Euphoria has been building up to Cassie and Nate’s chaotic wedding — but did they actually get married?
The Sunday, April 26, episode of the hit HBO series showed Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate’s (Jacob Elordi) big day. While the guests were curious about the event, Nate was busy throwing up and Cassie was nearly pushed to the brink with pressure and stress.
Despite delivering their vows without a hitch, things took a turn when a man Nate owed money to approached him during dinner. Some people overheard that Nate was very in debut, which Cassie was learning about for the first time. They managed to mend their issues — after Cassie “accidentally” injured Nate in the eye with a cork from a champagne bottle — but they arrived home to the same man, Naz, waiting to threaten Nate.
Nate didn’t just receive a warning this time. He got beat up before his pinky was cut off — as Cassie had to watch. This was a disastrous start to the rest of their lives, which made sense considering the origin of their love story.
Before the wedding episode, Cassie’s story line received backlash due to her OnlyFans arc. Creator Sam Levinson, meanwhile, hit back at the ongoing criticism.
“[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor,” Levinson explained to The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published earlier this month. “But what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it.”
He continued: “What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion. The gag is to jump out, to break the wall.”
Levinson also weighed in on how the series had to adapt for season 3.
“We have a motto of: Evolve or die,” he told THR. “We wanted to make sure we were changing things up.”
He added: “We’re seeing them out in the world, in the wider world, and allowing the actors to communicate emotionally through the performance as opposed to in the past, when we did it moreso through camera. We wanted to see them fending for themselves.”
Euphoria airs on HBO Sundays at 9 p.m. ET.
