Spectrum On Demand
HBO MaxFollow the exploits of various guests and employees at an exclusive tropical resort over the span of a week as with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel’s cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.
With Mike White’s sole creative vision developing the series and the anthology format allowing for a fresh cast each season, the show continues to prove that there are infinite ways to portray qualities of human toxicity. He's now created three ensembles of compelling characters who feel both absurd and painfully realistic, and the series gives its stars opportunities to shine and show off their acting chops.
“The White Lotus” is also driven by the same logic as clickbait in social media. Hatred, scandal, sex and violence keep us watching, not depth or insight.“The White Lotus” ultimately appears as one more chapter in a story that keeps repeating itself. The names change – Tarantino, “Succession,” “Breaking Bad” – but the pattern holds: prestige packaging for human degradation, cynicism praised as realism, and viewers trained to mistake exhaustion for insight.
