Amor Fati

This series has now settled into an identity. Each season is a sort of trial for the visitors to a White Lotus resort, a kind of chi-chi Twilight Zone with tropical drinks.

You may find love or you may lose it. You may be given the chance to work through old grudges and resentments. You could emerge as a better person for your experiences. You could hit the jackpot financially. Your life as you know it could be destroyed. You could wind up dead. Maybe the Crypt Keeper should be on the beach, greeting guests.

There is no moral framework governing this lottery. Good people are not rewarded and bad people are not punished, unless by random chance.

This results in a common complaint the series is garnering, that the characters are unlikable, the stories are unsatisfying and the whole thing feels pointless. Once you understand that pointlessness is the point, it might come off better. At minimum, it's fun to watch.

At this point the whole White Lotus chain should go bankrupt after hosting so many bizarre fatal scenarios that of course have gone wildly viral. Who's going to vacation at the Resort of Death? Some people would find it a bonus, and that might make a good season of the show in itself but I doubt they'll ever break the fourth wall like that.

The White Lotus for the third season Mike White takes us to Thailand for a whole new cast of narcissistic characters who think they are privileged. We first meet the Radliff family headed by Jason Isaac, his wife Parker Posey and their kids Lochlan (Sam Nivola), daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), and Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger). At first Patrick's character was self confident and full of himself but by the end his brother was viewed as a better person and Patrick lost himself along with his attitude. Over the course of this season we learn Jason is about to lose his company and spends most the time drugging himself and being out of touch from his family while Parker is the most annoying character who feels so privileged that she can't see herself living any other way except for her current life. We then meet lifelong friends Leslie Gibbs, Michelle Monaghan who plays a famous actress along with Carrie Coon. The ladies are mischievous and backstabbing especially against each other, but they are their to forget but we learn they carry their baggage with them wherever they go. Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood are there to find one another but Walton has other ideas. He meets up with his friend Rick (Sam Rockwell) to try to get close to the owners of the hotel to bring meaning to his life and to learn what happened to his real father. The owners were played by Scott Glenn and Lek Patravadi who helped set up the heath wellness program at the hotel. On a side story Tayme Thapthimthong plays a security guard at the hotel who is in love with Mook (Lalisa Manobal) a talented actress who entertains and guides guests on the property. The only two recurring characters were Jon Gries who is trying to stay away from drama and Natasha Rothwell who is back from the first season. This season was dragging and there isn't one character you would root for. The ending became predictable but the one thing I can take away from this show is that life is precious and should be looked at as a single drop of water till we return to the ocean.

Although I felt more emotionally attached to the characters of season 3, that may have been an issue.

I've been enjoying this season until this episode, which felt more like a drama than anything else. I think the season was well written until ep7, the scenery was the most beautiful of the 3 and loved the extra intensity until a certain point.

However, some ends felt loose and the show has lost its initial focus. I wasn't really interested in the comic relief previously added by Tanya, but found the more entertaining part of white lotus to be the satirical content and the unraveling rotten nature of the hotel guests highlighting real societal characteristics.

This season I felt the reverse happening, as most characters were initially shown less profound and not that relatable (except for Chelsea), and they became to grow, even sort of learning lessons by the end. I didn't find the end entertaining but rather sad.

I have mixed feelings over this season, as the characters were more relatable, but to a point where the show looses the satirical features and gains dramatic ones. This makes white lotus change direction to target another type of audience which might not be bad for them, but is bad for the fans that loved it from the start.

Crazy build up in the first 7 episodes this season, with little to no release until the final episode. While all the story lines came to an end, this season lacked a storyline that linked all the vacation goers together like past seasons. I was hoping for a bigger pay off because of all the build up but everything that happened was pretty much foreseen to anyone who was consciously watching.

Really hope season 4 gets back to the roots of what made this show the phenomenon it's become. If there's more seasons like this, I'm afraid the show will lose the OG White Lotus fan base.

I love the concept and the vibe of each resort and I can't wait to see where the next season will take place. Crossing my fingers it's more interesting than season 3 🤞🏼

A lot of build up this season throughout every episode, a lot of tension needing to be released somewhere, a lot of pressure in every episode and a lot of journey that somehow doesn't lead anywhere. I feel like a lot of stories weren't really finished in a way they should be finished, it feels like it's not the end even though it is. There's several stories that were building up quite dynamically just for them to be let there and not be ended at all. Looks like a lot of stories, characters and things didn't really have any purpose. I don't know if that's intentional or not. In both cases, it's a bad storytelling. Jason isaacs is such a daddy tho.