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We're past the midway point in the latest season of "The White Lotus," and things are more chaotic than one would expect. Episode 5, "Full-Moon Party," is the peak of anxious anticipation, as it carries the foreboding omen of a catastrophe waiting to happen, thanks to the questionable choices everyone makes. The previous episode saw a freaked-out Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) realize that his security gun is missing, and here, he grapples with the deadly consequences of his professional oversight. Meanwhile, Ratliff brothers Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola) party hard with Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) and Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon), but the night ends with things getting really, really out of hand. We also witness Timothy (Jason Isaacs) being constantly on edge™, realizing that he needs to face every consequence for being a part of a Wall Street money laundering scheme.

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Note: This story contains spoilers from “The White Lotus” Season 3, Episode 5.

After watching Jason Isaacs’ Timothy spiral throughout “The White Lotus” Season 3, the character attempts to take his fate back into his own hands in Episode 5 — an impulse Isaacs said lingers throughout the rest of the season.

In Episode 5, Timothy silently mulls over his future — which is likely going to include prison and frozen assets — and comes to the realization that ending his own life might be his best option. At the end of the episode, Timothy writes a suicide note to his family before pulling the gun he stole from Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) to his head. At the last second, however, he is interrupted by his wife, Victoria (Parker Posey).

“He was about to pull the trigger, when Victoria walks in and he didn’t want her to see it — he left her a note. He wanted her to find it,...

It was only a matter of time.

This season of “The White Lotus” has so far been relatively tame in terms of sex, drugs, violence and overall debauchery. Mention of a party in last week’s episode implied an incoming shift, though, and “The White Lotus” Season 3, Episode 5 delivers on that promise. It is an episode full of reckless partying, lust and more than a few cringe-inducing moments of impulsive degeneracy. Amid all of the chaos, “White Lotus” creator Mike White returns to some of the HBO drama’s long-running themes — namely, the difficulty of cultural assimilation and the unfortunate truth that no amount of wealth or uninhibited living can fill the empty parts within ourselves. The former theme emerges early in the episode.

At dinner, Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) finally tells her parents about her plan to move to Thailand. Victoria (Parker Posey) reacts poorly, responding to her daughter...

Spoiler Alert: This piece discusses plot points from the fifth episode of The White Lotus.

The White Lotus is in its full moon party era and “sh*t’s about to get crazy”, according to Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Saxon.

The fifth episode of the HBO series’ third season is pure hedonism as Saxon, Sam Nivola’s Lochlan, Aimee Lou Wood’s Chelsea and Charlotte Le Bob’s Chloe head to the beach with some mind-altering substances and Michelle Monaghan’s Jaclyn, Leslie Bibb’s Kate and Carrie Coon’s Laurie bring some men back to theirs for a pool party.

There is, however, a dark side to the frivolity as Jason Isaacs’ Timothy struggles to deal with the fallout of his legal problems, not helped by the fact that he stole Tayme Thapthimthong’s Gaitok’s gun, and Walton Goggins’ Rick is in Bangkok looking for the man who killed his father,...

“The White Lotus” Season 3, written and directed by Mike White, stars Lalisa Manobal, Carrie Coon, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Sam Nivola, Sarah Catherine Hook, Aimee Lou Wood, Christian Friedel, Sarah Catherine Hook, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Shalini Peiris, Tayme Thapthimthong, Julian Kostov and Scott Glenn, now streaming on Max:

“…a new group of guests arrive…

“… at ‘The White Lotus’ resort in Thailand…

“…with each one having…

“…different reasons for attending…

“…looking for a deviation from their normal lives…”

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The third season of HBO's The White Lotus has introduced an entirely new cast of characters, and viewers are finding themselves just as, if not more, invested in their developments and exploits as those of the previous two seasons. One guest at the resort that many fans are currently seeing themselves drawn to the most is Rick Hatchett, played by Walton Goggins. Until now, not much had been known about his character or his true reasoning for dragging his girlfriend, Chelsea, to the White Lotus resort in Thailand. Episode 4, "Hide and Seek", has finally given them an answer, however, and it now has the fans all on the edge of their seats to find out what it could lead to next.

This post contains spoilers from The White Lotus season 3 episode 4 from this point forward.

For the first three episodes of The White Lotus season 3, Timothy Ratliff's (Jason Isaacs) story has been pretty much the same. He's buckling under the weight of the trouble back home with his business, trouble that will most certainly put him behind bars once his Thailand family vacation is over. There hasn't been much movement thus far, but in episode 4, the crash out begins.

