{"id":107131,"date":"2022-10-25T02:26:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-white-lotus-season-2-review-hbo-mike-white-jennifer-coolidge\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T02:26:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T02:26:04","slug":"the-white-lotus-season-2-review-hbo-mike-white-jennifer-coolidge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-white-lotus-season-2-review-hbo-mike-white-jennifer-coolidge\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Review: HBO, Mike White, Jennifer Coolidge"},"content":{"rendered":"
HBO’s The White Lotus<\/em> took us by surprise last summer\u2026 but it shouldn’t have. After all, Mike White crafted another uncomfortably hilarious series a few years back with Enlightened<\/em>and here, with a sparkling cast populating his acid-tongued comedy of manners, Lotus<\/em> ended up garnering more buzz and awards attention than Enlightened<\/em> ever did. Now it’s become an anthology, and with Season 2 arriving on HBO this Sunday at 9\/8c (I’ve seen the first two episodes), the question is: Can White recapture the old magic with a new cast? Or is Season 2 destined to feel like a trip to somewhere we’ve already been before?<\/p>\n Thankfully, the new season does add a few intriguing wrinkles to the formula \u2014 enough to help us overlook some of its more repetitive tendencies. Season 2 whisks us away to another White Lotus luxury hotel, a beach resort in Sicily that welcomes a fresh crop of overly pampered travelers, including a mismatched pair of young married couples stuck together on vacation and a newly divorced dad trying to reconnect to his Italian roots with his elderly father and son in tow. There is one repeat guest, though: Jennifer Coolidge reprises her Emmy-winning role as spacey socialite Tanya, bringing along a fleet of luggage, her now-husband Greg (Jon Gries) and a frazzled new assistant, Portia, played winningly by Haley Lu Richardson.<\/p>\n