Overview
- HBO released new photos and a brief teaser, formally setting the Season 3 launch for April 2026.
- The narrative leaps roughly five years beyond high school, shifting the ensemble into early-adult lives and careers.
- Levinson says Rue is south of the border and indebted to drug dealer Laurie, framing a central conflict.
- Cassie and Nate are engaged in the suburbs, with Levinson confirming they marry, as Jules attends art school, Maddy works at a Hollywood talent agency, and Lexi assists a showrunner played by Sharon Stone.
- Most main cast return and new faces join, including Sharon Stone, Rosalía, Marshawn Lynch, Danielle Deadwyler, Natasha Lyonne, Trisha Paytas and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, with promo images hinting at Rue in a church, Cassie with a melting ice cream cone and Nate cooking; some outlets report certain past actors will not return.