Tim has been taking his wife's beloved Lorazepam, a prescription drug used to treat anxiety and other conditions. But the Ratliff parents aren't using the pills for their intended purpose, and the more Tim begins to rely on the stolen medication to numb himself to the secret that he's keeping, the worse off he becomes. Well, for us, it's selfishly much more entertaining!

In The White Lotus season 3 episode 4, Timothy continues to...

In one of the early scenes of this week’s “The White Lotus,” meditation expert Amrita (Shalini Peiris) offers Rick (Walton Goggins) some sincere advice.

“I hope you will hear me when I say you are not stuck,” she tells him. “You can let go of your story. You can escape the karmic cycle.” The feeling of being trapped is present throughout all of “The White Lotus” Season 3 Episode 4, as is the desire for escape. The seeds of it are planted in the episode’s opening scene, in which Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) tries to convince her younger husband Harrison to return her calls. “I’ll tell you more when you call me back, so call me back,” she says.

That same morning, Jaclyn gets snippy with Kate (Leslie Bibb) when the latter chides her for using her phone at the resort. “Harrison’s gone a little Awol. I think he...

Is it even “The White Lotus” if you’re not on the edge of your seat with secondhand social anxiety? Season 3, Episode 4 of Mike White’s stressful satire ratchets up the tension and the stakes, leaving viewers with a midseason cliffhanger.

Written and directed by White, “Hide or Seek” is basically part one of two, setting up next week’s “Full Moon Party.” By the hours end, almost every character is left in a state of uncertainty — a heightened one, rather, since one of them is inevitably going to end up dead in the future. This perhaps truest for Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), who follows her gut instinct that she correctly identified Greg/Gary (Jon Gries) and learns that he’s a person of interest in Tanya’s (Jennifer Coolidge) suspicious death. There’s not a lot of Belinda in this episode and she’s mostly alone, with Rothwell superbly carrying...

The White Lotus resort chain should be known for its body count as much as for the luxury at this point.

Season 3 of the HBO series is finally starting to add suspicion to a number of the guests staying at the Thailand location. Some suspects already hold some real likelihood – here’s looking at you Greg and Rick – while others are just giving slightly off energy.

There’s a shooter walking among the many people staying at the wellness resort, and these are the most likely to be the one with the gun when the season finale rolls around in a couple weeks.

Note: This story will be updated as new clues are revealed the rest of Season 3

“The White Lotus” (Credit: HBO) Greg/Gary

Greg (Jon Gries) — or Gary depending on when you met him — is the only person in the orbit of the upcoming shooting with blood on his hands.

Editor’s Note: The following article contains spoilers for “The White Lotus” Season 3, Episode 3.

Ahead of the premiere of “The White Lotus” Season 3, IndieWire spoke with Natasha Rothwell, who plays Belinda on the series. Belinda is just one of many characters in danger of ending up dead at the end of an uneasy week at the titular Thailand resort, and Rothwell was, of course, under strict orders not to give away the ending.

“God willing, I survive this season,” she said.

I couldn’t help but interject: “I’m really worried.”

“You should be,” said Rothwell. “Shit’s about to pop off. I’m stressed and I already know what happens. I stay stressed.”

That’s pretty much the sentiment governing Season 3, Episode 3, “The Meaning of Dreams,” written and directed by showrunner Mike White. All our key characters are inching toward catastrophe, whether that’s ending up dead in the...

[This story contains spoilers for The White Lotus seasons one, two and three.]

Though the beloved Jennifer Coolidge isn’t in The White Lotus season three, she still wants her character avenged.

While speaking with Forbes recently, the actress noted she’s keeping up with the new season that’s taking place in Thailand and she’s “envious as hell.”

Coolidge played fan-favorite Tanya in the first two seasons of The White Lotus before her character met a tragic demise at the end of the second installment. (Who can forget her iconic line: “These gays, they’re trying to murder me.”) She also won Emmys for both performances.

After Forbes‘ Jeff Conway suggested she should return as a twin sister to Tanya, the Riff Raff actress responded, “I know! Look, it’s not like I haven’t wished or whatever, but it isn’t happening. It doesn’t matter — they don’t need me. Mike White...

SeriesFest is set to celebrate the work of The White Lotus costume designer Alex Bovaird.

The event, which runs April 29 to May 4 in Denver, Colorado, will celebrate Bovaird’s work on the hit HBO drama series ahead of its annual shindig.

It will hand Bovaird the Excellence in Costume Design Award, followed by a special runway presentation of looks inspired by The White Lotus on April 3.

