White Lotus

The Oct. 30 season two premiere of HBO's The White Lotus revealed that the luxury hotel faced "a few" unexpected deaths. Vote for who you think didn't ...

[Jennifer Coolidge](https://www.eonline.com/news/1342463/see-jennifer-coolidge-and-more-check-into-the-white-lotus-for-season-2)'s Tanya McQuoid made it through the week away unharmed. Murray Abraham), who are also staying at the White Lotus, pass while Dominic is out connecting with the locals. If we were making bets, we'd say that guest Dominic (Michael Imperioli) is likely to be among the deceased. It was too fast to confirm, but we think we know what the back of Theo James' head looks like. (Shout out to season one's Armond.) We have a feeling Cameron does come out unscathed, especially since after Daphne found the dead body, she ran into the arms of a man that looked somewhat like her spouse.

It's our guests' first day at the resort, and already infidelity and debauchery are afoot. A recap of 'Ciao,' the season 2 premiere episode of Mike White's ...

Mistaking her as a prostitute, he asks how much she is and says he just needs to be home by midnight — and Mia throws a drink on him. She loves that he’s from Los Angeles, a place that she dreams of going to, but Dominic is uninterested in making conversation, and tells her as much. As our guests’ first day at the resort has been playing out, Valentina has been playing a game of cat and mouse with two locals, Lucia and Mia, intent on sneaking into the hotel so Lucia can meet up with an American man she met online. As she rummages in the bathroom, he undresses behind her to change, fully visible in the mirror. But in the middle of having sex, we see flashes of a teste di moro vase, and she throws him off of her. 50 is not that old,” he says, now on the receiving end of the same judgment he was just dishing out. But the real chasm between the two couples is best illustrated when Harper mentions that everything going on in the world makes it hard to sleep. When she goes to proudly show them to him, she discovers him locked in the bathroom whispering on the phone — a work call, he assures her. Harper is particularly unable to hide her disdain for the privileged duo, but promises Ethan that she’ll make an effort — even though she’s convinced that they were invited on the trip for some kind of proposition, business or otherwise. We meet a multigenerational Italian American family of three men, a mismatched pair of married couples, and the returning Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge), this time with her assistant in tow. Why is Portia on the trip in the first place? Just when we think that elderly Bert is the deviant of the family, we see that Dominic’s no saint either when he calls to check in on his (presumably) ex-wife, who has zero interest in talking to him.

Will Sharpe offers his theory on why his character Ethan would reunite with an old college friend he never seemed to like much in the first place.

I felt like I almost had to remind myself on a daily basis that that's not a hologram, that really is a volcano. We’d all gone to a place that we wouldn't normally be in order to play characters who have gone on vacation to a place they wouldn't normally be. And I think I kind of just assumed it was some kind of terrible mistake that they made. As Sharpe puts it, “I felt like I had to remind myself on a daily basis that that's not a hologram, that really is a volcano.” I mean, I was a fan of the show, um, and a fan of Mike White. On this week’s Still Watching podcast, Richard and his co-host Chris Murphy kick off a new season and discuss this return to the world of The White Lotus, from the marital challenges already facing Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya to, yes, speculating about whose dead body is found in the show’s opening flash-forward.

There are many of us who thought it was (is!) a fool's errand to try to follow up the wickedly delicious first season of Mike White's Emmy-winning series ...

(What was Armond’s story if not a cautionary tale about how to navigate masculinity as a gay man who works in a place that demands he cower toward men who get off on the authority they lord over those like him?) Three generations of Italian-American men get to stand in for new ways of being a man—a single man at that. But I will say this about this latest White sojourn: His eye and ear for how privileged folks move through the world continue to be unmatched, especially within the trappings of a very funny black comedy that looks and sounds as sumptuous as its titular hotel. Rounding out the ensemble is a trio of men (grandfather, father, and son, at that) who are there on a trek to visit Bert’s (F. So, let’s get to this year’s guests, a slew of couples who may not heed the moral of the story at the heart of that Sicilian legend: There’s Harper and Ethan (Aubrey Plaza and Will Sharpe), who are traveling with Cameron and Daphne (Theo James and Meghann Fahy). (Yes, just like last year, it seems The White Lotus has a body count!) But, just like last year, we may spend less time trying to figure who (and why they) died than trying to follow the many interpersonal dramas White has cooked up for us this time around. [Enlightened](https://www.avclub.com/tv/reviews/enlightened) continues to be fascinated by the ways in which our everyday lives can become prisons of our own making.

