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After wrapping accumulation on The White Lotus' 2nd play successful Sicily, creator Mike White hinted that helium already had a destination for play 3 successful mind.

"The archetypal play highlighted wealth and the 2nd play is sex," helium said. "I deliberation the 3rd season, it would beryllium possibly a satirical, comic look astatine death, Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels similar it could beryllium a affluent tapestry to bash different round."

However, anterior to the play 2 premiere, he hypothesized astir thing wholly different—suggesting that helium had different thought for the 2nd season, but yet decided to spell successful the Sicilian direction.

"I mightiness inactive bash it down the roadworthy maybe, if they springiness america a 3rd season, truthful I don't cognize if I should say," Mike told Entertainment Weekly Sept. 29. "Originally, it was much of similar a Bilderberg conference, much astir getting into immoderate of the bigger powerfulness dynamics there. But Sicily was a wholly antithetic vibe than the thought I pitched. That didn't look right."

For the record, the Bilderberg meeting, established successful 1954, is an off-the-record gathering held annually meant to promote governmental and societal treatment betwixt the United States and Europe. 

A clump of influential politicians astatine a White Lotus resort? Would could spell wrong?!

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The extremity of The White Lotus' 2nd play inactive near immoderate untied threads, peculiarly erstwhile it comes to the nefarious dealings of Tanya's (Jennifer Coolidge) hubby Greg (Jon Gries).

However, Mike White suggested those questions mightiness get answered sooner alternatively than later.

"I deliberation arsenic acold arsenic like, what happens to Greg and the conspiracy of Tanya's death, it's imaginable that I deliberation Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) is frightened capable to conscionable permission it alone," White said to HBO aft the play 2 finale, "but the information that each of those guys dice connected the boat, it feels similar there's gotta beryllium idiosyncratic who's gonna way it backmost down to Greg. But possibly you'll person to hold to find retired what happens."

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The 2nd play introduced viewers to sex-addicted shaper Dominic Di Grasso, played by Michael Imperioli, traveling with his lad Albie (Adam DiMarco) and begetter Bert (F. Murray Abraham).

While it's unclear if Michael has really had conversations astir reprising his relation successful play three—he'd surely leap astatine the chance.

"Who knows, possibly there'll beryllium different White Lotus play wherever Dominic comes with his woman and they spot it each up!" Michael suggested to Esquire successful December. "I don't privation to deliberation astir it excessively much. Because the thought of that makes maine truthful happy. I don't privation to beryllium disappointed. I would privation thing much than that."

Hey, if that means we'd get to conscionable Laura Dern, who voiced Dominic's woman successful play two, we're each for it!

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In July 2022, Connie Britton—who played businesswoman Nicole Mossbacher successful play one—revealed that she and Mike White had already discussed her imaginable return.

"He wanted maine to beryllium successful the 2nd season, and determination was an thought that I loved for the character," Connie told Deadline successful July 2022. "Our volition is to bash it successful the 3rd season. A portion of casting didn't enactment successful the 2nd play and we're hoping to that successful the 3rd season."

When asked astir the thought by E! News successful January, Connie simply said, "Listen, my lips are sealed."

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After Tanya—spoiler alert!—killed a clump of radical and past fell to her decease successful the play 2 finale, it stands to crushed that Jennifer Coolidge astir apt won't beryllium returning to The White Lotus for the 3rd play successful a row—even successful shade form.

"He benignant of sticks to his guns," Jennifer said of Mike White successful an interrogation with E! News Jan. 17. "He's an astonishing friend, but I deliberation helium made his decision. He wanted a big, dramatic, Italian, you know, operatic ending for White Lotus 2, and helium wanted to sacrifice Tanya."

May she remainder successful peace.

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Simply put: It's inactive going to beryllium a while.

Season 3 hasn't adjacent started accumulation yet, truthful if you're craving immoderate devious edifice behavior, you'll person to settee for a re-watch of the archetypal 2 seasons of The White Lotus, which are disposable to watercourse connected HBO Max.