Bovaird received two Emmy nominations for her work on the first two seasons of The White Lotus.

The third season of Mike White’s show is set in Thailand and stars Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Lalisa Manobal, Michelle Monaghan, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Parker Posey, Natasha Rothwell, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, and Aimee Lou Wood

“I am delighted and honored by this special event with SeriesFest and excited to see the fashion looks inspired by The White Lotus,...

In the first season of Mike White's globe-trotting anthology series "The White Lotus," actors like Connie Britton, Steve Zahn, Murray Bartlett, Jennifer Coolidge, and Natasha Rothwell brought their characters to the stunningly beautiful island of Maui in Hawai'i. Then, for the second go-around, White and his cast, including a returning Coolidge alongside Michael Imperioli, F. Murray Abraham, Aubrey Plaza, Meghann Fahy, and Theo James, headed to the town of Taormina in Sicily. Clearly, White — and HBO, the network behind "The White Lotus" — will spare no expense to shoot on location. So, where was Season 3 shot?

Back when the Season 2 finale aired in December of 2022, White revealed that the third season would have a religious bent in a featurette that ran on HBO and Max alongside the episode, saying, "The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex. I think the third season would be...

Patrick Schwarzenegger secured a role on The White Lotus because of his parents? (Photo Credit – Instagram)

The dark comedy series, The White Lotus, has been a fan-favorite and has received positive reviews and critical acclaim. The hit show has also been bestowed with awards and nominations. The third edition of the anthology drama has a brand-new cast leading it and it also includes Patrick Schwarzenegger.

The 31 year old has been trying to create a mark in the Hollywood industry with his skills and talent but he is unable to escape from his last name and the fact that he is Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son. Some even mused whether he got the role because of them and here’s what the actor had to say about the same and being shadowed by his family name.

Did Patrick Schwarzenegger Get The White Lotus Due To His Parents?

During a conversation with The Sunday Times,...

HBO might just have its most popular season of The White Lotus yet.

Per the company, 3.4M U.S. cross-platform viewers tuned in for the second episode on Sunday night, which marks a 40% increase over the premiere episode’s 2.4M.

Speaking of the premiere, it has now amassed 10.2M viewers in the U.S., up 92% from the Season 2 premiere episode’s audience in the first week of availability. In terms of same-day viewers, the second episode of Season 3 is also already outperforming the second episode of Season 2, boding well for the remainder of the season.

The White Lotus is now apparently the second largest returning original series in platform history, behind only House of the Dragon Season 2.

The Season 2 finale still holds the series-high same-day audience of 4.1M viewers, but it seems as though the third season is on its way to surpassing that as well, and it could even...

There’s great drama to be found in irony, and “The White Lotus” knows this better than most shows. Sometimes there’s nothing less relaxing than going on vacation, as Tim Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) is starting to realize, and sometimes the most toxic people in our lives can be our closest friends. That contradiction is explored with uncomfortable accuracy in the opening of Season 3, Episode 2, which begins with Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Kate (Leslie Bibb) using Laurie’s (Carrie Coon) early excusal from their late-night drinking sesh to throw thinly-veiled jabs at their friend’s life.

After heaping praise upon her in the “White Lotus” Season 3 premiere, Jaclyn and Kate exchange gossip about Laurie’s career, her daughter and even her divorce. We all look for some kind of validation in our friends. The trick is doing it without tearing them down, which is a balance that neither Kate nor Jaclyn seem interested in striking.

Note: This story contains spoilers from “The White Lotus” Season 3, Episode 2.

Just two episodes in, “The White Lotus” Season 3 introduced a menacing gunman to the Thailand resort, which star Tayme Thapthimthong said alters Gaitok’s “whole perspective” moving forward.

In Episode 2, a mysterious van enters the White Lotus premises while Gaitok (Thapthimthong) speaks with Valentin (Arnas Fedaravičius) and the gate to the resort remains open, ushering in a robbery to the hotel’s luxury store. Gaitok pursues the thief on the way out, though ultimately the perpetrator gets away by striking Gaitok on the head.

“When he did get hit and after that, he definitely felt disappointed in himself,” Thapthimthong told TheWrap, until Mook (Lisa Manobal), a longtime friend with which Gaitok is hoping to pursue a romantic relationship, visits him later and “shows him she actually does care.”

“When she says, ‘you were really brave today,’ that is what...

It takes me less than 24 hours into a vacation to feel like I’ve been there for ages. The suitcase is open, the clothes are scattered, the toiletries displayed on the bathroom counter like I live there. I quickly forget about work (sorry to my editors) and other life stressors and the outside world in general. Whether it’s a wedding, a family visit, or a pure rest vacation, I’m locked in.

