The White Lotus

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 11, 2021
Season #: 3, 2, 1
Metascore
81

Universal acclaim - based on 40 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 36 out of 40
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 40
  3. Negative: 1 out of 40
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  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Nina Metz
    Oct 27, 2022
    37
    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.

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#33 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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User Score
8.2

Universal acclaim- based on 70 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 61 out of 70
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 70
  3. Negative: 8 out of 70
  1. jb510
    Dec 9, 2022
    9
    I loved season 1 and wondered if they could pull off another season. They did and it's really great, maybe even better than season 1!
  2. OlivierPiel
    Nov 2, 2022
    1
    Watching this with European and/or Asian eyes, you can't help but snicker at this facile, adolescent, populistic, nihilistic pamphlet thatWatching 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.    … Full Review »
  3. AncientAmber
    Dec 14, 2022
    8
    Good fun. There's nothing that really stands out about this show, nothing is mindblowing, but nothing is bad about it either. From the writingGood fun. There's nothing that really stands out about this show, nothing is mindblowing, but nothing is bad about it either. From the writing to the acting to the cinematography, it's all solid.

    The result is something that I'd recommend to just about anyone looking for light entertainment with a dash of intrigue and serious themes.    … Full Review »
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