Sam Levinson is coming off his highly polarizing, and much-hated, HBO series “The Idol.” However, he’s a household name because of “Euphoria,” a TV sensation with plenty of cinematic elements to it.
Levinson’s three features as a director — “Assassination Nation,” “Another Happy Day,” and “Malcolm & Marie” — were not that well-received. He’s more of a TV phenomenon, and, despite some doubting it, a third season of “Euphoria” seems to definitely be happening.
HBO boss Casey Bloys confirms that Levinson is in the middle of writing the third season of “Euphoria”:
He’s writing Season 3 right now, he’s in the thick of it. So I don’t know that he is laying out what the future looks like. It’s just getting Season 3 done,” Bloys said. “I haven’t had a specific conversation with him about is this the end or what does it look like.”
Last year, Levinson described “Euphoria” Season 3 as a “film noir,” with plans to explore, via Zendaya’s Rue, “what it means to be an individual with principles in a corrupt world.”
Heidi Bivens, the costume designer for the show, told Vogue that the third season would be set approximately five years after the second, depicting the characters’ lives after their high school days.
It might be a little while before season 3 airs as there is no set date for production to begin. Also, many of the show’s actors have turned into movie stars — good luck getting Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Colman Domingo, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney and Austin Abrams to all commit at the same time.
For now, you can bask in the glorious debauchery that is Levinson’s “The Idol,” Drugs, dancing, nihilism, narcissism and lots of sex. All shot in vibrantly stylized frames — a fascinatingly self-indulgent act of pop art on the part of the showrunner.