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The White Lotus
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  • Episode aired Mar 16, 2025
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  • 1h 2m
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Stars of “The White Lotus” Season 3, Natasha Rothwell, Parker Posey, Sarah Catherine Hook, Lalisa Manobal, Sam Nivola, and Tayme Thapthimthong share how the process of working with director Mike White was extremely collaborative and free of pressure. The cast reveals if they’d want to travel with their characters IRL.
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As a yacht party extends into the night and friends explore Bangkok's clubs, parallel stories unfold with family disagreements over future plans and mysterious happenings at a nearby hotel.As a yacht party extends into the night and friends explore Bangkok's clubs, parallel stories unfold with family disagreements over future plans and mysterious happenings at a nearby hotel.As a yacht party extends into the night and friends explore Bangkok's clubs, parallel stories unfold with family disagreements over future plans and mysterious happenings at a nearby hotel.

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    • Mike White
  • Writer
    • Mike White
  • Stars
    • Leslie Bibb
    • Carrie Coon
    • Walton Goggins
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    • Director
      • Mike White
    • Writer
      • Mike White
    • Stars
      • Leslie Bibb
      • Carrie Coon
      • Walton Goggins
    • 28User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
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    Leslie Bibb
    Leslie Bibb
    • Kate Bohr
    Carrie Coon
    Carrie Coon
    • Laurie Duffy
    Walton Goggins
    Walton Goggins
    • Rick Hatchett
    Jon Gries
    Jon Gries
    • Greg Hunt
    Sarah Catherine Hook
    Sarah Catherine Hook
    • Piper Ratliff
    Jason Isaacs
    Jason Isaacs
    • Timothy Ratliff
    Lalisa Manobal
    Lalisa Manobal
    • Mook
    Michelle Monaghan
    Michelle Monaghan
    • Jaclyn Lemon
    Sam Nivola
    Sam Nivola
    • Lochlan Ratliff
    Patravadi Mejudhon
    Patravadi Mejudhon
    • Sritala Hollinger
    • (as Lek Patravadi)
    • (credit only)
    Parker Posey
    Parker Posey
    • Victoria Ratliff
    Natasha Rothwell
    Natasha Rothwell
    • Belinda Lindsey
    Patrick Schwarzenegger
    Patrick Schwarzenegger
    • Saxon Ratliff
    Tayme Thapthimthong
    Tayme Thapthimthong
    • Gaitok
    Aimee Lou Wood
    Aimee Lou Wood
    • Chelsea
    Sam Rockwell
    Sam Rockwell
    • Frank
    Arnas Fedaravicius
    Arnas Fedaravicius
    • Valentin
    • (as Arnas Fedaravičius)
    Christian Friedel
    Christian Friedel
    • Fabian
    • Director
      • Mike White
    • Writer
      • Mike White
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    User reviews28

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    9korapica_500

    Finally!

    This is the first episode that finally made me feel like I'm truly watching The White Lotus. The tension, the drama, and the unexpected twists were all there, capturing the essence of what makes the show so captivating. Honestly, it should've been episode 3, not 5-by the time we got here, it felt like the season had been dragging a bit, and this kind of energy was exactly what was needed earlier on to keep the momentum going. I really hope things pick up and move faster from this point forward because this episode gave me a glimpse of the brilliance I've been waiting for. For real!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    5c-yigen

    Getting more and more boring.

    This last season is a let down so far. Nothing really happens, I mean literally nothing happens. It's like they focused more on adding mysterious music to the scenes to make it entertaining rather than making a good story line.

    The conversations are boring, some of the characters are just plain boring. But there are some very good actors among them, it's just sad that nothing happens 😅

    All in all There are just way too many content and shows to watch. So it doesn't make sense that they would make something this.

    They can get away with one bad season but let's just hope that season 4 will be good so it won't get canceled in the future.
    8nerrdrage

    getting back to form

    The writing on this season has been less focused and sharp than the previous two but this one improves by developing Tim's plotline to a crisis point, and by giving Rick an interesting scene.

    To this point, Walton Goggins has been wasted. He's usually the chaos-bringing but so far he's just been a mopey nothing. He doesn't actually do much more in this episode except listen to Sam Rockwell's demented story, which is a gratifyingly White Lotus-like scene. We needed more like that all along.

    The Thai characters are still frustratingly bland. The guard screws up again. The three cougar friends get some glossy, funny scenes but I still wouldn't say there's a plotline attached.

