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One would think that the penultimate episode of a season of "The White Lotus" would push us into the deep end. Surprisingly, season 3's seventh episode, titled "Killer Instincts," chooses to simmer in the tension while laying the groundwork for a messy, climactic finale. As seen in the season premiere, gunshots eventually go off inside The White Lotus' wellness resort in Thailand, closely followed by an out-of-focus shot of a dead body floating in the water. This ominous setup, paired with the possible advent of a tsunami, has made it clear the season finale might feature one or more casualties. There's good reason to genuinely fear for the lives of the season's many characters, as not everybody is morally reprehensible or rotten to the core.

The only character far removed from this nexus in Thailand is Rick (Walton Goggins), who is on...

Don't hang out poolside with any beautiful and mysterious women if you're behind on "The White Lotus." This article contains spoilers for season 3 episode 6, "Denials."

Mike White's globe-trotting anthology series "The White Lotus" always assembles a group of rich weirdos to play in whatever international sandbox White chooses for each season, and in the current third season, those rich weirdos are causing trouble in Thailand at one of the fictional White Lotus hotels. One major character in season 3, Chloe, isn't actually a guest; she actually lives nearby with her boyfriend Gary, played by Jon Gries. Chloe is played by Charlotte Le Bon, a French Canadian actress and model, but that character was originally played by Francesca Corney, a Thai actress known for the Apple TV+ series "The Buccaneers."

This recasting was announced in March of 2024, nearly a full year before the series premiered, and though Deadline couldn't confirm why Corney was replaced,...

Although Mike White has been known to throw The White Lotus fans a curveball, it seems safe to assume the killer of Season 3 is human.

Michelle Monaghan, who plays actress Jaclyn Lemon on the HBO series, recently shot down a popular fan theory about who is responsible for the shooting spree teased in the opening scene of the season.

“You know, I’ve just got to debunk a theory out here. Guys, the monkeys did not do it!” Monaghan broke the news on Jimmy Kimmel Live. “People have gone ape s— thinking that.”

Her comment comes after the first episode of Season 3 opened with a flash-forward to Nicholas Duvernay‘s Zion hiding in the resort’s koi pond as gunshots go off and the local monkeys run wild, shortly before he comes across a body floating in the water.

When asked if her character ends up snapping while on her girls trip to Thailand,...

Jennifer Coolidge was, without question, the best part of the first two seasons of "The White Lotus" — and I'm not being hyperbolic, considering that she won two Emmys for the role. Her character, the eccentric and often selfish heiress Tanya McQuoid, visits both the Maui and Siciliy locations of the fictional hotel The White Lotus. Tanya eventually meets her untimely demise aboard a boat in Italy ... which is ironic, considering that she shoots her way out of an apparent murder plot and then dies by falling off said boat trying to jump into a dinghy.

Ever since Tanya died in the season 2 finale, fans of "The White Lotus" have speculated that Tanya's wayward husband Greg (Jon Gries) was somehow responsible for the initial murder plot, which involved Tom Hollander's Quentin and a boat full of, to paraphrase Tanya, "gays trying to kill her." Apparently, Coolidge herself agrees!

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This post contains spoilers for "The White Lotus."

HBO's Emmy Award-winning series "The White Lotus" is back in the pop culture zeitgeist. The acclaimed, so-called anthology series written and directed by Mike White serves as one of the most entertaining and insightful social satires in modern media, tackling power dynamics and class inequality amidst the backdrops of the luxurious vacation destinations the wealthy seek to enjoy in contrast to the working class employees' experiences at the titular hotel chain.

Originally greenlit by HBO as a six-episode miniseries, the success of the Hawaii-set first season led to "The White Lotus" being repurposed into an ongoing anthology series, with season 2 being set in Sicily, Italy. For series creator Mike White, the bigger, bolder, and stranger season 2 was not just a change of luxurious scenery but also an opportunity to explore the sexual power dynamics of its new ensemble, with Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge...

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers about the end of HBO’s White Lotus season 2

In TV and streaming land, no one ever dies, right?

In the case of Mike White’s ten-time Emmy winning series White Lotus, which nabbed another 23 Primetime Emmy noms for season 2, we’re all just waiting to see who from the show’s dramatis personae returns again.

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White has already made it known that season 3 is “kind of satirical and funny look at death in Eastern religion and spirituality”. Already, it’s out there that season one’s haute resort spa manager Belinda Lindsey (Natasha Rothwell) is returning for what is a Thailand-set storyline. Belinda received a bulk of cash to start her own relaxation ops from Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid at the end of season one.

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Although its 10 Emmy wins for its first season made HBO’s “The White Lotus” the TV academy’s most-honored program of 2022, it didn’t receive much love at all from other awards bodies last year. Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award voters kept it out of their Best Limited Series lineups, and it lost in the corresponding PGA Award category to “Mare of Easttown.” Its second season has now earned it another shot at a PGA Award victory, but it is now competing in Best Drama Series due to its incorporation of preexisting characters. Whether or not this move was beneficial remains to be seen, but the odds appear to be in its favor.

Whereas less than 3% of Gold Derby users who made predictions for the 2022 limited series PGA Award race selected “The White Lotus” as the likeliest winner, a much more decisive 72% of the 2023 drama series odds-makers are expecting it to triumph.