The same can’t be said of everyone in “The White Lotus” Season 3, though many have tried and succeeded at letting go during their Thailand retreat.

On the relaxed side, there’s Victoria (Parker Posey) and her kids (“I slept like a corpse”), plus Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) exploring physical therapies; somewhere in the middle there’s the trio of Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan), Kate (Leslie Bibb), and Laurie (Carrie Coon), doing their best to unwind but also actively...

If you watched Sunday’s Season 3 premiere of “The White Lotus” on HBO, you may have woken up with a Monday diagnosis of wanderlust.

Sure, the drama from Emmy-winning creator and showrunner Mike White centers on the darker shades of humanity — and systematically climaxes in at least one death of a character we have come to love over their one-week stay in paradise. But the backdrops of Hawaii, Sicily and now Thailand are mouthwatering and awe-inspiring enough that we can forgive little things like murder and manipulation if it means enjoying a chilled cocktail, a pool full of eye candy and a bottle of Spf 50 in the lead-up to disaster.

“The White Lotus” Season 3 might feature its most exotically intoxicating locale yet: Thailand. The series has built its reputation through incisive and lurid depictions of American wealth, tensions between class and race and other taboos that keep the human condition ticking.

Those checking in to Season 3 of Max’s The White Lotus will enjoy an eight-episode stay across eight Sundays.

The luxurious hotel drama series returns for another installment — it’s longest yet, and this time set in Thailand — mid-February. The guests range from a North Carolina-based family to a trio of girlfriends trying to catch up after life has placed them in California, Texas and New York. The hotel staff add other layers.

Follow along below for details on The White Lotus Season 3 release schedule:

When did Season 3 of The White Lotus premiere?

The Thailand-set installment premiered with one episode Sunday, Feb. 16.

How many episodes are in Season 3 of The White Lotus?

Season 3 of The White Lotus will unfold in eight episodes.

What time do new episodes of The White Lotus come out on Max? Are they weekly?

Each episode will arrive Sunday nights on Max and air on HBO at 9 p.

The White Lotus is used to welcoming some high-profile guests, but this season, they actually have a music superstar on staff.

Lalisa Manobal — aka Lisa, from the massively popular K-pop girl group Blackpink — is making her acting debut on Season 3 of the HBO dramedy (airing Sundays at 9/8c) as Mook, a friendly employee at the White Lotus resort in Thailand. In the video above, Lisa tells TVLine how her time staying in five-star hotels with Blackpink helped inform her role as Mook, as she observed the hotel staff and “the way they talk to the guests. They love small talk!

The White Lotus Season 3 premiere welcomed 2.4M cross-platform U.S. viewers on Sunday night, according to HBO.

That’s a 57% increase over Season 2’s premiere night, which saw 1.5M tune in, and it’s an impressive 155% higher than the 944,000 who watched the Season 1 premiere when it debuted.

In the 36 hours post-premiere the Season 3 debut has already grown its audience 90% to 4.6M viewers HBO says.

It’s expected that the audience for the premiere episode will continue to tally an even larger audience over the next few weeks. Per HBO, the previous seasons saw the premieres grow seven to eight times beyond the night they aired on the network. Season 1’s premiere went on to average 9.3M viewers, while Season 2’s amassed 15.5M.

HBO also says that, in the week leading up to the Season 3 premiere, there was an 84% increase in volume of viewers catching up on the previous seasons compared...

The third season of The White Lotus opened to the show’s largest premiere audience so far.

The HBO series brought in 2.4 million cross-platform viewers on its opening night Sunday, a 57 percent increase on the season two premiere (1.5 million). The night one figure includes the on-air premiere and replays on HBO and streaming on Max.

After 36 hours — including the Presidents Day holiday — HBO says the premiere grew to 4.6 million viewers, double the audience for season two’s first episode over the same amount of time. Viewing in Europe and Latin America more than tripled compared to the season two premiere, HBO says (though it didn’t provide any data the global audience).

The Thailand-set third season of Mike White’s satire follows another group of privileged guests at the White Lotus resort, the staff there, and — it’s hardly a spoiler to say at this point — a murder mystery, as...

The most anticipated TV series of HBO The White Lotus season 3 has arrived to mesmerize the audience with its stunning locations in Bangkok, Thailand along with its new cast members.

