The White Lotus is back for season three at long last, and we are immediately in familiar whodunnit, or rather, whogotit, territory from the start.
In the White Lotus hotel in Thailand, we first see Zion (Nicholas Duvernay), the son of Belinda (Natasha Rothwell, who is the only returning cast member, from season one’s White Lotus in Hawaii), sat in the Lotus position with a Buddhist wellness guide encouraging him to silence his “chattering monkey brain,” – with all the monkeys around the resort, consider this a key metaphor for this season – when gunshots are heard.
