Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Gunfire is echoing around the meditation huts; bodies are floating in the reflecting ponds. Welcome back to The White Lotus, where every booking will soon have to come with a complementary body bag.The third season of Mike White\u2019s savagely funny, lavishly executed anthology \u2014 set across the various outposts of a luxury hotel brand \u2014 exchanges the old-world Sicilian decadence of the previous series for a new age Thai resort, but it begins, just as before, with a flash-forward glimpse of paradise being lost. The murder mystery element is still secondary to the emotional violence, however: back-stabbing, barbed comments and ruptured relationships that no amount of \u201ckarmic realignment therapy\u201d can heal.\u00a0All this awaits the guests who arrive for a week of digital detoxing \u2014 or poolside boozing. Doing their share of the latter is a trio of forty-something women, who are determinedly not on a \u201cmidlife crisis trip\u201d. What initially seems like a chance for old friends to catch up \u2014 paid for by TV star Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) \u2014\u00a0quickly turns into an opportunity to put each other down in subtle ways. \u201cEverything you do is so hard,\u201d divorcee Laurie (Carrie Coon) is told. She, in turn, later mocks Jaclyn\u2019s \u201cwaxy\u201d appearance with Kate (Leslie Bibb), whose new life as Trump-voting Texas housewife also becomes fodder for late-night gossiping.While the three friends compete for the attention of a yoga instructor, bright-eyed Mancunian Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) struggles to get her own much older boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins) to take notice of her. Perhaps the least relaxed man ever to wear a Hawaiian shirt, he is irritable and evasive, except during grudgingly attended therapy sessions with an on-site guru.\u00a0Across the breakfast terrace, Victoria Ratliff (Parker Posey filling the Jennifer Coolidge-shaped void) takes a more pharmaceutical approach. She has been dragged to this strange land by her Buddhism-practising daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), who\u2019s eager to see the world beyond the country club. But that life may not be waiting for them when they get back. Unbeknown to the rest of the family \u2014 which includes obnoxious gym bro Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and his impressionable little brother Loch (Sam Nivola) \u2014 upstanding patriarch Tim (Jason Isaacs) is wanted by the FBI for financial misdeeds and may be heading straight from The White Lotus to white-collar prison.\u00a0If writer-director White revels in puncturing the pride and illusions of the privileged, then he also makes sure his skewer cuts through fully fleshed-out characters. Each arrives at the hotel with personal baggage that is unpacked over a series that interlaces several storylines, but also runs a thread back to season one, with the return of Natasha Rothwell\u2019s masseuse Belinda (in Thailand on an exchange from the Hawaii branch). Each also plays their part in this season\u2019s broader story. Where class and sex previously dominated, the show now grapples with spirituality and self-discovery \u2014 while also satirising how fetishised concepts such as \u201cenlightenment\u201d are commercialised for westerners visiting Asia.The White Lotus now has a certain reputation to uphold and, like a seasoned hotelier, White ensures that every expectation is met. Those accustomed to its style, subtlety and commitment to delivering moments of intense discomfort will not be disappointed.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606On Sky Atlantic and Now in the UK from February 17 at 9pm, with new episodes weekly. On HBO and Max in the US<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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