‘Euphoria’ Creator Sam Levinson Reveals Inspiration Behind [Spoiler’s] Horrific Death
Levinson said he wanted Nate’s death to feel like karma, but so horrific that viewers would question whether they wanted it.
- On Sunday, May 24, Euphoria fans watched Jacob Elordi's character Nate Jacobs suffer a horrific death in the penultimate episode, locked underground in a coffin for 72 hours as his debt came back to haunt him.
- Nate's mounting debt forced his wife Cassie to pay loan sharks in a desperate attempt to save him, but when Cassie and Maddy dug him up, he was killed by several rattlesnake bites.
- Creator Sam Levinson, 41, drew inspiration from The Candy Snatchers while driving through Los Angeles listening to Otis Redding, when he imagined a rattlesnake approaching the burial pipe. He used real snakes filming in Lancaster, California, where animal wranglers warned, "If you get bitten by a rattlesnake, you have about an hour before you die."
- Levinson told Esquire on Monday that he deliberately made Nate's death horrific to create "that feeling of complicity with the audience," forcing viewers to question whether the character truly deserved his fate.
- After Euphoria's four-year hiatus, Season 3 returned to HBO in April 2026 with controversial moments, and Levinson hopes audiences are left with "exciting questions" about Nate's exhumation by backhoe.
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