    The season seems to hinge on the resolution of three plots: Tim's meltdown; whatever Rick is up to; and Belinda vs Greg/Gary.
    9maddmaxx46

    Such a Fantastic Episode

    This episode was the best of the season so far and stepped up a couple of stars from the second-best one. I love the direction each family or group is going in. The Ratliff family is about as split up as you can possibly get, with the Dad in serious trouble. The boys were funny this episode, with how much the youngest let loose compared to how shy he's been all season. The three ladies were such a treat to finally watch them get super drunk and let loose as well. This whole episode was the biggest unwind for all and felt very refreshing to watch. Rick's friend, coming in as Sam Rockwell, was so cool and his story is quite shocking to Rick. This is the exact direction I was hoping for, and I hope it continues in this direction. 4.5/5 stars.
    7cjonesas

    [6.7] The Frankenfish

    Partying, they do it half-way. Conversing, they do it half-way. Making love to each other, non-existent. Taking drug, also half-way with drug life-span of about two hours max, the effects should have been much stronger with complete jumping on each other.

    Frank's freakish speech didn't impress me, would have been nicer to have some tiny visual flashbacks, and that was not a monologue, that was pure perversity, good for him, but definitely not for Rick who is entirely on another planet.

    User is right, that was almost an entire episode dedicated to druggy partying, but even that wasn't done right. In the first place, they are uninteresting, besides Valentin, Jaclyn, Mook (with her superb dancing, look and hinted smiles all in honey) and to a certain degree Timothy who also needs partying playing Russian Roulette with a revolver though.

    So far, Piper has escaped debauchery, that soon needs to be fixed playing the role of a concubine.

    Season 1 managed to awe us in just 6 episodes, this season needs at least 12 to achieve above-average mediocrity.

    Look at Belinda. Acting like a 14 y.o. Sigh.

    I'm all for quality being spiritualism, dramatic action, perversity or pure love. So far, we are served a Frankenfish of fossil, extinct and endangered species.

    • Screenplay/storyline/plots: 6
    • Production value/impact: 7
    • Development: 6.5
    • Realism: 7
    • Entertainment: 7
    • Acting: 7
    • Filming/photography/cinematography: 8.5
    • VFX: 8
    • Music/score/sound: 7
    • Depth: 6
    • Logic: 4.5
    • Flow: 7
    • Dark comedy/adventure/satirical drama/slight mystery: 6.5
    • Ending: 6.

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    • Trivia
      Sam Rockwell (who plays Rick's friend Frank) has been in a long-term relationship with season regular Leslie Bibb (who plays Kate) since 2007.
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      Frank: Well, you know, I'm... I moved here because, uh... I moved here because, you know, well, I had to leave the States, but I picked Thailand because, uh... Because I always had a thing for Asian girls, you know? And when I got here, oh, I was like a kid in a candy store. You got money, no attachments, nothing to do. I started partying. It got wild. I was picking up girls every night. Always different ones, petite ones, chubby ones, older ones, sometimes multiple ladies a night. I-- I was out of control. I became insatiable. And, uh... You know, after about a thousand nights like that, you start to lose it. I started wondering, where am I going with this? W... why do I feel this need to fuck all these women? What is desire? The form of this cute Asian girl, why does it have such a grip on me? 'Cause she's the opposite of me? She gonna complete me in some way? I realized that I could fuck a million women, I'd still never be satisfied. Maybe... Maybe what I really want, is to be one of these Asian girls.

      Rick Hatchett: Really?

      Frank: You know?

      Rick Hatchett: Uh, not really.

      Frank: No, really. Really? So, one night I took home some girl, turned out to be a lady-boy, which I'd done before, but this time, instead of fucking the lady-boy, the lady-boy fucked me. And it was kind of magical. And I got it in my head that what I really wanted was to be one of these Asian girls, getting fucked by me, and to feel that.

      Rick Hatchett: Uh-huh.

      Frank: So I put out an ad, looking for a white guy, my age, come over and fuck me. Found a guy looked a lot like me. Then I put on some lingerie and perfume, made myself look like one of these girls and I thought I looked pretty hot. Then this guy came over, railed the shit outta me. Then I got addicted to that. Some nights three, four guys would come over, rail the shit outta me. Some I even had to pay. And at the same time I'd hire an Asian girl, who'd just sit there, and watch the whole thing. I'd look in her eyes, while some guy was fucking me, and I'd think, "I am her, and I am fucking me."

      Rick Hatchett: Mm-hmm.

      Frank: Hey, we all have our Achilles' heel, man, you know. Where does it come from? Why are some of us attracted to the opposite form? Yeah. And some of us the same? sex is a poetic act. It's a metaphor. Metaphor for what? Are we our forms? Am I a middle-aged White guy on the inside, too? Or inside... could I be an Asian girl?

      Rick Hatchett: Right. I don't know.

      Frank: Guess I was trying to fuck my way to the answer. Then I realized I gotta... I gotta stop with the drug, the girls, the-- You know, trying to be a girl. I got into Buddhism, which is all about, you know, spirit versus form, detaching from self, getting off the never-ending carousel of lust and suffering. Being sober isn't so hard... Being celibate, though, that's... I still miss that pussy, man.

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      Song Of Love
      Written by Eric V. Hachikian

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      • March 16, 2025 (United States)
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