New Trailers! Euphoria: Season 3, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Season 2 & One Piece: Season 2
📺 Zendaya steps into adulthood, titans rise again, and the Straw Hats sail into their most dangerous voyage yet!
📺 “Euphoria: Season 3” Trailer: Zendaya Navigates Life Beyond High School in the Emmy-Winning HBO Series’ Long-Delayed Return with Jacob Elordi, Sydney Sweeney, and Hunter Schafer — Premieres Sun, April 12th on HBO
It was the summer of 2019 when Euphoria broke onto television screens, instantly becoming one of the most talked-about HBO shows in recent history. Out of its premiere came numerous cultural conversations about addiction, identity, sexuality, mental health, and what it actually means to grow up in an era where nothing is private and everything is performative.
But perhaps the show’s biggest impact was its cast of rising talents, many of whom are now bona fide household names, starring in some of the biggest movies and prestige projects in Hollywood. It’s also partly the reason why Season 3 has been a long time coming, with the final episodes of Season 2 airing nearly four years ago. Obviously, the actors’ and writers’ strikes also contributed to the delay. But the fact that nearly all of the show’s principal cast, including Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Hunter Schafer, Sydney Sweeney, and Colman Domingo, have gone on to become in-demand stars with packed schedules only added to the challenge of getting everyone back together.
There was even a thought that Season 3 might never get off the ground, as rumors began to swirl about clashing egos and internal conflicts with the show’s creator, producer, writer, and director, Sam Levinson. After all, Levinson’s interim HBO series The Idol—a racy pop-star miniseries co-created by and starring The Weeknd—was widely considered a major stumble in 2023. Labeled one of the year’s worst shows, The Idol became a lightning rod for its explicit sexual content and notoriously troubled production.
But Euphoria was altogether different, growing in popularity largely because of the rise of its cast, who transformed from buzzy newcomers into genuine stars audiences couldn’t stop talking about. It seemed that the more these Euphoria actors became widely known, the conversation ultimately shifted to when Season 3 would finally happen—if ever.
Well, the buzz started swirling again with the announcement that Season 3 officially entered production last year, which only drove up the anticipation from fans. Now they’re getting their first major look at the new episodes with the release of the official Season 3 trailer. And from the looks of things, Zendaya’s Rue and her circle of school buddies are navigating a new level of growing up, facing life beyond high school and the consequences that come with it.
“A few years after high school, I don’t know if life was exactly what I wished, but somehow for the first time, I was beginning to have… faith.”
With the show taking a time jump and placing the characters three years out of East Highland High School, Rue offers a glimpse into what her life has become since. She’s still hustling, trying to make ends meet, dealing pills and owing money to people she probably shouldn’t be mixed up with in the first place. She soon finds herself in the orbit of a new player in town, played by Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Lost, Suicide Squad). He’s a cowboy-hat-wearing, cigar-smoking smooth operator, and he’s got his eyes on Rue—which can only mean one thing: trouble.
As for the rest of the cast, Jacob Elordi’s Nate is overseeing a lucrative construction business, while his bride-to-be, Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie, is making money on her own as a model of sorts—“spreading eagle on the internet,” as the trailer bluntly puts it.
In the meantime, Jules (Hunter Schafer) is described as a “sugar baby” now, living in a high-end penthouse and looking quite lonely. As for Rue, it appears she might be turning to a higher power for help. That is, if she’s able to make it through this season without getting shot.
Alexa Demie, Maude Apatow, Martha Kelly, and Eric Dane are also expected to return for Season 3, while the show welcomes a new slate of guest stars that includes Emmy winner Sharon Stone, Grammy winner Rosalía, Danielle Deadwyler, Marshawn Lynch, Natasha Lyonne, and Kadeem Hardison, among a few of the new faces dropping in.
With Emmy-winning cinematographer Marcell Rév working the lens, Season 3 has reportedly been shot on a brand-new KODAK motion picture film stock in both 35mm and 65mm—making it the first narrative television series to shoot significant footage on 65mm. The result is a more stark and cinematic visual look, distinctly different from the first two seasons, which were firmly rooted in high school.
Produced in partnership with A24, Euphoria remains one of the most-watched series in HBO history, with its first two seasons earning 25 Emmy nominations and nine wins. Season 3 is set to premiere Sunday, April 12th on HBO, with new episodes debuting weekly and streaming on HBO Max.
So, sure, the kids are grown now. But the chaos, however, never stops.
