History Series / TheWhiteLotus

The third season will be set in UsefulNotes/{{Thailand}}.

* RiddleForTheAges: It's never answered what is the nature of Quentin and Jack's relationship beside being [[spoiler: sexual]]. It's likely they aren't related given their accents, but it's not specified.

** Season 2: A literal gun seen briefly in the penultimate episode is used to kill in the finale.

* GenerationXerox: Despite his awareness of the consequences, Dominic has turned out exactly like his father Bert. Both are sex addicts who cheated on their wives, causing strains in their relationships with their families.

* TokenMinorityCouple: {{Lampshaded}}. Harper complains that she (of Puerto Rican descent) and her husband Ethan (of East Asian descent) are probably the acceptably white-passing diverse friends of the rich white Sullivans, and indeed they stand out as two minorities in a majority-Caucasian batch of guests.

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: The rich guests who are stated to have attended specific colleges went to well-known prestigious ones: Cameron and Ethan met at Yale, and Albie just graduated from Stanford. On the other hand, Portia mentions that she went to Chico State.[[note]]California State University, Chico an oldish and perfectly respectable but decidedly non-"prestige" state school in the Bay Area.[[/note]]

** Albie sees Lucia as a DamselInDistress. [[spoiler: Instead, she turns out to be the BigBad of his story who cons him.]]

''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy anthology series created by Creator/MikeWhite (''Film/SchoolOfRock'', ''Series/{{Enlightened}}''), where each season takes place in a different property of the White Lotus hotel chain around the world.

The series has been renewed for a third season. Per hints from Mike White, it is likely to be set in Asia; per an interview with Creator/JohnnyKnoxville (a personal friend of Mike White's), it may be set in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. (Which would make sense, as a throwaway line from Armond in the very first episode says that the White Lotus chain is Japanese-owned.)

* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Both Shane and Rachel have a valid outlook in the room situation. Shane is right that they aren't getting the more expensive room they paid for and the hotel staff is trying to gaslight him into thinking they booked the wrong room. Rachel is also right that the way Shane is going about his grievance is disrupting their honeymoon and that he is more concerned with the room than with her.

The second season follows a different group of staff and guests at the White Lotus UsefulNotes/{{Sicily}}, including Creator/MichaelImperioli, Creator/FMurrayAbraham, and Adam [=DiMarco=] as three generations of the Italian-American Di Grasso family on a trip to their ancestral homeland; Ethan Spiller (Creator/WillSharpe), a newly-minted TechBro and his nagging bitter wife, Harper (Creator/AubreyPlaza) on vacation with their frenemies Cameron Sullivan (Creator/TheoJames) and his wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy); strict hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore), wealthy British expat Quentin (Creator/TomHollander) and his nephew Jack (Leo Woodall); and local girls Lucia (Simona Tabasco), a sex worker, and Mia (Beatrice Grannò), an aspiring singer. Returning from ''Hawaii'' are Tanya (Coolidge) and her new husband Greg (Creator/JonGries), joined this time by Tanya's assistant Portia (Creator/HaleyLuRichardson).

''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy anthology series created by Creator/MikeWhite (''Film/SchoolOfRock'', ''Series/{{Enlightened}}''), where each season takes place in a different property of the White Lotus hotel chain around the world

* IvyLeagueForEveryone: The only colleges mentioned this time around are prestigious ones: Cameron and Ethan met at Yale, and Albie just graduated from Stanford.

The series has been renewed for a third season. Per hints from Mike White, it is likely to be set in Asia; per an interview with Creator/JohnnyKnoxville (a personal friend of Mike White's), it may be set in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}. (Which would make sense, as a throwaway line in the very first episode says that the White Lotus chain is Japanese-owned.)

The series has been renewed for a third season. Per hints from Mike White, it is likely to be set in Asia; per an interview with Creator/JohnnyKnoxville (a personal friend of Mike White's), it may be set in UsefulNotes/{{Japan}}.

The series has been renewed for a third season. Per an interview with Creator/JohnnyKnoxville (a personal friend of Mike White's), it may be set in UsefulNotes/{{Tokyo}}.

** Portia gets the attention of friendly Albie and roguish foreigner Jack. Albie's nice and all, but he doesn't make her blood thrum the way Jack immediately does. [[spoiler:She may have moved on from falling into AllGirlsWantBadBoys by the end of the season after getting manipulated by Jack, if her exchanging numbers with Albie in the finale is any indication.]]

** Portia gets the attention of friendly Albie and roguish foreigner Jack. Albie's nice and all, but he doesn't make her blood thrum the way Jack immediately does.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Very few characters in the cast are 100% right or wrong. The more sympathetic ones tend to be victims of CorruptTheCutie or NotSoAboveItAll, or else make a TragicMistake that ends up undermining their good intentions. On the flip side, the biggest {{Jerkass}} characters usually have at least a PetTheDog moment or DarkAndTroubledPast that helps explain their actions, along with a lot of JerkassHasAPoint or AffablyEvil. Even [[spoiler: Quentin, who attempts to kill Tanya for her money, is implied to be acting out of unrequited love and desperation, and the sleazy Giuseppe is at least right that Mia got her big break at his expense.]]. The biggest aversions as of Season 2 are [[spoiler: Greg, the BigBad of Tanya's plotline; Niccolo, the hitman involved with the scheme;]] and Isabella, a NiceGirl and FlatCharacter who is always friendly with Valentina despite their awkward situation.

* GreyAndGrayMorality: Very few characters in the cast are 100% right or wrong. The more sympathetic ones tend to be victims of BreakTheCutie or NotSoAboveItAll, or else make a TragicMistake that ends up undermining their good intentions. On the flip side, the biggest {{Jerkass}} characters usually have at least a PetTheDog moment or DarkAndTroubledPast that helps explain their actions, along with a lot of JerkassHasAPoint or AffablyEvil. Even [[spoiler: Quentin, who attempts to kill Tanya for her money, is implied to be acting out of unrequited love and desperation, and the sleazy Giuseppe is at least right that Mia got her big break at his expense.]]. The biggest aversions as of Season 2 are [[spoiler: Greg, the BigBad of Tanya's plotline; Niccolo, the hitman involved with the scheme;]] and Isabella, a NiceGirl and FlatCharacter who is always friendly with Valentina despite their awkward situation.