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The White Lotus Season-Premiere Recap: No Man Is an Island


By now, we know what to expect from a stay at the White Lotus: class anxiety, a body count, and about a dozen recurring motifs to dissect.

Day ones will brim with aloha to see Natasha Rothwell returning to the role that nabbed her an Emmy nom, though, of course, it means the downtrodden spa manager of the White Lotus Maui is imperiled again. At some point, we’ll need to discuss how composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer followed up the season two theme that became a club banger with a song influenced by TikToks of people harmonizing with their cats. Chloe is a young and beautiful expat who dates a bald white guy or, as the locals call them, LBHs — a fun little acronym for “Losers Back Home.” It’s such a cliche that it wouldn’t be interesting except we’ve met this particular LBH before.

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