📺 “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters: Season 2” Teaser Trailer: A Colossal Mistake Opens the Door to an Even Bigger Titan Threat in Apple’s MonsterVerse Series Starring Anna Sawai, Kurt Russell, and Wyatt Russell — Premieres Fri, February 27th on Apple TV
Sure, we’ve all made mistakes before—some small, some disastrous. But it’s safe to say most of us have never slipped up so badly that we tore open a portal to an underworld packed with giant monsters eager to break through. That’s essentially the core hook driving Season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. It’s the classic case of one colossal foul-up snowballing into an apocalyptic problem nobody is remotely prepared to handle.
“This is not Kong. And it’s not Godzilla... This is something bigger.”
The new teaser for Season 2 hints at a possible new threat emerging from an opened rift in the middle of the ocean—one that bridges our world with another. And whatever it is, it’s going to be huge... like really huge.
Kurt Russell returns as U.S. Army Colonel Lee Shaw, one of the very first Monarch agents—a man with a long, closely guarded history of direct encounters with the Titans. The series also features Wyatt Russell, Kurt’s real-life son, playing a younger version of Shaw as the story charts dual timelines, gradually revealing the secret history of Monarch. And the mystery surrounding what they know... and what they’ve done becomes the crux of the entire series.
Set within Legendary’s ever-expanding MonsterVerse (which includes Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, and the upcoming Godzilla x Kong: Supernova), the Apple original series began by following two half-siblings (played by Emmy-winner Anna Sawai and Ren Watabe) as they uncover decades of family secrets tied to the shadowy organization Monarch, bouncing between Cold War–era paranoia and present-day fallout.
Season 2 picks up with the stakes cranked dangerously higher. The ripple effects of Monarch’s long-buried decisions drag everyone back into the danger zone. This time, the story pulls the characters toward Skull Island, where a strange new village and a rising Titan threaten to redraw the line between protector and destroyer. Yes, both King Kong and Godzilla are very much part of the equation. And their presence certainly looms large over this new season.
Kiersey Clemons, Mari Yamamoto, Joe Tippett, and Anders Holm return to round out the cast.
Created by Chris Black and Matt Fraction, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters returns next month, with Season 2 set to premiere Friday, February 27th on Apple TV.
📺 “One Piece: Season 2” Teaser Trailer: Baroque Works Enters the Game as the Straw Hats Face Their Biggest Threats Yet in Hit Live-Action Adaptation of Eiichiro Oda’s Anime Epic Starring Iñaki Godoy — Premieres Tues, March 10th on Netflix
Lightning struck once. Now Netflix is betting it can strike twice.
Back in 2023, Netflix pulled off something few thought was possible: a live-action adaptation of One Piece that didn’t just work—it soared. Fans showed up. New viewers piled in. And suddenly, Monkey D. Luffy’s rubber-limbed pirate dream became one of the streamer’s biggest breakout hits. No small feat for a franchise as sacred (and sprawling) as Eiichiro Oda’s long-running manga epic.
Season 2 picks up with Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates sailing into far more dangerous waters. The East Blue was just the warm-up. The Grand Line is where alliances get shakier, enemies get deadlier, and pirate legends are forged—or shattered. Luffy’s goal hasn’t changed—find the mythical One Piece and become King of the Pirates—but the road ahead is about to get a whole lot messier.
Mexican actor Iñaki Godoy returns as the endlessly optimistic captain, joined once again by Emily Rudd (as cat burglar–turned–navigator Nami), Mackenyu (as swordsman Roronoa Zoro), Jacob Romero Gibson (as sharpshooter Usopp), and Taz Skylar (as the fiery chef Sanji) as the core Straw Hat crew. Season 2 also expands the world in a big way, introducing major new players as members of the assassin organization Baroque Works:
Lera Abova as Miss All Sunday
Charithra Chandran as Miss Wednesday
Yonda Thomas as Igaram
Jazzara Jaslyn as Miss Valentine
Sophia Anne Caruso as Miss Goldenweek
David Dastmalchian as Mr. 3
Camrus Johnson as Mr. 5
Daniel Lasker as Mr. 9
Also joining the cast: Joe Manganiello as Mr. 0, the shadowy head of Baroque Works.
Oda remains deeply involved as executive producer, working alongside creators Matt Owens and Steven Maeda to keep the live-action series faithful in spirit, if not panel-for-panel. Season 2 is expected to adapt fan-favorite arcs like Loguetown, Reverse Mountain, Whiskey Peak, Little Garden, and Drum Island—officially ushering the series into its myth-building phase. Bigger adventures. Bigger stakes. Bigger seas.
One Piece: Season 2 is set to premiere on Netflix Tuesday, March 10th.
