This Show Explores What Happens When Ex-BFs Go Into Business Together

Actor, director, TV writer, and reality super fan Mike White changed the game with season 1 of his darkly comedic destination series, The White Lotus, in 2021. Viewers of all breeds and creeds were confronted with the fact that they had more in common with the privileged tourists of a fictional luxury resort than with its beleaguered staff, while still getting plenty of laughs. And the engrossing murder at the center of the season turned the show into a pop culture sensation, with people hosting watch parties and analyzing each episode’s plot points in a way that’s rarely been seen in recent TV history.

Since then, lovers of prestige television and pop-culture fanatics alike have ferociously awaited details for each new installment of the HBO hit series; each season centers around fresh drama of a fictionalized Four Seasons hotel in a different exotic locale. Fans speculate on how the latest chapter will paint a new, biting portrayal of Western society and the upper crust — and who won’t make it out alive.