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The White Lotus Season 3 got here, noticed, felt very gradual at instances, revealed some stunning deaths… after which shattered some data.
On Sunday evening, the third season finale drew 6.2 million viewers, a 30% bounce over the earlier collection 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 professional 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 just lately Thailand.
The place may we be headed subsequent?
Those that know creator Mike White properly have stated there’s no likelihood he takes the collection wherever chilly; he simply doesn’t like that sort of setting.
“For the fourth season, I wish to get a little bit bit out of the crashing waves of rocks vernacular however there’s at all times extra room for extra murders on the White Lotus motels,” White said at the end of Season 3 in an interview with Deadline.
This similar outlet reported earlier this yr that the HBO drama was contemplating a 4 Seasons resort in Europe for its impending season.
A supply added that again then, nevertheless, that “the whole lot is on the desk for subsequent season” and that no determination 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 occurring some places 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.”
Based on Deadline insiders, any scouting journey for the following location has been pushed to summer season as a result of White wants a little 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 seemingly Season 4 will additionally use a department of the resort.
The luxurious 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 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.”