'White Lotus' creator Mike White and star Meghann Fahy discuss those 'Survivor' cameos in the season 2 premiere.

I had finished the season by the time we shot the scene with the two girls, but I was watching it while we were shooting the rest of the season so I would go up to the set and I'd be like, "I just watched this episode last night. When I first read the pilot and I saw that was the first scene, the opening of the season, I just thought, "Holy s---. Over the course of a week, they manage to antagonize various hotel workers, rip band-aids off their personal wounds, and spend a lot of time thinking about sex and death. It really is like Survivor and I need to beg, "Don't vote me off the island." And I had so many questions. My whole family watched the first season and they are just beside themselves. MEGHANN FAHY: That was the most exciting component, because I had watched that whole season of Survivor when I got to Italy. The premiere then jumps back a week as Daphne and the rest of the guests arrive to The White Lotus, unaware of what's about to unfold for them all. Just getting them out to Sicily — I mean, Angelina is about to have a baby in like five days. Goliath](https://ew.com/recap/survivor-david-vs-goliath-season-finale-winner/) cast members [Mike White](https://ew.com/person/mike-white/), [Angelina Keeley](https://ew.com/tv/2018/12/20/survivor-david-vs-goliath-angelina-keeley-finale/), and [Kara Kay](https://ew.com/person/mike-white/https://ew.com/tv/2018/12/20/survivor-david-vs-goliath-kara-kay-finale/) reunited on a beach four years after they battled one another for $1 million on the CBS reality show. Backstage I was like, "Oh s---, I won again? She takes a dip in the ocean, but her tranquil swim is ruined almost immediately when something brushes against her in the water, and she's horrified to realize it's a dead body.

Travel workers share horror stories about the type of rich guests featured on-screen in "The White Lotus," Bravo's "Below Deck" and "Triangle of Sadness."

[Pet-friendly additions](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/11/09/airbnb-pet-allowed/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_30) [Mexico shooting](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/01/27/playa-del-carmen-manager-shot/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_26) [Australia reopens](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/02/22/australia-reopen-borders/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_24) Disney](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/22/florida-disney-reedy-creek-desantis/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_18) [Disney prices](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/03/07/disney-world-disneyland-ticket-prices-fees/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_23) [Disney boycott](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/18/disney-boycott-theme-parks-lgbtq/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_19) [Texas, Florida travel ban](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/08/la-ban-travel-florida-texas/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_20) [Wheelchair damage](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/06/07/wheelchair-scooter-damage-airplane-flights/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_17) [CDC travel advisories](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/18/cdc-travel-warning-high-risk/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_5) [Disruptive behavior](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2021/06/11/flights-mask-incidents-faa-fines/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_16) [Entry test rules](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/12/us-travel-testing-requirement-covid/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_3) [Mask advice](https://www.washingtonpost.com/travel/2022/04/19/mask-plane-covid-health-experts/?itid=lb_more-travel-news_1)

Chaos was unleashed when a body was found floating in the water near the luxury resort, The White Lotus, in Sicily. Valentina, the hotel manager, who was.

Greg closed the door in her face, and she was left with the two macarons in her hand. She was in love with him, but he had to return to his wife and children. A Moor (during the Moors’ influence in Sicily) expressed his love for a local girl, and she reciprocated his feelings. Tanya was a loyal client of White Lotus; she was proud of the fact that she was now a Blossom member of the resort. She had always dreamt of spending her time in Sicily with a hot Italian guy, but here she was, forced to stay in her room. She was rather a little annoyed by the fact that her husband, Greg, was not responding to her texts. When Harper went to her room with Cameron to hand him one of Evan’s shorts, she saw him change his clothes right in the middle of the room. Mia was rather shy; she was a musician and loved a boy who did not treat her well. He walked away to the washroom, criticizing Tanya for eating all the macarons and champagne. She was talking to her mother over the phone, expressing how much she hated her job. They did not bicker over what to order for dinner as he and Harper did; they were always in sync. Cameron and Daphne laughed off Harper’s fear of the end of the world.

