The White Lotus Season 3 is set to premiere on Sunday, February 16, with a brand new cast and a fresh setting in Thailand. The ensemble cast, which includes Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Natasha Rothwell, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, Lalisa (aka Lisa of BLACKPINK), and Patrick Schwarzenegger, among others, will bring to life the complex lives of guests and employees at a luxurious resort over the course of a week.
Ahead of Mike White's show's highly anticipated premiere, critics have shared their initial reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and the response is overwhelmingly positive. With approximately 45 reviews posted so far, The White Lotus Season 3 has earned a Certified Fresh rating, boasting a 93% approval rate from critics.?
¡°A week in the life of vacationers is unraveled as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. With each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel's cheerful employees, and the idyllic locale itself,¡± the site's new season synopsis reads.
The White Lotus Season 3 is making all the waves, and critics are already sharing their first reviews. The consensus is the show is still going strong, with many praising its moody and darker tone, as well as its hilarious and incisive portrayal of the wealthy elite.
Some critics, meanwhile, added that this season is the least immediately gripping, but it still has the same level of engagement and enjoyment as the previous seasons. The cast, which includes Carrie Coon, Jason Isaacs, and Walton Goggins, is delivering complex and engaging performances that help to elevate their respective plotlines.
According to Lauren Sarner of the New York Post, "Despite Season 3's flaws, there's still a lot to like. The show's central premise of ¡°rich people's bad behaviour on vacation¡± amidst a lush backdrop¡ªwith a light murder mystery thrown in¡ªis still a winner."
Ben Travers of Indiewire notes that the season is effective in dismantling the characters' shallow values, and as he puts it, "It's an illusion worth shattering, and ¡°The White Lotus¡± Season 3 smashes each character's flimsy values in ways both hilarious and harrowing."
Caryn James of BBC.com observes that the season's pace is a bit slow, and as she says, "Like the credit sequence and the previous two installments, the rest of this very slow-burn season doesn't get to the danger nearly fast or vividly enough. A series should never move so slowly that it only begins to take off halfway through."
Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair comments that the season is still interesting but lacks the tight control and creativity of the previous seasons, saying, "It's all interesting, but the sense of tight control and inventiveness that made the previous two seasons such wonders is not quite there."
The Daily Beast praises the show, stating that "At its finest, it's an incisive portrait of class, wealth, power, and the push-pull between appearances and reality."
It's noteworthy that the show's Rotten Tomatoes score may change as more reviews are published. For comparison, Season 1 has a critic score of 90%, and Season 2 has a score of 94%. An audience score for Season 3 will be calculated once the episodes are available to the public this weekend.
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