Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, and Jacob Elordi have gone on to become household names because of Euphoria. All three of them have had substantial 2026 runs so far. Elordi was in Wuthering Heights opposite Margot Robbie. Sweeney has been the face of a highly successful denim and apparel campaign spread. Zendaya, on the other hand, played Athena in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and her Spider-Man: Brand New Dayis scheduled to be released in movie theaters on July 31, 2026. And while HBO Max’s Euphoria has already concluded with its third season, there’s still a chapter that remains to be seen.
HBO is now giving the drama series one final release, and no, it is not a continuation or deleted episode. It’s a new special that looks backward at the production that launched in 2019, survived an unusually long gap between seasons, produced two standalone episodes, and helped turn Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, and Angus Cloud into defining faces of modern HBO television.
The release is Euphoria: A Look Back, an HBO Max retrospective arriving July 24. The trailer returns to early interviews in which a much younger Elordi and Cloud introduce themselves; Schafer exclaims how they “were literal babies,” when it all started; and there’s footage from Zendaya’s original press appearances, production-floor celebrations, emotional wrap moments, and cast reflections recorded before anyone knew how culturally large the series would become.
Collider Exclusive · Taylor Sheridan Universe Quiz Which Taylor Sheridan Show Do You Belong In? Yellowstone · Landman · Tulsa King · Mayor of Kingstown
Four worlds. All of them brutal, complicated, and built on power, loyalty, and the price of survival. Taylor Sheridan doesn’t write heroes — he writes people who do what they have to do and live with the cost. Ten questions will reveal which one of his worlds you were made for.
🤠Yellowstone
🛢️Landman
👑Tulsa King
⚖️Mayor of Kingstown
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Where does your power come from? In Sheridan’s world, everyone has leverage. The question is what kind.
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Who do you put first, no matter what? Loyalty in Sheridan’s universe is always absolute — and always costly.
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Someone crosses a line. How do you respond? Every Sheridan protagonist has a line. What matters is what happens after it’s crossed.
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Where do you feel most in your element? Sheridan’s worlds are as much about place as they are about people.
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How do you feel about operating in the grey? Nobody in a Sheridan show has clean hands. The question is how they carry the dirt.
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What are you actually fighting to hold onto? Every Sheridan character is fighting a war. The real question is what they’re defending.
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How do you lead? Authority in Sheridan’s world is never given — it’s established, maintained, and constantly tested.
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Someone new arrives and tries to change how things work. Your reaction? Every Sheridan show has an outsider disrupting an established order. Sometimes that outsider is you.
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What has your position cost you? Nobody gets to where these characters are without paying for it. The bill is always personal.
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When it’s over, what do you want people to say? Sheridan’s characters all know the ending is coming. The question is what they leave behind.
Sheridan Has Spoken You Belong In…
The show that claimed the most of your answers is the world you were built for. If two tied, both are shown — you’re complicated enough to straddle two Sheridan universes.
🤠 Yellowstone
🛢️ Landman
👑 Tulsa King
⚖️ Mayor of Kingstown
You are a Dutton — or you might as well be. You understand that some things are worth protecting at any cost, and that the modern world’s indifference to history, to land, to legacy, is not something you’re willing to accept quietly. You lead from the front, you carry your family’s weight without complaint, and when someone threatens what’s yours, you don’t escalate — you finish it. You’re not cruel. But you are absolute. In Yellowstone’s world, that combination of ferocity and loyalty doesn’t make you a villain. It makes you the only thing standing between everything that matters and everyone who wants to take it.
You thrive in the chaos of high-stakes negotiation, where the money is enormous, the margins are thin, and the wrong word in the wrong room can cost everyone everything. You’re a fixer — the person called when a situation is already on fire and needs someone with the nerve to walk into it. West Texas oil country rewards exactly what you are: sharp, adaptable, unsentimental, and absolutely clear-eyed about what people want and what they’ll do to get it. You’re not naive enough to think this world is fair. You’re smart enough to be the one deciding who it’s fair to.
You are a Dwight Manfredi — someone who has served their time, paid their dues, and arrived somewhere unexpected with nothing but their reputation and their wits. You adapt without losing yourself. You build loyalty through respect rather than fear, though you’re not above reminding people that the two aren’t mutually exclusive. Tulsa King is for people who are still standing when everyone assumed they’d be finished — who find, in an unfamiliar place, that they’re more capable than the world gave them credit for. You don’t need a throne. You build one, wherever you happen to land.
You carry the weight of a system that is broken by design, and you do it anyway — because someone has to, and because you’re the only one positioned to do it without the whole thing collapsing. Mike McLusky’s world is for people who are comfortable operating where there are no good options, only less catastrophic ones. You speak every language: law enforcement, criminal, political, human. That fluency makes you invaluable and it makes you a target. You’ve made your peace with both. Mayor of Kingstown belongs to people who understand that keeping the peace is not the same as being at peace — and who do the job regardless.
‘Euphoria’ Became HBO Max’s Response to Netflix’s ‘Elite’ DNA
Euphoria ended its seven-year run on May 31, 2026, when the 93-minute Season 3 finale closed Rue Bennett’s (Zendaya) story and creator Sam Levinson confirmed that the third season was also the end of the series. Euphoria and Netflix’s similar Eliteboth turn teenage life into heightened adult drama, using sex, drugs, violence, class tension, and beautiful young casts to make school feel dangerous. The difference, however, is scale and structure.
Elite operated like an expanding soap thriller and rotated students through murder mysteries, scandals, and new class conflicts across multiple seasons. Euphoria stayed more contained around Rue, Jules, Cassie, Nate, Maddy, and their immediate circle, spending far more time inside addiction, shame, desire, and self-destruction. That tighter focus helped it become something larger than a teen series. Its makeup, fashion, soundtrack, cinematography, and awards attention turned the show into a cultural launchpad that elevated Zendaya, Sydney Sweeney, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, and Angus Cloud into global stars.
HBO describes Euphoria: A Look Back as a collection of interviews and behind-the-scenes footage from “the show that captured a generation.” And its release two months after the ending makes it an epilogue to the production itself.
Euphoria: A Look Back arrives on July 24 on HBO Max. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
