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‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Is Extra Ambitious, but Gets Off to a Slow Start: TV Review
Season 3 of the HBO anthology, set in Thailand, is the most ambitious yet — but gets off to a slow start.
Sweetest — and, given how this show tends to reward sincerity, most troubling — of all is the flirtation between gate attendant Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) and his coworker Mook (Lalisa Manoban, of the K-pop girl group Blackpink), who nudges her affable, mild-mannered work friend to want more for himself. She’s on an internal exchange program to learn some tricks of the trade from Thai colleagues, but on a structural level, Belinda works to extend the master narrative that keeps “The White Lotus” from becoming a string of atomized excursions — or, in the eyes of the Emmy awards, a true anthology. While the audience waits for the bigger picture to coalesce, though, “The White Lotus” offers a delicious amuse bouche in the female trio: an aging actress (Monaghan), Texas housewife (Bibb) and freshly divorced attorney (Coon) whose frothy banter rapidly deteriorates into backbiting and old grievances.
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