‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Does Everything the Show Does Best – And Then a Bit More
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It has been fascinating to follow the conversations about this season of The White Lotus. Is the pace too slow? Is Mike White simplifying his Thai characters? Was the issue of incest too far away? And more importantly: Did White run out of things to say about fabulously rich white people suffering from terminal dissatisfaction? Before the season began, we made the decision to watch the six episodes that HBO shared with critics in a two-day perio…
Many were disappointed with the hit series White Lotus. However, the incredible slowness of the new season felt refreshing, writes cultural journalist Anton Vanha-Majamaa.
‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Does Everything the Show Does Best – And Then a Bit More
In a television landscape oversaturated with content and dominated by consistently competing networks, Mike White’s “The White Lotus” stands out from the crowd due to its unique format. Each season follows an almost entirely new cast of characters as they explore a distinct and exotic location of the White Lotus resort, a luxury vacation chain that spans all corners of the globe. The opulent setting is offset at the beginning of each season by a…
The slowness was the point: White Lotus season 3 review - Global Comment
The third season of Mike White’s White Lotus is concluded, and both the nuanced think pieces and complaints have rolled in. White has felt compelled to defend the show in its third season - and rightly so. Yes, it WAS slow. Yes, it felt a bit pointless at times, like a long, drawn out exhale that
Between spirituality and death, the third season of Mike White's comedy was the most cynical and bloody. Loaded with bad criticism and dissatisfaction with the “slow pace”, it is, however, proof that in streaming there are those who want to go against the tide of the algorithm. The last episode confirms: not even with very expensive therapy will we go
A scene from the third season of "The White Lotus" sums up what makes the show a phenomenon that everyone suddenly talks about "The least we can do is to enjoy it." Thus Victoria Ratliff (Parker Posey), the calming pill swallowing, constantly rebuking the decency of her deceitful businessman-man-southern matriarchy just before the end of this third season of The White Lotus, sums up her situation. Her daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) just r…
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