White Lotus does Thailand dirty

By Andrew Russell, Lecturer, Faculty of Creative & Cultural Industries, University of Portsmouth

Did you hear? There’s been another murder at a White Lotus hotel, this time the one in Thailand.

Back for its third season, Mike White’s critically acclaimed and Emmy award-winning tragi-comedy series follows the terrible exploits of the White Lotus’s rich, primarily white holidaymakers, alongside the local employees.

There is social satire, a lot of drama and always a death in paradise. In the first season there was death in Hawaii; the second in Sicily, Italy, and now, in the third, there’s death in Koh Samui.

As someone who has researched on screen representations…

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