Is Nate Jacobs Really Dead In Euphoria's Latest Episode?

Over the course of the last 7 weeks we have been through all sorts of disgusting, even horrifying scenes in Sam Levinson’s Euphoria. There was the body packing scene in the first episode, Ellis plastic wrapping Jules in the third episode, multiple scenes of Nate getting his fingers and toes torn out one by one (not to forget his wedding night ambush)... And yet nothing quite comes close to the horror of seeing Jacob Elordi's Nate Jacobs die a painful, poisonous death in the penultimate episode of Euphoria season 3.

Wait, What Happened?

So, as you might remember, Nate owes loan shark Naz more money than he can hope to repay. Naz gives him time up till his wedding to repay a part of it, which he, of course, fails. And so begins the extraction of Nate Jacobs’ digits, episode by episode.

In the seventh episode, however, Naz takes a different route to get his money back (he's probably realised by now that leaving Nate limbless is a waste of his time and money). In Rain or Shine, Naz kidnaps Nate and buries him in a shallow coffin in his upcoming construction site.

There's no water or food in this coffin, but what there is is a small pipe opening up to the outside world for air to travel through. On average, a person can survive in such a condition for up to three days. So Naz now kidnaps Nate’s estranged wife, Cassie, to ransom the money he's owed. Cassie and Maddie must now arrange to get all the money to Naz within seventy-two hours, failing which, Nate dies of dehydration.

Except that Nate doesn't die of these things at all. While he's freaking out in his coffin, screaming for help, a rattlesnake slithering through the construction site finds itself near the air pipe attached to his coffin. Nate mistakes the shadow on the vent for a person finally helping him, only for the lights to return to a rattlesnake sliding up his body. As the scene cuts, we see a snake lash out for a bite.

So, Is Nate Jacobs Dead At The End Of Euphoria Season 3 Episode 7?

The short answer is, yes. Maddy enlists Alamo’s help to free Cassie and Nate. In the very Western-style confrontation that follows, Naz is shot dead. His lackeys help unearth the coffin, but by the time the girls are able to open it, they are treated to a jumpscare of Nate's corpse, swollen and blue, with the rattlesnake still wrapped around his chest.

And that's it, the end of Jacob Elordi's run as the once-venomous, now-beaten-down Nate Jacob in Sam Levinson's Euphoria.