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The White Lotus Season 3 got here, noticed, felt very gradual at occasions, revealed some stunning deaths… after which shattered some data.
On Sunday evening, the third season finale drew 6.2 million viewers, a 30% bounce over the earlier sequence excessive… which was set at 4.8 million viewers simply seven days earlier.
Together with the rise from Episode 7, this finale’s viewers represented a 51% enhance from the Season 2 finale and a 158% enhance from the Season 3 premiere.
The present is a reputable hit.
In case you weren’t conscious, HBO has already given the inexperienced gentle to Season 4, an announcement that instantly prompted hypothesis from followers throughout the globe.
The White Lotus has already taken us to Hawaii. And Italy. And most lately Thailand.
The place would possibly we be headed subsequent?
Those that know creator Mike White properly have stated there’s no likelihood he takes the sequence wherever chilly; he simply doesn’t like that kind of atmosphere.
“For the fourth season, I want to get a little bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular but there’s always more room for more murders at the White Lotus hotels,” White stated on the finish of Season 3 in an interview with Deadline.
This identical outlet reported earlier this 12 months that the HBO drama was contemplating a 4 Seasons resort in Europe for its impending season.
A supply added that again then, nevertheless, that “everything is on the table for next season” and that no choice has been made.
Elsewhere, HBO Govt Vice President Francesca Orsi has additionally teased the place Season 4 might happen in a chat with Deadline in February.
“We’re going on some locations scouting in the next couple of weeks, so we’ll know soon,” Orsi stated. “I can’t really say where we’re going to land but chances are somewhere in Europe.”
In accordance with Deadline insiders, any scouting journey for the subsequent location has been pushed to summer season as a result of White wants a bit break after Season 3.
The man writes each episode. He has definitely earned it.
For these questioning, The 4 Seasons chain and HBO formalized their partnership earlier than Season 3 aired, that means it’s more and more seemingly Season 4 will additionally use a department of the resort.
The luxurious resort’s European areas embrace London, Paris, Geneva, Budapest, Athens, Madrid and Portugal. Simply one thing to consider it and marvel about.
Early on in Season 3, Govt Producer David Bernad previous The New York Put up about future episodes: “We haven’t gotten to it yet,” including:
“There’s a macro approach, which is ‘what’s a country that has a film community or local crew that also has a tax rebate that’s film friendly?’ We start in a broader sense, and each season has a larger theme.”
