What will happen today?” These are the words of the monk overlaying the opening scenes and match my own as I awaited the final episode of the season. He continues, “There is no resolution,”, at which point I started to panic, having spent seven hours investing in...
It’s Friday night at the White Lotus, the night after the full-moon party by my calculations. Yet it’s not time for a quiet night in. Instead, we’ve got the much-anticipated Muay Thai fight, Greg/Gary’s (Jon Gries) dinner party, a sleepover at the monastery and a...
After the antics of the full-moon party that counteracted the slow burn of the preceding episodes, episode six was an opportunity for us to catch our breath and digest what exactly we’d just witnessed. So too are the characters onscreen, who are learning more about...
The theme of this week was self-discovery. Piper set out her plans to find meaning. The Full-Moon parties were a chance for several characters to let loose, especially for Saxon and Lochlan who found themselves pushing, er, conventional boundaries. Belinda finally let...
The Thai edition of The White Lotus has thus far been largely a masterpiece in character development and subtle symbolism. There has been an undercurrent of darkness, more so than in the two previous seasons, priming viewers for a sinister denouement. Finally, as we...
Three episodes in, is it too early to declare Mike White the modern-day Shakespeare? His scripts are loaded with clues and insight into the character’s intentions, and the accompanying cinematography is completely intoxicating. Whilst we try to unravel the mystery, it...
First impressions can be deceiving when operated by skilled performers adept at masking their true colours and, as ever, The White Lotus is full of appearances that hide a trove of secrets. By the end of episode one, cracks had started to form in the facades. Everyone...
Two years on from the untimely loss of Tanya McQuoid, I’m still grieving. Nonetheless, my thirst for an opulent holiday resort exclusively for the rich masquerading dark secrets is peaking: it’s clearly time for the next instalment of the global sensation that is The...
If anything good came from the global pandemic in 2020, it would have to be The White Lotus. Its creator Mike White has spoken of being tasked by HBO to concoct an idea that would involve one location and be COVID-friendly; the product of this brief was The White...