Grab your tickets, and your passport, and your love of seeing the wealthy and privileged suffer, because we’re off to exotic Thailand for the third season of pandemic-era breakout The White Lotus.
How to watch The White Lotus season three in New Zealand
The White Lotus season three is streaming in New Zealand exclusively on NEON from February 17, 2025.
The White Lotus: Season 3
What is The White Lotus season three about?
Created by Mike White (you may remember him as Jack Black’s long-suffering housemate in School of Rock, which he wrote) and originally intended as a six part miniseries, The White Lotus is now an anthology series. Each season finds us at a different branch of the titular luxury hotel chain, dealing with a different set of insufferable elites as their various secrets, traumas, and hang-ups get drawn to the surface by the events of the narrative. This time we’re in Thailand, where series creator White was once eliminated from the reality show The Amazing Race (his career has taken some odd turns). But other than that your guess is as good as ours, as no further details have been released apart from…
The cast of The White Lotus season three
Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon are Kate, Jaclyn, and Laurie, three old friends on a girls’ trip; Walton Goggins is Rick Hatchett, a manon holdiay with his significantly younger girlfriend Chelsea, played by Aimee Lou Wood; Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey are wealthy businessman Timothy Ratliff and his wife, Victoria; Sarah Catherine Hook, Sam Nivola, and Patrick Schwarzenegger are their kids, Piper, Lochlan, and Saxon; Lek Patravadi is Sritala, one of the owners of the White Lotus and founder of its health program; Lalisa Manobal, better known as Lisa from K-pop outfit Blackpink, is Mook, a “health mentor” at the White Lotus; Tayme Thapthimthong is security guard Gaitok; and Natasha Rothwell is Belinda Lindsey, a former White Lotus spa manager last seen in season one.
The White Lotus season 3 trailer
Why we’re excited about The White Lotus season three
For all its prestige pretentions, The White Lotus is essentially the heir to the trashy aspirational primetime soap operas of the ’80s—Dynasty, Falcon Crest, and so on. Sometimes that kind of slick, polished melodrama is just what the doctor ordered.
