![]() In a “ Big Little Lies”-like opening-scene reveal, “The White Lotus” shares that someone here will die, and then jumps back in time one week. “The White Lotus” places that question, in both literal and figurative incarnations, on the shoulders of each character who arrives by chartered boat to the secluded, exclusive White Lotus hotel and resort in Hawaii. Will they make it over, or be dragged under? ![]() Jellyfish coil around people, seaweed strangles a fish, and a three-person crew battles their canoe against a swelling wave. Caterpillars eat leaves until they hang limp, pockmarked and dying. The opening credits of “The White Lotus” clue you into the series’ sometimes subtle, sometimes glaring “wealth enables rot” mentality: Beautiful, tropical wallpaper designs of flowers, pineapples, iguanas, and leopards stealthily transform into scenes of decay. White, whose Laura Dern-starring “Enlightened” remains a treasure in HBO’s archives, returns to the network for the six-part limited series “The White Lotus,” which premieres on July 11.
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