Did HBO really just send Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs to an early grave? Because honey, Season 3 of Euphoria said “bye Felicia” to one of TV’s most chaotic characters, and we are STILL recovering from the absolute carnage.
Let’s spill the tea, because this death scene was messier than Nate’s entire moral compass. Our boy Nate had been drowning in debt to an Armenian mobster—and not the cute kind of financial trouble you can just Venmo your way out of. This was the kind of debt that comes with CONSEQUENCES, darling. We’re talking severed body parts, torture, and a body count that would make even the most hardened Euphoria fan clutch their pearls.
The show didn’t hold back, sweetie. Nate literally had his limbs chopped off while desperately scrambling to scrape together enough cash to pay off his mobster overlords. It was absolutely BRUTAL. Like, we thought we’d seen dark on this show before, but this? This was next level chaos. The writers said “let’s make this as uncomfortable and stomach-turning as humanly possible,” and honestly, they delivered. The special effects team went OFF.
But here’s where it gets juicy—Jacob Elordi’s character was such a walking disaster from day one that fans were genuinely divided about whether this death was justice served cold or just another example of Euphoria’s unhinged storytelling. Some viewers were here for the karmic reckoning (the man was truly deplorable), while others felt like the show finally went TOO far with the violence.
The internet absolutely EXPLODED when this episode dropped. Twitter was a war zone of hot takes, TikTok was flooded with reaction videos, and Reddit threads were going absolutely feral analyzing every frame of the death sequence. People were screaming about it being either the most genius writing or the most gratuitous nonsense the show has ever produced.
Jacob Elordi, bless him, actually managed to make us feel SOMETHING for Nate in his final moments—even though Nate spent seasons being one of the most reprehensible characters on television. That’s literally acting, darling.
So where do YOU stand on this absolutely unhinged storyline? Was Nate’s grisly demise the perfect ending for a morally bankrupt character, or did Euphoria finally lose the plot entirely?
What do you think? A) Nate deserved that brutal ending, he was trash B) Euphoria went too far with the gore this time