School will soon be back in session for Euphoria, HBO and Max Content CEO Casey Bloys confirmed in a recent interview with Deadline, revealing that creator Sam Levinson is “busy writing” scripts for the third season, three of which Bloys has already read.
“Sam is an incredibly talented writer; he’s got a lot in store for these characters, and I’m excited,” Bloys added of the hit teen drama, which stars Emmy-winner Zendaya. But like most episodes of Euphoria, the good news ends there. The series will debut in 2025 after about three years off air—and a production start date has yet to be set, “because there’s a lot of schedules that we have to align,” said Bloys.
With the exit of Barbie Ferreira at the end of season two and sudden death of Angus Cloud last fall, the reshuffled cast now boasts multiple movie stars—Saltburn’s Jacob Elordi, Anyone But You’s Sydney Sweeney—making the show’s third season (or the possibility of a fourth) a logistical nightmare. “Obviously the cast have all become stars, which you love to see—and Zendaya is obviously a big movie star,” Bloys told Variety. “So, there is a practical reality to that. But it also depends on the stories Sam wants to tell. He’s in the thick of writing season three right now, and we’ll leave it up to him and have those conversations about what he wants to do.”
Beyond Euphoria, Bloys acknowledged in his Deadline interview that it’ll be “a weird year” for HBO with a pared-down programming lineup post-Hollywood’s strikes. As for what’s coming next, there’s the newly-premiered fourth season of True Detective, the final season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, and more The Gilded Age, of which Bloys said, “I need Gay Twitter to come out and support.”
Carrie Coon will be pulling double-duty on HBO with both a third season of The Gilded Age and her role on The White Lotus’s next installment. “White Lotus I’m crazy about. “They’re getting started in a couple of weeks,” Bloys confirmed, adding that his reaction to the scripts was similar to that of returning cast member Natasha Rothwell. “I think Natasha Rothwell was saying in an interview that every script she read, she just gasped out loud. I would concur with that,” he said. In a separate recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Bloys dispelled rumors that Woody Harrelson would be checking in for season three, only confirming that “[Creator] Mike White has had conversations with a lot of people and Woody was one of them.” While “there are a couple more roles” yet to be revealed, “Woody is not one of them.”
Another hotly-anticipated series weeks away from production is The Last of Us season two. Bloys has read five of the scripts, which introduce new cast members played by Kaitlyn Dever and Young Mazino into the show’s universe. “It is bigger, gets into questions of retribution and revenge, it follows the video game but has big themes, big action,” he said to Deadline.
In need of yet another show to eagerly await? It won’t be a Succession spinoff, Bloys has stated, but it could be the oft-discussed Big Little Lies season three. Speaking to Variety, the HBO chairman said plans for another installment are in “very early stages right now.” But when stars and producers Reese Witherspoon and Nicole Kidman “land on an idea,” he continued, “I believe they will make it happen. We’re excited when they’re ready.”
People who scrap plans for Sunday nights on HBO—we are so back.