After the first episode aired last Sunday, the viewers are hoping for more drama to be unfolded in the upcoming episode. While the spa manager Natasha Rothwell takes back her position, a whole lot of newcomers can be seen in the new season.

The new cast members featuring Jason Issac and Parker Posey enter the White Lotus resort. Credits: HBO

Parker Posey, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Leslie Bibb, Dom Hetrakul, Tayme Thapthimthong, Christian Friedel, and famous Blackpink member Lisa are the new cast members who have enlightened the new season.

A quick overview of the first episode of The White Lotus season 3

After the first episode premiered on 16th February, fans of The White Lotus are yearning for...

Take a look at “The White Lotus” Season 3 (recently renewed for Season 4) written and directed by Mike White, starring Lalisa Manobal, Carrie Coon, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, Sam Nivola, Sarah Catherine Hook, Aimee Lou Wood, Christian Friedel, Sarah Catherine Hook, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Shalini Peiris, Tayme Thapthimthong, Julian Kostov and Scott Glenn, now streaming on Max:

“…a new group of guests arrive…

“… at ‘The White Lotus’ resort in Thailand…

“…with each one having…

“…different reasons for attending…

“…looking for a deviation from their normal lives…”

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Get ready for hilarious dark comedy, scathing satire, and heart-wrenching drama in The White Lotus Season 3. Created by Mike White, the latest season of the HBO series is set in Thailand in the fiction The White Lotus Resort, and it revolves around a new set of guests and employees as dysfunctionality from both the guests and the employees ruin what was supposed to be a relaxing vacation.

The White Lotus Season 3 – Episode Guide (When Will the New Episodes Come Out?) Credit – HBO

The White Lotus Season 3 consists of eight episodes in total. Season 3 of the satirical dark comedy-drama anthology series premieres on HBO and Max, with its first episode on February 16, 2025, with the rest coming out weekly every Sunday. Check out the full episode guide of The White Lotus Season 3 below:

Episode 1 “Same Spirits, New Forms...

HBO is no stranger to successful television series, but few of them have continuously kept their quality throughout all seasons. The black comedy anthology The White Lotus is among them.

The White Lotus premiered in 2021 and it was originally intended as a six-part limited series. Following the success with the critics and the audience, HBO further renewed it for Season 2 and later Seasons 3 and 4. After the longest break yet, The White Lotus Season 3 is officially out, and it has a near-perfect audience score onRotten Tomatoes.

Related'Same Luxury, New Reservations': The White Lotus Goes to Thailand in Season 3 Trailer

HBO has dropped the official trailer for The White Lotus Season 3.

The White Lotus Season 3 has released only the premiere episode of the new season, but it was enough to give fans the vibe of the new installment. On the review aggregator website, the new season has a Certified Fresh 93% score out of 69 reviews,...

You know how you check the calendar every day leading up to a long-needed vacation? That’s us with “The White Lotus,” which returns to HBO on February 16. Mike White’s tense limited series moves to Thailand this season, with a (mostly) brand-new cast of characters seeking solace from their daily lives — and at least one unexpected death.

The ensemble includes a nuclear family, group of old friends, an unlikely couple, and Season 1’s Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) — among many more. Below, the cast break down who’s who in their own words, hinting at the dynamics and twists to come.

The Girl Gang

Kate (Leslie Bibb), Laurie (Carrie Coon), and Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) have known each other since childhood and are grateful for a weekend alone together after too long — but Jaclyn is now a famous actress living a life that her friends can never understand, and funding the trip for all three of them.

How is the White Lotus still in business? The luxury resort that functions as a setting for each season of Mike White’s eponymous HBO series has blood on its hands — and that doesn’t change in Season 3, Episode 1: “Same Spirits, New Forms.”

While other seasons opened with the discovery or body or reveal that someone died, Season 3’s cold open unfolds at the White Lotus in Thailand, where Zion’s (Nicholas Duvernay) meditation is interrupted by gunshots. He’s immediately terrified for the safety of his mother — as are all viewers who put together that this is Belinda’s (Natasha Rothwell) son — and then a body floats toward him.

It’s shrewd of White to start the season this way, immediately delineating Season 3’s death from its predecessors. It could still have been an accident, but the implied violence and visibly widespread fear add new tension (as does...

Get your passports ready: We’re kicking off a new luxury vacation with HBO’s The White Lotus — and you might be shocked when you see who’s tagging along.

Sunday’s Season 3 premiere opens with a college guy named Zion learning to meditate from a hotel staffer: “Let us calm our chattering monkey minds.” But he’s distracted by a strange sound — which he identifies as gunshots. He sees people running and ducking for cover, and as more shots rings out, Zion wades through a knee-deep pool looking for his mother. He takes a moment to ask a Buddhist...

