If The White Lotus season 2 finale left you hanging, don’t fret: HBO has already booked one other tour on the luxurious resort (aka: a season 3 renewal). And whereas creator Mike White hasn’t stated a lot about what he envisions for a 3rd season, it seems to as soon as once more contain a complete completely different continent.
Past simply the pitch of “extra White Lotus,” White has stated he thinks the season will focus on a core theme in the identical approach the primary two seasons did.
“The primary season sort of highlighted cash, after which the second season is intercourse,” White stated in HBO’s contained in the episode featurette for the finale. “I feel the third season can be perhaps a satirical and humorous have a look at demise and Japanese faith and spirituality. It feels prefer it might be a wealthy tapestry to do one other spherical at White Lotus.”
[Ed. note: The rest of this post discusses the season 2 finale of The White Lotus.]
It’s not rather a lot to go on, however demise definitely looks like an applicable theme after the season 2 finale, which noticed fan favourite Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) die — form of by the hands of the assassins her husband employed, and in addition at her personal makes an attempt to drop into the skiff throughout her escape.
Such annihilation is the albatross of The White Lotus, the ostensible framing for every season thus far being a mysterious demise that normally takes on a deeper resonance when you’ve seen the season. For White, Tanya dying felt applicable for the character — “a bigger than life feminine archetype” who wanted the proper “operatic conclusion” as a result of she noticed demise as the ultimate “immersive expertise” she had but to strive.
However, along with her being the one character to hold between seasons 1 and a pair of, the lack of Tanya does not less than go away the door open to deliver again extra of The White Lotus’ sturdy forged.
To date a number of forged members have stated they’d be open to the thought. Jake Lacy, who performed season 1’s resident douchebag Shane, informed Deadline that “Mike texted [Alexandria Daddario, who played Shane’s wife Rachel] and I with this concept for an episode the place the 2 of us are speaking for a half hour; it’s simply the banality of wealthy individuals on a ship.” After which in fact there’s the season 2 finale, which sees Daphne (Meghann Fahy) toast to the thought of a future trip “within the Maldives.”
None of that is a lot to go on for season 3, which doesn’t also have a launch date but. However theoretically meaning the sky’s the restrict — as much as and together with a brand new forged listing and banger White Lotus theme track remix.
The primary two seasons of The White Lotus are actually streaming on HBO Max.
