The White Lotus: Season 2

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HBO | Season Premiere Date: October 30, 2022

Summary: Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) and a new group of guests check-in at The White Lotus resort in Sicily in the second season of Mike White's satirical anthology series.

Creator: Mike White

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E7. Arrivederci
Air Date: December 11, 2022
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S2:E6. Abductions
Air Date: December 4, 2022
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S2:E5. That's Amore
Air Date: November 27, 2022

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i Rachael Sigee

Oct 31, 2022

White has once again produced something as heady and intoxicating as it is sour and unsettling. This is another dose of self-sabotaging lurid luxury that makes helpless, gleeful voyeurs of us all. Read full review

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Meghan O'Keefe

Oct 24, 2022

In Season 2, he [Mike White] doesn’t just recreate the magic of the first installment, but he stretches his own creative muscles. The White Lotus Season 2 is a resounding triumph. Read full review

Judy Berman

Oct 24, 2022

An upstairs, downstairs ensemble dramedy that feels a bit too eager to replicate the beats of its predecessor, but that nonetheless develops into an exquisitely agonizing snapshot of heterosexual romance as currently practiced. Read full review

Angie Han

Oct 24, 2022

While the new installment doesn’t cut quite as close to the bone as the first did, it alights upon more than a few observations sharp enough to draw blood. Read full review

Melanie McFarland

Oct 31, 2022

This season of "The White Lotus" makes it very easy to be taken in, and the checkout may even be sweetly agonizing. Read full review

Darren Franich

Oct 24, 2022

Season 2 makes a convincing case that this heavenly-hell luxury franchise will be very pretty even when it's pretty familiar. Sicily looks lovely, but the tension is palpable. Read full review

Nina Metz

Oct 27, 2022

Nobody has a real conversation; they say things at each other as if lobbing verbal tennis balls over a net, which is maybe why it all sounds so trite. Even as it skewers these people, the show is too in love with the idea of being rich to really consider the rot at its core. Read full review

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dvdmvp

Dec 19, 2022

White Lotus S2 is a GOAT. An improvement over S1 in every way. Threads are introduced early on in the series, maintained throughout, and payout splendidly in the end.

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Sarah1989

Nov 3, 2022

Loved the first episode, great performances and interesting mix of characters. Great to see Jennifer back and the interactions between Theo James and Aubrey Plaza are already filled with tension.

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andy_indierock

Nov 8, 2022

Great storyline, sexy and well acted casts, marvelous scenery, nothing bored me here.

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geewah

Mar 29, 2023

While this season follows in the same vein as the first, it still remains fresh, funny and intriguing due to it's clever writing and great casting.
Still one of the best shows on TV at the moment.

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All_ButTrU4

Dec 12, 2022

Amazing second season! I enjoyed the overall mystery but what truly made the show was the weekly conversations around our favorite characters and moments . White Lotus is a charater drama with an edge. It crackles with humor and is taught with tension. Its telling how the fan theories thoughAmazing second season! I enjoyed the overall mystery but what truly made the show was the weekly conversations around our favorite characters and moments . White Lotus is a charater drama with an edge. It crackles with humor and is taught with tension. Its telling how the fan theories though askew reveal just how compelling the story is . Aubrey plaza is consistent as she compells as the sexually frustrated wife alongside mcfaye whose Daphne is a complex chill. Jennifer Coolidge steals the show as the lethaly clumsy half a billionaire,her dissolving marriage and vapid rendezvous with high end gays had me on the edge of my seat. Theo James gives his best performance ever(which doesn't say much given his abysmal discography) as the narcissistic potentially indept Cameron . This is another stunning season which surprisingly tops the intelligently funny first. Definitely one of my favorites in a year of great television.… Expand

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UncleWillard

Oct 31, 2022

Saw the first episode and fell right back into it. I really enjoyed season 1 and season 2 is shaping up very well. Seeing Michael Imperioli in the cast is a special treat for me. Loved him in Sopranos (duh), and regret not seeing him in enough things. Looking forward to his performance here.Saw the first episode and fell right back into it. I really enjoyed season 1 and season 2 is shaping up very well. Seeing Michael Imperioli in the cast is a special treat for me. Loved him in Sopranos (duh), and regret not seeing him in enough things. Looking forward to his performance here. Aubrey Plaza as the uptight Millenial is pretty fun too. Can't wait to see where she goes with this character.… Expand

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OlivierPiel

Nov 2, 2022

Watching this with European and/or Asian eyes, you can't help but snicker at this facile, adolescent, populistic, nihilistic pamphlet that pretentiously imagines it provides an insightful, mordant and uncompromising portraiture of the American upper middle-class. It is exactly the opposite.Watching this with European and/or Asian eyes, you can't help but snicker at this facile, adolescent, populistic, nihilistic pamphlet that pretentiously imagines it provides an insightful, mordant and uncompromising portraiture of the American upper middle-class. It is exactly the opposite. It is a litany of clichés and tropes. Its lack of self-awareness inadvertendly highlights indeed the inanity, tackiness and arrogance of an Hollywood crowd that thinks of itself as a "thinking" elite.
There should be a show on TV where Japanese, British or Swedish viewers laugh at the pomposity -the weighty, the ham-fisted writing style of fat little hands- of shows like "Succession", "Billions", "The Good Fight" or "the White Lotus". A mirror of the mirror....Take another look at German expressionist paintings or Molière or even some simple Comedia dell'Arte. That's how you "crush brains" (Max Pechstein 1905); ...with levity!
1 point for the music.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 3

77
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 16, 2025
Season 2

81
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: October 30, 2022
- tbd
  S2:E7. Arrivederci
  Air Date: December 11, 2022
- tbd
  S2:E6. Abductions
  Air Date: December 4, 2022
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  S2:E5. That's Amore
  Air Date: November 27, 2022
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  S2:E4. In the Sandbox
  Air Date: November 20, 2022
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  S2:E3. Bull Elephants
  Air Date: November 13, 2022
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  S2:E2. Italian Dream
  Air Date: November 6, 2022
- tbd
  S2:E1. Ciao
  Air Date: October 30, 2022
Season 1

82
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 11, 2021