There are three categories of people eagerly anticipating the return of Mike White's superb satire anthology series, "The White Lotus." Group A are those who obsessively watched the first two seasons and are frothing at the mouth wondering what will be the new, memorable "these gays are trying to kill me" quote that will become their whole personality. Group B are those who love great television and are capable of being Normal About It -- at least enough to differentiate themselves from Group A.

But season 3 has introduced a new category that already has a name — welcome to the White Lotus party Blink (and/or Lillies)! The newest season of "The White Lotus" marks the debut of international superstar and Thailand-born Blackpink member Lalisa Manoban, aka Lisa. She plays Mook, a health mentor for guests of the White Lotus Thailand resort and sometimes performer during the customary evening entertainment.

“The White Lotus” Season 3 is finally here. As is always the case with the HBO anthology series, though, it’s returned with a new cast of actors and characters for viewers to follow and either grow to love or revile. “The White Lotus” has also left its Hawaii and Italy hotels behind in favor of a new exotic setting: a wellness retreat in Thailand. Prepare for a lot of awkward social moments, barely hidden resentment, and, of course, some murder.

Here are all the characters you need to know in “The White Lotus” Season 3 as well as who play them.

Natasha Rothwell as Belinda in “The White Lotus” Season 3 (Fabio Lovino/HBO) Belinda (Natasha Rothwell)

Belinda was the spa manager at the White Lotus in Hawaii. She travels to the brand’s Thailand location to learn from its spa employees (and also take a small vacation herself). A returning character...

Welcome back to The White Lotus. Prepare for even more dramatic tales of wealthy vacationers taking over the titular luxury resort in a new location. The Emmy Award-winning HBO original series returns for its third season, this time taking the comedy-drama satire to Thailand for another exploration of privilege, death, and sexuality with an added thematic twist of spirituality and religion.

Are you ready to book your eight-week vacation on HBO and Max with one of television's most popular and talked about anthology series? As you start tuning into The White Lotus season 3, we're sharing exactly when each episode makes its television and streaming premiere. So, when you can you watch new episodes of the ultimate HBO Sunday night show?

The White Lotus season 3 episode release schedule Patrick Schwarzenegger in The White Lotus season 3 on HBO | Courtesy of Warner Bros. Discovery Press

The White Lotus season 3 premieres on Sunday, Feb.

Even though international pop star Lisa Manoban has performed in the world’s biggest music venues as part of the K-pop group Blackpink, the artist admitted she was “nervous” during her audition for “The White Lotus” Season 3, where she makes her acting debut.

“I wanted to switch to a new chapter for my life,” Manoban told TheWrap of her interest in acting. ” ‘The White Lotus’ opportunity came in, and was like, ‘Why not just give it a try?’ I’m a big fan of ‘The White Lotus’ already — I have to try, even if I don’t get it.”

Manoban’s name was brought up by one of the HBO show’s co-producers as well as the casting directors during the production’s Thailand casting, EP Dave Bernad told TheWrap, recalling that he and creator Mike White weren’t familiar with Manoban, a Thai native, or with Blackpink. “We treated...

As The White Lotus returns without one fan favorite, another struggled with her absence as well.

Following the shocking death of Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid in the Season 2 finale, Natasha Rothwell recalled her reaction to the scene and what she texted Coolidge afterward.

“I was probably the most rabid fan of Season 2,” she said on the Today show. “(I) remember the moment Jennifer died. I screamed and, like, threw my phone across the room, grabbed my phone, texted Jennifer. I’m like, ‘Holy … what?’

“And then, yeah, she was just like, ‘I couldn’t tell you,'” added Rothwell, who reprises her Season 1 role as spa manager Belinda Lindsey in the upcoming third season, premiering Sunday at 8pm Et on HBO.

Creator Mike White previously teased some performances “I feel rival” Coolidge’s “as far as hopefully iconic performances,” citing Rothwell as one such portrayal.

Natasha Rothwell and Jennifer...

It’s time to check back into The White Lotus. Mike White‘s Emmy-winning anthology series returns on Sunday, but should you have any reservations about tuning in?

As of Friday afternoon, The White Lotus carries a generally favorable review score of 79 on Metacritic based on 34 reviews, down slightly from the 81 for Season 2 and 82 for Season 1. On Rotten Tomatoes, Season 3 is 93 percent fresh based on 61 reviews, down from the 94 percent for Season 2 but up from Season 1’s 90 percent.