In the new season of HBO's The White Lotus, the rich have wandering eyes and intimate desires—and their wallets can satisfy only so much.

“I do what I want,” one character explains deep into the season about putting up with their partner’s habit of cheating, “so I’m not resentful.” In the end, the show suggests, everyone is alone. White seems to take particular pleasure in illustrating the passive aggression flowing between the pair of married couples: Cameron is a model of machismo, Daphne is the daffy housewife who may or may not have voted in the last election, and Harper believes she sees right through them. Murray Abraham), dad Dominic (Michael Imperioli), and son Albie (Adam DiMarco)—who are ostensibly visiting the small town their family’s from but who are each distracted by love interests and sexual prospects. They’re giving much of their wealth to charities, because, she boasts, they’re “not materialistic.” And yet, Cameron and Daphne seem so chic, so in love. And there are sojourns away from the resort itself, placing the wealthy characters in new contexts, aboard yachts and in rented palazzos. They’re traveling with the finance bro Cameron (Theo James) and his cheery wife, Daphne (Meghann Fahy), who seem to live an Instagram-perfect life of vacations and not reading the news. There’s Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Ethan (Will Sharpe), a newly rich couple thanks to Ethan’s start-up, who are just getting their bearings on the tax bracket they’ve recently entered. Even Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), the lone leading character to return from the preceding season, is horny: She’s now married to Greg (Jon Gries), whom she met back in Hawaii, but their relationship has soured, and she’s desperate to keep his interest. Money plays a constant role, an elephant in the bedroom. Created by Mike White, The White Lotus became an unexpected hit for the way its first season skewered the wealthiest of the wealthy by combining absurd humor with sharp commentary on colonialism, racial politics, and class. Down at the toe of Italy’s boot, lust hangs in the air. As a receptionist informs the newly arrived guests in the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus, the objects represent a tragic folktale: When Sicily was occupied by the Moors centuries ago, a young Moorish man seduced a Sicilian girl, but after she learned that he had a family back home, she beheaded him and used his skull as a vase.

La première saison de la série tragi-comique "The White Lotus" a remporté récemment dix Emmy Awards, dont celui de la meilleure bande originale.

C’est ce qu’il fait pour la bande originale de la série "Hunters", avec Al Pacino en tête d’affiche, et pour les compositions de la mini-série fantastique "The Third Day", avec Jude Law et Emily Watson. Le compositeur, qui a remporté deux Emmy Awards avec son travail sur la première saison, nous promet pour celle-ci des influences de musique italienne, du classique et de l’opéra. >> A découvrir: "Tree of Life", extrait de la B.O. En 2016, il met en musique son premier projet de cinéma, "The Girl With All The Gifts", un récit de science-fiction dont la première mondiale a lieu au Festival de Locarno. , le titre principal de la bande originale de "The White Lotus" Le résultat, qui évoque les débuts de la musique électronique, est à la fois familier et étrange.

Theo James broke the internet with his penis scene in The White Lotus season 2 premiere. Listen to this article. Loading audio... Theo James has opened up ...

While Theo is yet to reveal if he used a prosthetic for the scene or not, he did tease that the scene will play a larger part in the season. [Entertainment Tonight](https://www.etonline.com/the-white-lotus-season-2-theo-james-on-why-they-toned-down-his-nude-scene-exclusive-193121) about the nude scene, Theo joked: "It is in my contract that I'm not allowed to do anything without being completely naked." Fans of Theo will already know that the actor recently had multiple nude scenes in HBO's The Time Traveler's Wife. Last night (Oct 30), The White Lotus season 2 debuted on HBO, and it wasn't long before a nude scene starring Theo James broke the internet. but it’s also, [White Lotus creator Mike White], as in season 1, his nudity is always very specific." In one scene, Ethan borrows a pair of trunks from Ethan while Harper is fetching sun cream from her bathroom.

According to the actor, he's going to be baring a lot more this season.

She was previously a reporter/producer at Decider and is a member of the Television Critics Association. Jade Budowski is a freelance writer with a knack for ruining punchlines and harboring dad-aged celebrity crushes. "But it reveals itself." "The initial version we shot was way too much. Viewers of the HBO series were anything but shy when it came to sharing their opinions about James' first full-frontal scene, posting their reactions on Twitter. "It's interesting, [because] at first…