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The White Lotus

A bunch of privileged people go on a swanky vacation... what could go wrong?

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The White Lotus, Mike White’s comedy-drama (which at times borders on cringe-horror), is one of HBO’s most anticipated series. Each season explores a beautiful resort in a new location and a revolving all-star cast — including Jennifer Coolidge, Steve Zahn, Sydney Sweeney, Aubrey Plaza, Theo James, and Michael Imperioli in the first two seasons — unleashing their worst, most privileged impulses.

The third season, set in Thailand, stars Walton Goggins, Carrie Coon, Parker Posey, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Aimee Lou Wood.

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Episode 6 Departures

The White Lotus Season-Finale Recap: Mess With a Guest, Die Like the Rest A dark and hectic finale delivers on all its promises. The hotel staff is left completely totaled, and the squirmy, unthinking rich are just leaving.
Episode 5 The Lotus-Eaters

The White Lotus Recap: Hateful Is the Dark-Blue Sky We finally see the Pineapple Suite and it’s too pineapple-y.
Episode 4 Recentering

The White Lotus Recap: What Do You Stand For? When they’re not distracting themselves, the guests try to pinpoint what is important to them and come up empty.
Episode 3 Mysterious Monkeys

The White Lotus Recap: Sex Talks A sex-driven episode is variously divisive, clandestine, lusty, affirming, embarrassing, and solitary — but never very sexy.
Episode 2 A New Day

The White Lotus: Hawaiian K-Hole Shane is now fighting a two-front war between Armand’s Pineapple Suite obstruction and his new wife’s growing existential crisis.
Episode 1 Arrivals

The White Lotus Premiere Recap: Tropical Kabuki Hell is other people on your vacation.

Episode 7 Arrivederci

The White Lotus Season-Finale Recap: Dead in the Water We finally learn who died on their Sicilian vacation, and in true The White Lotus fashion, it’s anything but straightforward.
Episode 6 Abductions

The White Lotus Recap: Suspicious Minds A common fan theory is validated, and opens the door for even more speculation.
Episode 5 That’s Amore

The White Lotus Recap: Whoopsie As family secrets are being kept and revealed back at the resort, a new one is brewing in Palermo.
Episode 4 In the Sandbox

The White Lotus Recap: Highs and Lows While Harper’s trip takes a nosedive, things are suddenly looking up for Tanya and Portia.
Episode 3 Bull Elephants

The White Lotus Recap: Change of Heart Harper begins the day trying on a new personality for her husband’s sake, and ends it anxious Ethan might do the same.
Episode 2 Italian Dream

The White Lotus Recap: Power Trip Harper and Cameron challenge each other more than their respective partners do, and the very idea of being challenged catches them both off guard.

Episode 1 Ciao

The White Lotus Recap: Picture It, Sicily, 2022 It’s our guests’ first day at the resort, and already infidelity and debauchery are afoot.

Episode 8 Amor Fati

The White Lotus Season-Finale Recap: The Suicide Tree This show has never been subtle about the interconnectedness of money, suffering, and death, but this is almost too much.
Episode 7 Killer Instincts

The White Lotus Recap: Smash and Grab It’s the final night at the White Lotus and everyone’s last chance to pull off their schemes before things turn violent at tomorrow’s checkout.
Episode 6 Denials

The White Lotus Recap: Brokedown Palace The Ratliffs are so over.
Episode 5 Full Moon Party

The White Lotus Recap: To Love! This week’s episode is a neon riot of action and sex punctuated by the season’s zingiest jokes.
Episode 4 Hide and Seek

The White Lotus Recap: Party, Part I Gary’s superyacht party is the stuff of Below Deck nightmares.
Episode 3 The Meaning of Dreams

The White Lotus Recap: Biblical Proportions Snakes. Incest. Apocalyptic dreams. Trump voters. Mike White gets Old Testament this week.

Episode 2 Special Treatments

The White Lotus Recap: Genesis The guests are having difficulty enjoying paradise when the doom of their secrets constantly threatens them.
Episode 1 Same Spirits, New Forms

The White Lotus Season-Premiere Recap: No Man Is an Island By now, we know what to expect from a stay at the White Lotus: class anxiety, a body count, and about a dozen recurring motifs to dissect.

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