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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Critic Reviews

  1. Radio Times
    Reviewed by: Abby Robinson
    Oct 31, 2022
    60
    It didn't quite measure up to its predecessor. Certain developments and details have been borrowed from season 1, which lessens the intended effect, and some of the character dynamics are more compelling than others, giving the series an uneven feel.
  2. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Roxana Hadadi
    Oct 28, 2022
    50
    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.
  3. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Marya E. Gates
    Oct 25, 2022
    42
    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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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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