‘Euphoria’ Episode 3 Has Sydney Sweeney’s Best Cassie Performance Ever

InnovationGaming‘Euphoria’ Episode 3 Has Sydney Sweeney’s Best Cassie Performance EverByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorApr 27, 2026, 09:38am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.EuphoriaHBOThis third and final season of Euphoria has been totally off the rails from the start, but now, it’s finally starting to feel like a good thing. The premiere, which felt like a complete departure from the entire series, is starting to find its footing. As it stands, its biggest weakness is not its storylines or performances, but rather the lack of Labrinth’s soundtrack, replaced by a bizarre Hans Zimmer score that was never more out of place than it was last night.A big criticism of the first two episodes of season 3 of Euphoria was the Cassie and Nate storyline, with Jacob Elordi’s Nate feeling like he was phoning it in, and Sydney Sweeney feeling like she was herded into some sort of humiliation ritual. But now? While Nate is still not what he was in the past two seasons, I was very impressed with Sweeney’s performance as Cassie last night, easily the best I’ve seen from her in this series, and probably, honestly, one of her best across her movie roles as well.It started with a locked-up Cassie walking down the aisle with her mother, lamenting the history of her marriage, which began at her wedding and only went downhill from there. The idea is that she’s implying Cassie is doing the opposite, given that Nate is such a great guy, but a frozen Cassie arrives at the altar with tears rolling down her face. And not the happy kind.EuphoriaHBOThe reception is utter insanity. Nate is visited by Naz, where Cassie learns in real time that he’s in a serious amount of debt, and spends the rest of the wedding alternating between barely holding in a breakdo...