Viewers of Euphoria have been left questioning one scene in the latest season of the hit show.

The latest season of the hit TV show has now been released, but one scene has already got some fans questioning what the script is putting the characters through, involving cast members Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney.

Euphoria is set in the fictional town East Highland, California, and has become known for its frank and sometimes uncomfortable depictions of sex and relationships as it charts the characters’ struggles with addiction.

The scene in question sees Elordi’s character Nate Jacobs holding Cassie Howard, played by Sweeney, on a leash, with her wearing a corset, a headband with animal ears, and makeup to look like a dog’s nose.

This is engaging in ‘puppy play’, where one submissive participant takes on the role of a dog, including behaving that way and receiving praise or admonition from the dominant partner.

Grasping the leash, Elordi says the line: “You’ve been a bad, bad dog”, which Sweeney’s character responds to by looking up at him and saying: “Woof woof”.

The moment drew criticism on social media with one person writing: “This is so embarrassing even for Jacob. But, how Sydney Sweeney can agree to do something like this? It’s like a humiliation ritual.”

Another said: “Stop that whole scene gave me second hand embarrassment, I was cringing so bad just waiting for it to be over. Omfg.”

But another person argued that this scene was in keeping with the chaotic character that Sweeney plays on the show.

“Girl, it’s called acting,” they wrote. “Sydney’s playing a messy character on a show that’s always been wild and unhinged.

“If it was too much for her she wouldn’t have signed on People acting shocked like they haven’t seen Euphoria before lol.”

Season three of the show has seen the characters leaving high school behind and trying to carve out lives for themselves.

Set five years after where we previously left them, the first few episodes have seen Cassie trying to raise money to pay for her wedding by selling explicit content on OnlyFans.

Oddly, this is not the first time that Elordi has had to play in a scene involving puppy play.

One segment in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights adaptation documents Heathcliff and Isabella engaging in a BDSM-relationship, with Isabella enjoying behaving like a dog for Heathcliff when Nelly visits them at Wuthering Heights.

This was markedly different from the relationship in the book, where Heathcliff physically abuses Isabella, who flees the relationship to save her unborn child.

Sydney Sweeney has come under fire for an X-rated scene in the latest season of Euphoria.

The long-awaited third season of the hit HBO show dropped last night (April 12), which features late actor Eric Dane in what was one of his last acting roles before his passing in February.

Like Dane, Zendaya, Jacob Elordi, Maude Apatow, and Sydney Sweeney have reprised their respective roles in Euphoria, which has seen fans wait four years for a new season.

It’s not new information that the drama is full of eyebrow-raising moments, and season three is no different.

One scene in particular has caused some backlash online. It shows Sweeney (who plays Cassie) creating content for her newly established OnlyFans page while dressed as a baby.

The 28-year-old is seen in a sheer top with her hair in pigtails, a dummy in her mouth while her legs are in the air.

In the wake of the risqué scene, people have shared their thoughts on social media to criticize Sweeney, HBO, and Euphoria screenwriter Sam Levinson.

One person said: “Nothing about this is even remotely amusing or entertaining enough to watch considering the current political/social climate that has forever sexualized babies.”

“Yeah bro that baby sh*t is weird as f**k,” added a second. A different person echoed similar sentiments and said: “Whoever made her do that baby pose with baby pacifier needs to be jailed. That sh*t is uncomfortable.”

A separate TV fan raged: “I was gonna give this season of Euphoria a chance, but adding age play to satisfy the pedophilic fetish of some people seems way too sick and disgusting to me.

“I can’t believe someone wrote this script, that it got accepted, that the actresses ARE OKAY WITH IT, and that HBO thinks it’s a good idea to approve its filming and airing.”

Somebody else wrote: “Euphoria has sunk to a new low — Sydney Sweeney’s character is spreading nothing but vulgarity. What a complete sham.”

Others raised the question of why Sweeney agreed to do the scene in the first place. One person said: “Do actors ever question the scenes they be doing?”

Elsewhere, a Euphoria fan branded it ‘weird as f**k’ that Sweeney didn’t say no.

However, some viewers defended the scene, with one commenting: “But it’s fiction. It’s a mockery of those who make and consume that kind of stuff. It’s like you complaining that a movie features a corrupt politician or a serial killer.”

Another said: “They are raising a real situation. I’m glad they show how sexualised the planet and our minds are, I hope that way we become a little more conscious.”

Along with the criticism of the scene involving Sweeney, there’s been some pretty poor reviews of Euphoria‘s third season.

Season one boasts 80 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, but the latest has debuted on the review platform with a rather uninspired 44 percent.

One reviewer said: “This was actually so bad, it’s like a completely different show. Only watching it for Zendaya.”

“We lost the plot. Main storyline is oversexualized now,” said a second.

Where to watch Euphoria season 3

In the US, season three of Euphoria premiered at 9pm on HBO on April 12. New episodes will air at the same time every week until the finale on May 31.

They’ll also drop on HBO Max, however, you’ll need to sign up for a subscription to the streaming platform to watch them there. It offers three subscription plans: Basic with ads at $10.99 per month, Standard at $18.49 per month and Premium at $22.99 per month.

UNILAD has approached HBO, as well as reps for Sweeney and Levinson, for comment.

Just how much do you think Sydney Sweeney’s net worth is?

The 28-year-old actor has recently starred in an adaptation of The Housemaid, but is perhaps best known for her role as Cassie in Euphoria.

But the latest season of the hit HBO show has been met with a controversial reception, in particular over scenes featuring Sweeney.

The third season is set five years after the events of the previous one, and sees the cast trying to build up a life for themselves and survive in the wider world.

For Sweeney’s character, this has included starting an OnlyFans page to raise money for her upcoming wedding.

