February 15, 2025 • 5 mins
Streaming phenomenon The White Lotus is back for a third season - and fans are wondering what secrets will be revealed.
The new season, taking place at a sumptuous White Lotus resort in Thailand, promises plenty of drama and intrigue as more mysteries unfold.
Steve Newall from Flicks.co.nz explains what fans can expect from this latest instalment.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB and Entertainment Time Now and I'm joined by Steve Newle,
editor at flicks dot co dot NZ. Good morning, a
new season of The White Lotus. Does that make you
feel happy?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It certainly does. I mean, that's been two great seasons
of television. I think the second season of this ensemble
kind of black comedy drama scaled heights at the first
season hadn't reached, and Mike White's already perfected this. This
ability to get alchemy from his cast right like, this
(00:42):
is I think the strongest thing that season three also
has going for it as well. It's not necessarily in
the writing, although that's kind of incisive and clever, but
it's in being able to pull together the perfect group
of actors. And as we just heard from morgana O'Reilly,
she's part of ensemble that really ticks in season three.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Because it's often not what they say. It's what they're
not saying that you were reading in their facial expressions,
and huge part of it is there and they're just
you know, their their entire sort of body language and
everything you know, it's a.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Show that runs on constant readjustments of power, right, so
everyone's there's there's competitions within every group of characters, whether
it's three women who definitely aren't having a midlife crisis holiday. No, No,
they're having a victory lap. That's Leslie Bird, Michelle Monaghan
and Carry Kern, whose subplot's all about I guess the
(01:37):
kind of jostling that happens within friendships. Then you've got
a family vacate with the legendary Parker Posey playing opposite
Jason Isaac's and an incredible turn from Patrick Schwarzenegger as
their son. They really Mike White's really milking lots of
references to Annie in these in these early episodes.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And there are a particular family, and they're all actors
who are really happy to embrace how unlikable their characters
are with joyful glee in a way I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, And and there's look, there's there's a bit of
a wink in a way I felt anyway to to
shots that really frame up Patrick Schwarzenigger's jawline in a
way that makes him look very army or is scanning
a pull for young woman to talk to in the
same way that the terminator would scan a bar for
his victims, and so sort of undercutting I guess a
(02:29):
bit of the a bit of the family mystique.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You've got line.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I really really dug this up the first two episodes
of this of the season. Not to get into spoiler territory,
but just kind of going across this cast list. There's
so much to enjoy. Walton Goggin's huge personal favor of mine.
I can't be happier that the Righteous Gemstones is coming
back and coming.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Do you put me onto that?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's so fantastic comedy. So he's his character here is
sort of in a way, he's probably the most straight
dramatic character of the of the cast so far. Quite
a sort of film noiry, kind of brooding, serious guy,
a little bit odd with some of the comedy that
you see elsewhere. But playing opposite herm Amy lou Wood
is fantastic. I didn't watch Sex Education, but fans of
(03:14):
that show we're already on on the Amy train. Brings
a great energy to proceedings. And yes, you've got I
Raley got Natasha Rothwell, returning from season one of The
White latus as well. So yeah, and populating, populating this
group of characters. He's he's pulled off magic again. Can't
wait like everyone else now, I just can't wait to
(03:36):
see what happens is the season unfolds.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I know that can I Look, we're going back in time.
Another eighties classic is going to have a sequel.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I mean it doesn't stop, does it. But there's but
there's ones that you kind of go oh, I saw
that one coming, and then you hear that Steven Spielberg
is producing Gooney's.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Two, And I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Did not see that one coming?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
First one was that what eighty five?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah? And and you know you've got a group of
child actors and very much very much a family film,
although like like much Spielberg work of that parient sort
of pushing I guess what the ideas of a of
a G rated movie being pushing it into PG territory.
But there's fans have been clamoring for this for ages.
(04:19):
The cast all still sort of they will turn up
at each other's premieres. So you know you've got You've
got Corey Heldman to Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin, Kahu Kuan, Marlon,
all these guys, guys and gals still very much a
gang that formed in the eighties and still friends. So
you know, there's again like very much like The White Lotus,
(04:41):
there's a lot of interconnectivity between these actors that will
make a sequel.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But we don't actually know anything about the sequel. We
don't even know whether they would potentially be involved, do
we We know nothing about the plot at.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
The stage exactly, but the clamor like, they keep getting
asked about it, and Quan came up for Kwan last
week when he opened his new movie Love Hurts. Corey
Feldman was on the red carpet with him. They just
always get asked about Gois and they always talk about
how great it would be to do another one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No one's ever mentioned the Goonies to me, I don't
think for twenty years, but obviously I want to see
it's out there. Well, we shall wait and see. Thank
you so much. So, the White Lotus back Tomorrow night,
Monday Night on Neon, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Neon on Sky, And you know it's nice to see
the return of the Monday night appointment television.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm going to have to pace out these episodes. I
got a couple early, but I don't I want to
join the week by week train. I don't want to
have to wait weeks to find out what happens on
the show.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'm very impressed by your restraint. It's not because I
would have probably torn through all of them sometimes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks. It'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB and Entertainment Time Now and I'm joined by Steve Newle,
editor at flicks dot co dot NZ. Good morning, a
new season of The White Lotus. Does that make you
feel happy?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
It certainly does. I mean, that's been two great seasons
of television. I think the second season of this ensemble
kind of black comedy drama scaled heights at the first
season hadn't reached, and Mike White's already perfected this. This
ability to get alchemy from his cast right like, this
(00:42):
is I think the strongest thing that season three also
has going for it as well. It's not necessarily in
the writing, although that's kind of incisive and clever, but
it's in being able to pull together the perfect group
of actors. And as we just heard from morgana O'Reilly,
she's part of ensemble that really ticks in season three.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Because it's often not what they say. It's what they're
not saying that you were reading in their facial expressions,
and huge part of it is there and they're just
you know, their their entire sort of body language and
everything you know, it's a.
