The White Lotus’s sublimely stressful season three shows this satire can go anywhere in the world Mike White has delivered another exceptional series of his study of modern capitalism, with a stellar cast including Jason Isaacs, Carrie Coon and Walton Goggins.
The experience of doing this – feeling the water stream in, the sink shudder and then, finally, releasing a torrent of backed-up water – reminded me of watching Sky Atlantic’s The White Lotus, Mike White’s feverishly stressful satire of modern capitalism.
“The bigger the front, the bigger the back.” Parker Posey, meanwhile, is one of those actors who has long had Big White Lotus Energy (others, in this category, for potential future castings: Marcia Gay Harden, Cynthia Nixon, Michael Stuhlbarg, David Hyde Pierce) and is always a delight.
And the presence of such a galaxy of stars allows White, the show’s sole writer and director, to perform a cup and balls routine, moving the pieces so fast that the eye is drawn from one drama to another – from divorce to fraud to incest to prostitution to burglary to murder – and you never know where the ball will end up.
At its heart, The White Lotus is two things: a great piece of writing and an even better exhibition of casting.
