At this point, The White Lotus has said just about everything it has to say about the sorts of people who frequent luxury resorts: the rich are selfish, ambitious, duplicitous, vain, rude, ruthless, intolerant, desperate, sexed-up, and violent, so consumed with themselves and their appetites that they think nothing of causing others pain.
Nonetheless, in Mike White’s HBO’s smash, the devil is in the details, and he finds compelling new ways to critique the elite with his series’ third season, which sets up shop in Thailand to witness the unraveling getaways of disparate vacationers. Once again blending murder mystery suspense with amusingly loopy social satire, it may no longer be revelatory, but at its finest, it’s an incisive portrait of class, wealth, power, and the push-pull between appearances and reality.
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