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Patrick Wymore/HBO SPOILER ALERT: The following story contains plot details from the Season 3 premiere of “Euphoria,” now streaming on HBO Max.
Though it’s been four years since we last got a new episode of “Euphoria,” and five years have passed in the world of the HBO show, Season 3 begins somewhere familiar: with Rue (Zendaya) in a dangerous and chaotic position.
The premiere opens with Rue in Mexico as a group of men help push her car out of a ditch in a desert landscape. She thanks them in Spanish then drives off wildly, eventually using a makeshift ramp to drive up a wall at the border and leaving her car precariously teetering at the top of the wall when she can’t find a way to safely steer it down onto Texas soil. On foot, she carries a duffel bag full of drugs until she stops to rest at the home of a conservative Christian family, who believe she’s there to write a story about “the pure evil that’s pouring across our border” for her college newspaper. Eventually, Rue makes it back to California and brings the duffel bag to Laurie (Martha Kelly), who reprimands her for leaving the car behind and says she’ll add it to her tab.
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