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The White Lotus Season 3 got here, noticed, felt very sluggish at instances, revealed some surprising 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 reliable hit.
In case you weren’t conscious, HBO has already given the inexperienced mild 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 need to get a bit bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular however there’s all the time extra room for extra murders on the White Lotus lodges,” White stated on the finish of Season 3 in an interview with Deadline.
This similar outlet reported earlier this yr that the HBO drama was contemplating a 4 Seasons lodge in Europe for its impending season.
A supply added that again then, nevertheless, that “every thing is on the desk for subsequent season” and that no determination has been made.
Elsewhere, HBO Government Vice President Francesca Orsi has additionally teased the place Season 4 might happen in a chat with Deadline in February.
“We’re happening some areas scouting within the subsequent couple of weeks, so we’ll know quickly,” Orsi stated. “I can’t actually say the place we’re going to land however likelihood is someplace 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 doubtless Season 4 will additionally use a department of the resort.
The luxurious resort’s European areas embody London, Paris, Geneva, Budapest, Athens, Madrid and Portugal. Simply one thing to consider it and surprise about.
Early on in Season 3, Government Producer David Bernad previous The New York Submit about future episodes: “We haven’t gotten to it but,” including:
“There’s a macro strategy, which is ‘what’s a rustic that has a movie neighborhood or native crew that additionally has a tax rebate that’s movie pleasant?’ We begin in a broader sense, and every season has a bigger theme.”
