‘The White Lotus’ Season 4 Is Now In Production

The season 3 theme really grew on me, and his timing with soundtrack pieces tailored so well to the scene will be missed

It is worrying because Euphoria season 3 is already suffering without its iconic Labyrinth soundtrack… hope the same doesn’t happen here

Soundtrack made up a good portion of what made that show. It won’t be the same, I fear.

It juxtaposes the fabulously wealthy alongside the people who serve them, and their plotlines always cross. I’m sure there are many examples of this in entertainment media but it’s done really well in White Lotus

I love how it shows that behind the scenes, even the rich and famous are not living a perfect life, and they got different stressors that they need to handle that money can’t solve 

This comment thread feels like Chat GPT karma farming with surface level "observations" that gleaming Wikipedia can make.

I believe I read somewhere he wrote a lot of it at Ponderosa lol

Mike White said this will be the funniest season, and will focus thematically on fame

I hope it returns to the tone of the first

Season 2’s theme song is a f****** banger

Season 3 wasn’t just pacing issues. There was so little payoff for so many plot points

For me it’s season 1 > season 3 > season 2 I don’t get the love for season 2 except for the scenes with Jennifer Coolidge. The rest of it was Michael Imperioli looking sad because he wants to bang prostitutes, one of which plays piano at the bar now.

Easily season one for me. I finally binged all seasons for the first time a couple months ago and my take away was surprise that season 2 is the season I see most lauded here. Two lacked a lot and absolutely jumped the shark with that ridiculous gay murder cabal. Not to mention her falling off the boat when she was standing right next to the stairs down. Gratuitous nudity that added nothing and every groups individual plots failed coalesce in the finale. It was just 3 separate stories happening at once that had no payoff. We also completely lost the music as a character. In one, every character’s choices and actions slow burned into the chaos that was the climax. There was infinitely more cause and effect. The music was tense and unsettling and built the atmosphere into a thriller at times. I was always wondering what was going to happen next as events kept snowballing. I found one much funnier as well.

Season 3 had some great characters, just the plot was off. Why did Goggins return to the hotel owned by the auld lad he just assaulted, when they knew that was where he was staying?

I think the point of his role in season 3 was White trolling everyone hoping for justice for Tanya just to have the b****** get away with it because someone else was greedy. I think his role is done.

How much you wanna bet I could throw a football over them ~~mountains~~ Alps?

Surprisingly, it was Walton Goggins' storyline that wound up disappointing me.

Last season also had surprisingly mediocre cinematography. Lots of closs-ups with super narrow depth of field, it looked amateurish and lazy. I hope it returns to form with season 4.

Didn't hate it but felt that it was less good than the first two. From memory a lot of the characters felt like they didn't really go anywhere from their introduction and were not really given much to do, and by far the most memorable scene came from a minor side character (sexuality monologue). Between the three women whose dynamic you figured out instantly, gay tension between the siblings and Jason Issacs popping pills and pondering suicide all season you had like a third of the screentime tied up already.

I liked it more than two I think. Although so far in one and 2 the only people who died were people who brought it upon themselves with their own disfunction. I thought Aimee Lou Woods character dying was antithetical to the ethos of the show. Her only crime was loving someone who was broken. Also Gaitock’s life is ruined as well and he was a pure and innocent character. Hes never going to forget shooting Rick in the back and winning the girl only because he killed someone.

My favorite season

It was the worst of the three but I didn’t ’hate’ it. It was just a massive step down writing quality wise from the others.

Mate season 3 was a shadow of its former self

People disliked season 3? The f*** is wrong with people?

Well, it sucked compared to the amazing Seasons 1 and 2.

I didn't hate it, but it had problems. Like the three girlfriends storyline was compelling all season, until it fast-forwarded past any sort of conclusion. Carrie C*** just comes to a realization *off-screen* and monologues about it, and it speaks to her talent that she's able to sell something that's so unearned. Then you've got Natasha Rothwell, whose character is weirdly less complex than back in Season 1, ultimately becoming a bystander in her own storyline. And S3 revisits diet versions of all the hits: -Poor little rich girl turns out to be just as bad as everyone else, except the stakes are lower and she's not as compelling. -We get another shootout, except instead of being improbable and funny, it's just played straight. (This time with witnesses who forget about it immediately after.) -Half the season builds up to yet another depiction of gay sex treated like a jump scare (to get the normies tittering on socials). This time with real incest, which is biting off way more than a show with this tone can chew, so it's largely side-stepped after.

Survivor 50!

Honestly feels like a fairly short wait, especially compared to some other shows out there (cough stranger things cough cough)

I didn’t like the family hardly at all. The father only had the respect of his family due to wealth and just contemplated suicide or homicide because of illegal activity, the mother was just an entitled mess of a human being, the daughter was cosplaying as a Buddhist and was an enormous hypocrite (at least her mother was unapologetic about what she is), the one brother was a bro, and the other brother was just misguided and had identity issues. I love the show, but the whole, “Aren’t rich people miserable and dysfunctional?” can only go so far before it becomes predictable. I don’t see how most of the characters grew or evolved. The most interesting part would have been how the mother and the three children would have reacted to economic ruin and that was withheld from the audience. 

You're not in the social network bro

I totally get it. The first two seasons had such quality acting, cinematography, direction, soundtrack, etc. that it was easy for me to overlook the characters that are essentially soulless black holes. This has been a really popular trope in media where it’s “rich people doing heinous things” but White Lotus does a better job of adding nuance to that because you get to see the other side from the workers’ perspective. The manager, the masseuse, etc. have to interact with these people and they essentially function as a stand in for the audience. I also appreciate how the creator (he’s also the sole writer) will take pot shots at anyone and everyone. It’s a caustic show and sometimes holding up a mirror to society gets really uncomfortable. So I get it. 

The last episode premiered over a year ago.

What show are you confusing this with?