The White Lotus ' first season was fastidious in its observations about the class divide and generous with doling out a number of jaw-droppingly outrageous surprises that felt uniquely White-esque. It became the rare example of a modern TV show brave enough to go there.

Welcome back to The White Lotus, where every booking will soon have to come with a complementary body bag. The third season of Mike White’s savagely funny, lavishly executed anthology — set across the various outposts of a luxury hotel brand — exchanges the old-world Sicilian decadence of the previous series for a new age Thai resort,

Every season of "The White Lotus" marks a leveling up in ambition. The first, Maui-set season of the HBO anthology was a COVID-era contingency plan, shaped by the need for speed and physical isolation.