‘The White Lotus’ season 4 will take place in France!

They need to bring back Jennifer Coolidge. Season 3 suffered greatly without her.

Yawn - not very exotic

Oy vey—Villefranche sur Mer is our happy place. Don’t ruin it!

R1 She’s dead. And she was the most annoying character on season 2.

Tanya is dead. Move on.

And who said the show has to always be “exotic”? France is an amazing setting for rich white assholes.

Murders at the Rue Morgue.

Amazing that these White Lotus resorts are still so popular with rich assholes, what with all the people getting fucking murdered at them.

I thought that they should tweak the original formula a bit. For example, set it on a grand tour of Europe by some wealthy Americans in the late 19th century.

The Gilded Lotus?

WTF? No

Merde.

The whole point is to critique modern wealth. Guess there could be some interesting friction between the guests and rude Frenchies?

If Isabelle Adjani isn't cast for this season, Mike White will be dead to me!

Please don't bring back the two annoying nepos from season three.

I read it will probably take place in either Paris, The French Riviera or the French Alps.

Paris would be pretty out of the ordinary for this show- very urban. I think the alps are out of the question bc, as the article itself states, Mike White hates the snow. I think that leaves the French Riviera. I’m surprised there hasn’t been a WL set in Latin America yet.

I think this is a good move. How many more tropical prints can we bear to see in those costumes?

I'll bet they'll try and get that actress with the big nose who made such a splash in Call My Agent! And Jean DuJardin, or whatever his name is.

There’s nothing nearby that hotel…which means they will shoot around the area —Cagnes sur Mer, Nice, SPV, Monte Carlo and Cannes. That… sucks for the regulars

I wonder if any of the previous cast members will be back.

How lame.

They just did Italy two seasons ago.

He missed an actual opportunity for Latin America, the South Pacific, or Africa.

And instead we're getting.... exotic France.

Mmmkay. What tired 1980s American vs. French tropes will we get?

French actors have no problem with nudity. Here’s hoping for real penises next season.

Isn't part of the White Lotus the big huge disconnect between privileged westerners and the exotic culture they find themselves in?

How does France fit into that?

Neither Maui nor Sicily are “exotic”. LOL

R23, Hawaii is.

I dunno.. the whole American vs. French culture. It just reeks of the 1960s.

[quote] How lame.

[quote]They just did Italy two seasons ago.

You do realize those are two different countries, with different languages, different customs, and different cultures?

There's a place in France where the naked ladies dance...

R26, I am part of one of those two cultures.

Fucking lame.

Did you know they eat snails in France?!

Maui is not exotic by any stretch. It’s as American as Florida or Maine or…name 47 other states.

R30, to Europe, Asia, and the rest of the world?

Yes, Maui is exotic.

If her could get Huppert as the hotel manager it would be absolutely amazing.

Your nutz—macadamia level nutz

R30, but I am sure 'Le FRANCE" is exotic to you, no?

No—since I go there every summer. Too funny

There’s a place in France where they don’t wear pants.

They just wear grass to cover their ass.

R35, exactly.

And France is exotic to whom?

Ask the guy who thinks Maui is exotic. Leave me out of it.

We know that every season focused on a different big idea/theme, with the overarching theme being the haves vs have nots. S1 was about the legacy of colonialism/ privilege S2 was sexual politics. S3 was ostensibly about death and spirituality. Given S4 being located in France, what possible big ideas do you think White is trying to hash out here? Political/cultural rifts between the US and the EU? Immigrants from third world countries trying to make a better life in Europe? Old money vs new money?

I want it to be in the Alps.

They can discover a previously frozen corpse like in 45 YEARS, have someone abandon his family during an avalanche like in FORCE MAJEURE and someone else fall off a cliff and have amnesia like in the Lindsay Lohan Christmas movie on Netflix.

It needs to be an all-musical season set in Cherbourg.

I just saw Parker Posey in a Hyandia commercial. Walter Groggins has been in dozens of commercials since last season. Jennifer Coolidge has made millions with her commercials. Patrick S. Is now a star.

This show is a total career changer.

French Riviera could be fun. I’m thinking of Michael Caine in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels kind of vibe

There has to be water or it will fail.

Will there be homosex or incest? If not, I'm not watching!

France is sooo lame.

They filmed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels there, so it’s already been tarnished.

I stayed there. It was lovely.

White needs to get Benjamin Voisin on this project. He'll show his toosh, trust.

Le France! So exotic.

Camille Cottin would be nice as well.

r49 It's LA France, bigot. She's a she.

R51, I am curious in what state of mind Mike White was in that he thought France was the next place to go?

r52 Where else would he go after Norway refused to cough up enough incentives? They're filthy rich, their film and TV industry is collapsing, but they couldn't patronise this show? I'm not the biggest fan of these incentives in principle because they're a race to the bottom, but come on, this would have been a sweet deal.

I still maintain they should go to Africa- the Savannah, wild animals + his love for monkeys, and racial politics. Get some hunky black guys in there.

R53, Mike White, himself, said he didn't want a cold-weather location. I am surprised that Norway would even be an option for him.

R54, agreed. Africa would be amazing

Africa is an enormous continent, it's even worse than saying they should go to Europe or Asia. At least specify a region.

And rich people don't go to sub-Saharan Africa unless they're there to hunt wild animals. Which I don't think would be palatable to HBO.

