, relapse, but Hunter confirmed it to Entertainment Weekly. In talking about Rue’s decision to leave Jules at the train station, she said, “And while she does relapse, I think that that decision can sort of be seen as a glimmer of hope, maybe, and that she’s not making decisions around this sort of toxic idealization of Jules.”

The second season will almost certainly deal with the consequences of that decision.

Separately, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly in August 2019, a reporter asked Jacob if he wants Nate to have a redemption arc in the new season, and here’s the deal with that potential season 2 plotline: “Whatever it is, I want him to have a life and I want it to be honest,” Jacob said. “I truly don’t have any qualms about which direction it goes. I mean, obviously, it would be a lovely story if he turned out to be a real sunflower and lit up the world. But I definitely want it to be just true and real to his experience and I want it to kind of make sense. And I’m not sure what that looks like.”

The Euphoria cast will grow.

According to a since-deleted post on Backstage, HBO was looking for a Black male actor to portray “a leading role on a leading show.” Who is the character exactly? The new role, Jamieson, is “an outsider” with a possible drug problem in his past. He’s also described as “mischievous, funny, unafraid, and sensitive,” but that’s all we know.

While it's unclear if that character is still joining Euphoria, we do know one thing: Waves star Kelvin Harrison Jr. will be joining season 2. Fun fact: He was actually supposed to be in season 1 but ended up having to back out due to a scheduling issue. In response ,show creator Sam Levinson rewrote his part to include Kelvin this time around.

“Sam’s still figuring it out,” the actor told The Face about his role in October 2020. “But from the table reads, I know this character is unlike anything I’ve ever seen on the screen.”

Stating the obvious: Zendaya isn’t going anywhere.

The day news broke about the second season, Zendaya just had to get on Twitter to say how excited she was. She wrote, “Literally just got the call. Can’t say thank you enough for the support we’ve seen, wow….”

Maude also posted the news on her Instagram Story, so it looks like she’s just as thrilled as we are.

Photo credit: Maude Apatow
Photo credit: Maude Apatow

A bunch of other cast members commented on the actual Instagram post, including Storm Reid (who plays Rue’s little sister), Hunter, Barbie, and Alexa Demie (who plays Maddy). So basically, everyone is pumped.

Don’t hold your breath for a Euphoria season 3.

While the show was renewed for a second season, it definitely won’t be one of those shows that goes on forever (lookin’ at you, Grey’s!). Why? Because the characters are high schoolers. “Well, [the characters] are in high school, so there are only so many seasons it can go,” HBO president Casey Bloys told TVLine. “There’s a time limit.”

HBO is planning on letting show creator Sam Levinson make the call on that. “We’ll follow [Sam’s] lead on that,” Bloys said. “There is no set plan. But I don’t think you want 30-year-olds playing [high school students].”

So yeah. Get pumped for season 2, but maybe prepare yourself for that to be the last season ever. Sorry!

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