There are many mysteries to be solved with reference to what occurs to The White Lotus Season 3 characters as Mike White’s darkish comedy performs out on the 2025 TV schedule. Followers are dying to know what Greg is as much as and the way a lot we should always fear about Belinda, however one other huge query is perhaps how the creator was capable of predict real-world occasions? After President Trump turned the subject of dialog on a current episode, a few of the forged admitted they questioned the timeliness of the subject.
One of many tales we’ve been following on this third installment of The White Lotus (obtainable to stream with a Max subscription) entails longtime buddies Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan), Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Laurie (Carrie Coon) reuniting for a women journey. Within the episode “The That means of Desires,” Kate’s buddies are shocked to study she voted for Trump, and Bibb admitted to EW she didn’t notice how related that subject would nonetheless be, saying:
I really feel like Mike had binoculars into the longer term as a result of after we did it, it simply did not really feel [timely anymore]. I used to be like, ‘We already did that. That was up to now.’
When the present season of The White Lotus filmed, we hadn’t but been by the 2024 election, so Leslie Bibb was solely desirous about 2016. For his half, Mike White couldn’t even have identified that voting for Trump would nonetheless be such a hot-button problem that individuals are speaking about in 2025.
Factually, certain, the stress-inducing group of feminine buddies might have been referencing Trump’s first presidency and, in that case, I can see how Leslie Bibb would marvel if the occasions of eight years in the past would nonetheless be topical. She wasn’t even desirous about the 2024 election making that problem related once more, as she stated:
I do not even assume Trump was working after we did it — it was in January or February of final 12 months or one thing, so yeah, that was fairly wild. However he is like a bit soothsayer, that Mike White. It appears like we have hit a nerve. We’re within the zeitgeist, as they are saying. We have performed one thing present, if you’ll.
Donald Trump formally introduced that he was working for president once more in November 2022, however many weren’t pondering that far forward, and The White Lotus was filmed earlier than the race (and tensions surrounding it) heated up.
Mike White undoubtedly had an eye fixed on the longer term when he added politics to the listing of polarizing topics for Jaclyn, Laurie and Kate to deal with, and it undoubtedly match proper in there with their different matters of dialog like one another’s non secular beliefs, love lives and bodily appearances.
The scene in query set Kate as much as be ostracized from her buddies, a lot in the identical approach she and Jaclyn had stayed up late gossiping about Laurie earlier of their journey. I’m afraid tensions are simply going to proceed to boil between the three outdated buddies (sorry, longtime buddies) till no less than one in all them explodes.
Tune in to see what fireworks await with new episodes of The White Lotus Season 3 airing at 9 p.m. ET Sundays on HBO and streaming on Max.