‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Trailer: And You Thought High School Was Bad Enough

Set a few years after the HBO hit's second season, Sam Levinson's once-high-school-set drama tracks its cast into adulthood — which proves to be even more fraught than their already-shocking youthful adventures.

The keyword behind the long-awaited third season of HBO’s smash hit, “Euphoria“? Nothing less than “evil” itself. When Sam Levinson’s smash hit series finally returns in April, it will aim to speak to its newly released official logline: “A group of childhood friends wrestle with the virtue of faith, the possibility of redemption, and the problem of evil.”

Sure, sure, “faith” and “redemption” are in there, too, but based on the series’ latest official trailer, evil seems to be winning out. Set a few years after our core group has graduated from high school, this new look at the third season makes it pretty clear: their misadventures in high school were only the tip of the iceberg. Because, damn, things are bad for these people.

Season 3 will see the return of a number of the series’ beloved regulars, including Emmy winner Zendaya (who is genuinely riveting in this first look), Hunter Schafer, Eric Dane, Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Martha Kelly, Chloe Cherry, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, and Toby Wallace. The season will also see the return of some of its biggest guest stars, including Colman Domingo, Dominic Fike, Nika King, Alanna Ubach, Sophia Rose Wilson, Melvin Bonez Estes, Daeg Faerch, Paula Marshall, Zak Steiner, and Marsha Gambles.

But that’s not all! Season 3 also boasts an insane array of new guest stars, including: Sharon Stone, ROSALÍA, Danielle Deadwyler, Marshawn Lynch, Anna Van Patten, Asante Blackk, Bella Podaras, Bill Bodner, Cailyn Rice, Christopher Ammanuel, Christopher Grove, Colleen Camp, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Eli Roth, Gideon Adlon, Hemky Madera, Homer Gere, Jack Topalian, James Landry Hébert, Jeff Wahlberg, Jessica Blair Herman, Justin Sintic, Kadeem Hardison, Kwame Patterson, Madison Thompson, Matthew Willig, Meredith Mickelson, Natasha Lyonne, Priscilla Delgado, Rebecca Pidgeon, Sam Trammell, Smilez, Trisha Paytas, Tyler Lawrence Gray, and Vinnie Hacker. Phew.

And, fun fact: this season was, per HBO, “shot on a new KODAK motion picture film stock in both 35mm and 65mm. Creator Sam Levinson and Emmy-winning cinematographer Marcell Rév collaborated closely with Kodak to commercialize the new stock in each format. Season three is also the first narrative television series to shoot significant volume of 65mm film, providing for an expanded image on screen which mirrors the characters’ journeys out of high school into the wider, wilder world.”

We’re not going to sugarcoat it: it looks great (literally), but it also looks just horrific (emotionally). Take a peek and see what some of the “Euphoria” all-stars have been up to, and what new trials await them.

“Euphoria” debuts Sunday, April 12 on HBO and will be available to stream on HBO Max. New episodes of the HBO Original drama series will debut weekly. Check out the first official trailer for Season 3 below.