R57, Kenya!

Is that specific enough for you?

I guess at this point most actors would kill to be in the next series but France will be a HUGE incentive for big names who might not normally want to commit several months to a TV project. And they'll be able to jet in and out with more ease when not filming.

Sam Rockwell might be the logical choice for an actor to bring back.

Change the class context. Have it be working class and successful blue collars at a big family reunion and holiday in Gatlinberg / Pigeon Forge. Trash tourist attractions and accomodations, HAF blue collar men (and women for the heteros), sex, drugs, melodrama, murder.

Ooh, la la

R15 the show has 3 seasons lol. You’re acting like it’s been on for 10 seasons.

Season 5 should be in a part of Africa.

R17 they always use Four Seasons to shoot the show.

R19 what does Italy have to do with France?

R21 are you slow? Yes. You are.

R22 you have never been to France and it shows. Americans and France are nothing alike

R30 you do know Hawaii was taken over by Americans, right? They were their own people and culture and language… you do know that, right?

Yes same as in every other state. What’s your point? South Dakota is just as exotic…

Tanya could have a twin sister.

Tanya could have floated off to an island and been living in Capri with no memory of who she is. Amnesia. Learning the language and being a waitress.

Except that Daphne bumped into Tanya’s bloated, water logged corpse while swimming in the ocean.

If Mike gets François Civil naked, I'm 100% behind the choice.

[quote]Tanya could have floated off to an island and been living in Capri with no memory of who she is.

[quote]Except that Daphne bumped into Tanya’s bloated, water logged corpse while swimming in the ocean.

That's hardly an obstacle.

I want Parker Posey to come back.

R55 it wasn’t an option. That poster is just saying anything

R70 that’s false. Hawaii is very different than most of the USA. No way you’ve been there, same way you’ve never been to college and don’t work and live off people

R74 Days is a daytime soap opera. This isn’t daytime tv soaps.

[quote]Days is a daytime soap opera. This isn’t daytime tv soaps.

Dang! I was hoping it would be on a Carnival Cruise. The possibilities for the death circumstances and suspects would be endless.

In today’s world Maui is none of these things…

R77 have you been to the Four Seasons on Maui?

Lol

Some comments mentioned the Four Seasons Hotel Megève in the alps might work even though Mike hates the cold. It could be filmed off season when the alps are lovely (so I hear). Also, the show films in several different hotels, so he could take breaks from the chill anytime he wants.

The 'exoticism' of the show is simply taking the characters out of their comfort zone. It's largely subjective. If you live in California as I do, Maui is about as exotic as Santa Cruz. It's where people vacation who don't want surprises, but maybe if you're from bumfuck Oklahoma and have never seen the ocean, you'd be gobsmacked.

Santa Cruz would be conserved more remote and mysterious than Wailea. ;)

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France will appeal to the widest audience. The average frau watching at home is not interested in an African season.

Part of the appeal of the show are locations that viewers want to go on vacation. The show is one of the biggest travel ads out there.

R86 Good points. There's such a thing as being TOO exotic for the largely white audience and Mike White himself. He didn't 'get' Thailand and I can't imagine him in the middle of the savannah with no other hotels around.

When they filmed in Thailand the cast and crew kept getting sick with stomach/intestinal issues and some of them had to be hospitalized. HBO spends a bloody fortune on The White Lotus under normal circumstances, but with the cast and crew being sick the shooting stretched out to seven or eight months, costing HBO even more of a fortune. Perhaps HBO told Mike White "next seaoin is in Europe or North America, and that's final."

They should have a season spotlighting the problems of wealthy American travelers who contract dysentery while abroad.

"White Lotus: Oaxaca."

Good Berlin would have been drab and depressing.

R89 food or water safety is not an issue in Oaxaca. A Mezcal overdose is more likely.

The White Lotus: North Pole. Cameo from Santa Claus.

R90 Berlin was never an option. You mentioning random locations as if they were options is as strange as you pretending to have a PhD when you’ve never been to college and you claiming to have been to Hawaii (you haven’t).

“when you’ve never been to college…” you use that a lot, eh. At multiple posters who have nothing to do with each other.

A for effort! Love ya

White Lotus: Iguazu and have someone go over the falls

Je m’appelle chrissy, as tu vu mon sac a collation?

I’d love it if isabella rossellini was cast

[quote] And rich people don't go to sub-Saharan Africa unless they're there to hunt wild animals. Which I don't think would be palatable to HBO.

Safaris today are not about hunting. Unless you consider a camera a weapon.

R86 Sure, sure. Whatever you say.

White Lotus: Madagascar

I loved Francois Civil as the young son on Call My Agent!, r73! I hope Mike casts him.

Lo, - White Lotis:Berlin - could almost be a comedy version. Lacking anything exotic, beautiful or glamorous.

Easy to bring back Tanya. Just make it another story from when she was alive. You know, a prequel, or like Rogue One in the Star Wars story,

Where is it mandated that the location of The White Lotus has to be "exotic"?

And isn't exotic pretty much entirely a relative term?

[quote] Safaris today are not about hunting. Unless you consider a camera a weapon.

That's news to us, you pussies!

Africa is always filled with rich white people taking pics of wild life etc.

I am on Team Tanya prequel

Regardless of where it take place, it will be stupid.

This idea would actually rock.