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Show that runs on constant readjustments of power, right, so
everyone's there's there's competitions within every group of characters, whether
it's three women who definitely aren't having a midlife crisis holiday. No, No,
they're having a victory lap. That's Leslie Bird, Michelle Monaghan
and Carry Kern, whose subplot's all about I guess the
(01:37):
kind of jostling that happens within friendships. Then you've got
a family vacate with the legendary Parker Posey playing opposite
Jason Isaac's and an incredible turn from Patrick Schwarzenegger as
their son. They really Mike White's really milking lots of
references to Annie in these in these early episodes.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And there are a particular family, and they're all actors
who are really happy to embrace how unlikable their characters
are with joyful glee in a way I don't know.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Yeah, And and there's look, there's there's a bit of
a wink in a way I felt anyway to to
shots that really frame up Patrick Schwarzenigger's jawline in a
way that makes him look very army or is scanning
a pull for young woman to talk to in the
same way that the terminator would scan a bar for
his victims, and so sort of undercutting I guess a
(02:29):
bit of the a bit of the family mystique.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
You've got line.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
I really really dug this up the first two episodes
of this of the season. Not to get into spoiler territory,
but just kind of going across this cast list. There's
so much to enjoy. Walton Goggin's huge personal favor of mine.
I can't be happier that the Righteous Gemstones is coming
back and coming.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Do you put me onto that?
Speaker 3 (02:51):
It's so fantastic comedy. So he's his character here is
sort of in a way, he's probably the most straight
dramatic character of the of the cast so far. Quite
a sort of film noiry, kind of brooding, serious guy,
a little bit odd with some of the comedy that
you see elsewhere. But playing opposite herm Amy lou Wood
is fantastic. I didn't watch Sex Education, but fans of
(03:14):
that show we're already on on the Amy train. Brings
a great energy to proceedings. And yes, you've got I
Raley got Natasha Rothwell, returning from season one of The
White latus as well. So yeah, and populating, populating this
group of characters. He's he's pulled off magic again. Can't
wait like everyone else now, I just can't wait to
(03:36):
see what happens is the season unfolds.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I know that can I Look, we're going back in time.
Another eighties classic is going to have a sequel.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
I mean it doesn't stop, does it. But there's but
there's ones that you kind of go oh, I saw
that one coming, and then you hear that Steven Spielberg
is producing Gooney's.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
Two, And I didn't see that one coming.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Did not see that one coming?
Speaker 2 (03:57):
First one was that what eighty five?
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah? And and you know you've got a group of
child actors and very much very much a family film,
although like like much Spielberg work of that parient sort
of pushing I guess what the ideas of a of
a G rated movie being pushing it into PG territory.
But there's fans have been clamoring for this for ages.
(04:19):
The cast all still sort of they will turn up
at each other's premieres. So you know you've got You've
got Corey Heldman to Corey Feldman, Josh Brolin, Kahu Kuan, Marlon,
all these guys, guys and gals still very much a
gang that formed in the eighties and still friends. So
you know, there's again like very much like The White Lotus,
(04:41):
there's a lot of interconnectivity between these actors that will
make a sequel.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
But we don't actually know anything about the sequel. We
don't even know whether they would potentially be involved, do
we We know nothing about the plot at.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
The stage exactly, but the clamor like, they keep getting
asked about it, and Quan came up for Kwan last
week when he opened his new movie Love Hurts. Corey
Feldman was on the red carpet with him. They just
always get asked about Gois and they always talk about
how great it would be to do another one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
No one's ever mentioned the Goonies to me, I don't
think for twenty years, but obviously I want to see
it's out there. Well, we shall wait and see. Thank
you so much. So, the White Lotus back Tomorrow night,
Monday Night on Neon, isn't it?
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Neon on Sky, And you know it's nice to see
the return of the Monday night appointment television.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
It certainly is.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I'm going to have to pace out these episodes. I
got a couple early, but I don't I want to
join the week by week train. I don't want to
have to wait weeks to find out what happens on
the show.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
I'm very impressed by your restraint. It's not because I
would have probably torn through all of them sometimes.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudkin, listen
live to News Talks. It'd be from nine am Sunday,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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