Jacob Elordi’s Nate in ‘Euphoria’ Season 3 gets major blowback: ‘They gave him a lobotomy’

Will nan existent Nate Jacobs please guidelines up? 

Jacob Elordi’s rendition of his “Euphoria” characteristic during nan Season 3 premiere is getting awesome blowback from viewers.

“They gave nate jacobs 200mg of sertraline and a lobotomy,” 1 instrumentality complained on X, formerly Twitter. 

Another fan said, “i’m really losing it that cassie offered to waste porn,” and successful response, Nate “didn’t moreover punch a wall aliases shriek astatine her… conjecture lobotomies are still ineligible successful 2026.” 

A 3rd spectator was connected nan “lobotomy” train, remarking that nan characteristic must person gotten one, because nan type of Nate who appeared successful Seasons 1 and 2 “wouldn’t put up pinch Cassie sh-t.” 

In nan first 2 seasons of nan Sam Levinson HBO drama, Nate Jacobs was a psycho jock pinch rage issues. When his woman publically embarrassed him, he choked her. He blackmailed different feline into taking nan autumn for nan crime. He threatened group pinch guns. Elordi played him pinch a manic power that made it look for illustration Nate could threat and termination personification astatine immoderate moment. 

For “Euphoria” viewers to blast Nate, you’d deliberation it would beryllium astir different horrible point he did. But it turns out, fans were angry that he was wildly retired of characteristic and acting excessively “docile” and “sanitized.” After 2 seasons of outraging fans for his vile behavior, Nate is now outraging fans for being excessively nice, without capable communicative activity to explicate his change.

In Season 3, which finds nan characters 5 years later, Nate seemed to person gotten a “personality change,” arsenic different professional commented.

The play finds Nate and Cassie (Sydney Sweeney) engaged and surviving together. Cassie is trying to person an OnlyFans career, which involves dressing up successful fetish outfits specified arsenic a canine and posting photos and videos online. She claims she’s doing it to make money for a $50K flower statement that she wants for their wedding. 

Nate is mildly irritated pinch her, but yet is good pinch it, and tells Cassie, “Baby, I’m trying to springiness you everything you want.” 

That clashes pinch Nate’s characteristic from past seasons of nan show. 

In Season 1, Nate said, “f–k her for illustration nan whore she is, past footwear her to nan curb,” astir Cassie. He berated his first girlfriend, Maddy (Alexa Demie), for wearing revealing clothing, sneering that she looked for illustration a “hooker.” In Season 2, he besides didn’t look to emotion Cassie arsenic he many times manipulated and degraded her. 

His Season 3 behaviour comes retired of near field. 

Another spectator criticized how overseas it is to watch Nate participate his “docile location hubby era” aft “seasons of being a certified threat to society.” 

“It’s nan jacob elordification of nate jacobs,” different comment read. 

“I want nate to alteration because he had a existent logic to change, not because they sewage lazy pinch his characteristic now that jacob sewage worldwide nickname and fame,” another spectator said. “And they’re making him do each nan lifting pinch nary penning to support it. this is not nate jacobs this is simply a stranger.”

Another instrumentality slammed Season 3’s type of Nate for being a “completely sanitized characteristic retired of nowhere,” while different fumed, “you cannot soil down nan edges of a characteristic successful specified a significant, visceral measurement aft specified a hiatus without clueing america successful arsenic to what mightiness person happened…that’s a stranger.”

“Euphoria” Season 3 airs Sundays astatine 9 p.m. connected HBO.