On Metacritic, 28 of the reviews are positive, with three mixed and one negative. Three critics gave the season a perfect score of 100, including Brian Tallerico (RogerEbert.com), who praises White for taking full advantage of the season’s setting. “The way he constructs his episodes, not just narratively but visually, is arguably without peer on TV right now,” he writes. Ben Travers (IndieWire) says, the season “smashes each character’s flimsy values...

The stars of The White Lotus season three are back in Thailand!

Lisa, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Parker Posey posed for photos on the green carpet at the latest premiere of the HBO Emmy-winning series on Friday (February 14) held at Iconsiam River Park in Bangkok, Thailand.

Fellow cast members in attendance included Jason Isaacs, Sarah Catherine Hook, Natasha Rothwell, Sam Nivola, Tayme Thapthimthong, and Lek Patravadi along with creator and showrunner Mike White.

Earlier this week, the cast attended the world premiere of season 3 in Los Angeles.

If you missed it, Arnold Schwarzenegger reacted to his son Patrick‘s nude scene in the first episode.

The White Lotus season three premieres on HBO on February 16. Watch the trailer now!

Fyi: Patrick is wearing a Tommy Hilfiger suit.

Click through the gallery inside for 10+ pictures of the stars at the Bangkok premiere…...

Blinks! Get ready, because Blackpink star Lisa is getting ready to drop her solo album “Alter Ego” at the end of the month. But before that happens, there’s another persona she’s ready to introduce the world to: Her character in “The White Lotus,” Mook.

Lisa, credited on the show as Lalisa Manoban, makes her acting debut on the third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus.” On Mike White’s Emmy-winning series, Lisa plays Mook, a health-guru type who works with guests at the Thailand beach resort. Off the clock, Mook finds herself in a romantic friendship with one of the resort’s security guards, the yearning Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong).

In an interview with Variety, Lisa said that Mook is just like her, “but flirtier and lady-like — I’m more like a tomboy.” She discussed how she tried to battle her nerves on the first day of shooting:...

You know that saying “Wherever you go, there you are”? That definitely applies to the pampered hotel guests on HBO’s The White Lotus, who bring all of their flaws and dysfunction with them to whatever exotic locale they’re visiting. But it also applies to the show itself, which returns this Sunday at 9/8c for Season 3 (I’ve seen the first six episodes) and goes back to a lot of the same character archetypes and themes we saw in the first two seasons. The formula still works, though, and with Season 3 offering an extravagant buffet of standout performances and shocking plot twists,...

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s son bares all on The White Lotus this season… and Arnold is one proud papa.

Patrick Schwarzenegger, the eldest son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, plays entitled rich kid Saxon in Season 3 of HBO’s luxury vacation dramedy (debuting this Sunday at 9/8c), and after the show’s L.A. premiere on Tuesday, Arnold spilled the beans that Patrick has a nude scene in the first episode. He was impressed, too.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger was completely unfazed watching his son Patrick Schwarzenegger’s nude scene at the Monday night premiere of “The White Lotus” Season 3.

“I was so pumped to take a break from filming to celebrate [Patrick Schwarzenegger] at the ‘White Lotus’ Season 3 premiere,” the “Predator” star wrote on Instagram Tuesday. “What a show! I could claim to be surprised to find out he has a nude scene, but what can I say – the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. Don’t miss it this Sunday – trust me.”

In the new season of the HBO drama, Patrick Schwarzenegger plays Saxon, the son of a wealthy Southern family. Other cast members include Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Tayme Thapthimthong, Lek Patravadi, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Julian Kostov, Leslie Bibb, Shalini Peiris, Walton Goggins, Aimee Lou Wood, Arnas Fedaravičius, Natasha Rothwell, Dom Hetrakul and Blackpink member Lisa.

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Despite prior experience performing before international audiences as a member of Blackpink, Lisa said she got jitters on the set for the White Lotus set. Lisa, who made her acting debut on the drama’s third season, recounted one of the moments when the show’s director Mike White called “action,” in an interview with Variety Monday.

“I’m so nervous. I was sweating,” Lisa said, at the White Lotus Season Three premiere. “I was like, ‘I can’t remember my lines.’ I’m blanked.”

White Lotus Season Three draws another group of snobbish,...

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Mike White isn’t a sentimental showrunner. As the bullet-strewn finale of The White Lotus Season 2 confirmed, he has no problem killing off (albeit in spectacular fashion) lovingly crafted characters in the name of his sharp, ruthless brand of satire. So, when another body floats into frame within the first moments of Season 3, it all but comes with a label attached to its toe: “Nobody is safe.”

