Wait, <em>Who </em>Got Buried Alive on <em>Euphoria</em>?

Reported by Harper's Bazaar.

There is a version of Euphoria Season 3 that functions as a sharp, messy portrait of ambition and self-destruction. Then there is "This Little Piggy," the episode that opens on a close-up of Sydney Sweeney sucking her own toes and somehow escalates from there. According to Harper's Bazaar, this week's installment is either the show finally leaning into camp or Sam Levinson simply running out of guardrails — possibly both.

Cassie's OnlyFans arc has officially gone surrealist. Under Maddy's management, her account explodes: ASMR content, mailed underwear, a podcast circuit complete with a Trisha Paytas cameo. The bit where she's asked whether she's a Democrat and responds with a slur lands with all the grace you'd expect. Then — and this is real — Cassie literally grows too large for her apartment in an Alice in Wonderland-meets-Attack of the 50 Foot Woman sequence, pressing her giant nipples against a high-rise window. It is deranged. It is also, somehow, a little fun. Meanwhile, Nate is living off her wire transfers from a takeout-covered kitchen table, offering career advice despite missing payments — which earns him another body part ripped off his foot. The show's gore is aggressive and purposeful right up until it isn't.

Ambition Has a Price, and Apparently So Does Shakespeare

The Cassie-versus-Maddy power struggle sharpens when Cassie discovers Maddy's "manager" title is as fabricated as her living situation — she's been cleaning dog vomit for a living and renting a basement apartment. Cassie tries to defect to Brandon's team, Maddy retaliates by dangling a real audition for soap opera LA Nights, and somehow Cassie ends up delivering a Shakespeare monologue from Antony and Cleopatra on a soap set. It works. Patricia, the showrunner, is sold. Lexi is not.

Over in the show's grimmer register, Rue's snitch operation is unraveling fast. After Bishop is spotted suiting up in plastic wrap to commit a bathroom murder, Rue attempts DEA-directed phone calls to both Laurie and Wayne — the latter incriminates himself almost immediately. But Magick finds the planted drugs in her locker and brings them straight to Alamo, who is already furious and already suspicious. The episode ends with Rue buried neck-deep in dirt in the middle of nowhere while Alamo approaches on horseback. Zendaya is obviously not getting decapitated on a prestige HBO drama, but the image is genuinely unsettling — and a reminder that this show, even at its most chaotic, still knows how to land a gut punch. Maddy, meanwhile, has agreed to a business partnership with a violent crime boss and has absolutely no idea.

Season 3 is at its best when the camp and the carnage collide — and this week, they did, whether Levinson meant it that way or not.

Read the original at Harper's Bazaar.