The third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning satire The White Lotus takes place at yet another location of the titular fictionalhotel chain, with Thailand following Hawaii and Sicily. In the opening scene of the season premiere, a character who has spent a lot of time at the Hawaii resort considers this …
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If the walls at the resort housing the morally-grey and naively-misguided stars of The White Lotus could talk, they’d have plenty of secrets to spill. In the trailer for Season Three, premiering Feb. 16 on HBO, a Thailand getaway reveals chaos and corruption for guests and employees, alike. “Everyone comes …
Read More »Natasha Rothwell Returns, Parker Posey Arrives in 'The White Lotus' Season 3 Trailer
A new cohort of affluent vacationers have arrived at the White Lotus resort in Thailand. In a new, 90-second trailer for the HBO series, guests at the high-priced resort indulge in gluten-free rice and coconut balls, sign up for stress management meditations, and attend brash beach parties. As the power-hungry …
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If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Even by the standards of a Hollywood ecosystem where everything is IP, and IP is everything, the idea of adapting a TV show from Mr. & Mrs. Smith …
Read More »Everything We Know About 'The White Lotus' Season Three
If you watched the Season Two finale of The White Lotus, you know what happened to Jennifer Coolidge’s frazzled, impossibly wealthy Tanya. As she accepted her second Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series on Monday, she gave audiences a reminder of her laugh-out-loud death scene: “He says …
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“They fuck you up, your mum and dadThey may not mean to, but they doThey fill you with the faults they hadAnd add some extra, just for you.”-“This Be the Verse,” Philip Larkin “A boy’s best friend is his mother.”–Norman Bates Someone may want to start a Kickstarter for Ari …
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Rob, the record-store-owning hero of Nick Hornby’s classic novel High Fidelity, has strong opinions on many musical subjects, particularly the making and deployment of a great mixtape. He has rules about what kinds of songs to use, in what order, and believes that structuring the playlist just the right way …
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