What started as a Covid-era experiment to maneuver via tight filming restrictions has lavishly unfolded into a global cultural touchstone: The White Lotus is, surely, among the many most buzzed-about tv sequence of our time. Produced by HBO and streaming on Max, the present is written and directed by Mike White and takes place in a fictional luxurious resort over the span of 1 tension-fueled week of trip. Each seasons one and two adopted a parallel storyline construction: the opening scene teases a loss of life—human stays loaded onto a airplane; a floating physique within the Ionian sea—with revelations to be unveiled within the dramatic finale. What ensues between these salacious bookends is, nicely, fascinating.

However past its titillating whodunnit reveal, The White Lotus is acclaimed for its whip-smart character research that study privilege and energy dynamics, whether or not that’s via the lens of cash, intercourse, or within the case of the upcoming third installment—spirituality. “[The next season] might be a satirical and humorous have a look at loss of life and Jap faith and spirituality,” White stated in a behind-the-scenes video launched after final season’s finale. The present confirmed it started filming in Thailand in mid-February with an Instagram put up exhibiting a clapboard in entrance of a lush seaside jungle, setting the stage for its infamous vacationers to verify in.

(The season three solid consists of Parker Posey, Michelle Monaghan, Jason Isaacs, Leslie Bibb, Tayme Thapthimthong, Dom Hetrakul, Carrie Coon, Morgana O’Reilly, Lek Patravadi, Shalini Peiris, Walton Goggins, Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Francesca Corney, Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Aimee Lou Wooden, and most not too long ago introduced: Blackpink’s Lisa.)

Web sleuths have been fast to invest which properties the sequence will happen inside. If you happen to’ll recall, each season one and two had been filmed at 4 Seasons areas (4 Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea in Hawai’i and 4 Seasons San Domenico Palace in Sicily, respectively), and there are 4 resorts in Thailand that fall underneath the 4 Seasons umbrella. After months of hypothesis, it’s now reported that the 4 Seasons Koh Samui is a filming location, in addition to a second lodge in Phuket, Anantara Mai Khao Villas.