The White Lotus, I believe, is greatest when it accepts its limits: there’s solely a lot that Mike White, who apparently filmed the primary sequence of the present to “get out of LA”, and owns a property in Hawaii, can do in the best way of critiquing white American privilege, when he himself has said that the enjoyment he will get from being there’s on the “backs of people that have had a sophisticated historical past with individuals like [him]”.
My hope is that White has learnt from the errors of Season 1, and that this new season engages with the wonder and complexity of Thailand in a manner that goes past throwing the odd Thai tune over the credit. If we’re going to have a season in Thailand, we want Thai characters with their very own interiority and fleshed-out storylines. No matter occurs, I’m begging you, Mike White: no extra canoe scenes. And for God’s sake, not one other shut up of Steve Zahn’s d*ck.
