The White Lotus
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The Perverse Reason We Can’t Resist 'The White Lotus' March 05, 2025
Who cares about The White Lotus? For at least eight years now, since the debut of Big Little Lies in 2017, HBO has been pumping out nominal satires of the ultra-wealthy. From the travails of the Monterey Five through Succession, Industry, House of th...
Mike White’s Magnum Lotus February 25, 2025
Mike White was feeling blue when the email arrived. It was the first year of the pandemic, and White – a screenwriter and actor best known for his script for Richard Linklater’s 2003 feel-good blockbuster School of Rock, starring Jack Black – was dri...
The Singular Charm of Parker Posey February 25, 2025
One January morning, I arrived at the East Village studio of a “sound facilitator,” prepared to heal. The facilitator introduced himself as Gary. He led me past a refrigerator cloaked in an Indian tapestry and into an emptied living room, where I fou...
Just Stop Fixing the All-Star Game February 19, 2025
I’m happy The White Lotus is back for Season 3, though there’s now a slight disappointment at the beginning of each episode. The series’ trippy theme song has been altered beyond recognition. This is an especially niche 1st world problem and I’ll sti...
The Problem With 'The White Lotus' February 18, 2025
The White Lotus is back, and it’s time to check in. Although this is only the third season of Mike White’s HBO anthology, its opening movement is already so familiar it verges on ritual: a violent death is foreshadowed, although both victim and perpe...
The White Lotus Is as Good and Twisted as Ever February 14, 2025
After two triumphant series, we know what to expect from The White Lotus’s sharp-eyed puppetmaster, Mike White. Another group of rich and obnoxious Americans will arrive by boat at an island resort whose waving staff proffer first garlands, and then ...
Mike White’s Mischievous Vision February 12, 2025
Mike White’s first job as a television writer, in the late nineties, was on the teen soap opera “Dawson’s Creek.” ...
