So… Euphoria Season 3 Is A Flop

The Polyester Podcast

Arts, Society & Culture

4.5 • 533 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2026

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

It's no surprise to many that the third season of Sam Levinson's former hit TV show has had a less than best reaction from audiences. Aside from the show's actual plot and characterisations - don't worry, we'll get into those later - Levinson's real life reputation and his own world view has seeped into even the most die hard Euphoria stan's perception of the show.

This week, hosts Ione and Gina dive into a show that few seem to ride for: from OnlyFans to human trafficking, fentanyl, fetish content, sugar babies and rattle snakes - Euphoria is falling trap to cliche while committing the biggest TV sin of all: Being boring.

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0:00.0	Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-adster, Polyester. And I'm Ayoni, the founding editor-in-chief of Pliester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis.
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0:41.8	Highlight of my Mondays.
0:45.5	Look forward to every Monday and catching up with the latest in pop culture.
0:51.5	I always listen whilst my baby naps and it's the perfect way to keep myself up to date with the discourse despite being knee-deep in motherhood.
0:52.2	Love you guys.
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0:55.7	And then on Spotify, The Girls are girling about Olivia Rodrigo. Volopped Venus says, T. Y for having this take on this. This all-round
1:03.2	an adult woman wearing a dress and ruffle panties, people need to chill. And then Maxine Carter says,
1:08.7	my personal take on this, women are critiqued far more
1:11.3	stringently than the men who directed slash wrote the film slash music videos tell them thank you both
1:17.2	thank you all thank you for keeping up keeping up with the polyester podcast keeping up with the polyester podcast
1:26.1	keeping up with the polyester podcast, so today we are talking about
1:31.2	Euphoria. The shit show that is Euphoria season three. I think it was inevitable and people would be
1:36.1	expecting for us to cover this, but unfortunately we can't cover the finale because they wouldn't
1:40.6	give us a screener. In the research as well, it says that all journalists only got the first three episodes. I don't believe that. Well, because usually it's that journalists get like the first few episodes up front, right, and then they get it a week before, usually. Yeah, but they can write their recaps. The timing on is different. What do you mean? Like the article came out recently. Oh. So I think they're trying to leave everything up to suspense and try and build this roller coaster of like,
2:05.0	nobody knows what's going to happen, not even the press, but realistically the reason that they're doing that is.
2:09.5	They're trying to create a culture of silence and stop the truth.
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