Does Rue Die in the Euphoria Finale?

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A burning bush, a call to mom, and a whole bunch of foreshadowing later, and that’s a wrap on Euphoria season 3. And possibly the entire show? Going into Sunday night, odds on betting sites like Polymarket were favoring death for Rue Bennett (Zendaya). She was in the middle of playing Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje), Laurie (Martha Kelly), and the DEA (some guys) against each other in a desperate bid to stay alive and maybe do some good on this earth. Maddy (Alexa Demie) had alerted Alamo to her talks with the feds, and Faye (Chloe Cherry) had tried to alert her nazi bf (Toby Wallace) of her attempt to steal from his safe. And her ex had slapped her. Things were looking bad for our Rue. Worse for Nate, but still pretty bad for Rue.

Believe it or not, Rue made it out of the action movie segments of the finale, only to fall to fentanyl-laced Percocet. “I think in the end, I wanted to tell an honest story about addiction,” Levinson said in the aftershow featurette. “I also wanted to tell a story about grief and the emotional turmoil that in can create.” Rue died 44 minutes into the 104-minute finale, after along dying dreams sequence in which she reunited with her mother (Nika King) and we saw Fez (Angus Cloud) again. “I’ve always been against utopian storytelling,” Levinson added. “The honest ending is people like Rue don’t make it.”