White has gone bigger with the third instalment of his opulent anthology, which loosely focuses on religion (Season 1 explored racial tension; Season 2 focused on sex). The core cast remains a similar size, with the guests checking in this time around featuring a moneyed, five-strong family hailing from North Carolina (with parents played by Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey); three childhood friends in their mid-forties; and a mysterious rogue (Walton Goggins) and his younger girlfriend (Aimee Lou Wood...

The third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning satire The White Lotus takes place at yet another location of the titular fictional hotel 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 new location and suggests, “It’s actually really similar. Except there’s no monkeys in Hawaii.”

This is, perhaps, a bit of a meta confession by White Lotus writer-director Mike White. If the Sicily season at times evoked...

Plot: This social satire is set at an exclusive Thai resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week.

Review: It goes without saying that The White Lotus is one of the best shows on television. Originally envisioned as a limited series, the critical response to Mike White’s dark comedy earned it a second season. Transformed from a standalone tale to an anthology that travels to different global locales, The White Lotus uniquely connects certain characters and plot threads through each season while introducing all new characters with their own complex storylines and motivations. The third season follows the Hawaii and Italy set chapters before it and explores the patrons of the titular resort’s Thai location. Led by an ensemble packed with talent, including Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, and Walton Goggins, the third...

If you bemoan the reboot/remake culture in film and television for long enough, somebody will inevitably bring up theater.

Why, pray tell, is it creatively bankrupt to rehash Doogie Howser, M.D., or American Gigolo, but perfectly acceptable for productions of Macbeth or Oedipus or Oklahoma! to come and go in regular cycles? You don’t watch a new production of Romeo & Juliet to see if those crazy underaged lovers will make it this time, but to experience how a new director and cast put a personal stamp on the material — and how, through finding distinctive elements within a familiar story, you can still be moved or astonished.

It may be worth considering that when approaching Mike White’s new season of The White Lotus.

The HBO satirical anthology — miscategorized for Emmy purposes as a “drama” — returns this weekend after an absence of more than two years, and it...

“The White Lotus” Season 3 — once again scripted, directed, and created by Mike White — begins with a moment of zen. Ben Kutchins’ camera snakes up a tree branch as a monkey looks through the Thailand woods into the newest location of the titular resort while a guest takes a meditation class.

“Calm our chattering monkey minds, and find what is timeless,” the Lotus employee remarks — a self-help axiom that doubles nicely as a thesis statement for the characters we’ll soon meet. It’s only a matter of time before the harshness of reality pierces the presumed tranquility of this idyllic setting. In short, welcome back to another season of mayhem and murder at the White Lotus.

If this latest reiteration of White’s award-winning series feels familiar, that’s a feature not a bug. As indicated by the Buddhist statues that dot the property of the Thai outpost, this season...

Every season of Mike White’s black comedy anthology series The White Lotus begins at the end—namely, with a flash forward to the aftermath of a murder. In season one, it was to a body being loaded onto a plane heading out of Hawaii, and in season two, it was to a corpse floating toward a Sicilian beach. The show’s third season starts even closer to the action, with gunfire interrupting the birdsong at a luxurious island resort in Thailand, before catapulting us into the past, as tourists approach their doomed Eden by boat.

Godspeed to these travelers, whose cursed vacation makes for rather entertaining viewing. Rick (Walton Goggins), a withdrawn grump who reveals flashes of vulpine charm, is here with his younger, new-agey girlfriend, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), who radiates enough vim to turn their sparkless relationship into a star-crossed romance. Longtime friends Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan), Laurie...

Aimee Lou Wood, best known for her role in Sex Education, is set to join the highly anticipated third season of The White Lotus. The upcoming season boasts a star-studded cast, including Natasha Rothwell, Carrie Coon, Scott Glenn, Walton Goggins, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Parker Posey, and Blackpink member Lisa, credited as Lalisa Manobal. Additional cast members include Dom Hetrakul, Jason Isaacs, Tayme Thapthimthong, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Nicholas Duvernay, Francesca Corney, Arnas Fedaravicius, Christian Friedel, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, and Shalini Peiris.

In an exclusive interview with HeyUGuys, Aimee Lou shared her excitement about joining the acclaimed series, discussing her character, the filming experience in Thailand, and what fans can expect from this thrilling new installment of The White Lotus. Stay tuned as we dive into her thoughts, behind-the-scenes moments, and the creative direction of the show’s latest season.

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