Euphoria Pushes Boundaries With Harrowing Scene Featuring Grace Van Patten’s Sister Anna
Euphoria cranked up the shock on its May 3 episode, unveiling Anna Van Patten as Kitty in a brutal group-sex storyline after Angel vanishes from rehab. What starts as a dance gig spirals into something far darker.
Euphoria just rolled out a new character with the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Anna Van Patten — yes, Grace Van Patten's sister — shows up as Kitty in a season 3 episode that is a lot, even by this show's standards. If you were hoping for a gentle intro, absolutely not.
What goes down in the May 3 episode (2026 )
- With Angel (Priscilla Delgado) suddenly disappearing from rehab, the club brings in Kitty (Anna Van Patten) as the new hire. She's supposed to dance. That plan lasts about five minutes.
- Four men pay to take Kitty into a private room. Before they start, she does ketamine. The scene becomes group sex, and the show does not flinch.
- Rue (Zendaya ) watches on the security cameras, rattled. She tries to help afterward — even asks Kitty if she's being forced to work there — but Kitty brushes her off like it 's none of her business.
- Then the whole place gets hit: a robbery, chaos, and the club manager gets shot. Rue connects the dots and realizes this has Laurie written all over it.
- Elsewhere, Maddy (Alexa Demie) takes Cassie (Sydney Sweeney ) under her wing, and Cassie's OnlyFans numbers explode. Mentorship, Euphoria style.
The new kid, and who else is joining
Anna Van Patten is the latest addition in season 3, and the show wastes zero time throwing her into the deep end. Also new this season: Rosalia, among others. Euphoria still knows how to make an entrance.
Why season 3 took so long
Quick rewind. The series kicked off in 2019, centered on Rue's post-rehab sobriety struggle, and became an instant HBO priority. Season 2 didn't show up for nearly three years. Season 3 was originally targeting 2025 before a pile-up of issues: creator Sam Levinson's detour with the short-lived The Idol, the WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes in late 2023, and trying to wrangle a cast whose schedules are now a nightmare.
"Some people ask why it took so long between seasons 2 and 3. There were obvious factors — the strikes, trying to make a schedule work with our very in-demand cast, but the real time was in trying to figure out how to find a way to pay respect to those who we lost."
"When Angus died, it was tough. I loved him deeply... In 2023, he was one of 73,000 people in America who died of a fentanyl overdose... what I realized more than anything is that death is what gives life meaning."
How the show handles Angus Cloud's absence
Angus Cloud died in July 2023 at 25 after an accidental overdose, and the series is weaving Fezco into season 3 in a way that feels intentional rather than abrupt. Levinson told Variety there are scenes where characters speak to Fez on the phone — his way of keeping Fez present: "If I couldn't keep him alive in life then maybe within this show that I can control and keep him alive there." He also says the final stretch of episodes would have made Angus laugh, which is a bittersweet promise.
One more loss to note
Cal (Eric Dane) appears in the season 3 trailer that dropped a month after Dane's death following a battle with ALS. He was 53.
Euphoria airs Sundays at 9 p.m. ET on HBO.