'Euphoria' is now HBO's second most watched show (you can probably guess the first)
Euphoria is everywhere right now. The memes are all over our Twitter feeds, our TikTok FYPs, and our Instagram Stories. Its ubiquity is likely owing to the phenomenal viewing figures: The show is now HBO's second most-viewed series behind Game of Thrones.
According to Variety, the Euphoria Season 2 finale pulled in a whopping 16.3 million viewers — the second highest viewing figures of an HBO series over the past 18 years after Game of Thrones, which saw 19.4 million tune in on the night of its Season 8 finale back in 2019.
Directed and executive produced by Sam Levinson, the Zendaya-led drama follows the lives of high school students as they deal with love, loss, addiction, and trauma. As Mashable's Alison Foreman writes in her review of Season 2, Euphoria is a "dark portrait of modern adolescence" which takes a "no-holds-barred approach to drugs, sex, and violence."
The Emmy-award winning drama stars Zendaya as 17-year-old Rue, Hunter Schafer as Jules Vaughn, Sydney Sweeney as Cassie, Alexa Demie as Maddy Perez, Barbie Ferreira as Kat Hernandez, and Maude Apatow as Lexi Howard. Angus Cloud plays Fezco, Jacob Elordi plays Nate Jacobs, Algee Smith plays Christopher McKay, and Eric Dane plays Cal Jacobs.
Currently, the viewership figures of the Season 2 premiere is nearing 19 million in the U.S.
Just when you thought it couldn't possibly get much better, Euphoria has also smashed a Twitter record. It is the most tweeted TV show of the decade, per Twitter.
It will likely come as no surprise to learn that HBO has renewed the show for a third season.
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Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
