Euphoria fans are less than impressed and say the huge twist in episode 7 was ‘insanely wasted’.
The horrific fate of one character was finally revealed in HBO’s hit drama Euphoria – and fans aren’t happy.
Euphoria’s third and final season started airing just last month on HBO Max and the penultimate episode provided a dramatic twist ahead of the finale. The last batch of instalments have come following a four year gap after the second season.
Originally the series begun by following a group of wild high schoolers struggling as they approached adulthood. Viewers watched along as the classmates attempted to make sense of their futures.
It tackled the teenage landscape of substance-enhanced parties and anxiety-ridden day-to-day life. Fast forward to season 3 and the childhood friends must now grapple with the unforgiving realities of adult life.
WARNING: This article contains spoilers for Euphoria Season 3 Episode 7.
What happens to Nate in Euphoria Season 3?
Aside from some jumps around in time, one of the main events of Season 3, episode 7, sees a huge character death. We see Nate kidnapped by Naz over a $1 million debt he owed him. While the plan seemed to be for Cassie to use money generated by her online adult content to repay the debt, she instead shut down her account.
Naz, having already sent one of Nate’s fingers to Cassie, is losing patience waiting for his cash. He has Nate buried alive in a coffin with a tube protruding above ground. Meanwhile, another thug pays Cassie a visit. Not long after she answers the door, she finds herself slammed into a glass table. She is then taken into the bedroom and tied up.
Cassie is told she has 72 hours to come up with the money. With the idea that is how long Nate will be able to survive in his current spot underground.
However, a rattlesnake manages to slither down the pipe leading to Nate’s coffin. As he screams for help, the snake bites and kills him.
Alamo and Maddy are eventually roped in to help Cassie, with Alamo suggesting he will come up with the money demanded by Naz. He doesn’t. He shoots Naz dead instead. Following that, the coffin is dug up only for them to discover Nate’s body.
Most of Season 3 has not been well received by long time fans of the show and Nate’s death has been no exception. It didn’t take long for viewers to share their views online.
One, responding to an episode discussion on the Euphoria subreddit said: “Well, even after everything, I do want to just say thank you to Jacob Elordi for giving us a character we all hated. I really was not a fan of his storyline this season, but he gave us a powerful performance.”
Another added: “Can’t stop thinking about how Nate died in an objectively insane way but it still managed to feel unceremonious to me somehow.”
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Someone else said: “Nate’s character was so insanely wasted man… that death felt so anticlimactic he went from genuinely compelling in S1 and S2 to a plot device that did nothing but get tortured all season.”
One person replied: “I feel like Nate death would have been more impactful if the character actually acted like Nate at all this season, it felt like a new character that looks like Nate died.”
A viewer agreed: “Nate’s death completely anticlimactic and unearned, not at all related to any sort of karma for the shit he pulled in season 1-2, related to some random debt that we really didn’t give a shit about.”
Meanwhile, Euphoria creator and writer Sam Levinson, told Esquire about the character death: “There’s this kind of funny thing where I know what the audience wants in terms of justice or karma and with that in mind, I always think, ‘Well, how can I give it to them?’
“How can I give them what they want, but make it so horrific and anxiety-inducing that by the time it happens, the audience isn’t so sure they wanted it?”
Euphoria is streaming on HBO Max and NOW.