{"id":149674,"date":"2022-12-06T10:55:03","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mike-white-creator-of-the-white-lotus-discusses-hit-series-its-influences-npr\/"},"modified":"2022-12-06T10:55:03","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:55:03","slug":"mike-white-creator-of-the-white-lotus-discusses-hit-series-its-influences-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mike-white-creator-of-the-white-lotus-discusses-hit-series-its-influences-npr\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike White, creator of ‘The White Lotus’ discusses hit series, its influences : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mike White, creator of HBO’s pandemic hit comedy-drama series The White Lotus<\/em>has, in his own words, been “making stuff for a long time.”<\/p>\n

The writer, producer, director and actor got his start in the late 1990s. Early in his career, he wrote episodes of the TV series Freaks and Geeks <\/em>and Dawson’s Creek. <\/em>He also wrote the 2003 hit Jack Black movie School of Rock, <\/em>wrote and directed the films Year of the Dog<\/em> and Brad’s Status<\/em>and created another HBO series, Enlightened<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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You may also remember him as a reality show contestant: He competed on two seasons of The Amazing Race<\/em> with his father and was a runner-up on survivor.<\/em><\/p>\n

But nothing has been like the success he’s experienced with The White Lotus<\/em>, for which he won Emmys for both writing and directing. The show also won for best limited or anthology series. <\/p>\n

“I just feel like I’m like a surfer who’s been in the ocean for, like, 25 years and suddenly caught a wave,” he says.<\/p>\n

The White Lotus<\/em> is about the staff and the wealthy guests at five-star luxury resort hotels in gorgeous, panoramic settings. Though the settings resemble paradise, the guests are wrestling with their own problems. <\/p>\n