The White Lotus

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Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 11, 2021
Season #: 3, 2, 1
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
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  1. Qhasi
    Jan 10, 2023
    2
    Literally nothing noteworthy happens. Terrible storylines that go nowhere. Characters that start out as heroes and turn into zeroes. All of them ZEROES. Not one likeable character. Even the inevitable twist in the end can't shield the lazy writing.
  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 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 indeedWatching 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
  3. MetacriticOnur
    Dec 13, 2022
    3
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    adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
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    bad
    [ bad ]

    adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
    not good in any manner or degree.
  4. jmshenley
    Nov 5, 2022
    3
    Bygone are the likable characters and light humor of season 1 as we welcome flat, unlikable characters and moody toxic undertones. It feel more like a Gillian Flynn adaptation than the charmed story telling we have come to recognized from Mike White.

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#47 Best TV Season of 2022
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#33 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

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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
  1. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Inkoo Kang
    Nov 9, 2022
    80
    The second season initially feels like a mere echo of the first. ... But the first five episodes suggest that White has undergone his own unclenching. The airless sociological fatalism of Season 1, which was matched by a claustrophobic production due to covid-19 restrictions, gives way to a more mature drama, as well as a deeper exploration of how the characters’ class concerns converge with gendered angst.
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  2. TV Guide Magazine
    Reviewed by: Matt Roush
    Nov 4, 2022
    90
    You’re going to want to book a trip to Sicily, pronto, after devouring the dazzling new season of HBO’s The White Lotus. ... Sicily, and The White Lotus, are to die for. [7 - 20 Nov 2022, p.4]
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  3. The Times
    Reviewed by: Carol Midgley
    Nov 2, 2022
    80
    In a nutshell this series is funny, but not as funny as the last one. But series one took its time to take off too. And, having watched ahead only five episodes; I don't know the denouement be assured that Mike White builds the tension exquisitely and there is much toxicity to gorge upon. ... I love Tanya. She embodies the show's essence: that being filthy rich doesn't make you happy. Indeed, it can make you wretchedly miserable. Enjoy the schadenfreude.
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