Yes, Nate Jacobs is dead. ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 Episode 7, titled “Rain or Shine,” delivers one of the most jaw-dropping character exits the show has ever produced, and it lands just one week before the season finale. Jacob Elordi’s Nate Jacobs, the brooding, volatile antagonist who has haunted Euphoria since Season 1, is gone. And the way he goes out? Nobody saw it coming.
The penultimate episode has been dominating social media since it aired, and for good reason. For years, fans have predicted Nate would eventually face consequences for the trail of destruction he left behind. “Rain or Shine” delivers on that promise in the most Euphoria way possible: chaotic, brutal, and completely unforgettable.
How Does Nate Jacobs Die in Euphoria Season 3 Episode 7?
The episode picks up the fallout from Nate’s catastrophic financial situation. After taking over his father Cal’s business operations, Nate burned through investor money and fell deep into debt with a dangerous loan shark named Naz. The season had been escalating the violence tied to that $1 million debt, with Nate previously losing toes and even a finger during earlier confrontations.
In “Rain or Shine,” things finally reach a breaking point. Naz and his enforcer Artur abduct Nate and bury him alive inside a custom coffin at the Sun Settlers construction site, the very same development Nate had been trying to build his future on. A small drainage pipe is his only connection to the outside world. Naz then shows up at Cassie’s door and gives her 72 hours to raise the ransom, or Nate suffocates underground.
Here’s where the episode earns its place in Euphoria history. While Nate is trapped in that coffin, a rattlesnake slithers through the drainage pipe and bites him. Cassie and Maddy desperately try to pull together a rescue, enlisting the help of a figure named Alamo, who kills Naz during a tense standoff at the burial site. Artur then digs Nate out of the ground. But it is already too late. Nate dies from the snakebite before anyone can reach him, and Cassie is left weeping over his body.
Production went to striking lengths to make that coffin sequence feel visceral and real. A behind-the-scenes video revealed the crew used a boa constrictor with a fake rattle for the coffin close-ups, while the shots of the snake approaching the drain used a real rattlesnake on set.
What Does Nate’s Death Mean for the Euphoria Finale?
For a character built around menace and control, the manner of Nate’s death carries a brutal irony. He is not taken down in a fight, not outplayed in some high-stakes confrontation. He dies alone in the dark, underground, from a snakebite. Helpless. That contrast between how intimidating Nate has always been and how powerless his death makes him is exactly the kind of storytelling Euphoria does best.
Jacob Elordi reflected on the exit with characteristic calm, saying in a behind-the-scenes video: “Nate is someone who’s made so many mistakes and made so many dark choices. It’s cool to see it all come to what it’s come to.” He also added, simply: “That’s a cool way to go.”
Nate’s death reshuffles every dynamic heading into the finale. Cassie, who has spent the season making increasingly desperate choices in pursuit of validation, is now caught at a crime scene she never planned for. Maddy is in the same position. And Rue’s separate spiral deeper into drug operations and DEA entanglement now carries even more weight, with Nate’s loss removing the season’s central pressure point entirely.
The show has been building toward a question all season about whether Rue survives her own downward spiral. With Nate gone, the finale lands with one fewer safety net for virtually every character still standing. That makes the final episode feel genuinely unpredictable in a way Euphoria has not managed in years.
The Euphoria Season 3 finale airs Sunday on HBO and streams on Max.
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