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Positive:
114
Mixed:
8
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews
Sep 4, 2025
Feb 12, 2025
Season 3 Review:
It’s comfort food masquerading as social critique. Even as White meanders in familiar territory, this Thailand chapter never exactly becomes an unfunny or poorly acted stretch of television. While I haven’t seen the final two episodes, the latter half of the season does start to maneuver the characters toward some audacious, inspired mayhem. But it’s tough to come away from these episodes without feeling that White really ought to hire some additional writers.
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Radio TimesFeb 11, 2025
Feb 11, 2025
Season 3 Review:
The White Lotus season 3 has all of the elements we’ve come to know and love from Mike White’s satirical anthology – a great cast, an exotic locale, and messy interpersonal drama – but there’s some serious spice missing from the recipe. .... There’s a disappointing amount of wheel-spinning for the guests and the staff alike, which makes me wonder if the series is creatively tapped out – or maybe its ugly-American motif has just lost its bite.
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Radio TimesOct 31, 2022
Feb 21, 2025
Season 3 Review:
Although Belinda is ostensibly there to learn, she comes in as much a blank slate as the paying guests, with little more to offer her Thai co-workers than a stiff khàawp khun. White isn’t much more generous, or more interested. The White Lotus began as an Upstairs Downstairs parable of economic exploitation, with a little postcolonial critique, as a treat. But the third season’s native characters are barely an afterthought.
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Oct 28, 2022
Season 2 Review:
The result is a portrait that feels like half–Tennessee Williams play, half–Men are from Mars, Women Are From Venus. The cast, in particular Aubrey Plaza and F. Murray Abraham, elevates the material’s gender-based clichés (women are shrews, men cads) with performances that are precisely bemused or aggrieved. ... But without a greater guiding thesis about why marriage reaffirms gender roles for people who otherwise consider themselves progressive, or a secondary plot focus to round out this vacillating heterosexual frivolity and panic, The White Lotus feels defanged.
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The PlaylistOct 25, 2022
Season 2 Review:
Nothing remotely insightful has been said about the rich other than they’re terrible to the planet and to each other. At this point, it seems the show is mostly just interested in reveling in the spoils of the rich (there’s a particularly gorgeous villa featured in one episode) and that’s it.
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