Receiving the “White Lotus” for the first time was like receiving a gift. You don’t come across such a witty, gentle, brutal and human series every day, not to mention the fact that it was also the television comeback of the great Mike White (his last time in the medium was almost a decade ago, with the cult series “Enlightened”). Provide drama, provide comedy, for a few moments almost a suspense series. For those who haven’t seen the first season (Run, now), it can be described as a kind of answer to the question “What would have happened if ‘The Heirs’ had done as sitcoms in the nineties did and descended into a special episode to Hawaii, only that the episode was six episodes, and everyone would shut up for a moment About business and talking only about feelings?” This is, more or less, the stuff that the first season of “The White Lotus” was made of: rich people misbehave with each other and poorer people at a luxury resort in Hawaii, and then the poor people misbehave, both with the rich and with each other. No one gets off clean at The White Lotus, which is such a complete and beautiful contrast to this polished and designed resort.
So as mentioned, we were happy. We were glad we got six episodes, with a very closed ending, we said thank you and to be honest, we weren’t sure we’d ever see her again. Last time we wrote about her like this: “‘The White Lotus’ is a series that is full of poetic and exciting moments of great beauty, and it is able to shit on them the moment after just to remind honestly that this is how it is, there is all the beauty and humanity and there is all the shit and emptiness and they dream in the same subjugation at any given moment, seducing each other in a way Unfathomable, like life and death itself. For a long time there hasn’t been a series that came to tell us such a story and force us to think. It’s just not something that series do. Audacity.”
And now, even though we don’t deserve it, we also get a second season, “The White Lotus: Sicily”, which brings back only two characters from the first season (those of the amazing Jennifer Coolidge and John Gris) and apart from that leaves us to deal with the whims of the cast The new one: Michael Imperioli (Christopher! Multisanti! from “The Sopranos”!), F. Murray Avraham, Aubrey Plaza (“Gardens and Landscape Department”) and much more. This time, as you can understand from the name, everyone is vacationing in Sicily, and as you can understand from the fact that this is the second season of “The White Lotus”, everyone is going to just hate each other in something like two episodes. We can’t wait anymore.
“The White Lotus” (HBO), Mondays in hot and yes