The White Lotus is going to Thailand
Somebody get the Emmys on the phone because the next season will likely see a group of uber-wealthy morons belittling the staff of a Southeast Asian resort
Aux News Lotus
Pack your ugly beach sweater thing because The White Lotus is heading to Thailand for its fourth season. Per Variety, which broke the news, the show’s next season will likely take place at one of the four Four Seasons in Thailand, located in Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Koh Samui, and the Golden Triangle. And no, before anyone asks, it won’t be at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, despite how perfect of a joke that is.
White already hinted at the overarching theme of the season last December in a behind-the-scenes video for HBO. “The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” he said. “I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”
Drugs, money, power, sex are all things you can expect in The White Lotus. But Eastern religion and spirituality? While the prospect is challenging for us to wrap our minds around, perhaps it’s our only hope for bringing back Jennifer Coolidge after her character went boom boom off the side of a boat.
“I was thinking, it’d be so fun to bring Tanya back because she’s such a great character, but maybe that’s the journey for her, a journey to death,” he said. “Not that I really wanted to kill Tanya because I love her as a character and obviously love Jennifer, but I just felt like, we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva—a larger-than-life female archetype—it felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.”
“It just made me laugh to think she would like take out this cabal of killers and, after she successfully does that, she just dies this derpy death, and it just felt like that’s just so Tanya.”
She’s not dead. She’s just waiting for the gang in the afterlife. This all adds up, considering there are probably a few fan theories about The White Lotus being purgatory. It’s certainly not heaven. Heaven would never stand for a staff member pooping in a suitcase. Who are we kidding? Her “derpy death” is canon. Unless they could figure out how to cure boat-related head trauma and drowning. One day, we’ll bring her back. One day…
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The White Lotus is heading to Thailand for its fourth seasonWow I totally missed the third season entirely. Where was that one set?Also, I liked how much of this article you were able to recycle from other articles written 4-5 months ago, like everything Mike White said during the last season about what season 3 might hold.
It was set in a small motel outside picturesque Weehawken, New Jersey.
In all fairness, the view of NYC from the Weehawken Ferry terminal is phenomenal
heading to Thailand for its fourth season.Jesus, now I feel like Tanya, ‘cause I don’t even remember the third season…
The entirety of the show Schitt’s Creek was the third season of the White Lotus all along
Do we think the season will feature these guys?
it won’t be at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, despite how perfect of a joke that is.They just need to have some groundsman with “TOTAL LANDSCAPING” written in Thai script on his wheelbarrow as he’s working on the resort grounds in one of the shots.Nice little easter egg.
it won’t be at Four Seasons Total Landscaping, despite how perfect of a joke that is.I don’t think that’s how jokes work.
Can a dude with a last name of White be allowed to write Asian characters or will social media get him canceled for it?
Ugh.
Should I have labeled my post “snark”?
Do you complain about the woke mob and that racism can happen to white people too?
never ever!! just making a joke.
Matt you can’t even get the season # correct.
I loved the first season, but I found the second season a chore to get through. About 30m of plot for every 70-80m episode. Anyone else feel this way? Am I alone??
This is not a show for plot.
I get that and I was expecting this reply, but frankly, it’s always down to storytelling. Whether the show is character-focused, montage/mise-en-scene-whatever focused, theme-focused, whatever your focus is, you still have to tell a story. Whereas season 1 had exciting little surprises almost every episode, which both built on the characters and amplified the show’s themes, season 2’s plot points were telegraphed wayyyy in advance, and as interesting as the setting and the characters were, it wasn’t enough for me to wait for the plot points to unfold. I really expected a bit more substance.
Did you finish season 2? It really comes together nicely in the end. Worth the minor slog.
I did finally finish it after taking 2-3 weeks in between the last few episodes. I enjoyed the ending – especially the derpy death – but aside from that, the rest was incredibly predictable; there weren’t the surprises offered by season 1. It seemed every episode of season one had a pivot or surprise that both built on the characters and advanced the story in new and exciting ways. In the case of season 2, it was just waiting for the inevitable, long-telegraphed events to happen, and I was frankly disappointed there wasn’t as much beyond that.
Exactly the opposite for me. First outing I thought was fine, but really clicked with the second. As with all anthologies, YMMV, I guess.
Dont know about you guys, but season 3 was abysmal.So glad i scrubbed it from my memory.
for its fourth season. Ok, now tell us where it will be for its THIRD season.
Having lived in Thailand for 5 years, I am intimately familiar with the kind of stupid white people who go there….and live there….and bitch about the immigration laws because they think a whole-ass other country is a place they’re entitled to just go and live in.
Now I just want Marvel or whoever to make, like, Str4nge. Reference a bunch of shit that never happened, gaslight the world. “There was a third one…what, did you miss it?”