Euphoria's second season has come to end and, in the words of Cassie, we've never ever been happier.
It's not that we didn't enjoy the sophomore season of the Sam Levinson-created teen drama, but we just found the latest installment wildly stressful. Over the last seven weeks, we watched Rue (Zendaya) struggle with addiction, almost get human trafficked, kick down a door and alienate every loved one in her life. Thankfully, not all hope was lost, as the season two finale showed Rue preparing to make amends for her drug-fueled wrongdoings.
Still, Rue wasn't the only character to have an emotionally charged second season. Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) suffered a full on breakdown after sleeping with her best friend's ex, Maddy (Alexa Demie) experienced a trauma worse than her season one strangulation and Ethan (Austin Abrams) broke out of his comfort zone with a homoerotic dance number in the school play.
We're exhausted writing all of that, so it isn't surprising that Zendaya described filming this season as "f--king brutal" to The Cut.
What's even crazier? This isn't even the season of television we were originally supposed to see. As Zendaya admitted in her interview, the original season two scripts—which Sam rewrote during the COVID-19-related pause on production—are nothing like what aired in 2022.
She revealed, "The things that didn't make it [to your screen] definitely needed to die."
With the new storylines, season two proved to be an even bigger rollercoaster than the first season of Euphoria. For everything the cast has said about making season two, scroll through the gallery below.
Euphoria is available to stream on HBO Max.