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- Binge has confirmed the The White Lotus season three release date as February 17.
- The eight-episode third season will be set in Thailand, and tackle ‘the death of spirituality’.
- The previous seasons of The White Lotus won 15 Emmy Awards.
Mike White’s The White Lotus’ Season 3 is going to be gracing our screens very soon, with Binge announcing the eight-episode season will drop on February 17.
The hit series has taken a satirical and sometimes cynical look at the human condition, putting a group of people together into a confined space – the ‘White Lotus’ hotel chain – and pushes them to the extreme, often resulting in debauchery, infidelity, and murder. And already it looks like season three will keep that tradition alive.
Set in Thailand, season three will follow a mostly new cast of characters as they attempt to reach some degree of spiritual nirvana at a White Lotus retreat and, instead, fall prey to their base human instincts. White has previously said that the death of spiritualist was of interest to him for the third season, and based on what we’ve seen, he’s delivering on it.
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“It’s going to be a supersized White Lotus,” White said last year in November. “It’s going to be longer, bigger, crazier. I don’t know what people will think, but I am super excited, so at least for my own barometer, that’s a good thing.
“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex. I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”
‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Trailer
Following the announcement of the release date, Binge dropped a full trailer for season three that gives us a pretty good idea of what to expect. We’re introduced to some new faces, as well as some familiar ones, and see the shape the new season will take as it heads to Thailand for the first time.
‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Cast
As is the case with prior seasons, The White Lotus season three is made up of an ensemble cast which each play out their own individual stories, while intersecting with the other guests and employees at the hotel as things get progressively more out of hand.
- Leslie Bibb as Kate, one of three women on a girl’s trip
- Carrie Coon as Laurie, one of three women on a girl’s trip
- Michelle Monaghan as Jaclyn, one of three women on a girl’s trip
- Walton Goggins as Rick Hatchett, a ‘rugged man with a chip on his shoulder’ travelling with his girlfriend, Chelsea
- Amiee Lou Wood as Chelsea, a free spirit travelling with her boyfriend, Rick.
- Jason Issacs as Timothy Ratliff, a wealthy businessman travelling with his family
- Parker Posey as Victoria Ratliff, wife of Timothy and mother to his three children.
- Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon Ratliff, the eldest son, works for his father
- Sarah Catherine Hook as Piper Ratliff, middle child, a religion studies major
- Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff, the youngest child, a high school senior
- Natasha Rothwell as Belinda, spa manager at the White Lotus
- Tayme Thapthimthong as Gaitok, a security guard at the White Lotus
- Lalisa Manobal as Moon, a health mentor at the White Lotus
- Lek Patravadi as Sritala, one of the owners of the White Lotus, visionary behind its wellness program
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Although nothing has been made official yet, Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya, who appeared in both Season 1 and 2, may make a return in some form for The White Lotus Season 3.
Despite being killed off in Season 2, show creator White has discussed the possibility of bringing Tanya back, stating that it would be fun to have her character return, but also acknowledging that her journey may lead to death. In an interview for HBO’s Unpacking White Lotus, White said, “I was thinking, it’d be so fun to bring Tanya back because she’s such a great character, but maybe that’s the journey for her, a journey to death.”
He then went on to add, “Not that I really wanted to kill Tanya because I love her as a character and obviously love Jennifer, but I just felt like, we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva—a larger-than-life female archetype—it felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story. It just made me laugh to think she would like take out this cabal of killers and, after she successfully does that, she just dies this derpy death, and it just felt like that’s just so Tanya.”

