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The White Lotus Season 3 got here, noticed, felt very sluggish at occasions, revealed some surprising deaths… after which shattered some data.
On Sunday evening, the third season finale drew 6.2 million viewers, a 30% soar 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 official 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 mentioned there’s no likelihood he takes the sequence anyplace chilly; he simply doesn’t like that kind of atmosphere.
“For the fourth season, I wish to get somewhat bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular however there’s at all times extra room for extra murders on the White Lotus inns,” White said at the end of Season 3 in an interview with Deadline.
This similar 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, nonetheless, that “all the pieces is on the desk for subsequent 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 happening some places scouting within the subsequent couple of weeks, so we’ll know quickly,” Orsi mentioned. “I can’t actually say the place we’re going to land however likelihood is someplace in Europe.”
In keeping with Deadline insiders, any scouting journey for the subsequent location has been pushed to summer season as a result of White wants somewhat break after Season 3.
The man writes each episode. He has actually 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 posh resort’s European places embrace London, Paris, Geneva, Budapest, Athens, Madrid and Portugal. Simply one thing to consider it and surprise about.
Early on in Season 3, Govt Producer David Bernad previous The New York Publish about future episodes: “We haven’t gotten to it but,” including:
“There’s a macro method, 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.”
