Where Every Major Euphoria Character Ends Up After the Series Finale
Spoilers ahead for Euphoria Season 3 and the series finale, “In God We Trust.”
After three seasons, Euphoria has reached what appears to be its final ending. The HBO drama’s Season 3 finale closed the door on several major characters, including Rue Bennett, whose story ended in the show’s most devastating (and not-so-popular) turn. Though despite the backlash, creator Sam Levinson has since described the ending as the conclusion of the story he set out to tell about addiction and its consequences. So where does everyone end up by the time the dust finally settles?
Rue Bennett
Rue’s ending is the emotional center of the finale. After spending the season caught between Laurie and Alamo’s dangerous worlds, Rue escapes one crisis only to fall into another. Alamo gives her pills that appear to be painkillers, but Ali later discovers they were laced with fentanyl. Rue dies on Ali’s couch after a dreamlike final sequence that shows her searching for Fezco and embracing her mother.
It is a brutal ending for a character who spent the series moving between relapse, survival, denial, and brief moments of hope. The finale does not give Rue a clean redemption arc, but it does leave her with a final image of peace as Ali later imagines her smiling at the dinner table with the family she once found comfort with in Texas.
Nate Jacobs
Nate’s story ends before the finale, but his death hangs over the final episode. After struggling to repay a debt to Naz, Nate is captured and buried alive in a coffin. A rattlesnake eventually enters through the small air hole and kills him. His death is never made public, though, leaving Cassie and Maddy among the only people who know what really happened.
Cassie Howard and Maddy Perez
Cassie and Maddy end the series in a complicated place. After years of betrayal and fallout, the two have repaired enough of their friendship to live together and build a content house. Still, Nate’s death leaves a shadow over both of them. Cassie lies to Lexi by saying Nate has simply disappeared, and her final moments show her alone in a large, empty home, grieving the husband she lost.
Maddy, meanwhile, survives her entanglement with Alamo. After becoming tied to him through the debt connected to Nate and Cassie, she meets him at the Silver Slipper, where he talks about a future with her. Ali interrupts the encounter and kills Alamo, leaving Maddy alive, relieved, and finally free from that particular threat.
Jules Vaughn and Lexi Howard
Jules receives one of the finale’s quieter, less dramatic endings. Her final scene shows her painting a portrait of Rue after learning of her death, mourning the person who once defined so much of her high school life. And through that, the series leaves Jules in grief rather than resolution.
On the other hand, Lexi is also left processing Rue’s death. Cassie offers her a role in the content house as a storyteller, but Lexi turns it down, choosing to focus on herself instead. She is also kept in the dark about Nate’s death, believing the lie that he has disappeared.
Fezco, Ali, Laurie, and the Final Fallout
Fezco remains in prison as far as the finale reveals, though he appears in Rue’s dream sequence before her death. The moment also serves as a tribute to Angus Cloud, who died in 2023.
Conversely, Ali is left carrying the weight of Rue’s death. After finding her body, he goes after Alamo and kills both G and Alamo at the Silver Slipper. The series ultimately ends with Ali visiting the Texas family Rue once stayed with, joining them for a meal and prayer as he imagines Rue at peace. Laurie eventually dies by suicide during a DEA raid, while Faye and Wayne escape before the authorities arrive and are last seen hitchhiking away.
With Rue, Nate, Laurie, Alamo, and G all dead, Euphoria ends its tumultuous, polarizing run on a note that feels less like closure for everyone and more like the fallout of damage that finally caught up with everyone.
