Sharon Stone is adding her voice to the conversation around Euphoria’s brutal final season, telling Keke Palmer that HBO’s hit drama should be shown in high schools because of how directly it confronts addiction, sex, and the realities parents often do not want to face.
Stone made the comments during Variety’s Actors on Actors conversation with Palmer, where the two discussed motherhood, performance, Hollywood, and Stone’s role in Season 3 of Euphoria. Stone, who plays a powerful Hollywood producer in the final season, called the Sam Levinson series “the greatest show on television” and said its honesty is exactly why younger audiences and parents should see it.
“Euphoria is so relevant,” Stone said. “I believe it should be shown in every high school, and I think all the parents should have to see it. As a mom, I love it.” Palmer noted that some viewers reduce the series to its most provocative elements, saying people often stop at, “No, it’s too much sex.” Stone pushed back by questioning whether parents really know what their kids are facing.
The conversation comes after Euphoria officially ended with its Season 3 finale, which aired May 31. The episode, titled “In God We Trust,” killed off Zendaya’s Rue Bennett after she overdosed on fentanyl-laced painkillers.
Stone’s reaction echoes the way others in Hollywood have discussed the finale. Bradley Cooper recently praised Levinson’s handling of Rue’s death and compared Zendaya’s performance to “Elizabeth Taylor meets Marlon Brando.”
Colman Domingo, who played Rue’s sponsor Ali, previously warned that the finale would “smack people in the face,” and the episode followed through with multiple deaths, including Laurie and Alamo Brown.
Stone also connected the show’s drug storyline to her own family history, saying her brother became involved in the drug business and served time in a major New York prison.
