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While the first season of “The White Lotus” awarded HBO presented a new turn in the design of the narrative “up, down” or “Gosford Park” between the rich and those who are not suffering to keep them happy, the following seasons without Doubt, I have proven to be even more ambitious, deepening the narration aimed at the characters than in any other television program. The / director Mike White includes the way in which other people lie to themselves and how the distractions of daily life can remain in disorders at a distance that rise to the surface when a sumptuous vacation force “relaxation. ” White’s ear for discussion and gift with the intensity of the characters, all in this program provide the impression of having a history, to the smallest role, are more clear than ever in what can be my favorite season of “The White Lotus “, which returns this weekend in HBO.
White’s skills obviously allow manufacturers of this exhibition to their casting, which leads to new artists every year, who do not have the launch of the talents that need to collaborate with El Blanco. Two of the maximum productive actors in the history of television enter “The White Lotus” in the third season, and join through a perfectly established set of veterans, characters and new faces. And everyone turns the scene of one of the magnificent parameters in the history of television, turned with an animated white visual language that will underestimate themselves while other people concentrate only in their writing and under the level of its director. He is a phenomenal creator, at all levels.
The third season of “The White Lotus” takes us to Thailand. It is a hotel on the beach through the beach like no other, which focuses on well -being while the monkeys climb the trees in a backdrop that can be a paint. Like The Popular Now, White opens with a mysterious series of imminent violence while they smile on the property. This is actually this time, White controlled to play with “Tchekhov’s Gunshot” throughout the season, with delicately weapons in history, asking us who will be fired. He also films his sumptuous frame in a way that feels disturbing, expanding the tension of his social comedy giving us the feeling that anything terrible can take place to one of those people, especially those who suspect him less.
Basically there are 4 passenger teams this season. The family role of the patriarch in difficulty traveling with his circle of relatives is filled through Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs), a businessman who discovers his life in the house collapses in legal surveys in a while after his arrival. He was dragged to Thailand through his daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), who needs to examine the faith there despite the protests of his flying mother, Victoria (Parker Posey). Timothy also has two children: the miserable Aggro Salet (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and the sweetest lochlan (Sam Nivola), which is constantly Bron Bro almost good with his sexual discourse and his protein smoothies.
In the station boat, Timothy is without a boring delay through Rick (Walton Goggins) in the way in which self -domening alpha men are from others. Rick is there with his much more youthful girlfriend, much younger Chelsea (the right fair Aimee Lou Wood, without a doubt MVP season), who thinks they are there for fun, but his boy has some other purpose in Thailand that will shape to The season.
There is a brilliantly written trio of old friends named Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan), Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Laurie (Carrie Coon). Jaclyn is a television star and one of the other people with maintenance who use their prestige even in their organization of friends. Laurie is that lately in difficulty in life, and Jaclyn and Kate passively ensure that he remembers it. The dynamic among those 3 characters is so brilliant written that I could have seen them talk for hours. It is useful to have a TV legend as coon, but Bibb & Monaghan La Asocia, the 3 housed through some of the most productive dialogues of television.
Finally, in terms of home owners outside, there is a return from Belinda to the season of a (Natasha Rothwell) to have informed techniques to bring back to her station in Maui. When Belinda is informed the complex and flirts with her counterpart there, Rothwell is phenomenal. But (in a way that I cannot and would not spoil), it is brought back in stories formed through season one and two that can look like a plane in the plot, a legal responsibility that White is forced to Return to the macabre in the new ones, and the only weakness anywhere in this season. “The White Lotus” has become a good fortune that I would like to see a fourth season surely without any link with what came here apart from Thematic and the hotel that provides a name.
Of course, there are also White Lotus personnel, led by Thapthimthong Tayy as Gaitok, a security guard who uneartments after a flight and an adorable romance with an employee touched in Blackpink singer, Lalisa Manobal. Christian Friedel of “The Zone of Interest” plays a holiday director; Lek Patravadi is one of the owners; Charlotte Le Bon is wonderful as an earlier style that is linked to Chelsea with listed boyfriends.
As in the maximum of the “The White Lotus” stations, those are faces and arches of Guyy to follow, but you never miss in White’s writing, which is still as intelligent as any program TV. This season in the location and well -being of which the creator deepens the way in which other people shape all their personality around things that highlights a program like that of Lotus White. For a type like Timothy Ratiff, who is it if you take away the phone and work? For a star like Jaclyn, who has no enthusiasts or her boyfriend who goes, especially if her friends see each turn? No one is better in the white lotus, but no one is irremediable either, because white does not even sympathize and interest in its most abrasive characters such as Timothy, Rick and the really terrible salet.
Finally, this season of “The White Lotus” will probably be the maximum visually striking drama you are seeing this year. White takes the complete merit of its frame in a way that provides life in a way that even the last two magnificent parameters have not produced. The way in which he builds his episodes, not only narratively but visually, is undoubtedly without a couple on television at this time. In a way, discover a way of capturing the opulence and good aspect of Thailand, while it never wasted the realism of the stories it tells there. It is a balance between good appearance and humanity. Of course, the screen comes alive where they are.
Six projected episodes for exam. First in HBO on February 16.
Brian Tallero is the editor in chief of Rogerebert. com and also covers television, cinema, Blu-ray and video games. It is also a vulture, the reproduction list, the New York Times and GQ and the president of the Chicago Film Critics Association.