Mike White Suggests and Asia-Set for ‘Death and Eastern Religion’
Mike White makes an allusion to Season 3 perhaps taking place in Asia and focusing on “death and Eastern religious and spirituality” in the “Unpacking S2 E7” short that appears at the of the Season 2 finale.
Mike White Suggestions an Asia-Set Season 3 Centered on “Death and Eastern Religion” in “The White Lotus”
The first season sort of focused on money, but the second season was all about sex, according to White. The third season, in my opinion, might take a satirical and humorous look at death as well as Eastern spirituality and faith. Doing multiple rounds at White Lotus sounds like it may be a rich tapestry.
Although Season 2 of “The White Lotus” has just ended, creator Mike White is already planning Season 3.
Even before Season 2 launch of the show, White told Deadline that he thought it may be fascinating to travel to a completely different continent and expressed his desire for a third season set in Asia. We completed Europe, and perhaps Asia as well; that kind of insane activity would be entertaining.
The third season’s specific setting may have been hinted at in one particular scene from the Season 2 finale.
Cameron (Theo James), Harper (Aubrey Plaza), Daphne (Meghann Fahy), and Ethan (Will Sharpe) are having their final supper there at White Lotus in Sicily when Daphne adds, “Next year, the Maldives!” to the toast to friendship.
In the session, White also discuss Tanya’s (Coolidge) stunning demise in the season finale, stating, “In the final episode of the previous season, Tanya and Greg are sitting together, and Greg is discussing his health problems. And she continues, “Death is the last intense experience I haven’t doing. I’ve tried every form of treatment throughout the years.” Since Tanya is such a wonderful character, White adds,
“I was thinking, it’d be such fun to bring her back. However, perhaps that is her path—a voyage to death.
We’re going to Italy, Tanya is such a diva and a larger-than-life female archetype. That it seemed like we could come up with our own operatic finale to Tanya’s life and her tale. However, I didn’t actually want to kill Tanya even though I adore her as a personality and, obviously, love Jennifer.
White stated that he feeling Tanya’s death “at the hands of another individual looks too terrible.” and that Tanya “ought to give her greatest fight back but that she, in such a way, achieved some kind of success against whatever was attempting to overcome of her.”
“It just made me giggle to thinking she would just like wipe out this conspiracy of killers as well as. Once she succeeds in doing that, she basically dies this derpy end,” he continues. “It just felt like it’s just so Tanya.”
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