It’s this plot line which has led to some of the more contentious scenes, including co-star Jacob Elordi holding Sweeney on a leash dressed as a puppy, and another where she is fully topless as she poses for her fans.

What is Sydney Sweeney’s net worth?

Celebrity Net Worth estimated her as being worth approximately $40 million, despite not even being 30 years old yet.

This is from a combination of her movie salaries, such as a multi-million dollar contract on The Housemaid, for which she reportedly got a pay check of around $7.5 million.

Others have included reported payments of hundreds of thousands of dollars for projects like Madame Web, as well as her commercial appearances in advertisements.

Sweeney also has her own production company, called Fifty-Fifty Films, opening up another revenue stream.

Since its launch in 2019, Euphoria has become known for its controversial and unflinching portrayal of addiction, sex, and relationships.

But a lot of viewers have taken the view that the latest season has taken things ‘too far’, particularly with Cassie’s scenes.

Taking to social media, one person wrote: “Honestly, Euphoria has always pushed boundaries, but it does feel like this season is going a bit too far for shock value.

“I get that it’s trying to portray dark and uncomfortable themes, but there’s a fine line between storytelling and unnecessary degradation.”

Another added: “This is so embarrassing even for Jacob. But, how Sydney Sweeney can agree to do something like this? It’s like a humiliation ritual.”

Though others have defended the show, with one viewer writing: “But it’s fiction. It’s a mockery of those who make and consume that kind of stuff. It’s like you complaining that a movie features a corrupt politician or a serial killer.”

Someone else simply commented: “If you’re a real fan of Euphoria this does not shock you.”

The show’s creator, Sam Levinson, has even weighed in on the debate, defending a scene where Sweeney engages in ‘puppy play’.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, he said: “[Cassie] has got her dog house and her little dog ears and the nose, and that has its own humor, but what makes the scene is the fact that her housekeeper is the one filming it.

“What we wanted to always find is the other layer of absurdity that we’re able to tie into it so that we’re not too inside of her fantasy or illusion — the gag is to jump out, to break the wall.”

What has Sydney Sweeney said about her nude scenes on Euphoria?

2019

After the first season of Euphoria premieres, Sweeney tells HuffPost: “The thing about the nudity in this show is that it’s not glamorized. It’s not, ‘Oh, here’s a pair of tits.’ It’s just real.

“I had to look at the whole picture of the entirety of the show, and I just fell in love with the rawness and the situations and the emotions that all these characters go through.”

2022

Following the release of the second series, Sweeney reveals that on occasion she pushed back on the levels of nudity director Sam Levinson called for.

She tells The Independent: “There are moments where Cassie was supposed to be shirtless and I would tell Sam, ‘I don’t really think that’s necessary here.’ He was like, ‘OK, we don’t need it’.

“I’ve never felt like Sam has pushed it on me. When I didn’t want to do it, he didn’t make me.”

Around the same time, she also calls out the double standard around nude scenes, telling Cosmopolitan: “There are hour-long compilations of world-famous male actors with nude scenes who win Oscars and get praised for that work. But the moment a woman does it, it degrades them.”

2023

The following year, Sweeney also reveals that fans are trolling her online with screenshots of Cassie’s nude scenes.

She tells The Sun: “It got to the point where they were tagging my family. My cousins don’t need that. It’s completely disgusting and unfair

“You have a character that goes through the scrutiny of being a sexualised person at school and then an audience that does the same thing.”

2025

In spite of the trolling over her nude scenes and the sexism she’s come up against, Sweeney says she’s not hesitant to perform nude scenes when a script calls for it.

She tells W Magazine: “I don’t get nervous. I think that the female body is a very powerful thing. And I’m telling my character’s story, so I owe it to them to tell it well and to do what needs to be done.”

The scene, which left people stunned to say the least, may seem on the explicit side, but actually comes from a sexual fetish that became hugely popular in the 80s – ‘sploshing’.

What is ‘sploshing’?

To ‘splosh’ is to derive sexual pleasure from having wet and messy substances like food and drink poured over you.

Though in many cases, those who practice the fetish take it to far greater extremes than just a dollop of whipped cream. Sploshing can mean being covered in a whole host of edibles, bathed in jelly, or even covered with syrup and cake.

Essentially, it’s being coated in anything that would require a heavy-duty shower to clean up afterwards, as its alternative name WAM (wet and messy), suggests.

While it might not be for everyone, sploshing appears to be gaining traction, with as many as 11 million views on TikTok.

There, videos show women pouring any number of foods over their bodies, be it chucking spaghetti over themselves, sitting in cake or dousing themselves in coffee.

Speaking to Metro, sex psychotherapist Gigi Engle said sploshing is by and large about getting ‘wet’, with food just one popular spin-off.

“Sploshing is a sexual kink or fetish that involves sitting in or spreading around jelly-like or viscous substances,” she explained.

What are the most common items used in ‘sploshing’?

Sitting in cake is apparently particularly popular among fetishists. According to the therapist, the most common substances are jelly, shaving cream, cakes, icing and batter, though it can vary from person to person.

“Cake sitting is very popular on OnlyFans, there are a lot of women who sit in cakes as a part of their content creation,” Engle explained.

“It’s where an attractive woman or fem makes the cake and then does a close-up video of them fully sitting on it and squishing it. It’s very messy, and there’s destruction which can feed into the erotica of it.”

Dripping chocolate over people is said to be another favorite, while sitting in jelly is also up there.

Explaining why some people find spolshing just so arousing, Engle said that the ‘auditory’ element of the experience – the squishing wet sounds – can play a big part.

“There’s a tactile element to it where you could like the feel of it on your fingers or body,” she added. “The messiness and wetness can also be a big draw – it’s a very sensory experience.”