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 melodic atmosphere that develops and help carve out the specific emotions are totally ON POINT!

I felt every scene, every emotion, the anxiety, the chaos. I found at one point i was literally on the edge of my seat, eyes WIDE OPEN, and mouth agape. I was sooo overwhelmed trying to process everything that was being thrown in my face at every turn. There were no real slow parts, every scene was the culmination of the entire season and ended in a pure emotion crescendo of WTF!

Brilliant season and I hope this show never ceases to create new seasons.

Maybe ill write a larger more concise review, but im still running on adrenaline.

Watch it now!

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.

To start of with the positive: This season definitely was the most suspenseful of the three. The tone and feel of it was great, from the scoring to the beautiful shots, to the good acting. I watched the finale on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happened. But while the conclusion of all the subplots initially seemed satisfying, it all rings a bit hollow when reflecting on it.

The previous two seasons provided great social commentary and felt like they had a real distinct 'point' to make. This season feels like it wanted to do just more of the same thing. That's not necessarily bad, but as often happens with sequels without a new idea, the writing becomes a bit stale.

As other reviewers have commented, you had to suspend your disbelief quite a lot this season for all the plot points to work. I won't spoil it, but at the end it all just doesn't really fit together. This season definitely got the style, but lacked substance. Still, a very enjoyable season and looking forward to the next.

The anthology serie's third season of good actors playing rich people at a beautiful resort with some prestige TV dialogue and a dash of mystery and murder is overall a bit of letdown, or a reversion to the mean after the very good second season. It's glacially-paced until the absurd ending and the big narrative twists were all telegraphed, obvious and predictable. I think Mike White has some obvious talents as a writer, but the show is in need of a few more screenwriters on its roster. The dialogue is good but concise, giving the actors space to shine. I had actually thought about not watching this season because of how they stole a role from Milos Bikovic after a slanderous and untrue campaign, but it's still a show to watch.

Schwarzenegger is a carbon copy of his father, but a much better actor. For me, he was a very positive surprise and I think he has it in him to have a good career. Parker Posey's performance and accent were the season's MVP: it is a shame the writing couldn't give her more in the final episode so that she could give some tragedy, not just comedy. Goggins' character was wafer-thin, but if he's finally getting mainstream recognition as a first-class actor, that's alright. The entire cast has no real duds, and is the highlight of the season along with some reliably good dialogue and beautiful filming of Thailand.