Widely dismissed by critics though it may have been, HBO‘s most controversial show delivered incredible ratings in its final season. In fact, the viewership kept increasing through the final season’s run, peaking with the eighth and last episode, which aired on May 31. According to HBO, the final episode brought in nearly 9 million viewers across platforms, marking an increase over the 8.5 million viewers for the season premiere. And now, a month later, Nielsen has published its streaming report for the week of June 1 to June 7, showing that the HBO series had a phenomenal jump following its finale.
We’re talking, of course, about Euphoria. Starring Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, Maude Apatow, and others, the final season was a long time in the making. The show premiered in 2019, and returned with a second season in 2022. The final season was a logistical nightmare, especially since the central cast had become major stars in the last few years. Meanwhile, the public’s perception of creator Sam Levinsonsoured after the failure of his other HBO series, The Idol, and reports of on-set mismanagement. The final season of Euphoria emerged as the worst-reviewed of the lot, scoring 43% on the aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes. The site’s consensus reads, “Euphoria returns with less than the sum of its parts in a disjointed cavalcade of forced narratives that leave its talented cast stranded in the wind.”
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
01
A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
02
Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
03
What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
04
You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
05
How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
06
How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
07
What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
08
At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
Rue Would’ve Chuckled at this Data Point
Despite the poor reviews, the show was clearly a ratings champion. According to Nielsen, it was the number five title on the acquired series list, which was topped by Bluey. Euphoria placed behind legacy titles such as Grey’s Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory, and SpongeBob SquarePants. Interestingly, the show accumulated 666 million minutes watched for the week of June 1 to June 7, an unholy number that coincidentally connects to the final season’s themes. The last batch of Euphoria episodes was promoted with the tagline “May God have mercy,” and followed Zendaya’s character as she turned to religion. Zendaya’s eye-poppingly packed year will continue withSpider-Man: Brand New Day, and then Christopher Nolan‘s The Odyssey and Denis Villeneuve‘s Dune: Part Three. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
