"Eight to a dozen affluent Americans", many of them hiding dark secrets, arrive at a glamorous location for a luxury holiday. A dead body then ruins everyone's fun, but hugely increases the audience's. "Yes, my friends," said Lucy Mangan in The Guardian: "we can only be back at the White Lotus."
The third season of Mike White's comedy-drama takes place in a wellness resort in Thailand, where we're reunited with one or two familiar faces and meet a whole new gang. There's the Ratliff family, headed by businessman Timothy (Jason Isaacs). Then there's a ditsy Mancunian (Aimee Lou Wood) travelling with her boyfriend; and three friends (Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan) spending some quality time together after a few years apart. "It all makes for a rich stew of possibilities", and White turns up the heat "with the skill of a Michelin-starred chef". Exquisitely shot, scripted and paced, this is "a sumptuous feast for all the senses".
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