‘The White Lotus’: Mike White Hints at Asia-Set Season 3 Focused on ‘Death and Eastern Religion’ - Variety

SPOILER ALERT: This nonfiction contains spoilers up done Episode 7 of “The White Lotus,” airing Sundays connected HBO and streaming connected HBO Max.

“The White Lotus” conscionable wrapped up its 2nd season, but creator Mike White already has his eyes acceptable connected Season 3.

In the “Unpacking S2 E7” clip pegged astatine the extremity of the Season 2 finale, White hints that Season 3 whitethorn instrumentality spot successful Asia and absorption connected “death and Eastern religion and spirituality.”

“The archetypal play benignant of highlighted money, and past the 2nd play is sex,” White said. “I deliberation the 3rd play would beryllium possibly a satirical and comic look astatine decease and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels similar it could beryllium a affluent tapestry to bash different circular astatine White Lotus.”

White has antecedently indicated that he’d privation an Asia-set 3rd season, telling Deadline earlier the Season 2 premiere, “I deliberation it’d beryllium amusive to possibly spell to a full antithetic continent. You know, we did Europe, and possibly Asia, thing brainsick similar that, that would beryllium fun.”

One infinitesimal successful the Season 2 finale mightiness constituent astatine the nonstop determination of the 3rd season, too. As Ethan (Will Sharpe), Harper (Aubrey Plaza), Cameron (Theo James) and Daphne (Meghann Fahy) devour their last meal astatine the White Lotus successful Sicily, Cameron makes a toast to friendship, and Daphne chimes in: “Next year, the Maldives!”

In the segment, White besides unpacked Tanya’s (Coolidge) shocking decease successful the finale, saying, “In the extremity of past season, Tanya is sitting with Greg successful the past occurrence and he’s talking astir his wellness issues. And she says, ‘I’ve had each benignant of attraction implicit the years, decease is the past immersive acquisition I haven’t tried.'”

White continued, “I was thinking, it’d beryllium truthful amusive to bring Tanya backmost due to the fact that she’s specified a large character, but possibly that’s the travel for her, a travel to death. Not that I truly wanted to termination Tanya due to the fact that I emotion her arsenic a quality and evidently emotion Jennifer, but I conscionable felt like, we’re going to Italy, she’s specified a diva — a larger than beingness pistillate archetype — it felt similar we could devise our ain operatic decision to Tanya’s beingness and her story.”

White said helium thought Tanya dying “at the hands of idiosyncratic other felt excessively tragic,” and that Tanya “needed to springiness her champion combat backmost and that she, successful a way, had immoderate benignant of triumph implicit whoever was conspiring to get escaped of her.”

“It conscionable made maine laughter to deliberation she would similar instrumentality retired this cabal of killers and, aft she successfully does that, she conscionable dies this derpy death, and it conscionable felt similar that’s conscionable truthful Tanya,” helium added.

As acold arsenic Greg (Jon Gries) and Quentin’s (Tom Hollander) conspiracy to termination Tanya, White said, “It’s imaginable that Portia [Haley Lu Richardson] is frightened capable to conscionable permission it alone, but the information that each of those guys dice connected the boat, it feels similar there’s gotta beryllium idiosyncratic who’s gonna way it down to Greg. But possibly you’ll person to hold to find retired what happens.”

Watch the full featurette connected HBO Max.