After a hiatus of four years trance He’s back, and completely different from where he left off.
Most notable is the time jump, which finds the series’ troubled group of characters no longer in high school but now following their own paths in the real world. At the Season 3 premiere in Los Angeles on Tuesday, creator Sam Levinson said, “I liked the idea of there being a kind of Wild West of adulthood and this frontier feeling where anything is possible. That was kind of the background that interested me, is who do these characters become and what are the consequences of those actions?”
As can be seen in the series’ trailers, the season begins with Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) and Nate (Jacob Elordi) getting married, while Lexie (Maude Apatow) and Maddie (Alexa Demie) are working in Hollywood, and Zendaya’s Rue is still trying to come out of some drug-related complications. Another big change comes after the death of Angus Cloud in July 2023, and how the story around his character Fezco is handled.
“I loved Angus dearly and I fought hard to keep him clean while he was here. I think when he died, it made me step back a little bit and think about what is the story I want to tell, what do I want to say? What matters in life?” Levinson said Hollywood Reporter. “And if I was going to do another season, I wanted to make sure that it spoke to kind of a bigger idea about meaning and purpose and who we are. It made me want to address the idea of faith and belief in something greater than ourselves.”
He also discussed the decision to keep Cloud’s character alive in the story, which will be fully revealed as the episodes unfold. “I couldn’t keep him alive in real life but I could keep his character alive on the show,” Levinson continued emotionally. “I kept him alive and the character got a great run. I think he’d be very proud of that.”
The third season also marked Eric Dane’s final television appearance, following his death in February following a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Levinson said Dane called him a few months before shooting to tell him about the ALS diagnosis “and I just said, ‘Look, Eric, I love you and I promise no matter how you show up we’ll make it work, we’ll find a way.'” We just tried to create the most comfortable environment and he’s great about this season.
On top of the series’ natural hype, this year comes with an added element, as Zendaya recently pointed out tranceThe new season will be the last. However, Levinson shied away from confirming this on the carpet, saying: “I go into every season as if it’s my last, I really do. I write it as if it’s my last, when I put down the pencil at the end of the day or when I lock down the final sound mix, I say is this something I’m proud of? If this is it, am I happy? And I leave the rest to God’s desk.”
Do the stars of the series believe that this is the end? Sweeney pleaded not guilty, claiming that “everyone has been talking about what may or may not happen, but honestly I have no idea,” while Demi admitted: “I don’t know — it seems like that.”
for now, trance It returns to HBO on Sunday.
