Jacob Elordi has finally broken free from the clutches of “Euphoria,” now that his character, the once-tyrannical Nate Jacobs, bit the big one during this weekend’s penultimate episode — or rather, was fatally bitten.

As one character noted in last week’s episode, “If someone doesn’t die periodically, people get bored,” which most fans aptly took to be “Euphoria” creator Sam Levinson’s way of foreshadowing that one of the main characters, if not all of them, were doomed.

Nate — the massively in-debt husband to Sydney Sweeney’s Cassie and formerly abusive jock boyfriend of her best friend Maddy (Alexa Demie) — had twice lost a pinky toe and then a finger to loan shark Naz’s (Jack Topalian) goons in this season of the Emmy-winning hit.

In this week’s episode, “Rain or Shine,” Naz and co. kidnapped up-and-coming OnlyFans star Cassie and gave her 72 hours to give them $1 million. Otherwise, they said, Nate — who they’d buried alive — would die of dehydration.

Later in the episode, a rattlesnake slithers toward an opening through which Nate, screaming for help, had been able to see the sun. The snake ultimately lands in the makeshift coffin with a panicked Nate.

Maddy, now managing Cassie’s career, had recruited Rue’s new boss, drug lord Alamo (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje) to lend them the money and help rescue Nate — though Alamo ends up fatally shooting Naz.

By the time Cassie and Maddy unearth the casket, they find a bloodied and bound Nate, deceased, with his tongue swollen and the snake shaking its rattle atop him.

Elordi, a newly minted Oscar nominee who many believe wanted out of the show, is not credited in next weekend’s season (and presumably series) finale. He revealed in the after-episode breakdown that he’d filmed in the coffin with a boa constrictor that had a fake rattle attached.

With regard to Nate’s death, Levinson told Esquire that he wants to give viewers what they want “in terms of justice or karma” and then “make it so horrific and anxiety-inducing that by the time it happens, the audience isn’t so sure they wanted it.”

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