Concealed behind the alluring scenery of Hawaii and Italy, ‘The White Lotus’ has promptly served us all our vice and flaws on a silver platter. Delicious! Yet, we couldn’t help but watch the series – what am I saying, binge-watch it – with gullible smiles on our faces. The protagonists of the show were the infamous lotus-eaters, those who bask in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns. Sounds familiar? To quote the ruthless Harper Spiller played by queen Aubrey Plaza in ‘The White Lotus’ 2, “we’re all entertaining each other while the world burns.” 

After a long and agonizing wait, it seems that the third (and last?) hypnotic location has been revealed. According to Variety, multiple sources close to the production reportedly told them that Season 3 will be set in (drum roll, please) Thailand. After having been a guest of the Four Seasons resorts in Hawaii and Sicily, creator Mike White will most likely go back to the luxury hotel company, especially given the fact there is an ample amount of settings to choose from. Thailand’s Four Seasons hotels offer a venue for every mood. Feeling grumpy? Try the beach. Stuffy? You might want to book a room in the jungle. Prodigal? The lavish city is what you’re looking for. 

So sad our Tanya, played by a phenomenal Jennifer Coolidge – known for her unpredictable mood swings – is not going to be present to guide us from one resort to another. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from ‘The White Lotus’ is that anything can happen. Look at our lovely Tanya. One day you are grateful to have found your gang of “high-end gays”, and the next day you find out they are, in fact, a cabal of high-end gay while you scream “These gays! They’re trying to murder me!” And again, one day you are planning a moving ritual to spread your mother’s ashes in the crystal clear waters of Hawaii, only to realize that “Oh my god, am I feeding my mother to the fishes?”

This is to say that I wouldn’t be surprised if ‘The White Lotus’ gave us some after-life epiphany and Tanya was, somehow, still around. After all, White himself said that, after a reflection on money in Season 1 and sex in Season 2, “I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality.” In other words, a sort of gentrified Dante’s Hell where opulence is delusive and mirrors are mischievous. I can already hear from afar: “mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the vilest of them all?”