Jennifer Coolidge Wants More ‘Romance and Sex’ In ‘White Lotus’ Season 2
Vacation time! HBO’s White Lotus will return for season 2 in 2022 — but the dark comedy will look and feel a bit different than before. Don’t worry, it will still include a cast of wealthy characters that viewers will love to hate.
Creator Mike White is back for another round of the anthology series, which focused on the misadventures of the rich and famous on vacation at a ritzy Hawaiian resort named The White Lotus.
The first season featured an ensemble cast that included White’s bestie Jennifer Coolidge, alongside Connie Britton, Steve Zahn, Alexandra Daddario, Jake Lacy, Sydney Sweeney and more. Each of the actors played a character that carelessly wreaked havoc over the tropical island. Their misdeeds included everything from apathy to accidental murder — the prelude to the latter was a CGI moment that viewers can’t unsee no matter how they try.
However, White is not interested in rehashing the same plot points from the first time around — even if he is returning to the same idea.
“In TV, it’s hard to start from scratch and go through the whole thing again,” the School of Rock writer told Entertainment Weekly in August 2021, before the show was officially renewed. “So you feel like a bird in the hand is worth pursuing.”
He continued that he would come back for another season “because I feel like there’s a way to get at some new themes and do it in a way that feels fresh from this one.”
The Survivor alum plans to take the show in a new direction in season 2, but he still wants it to focus on rather unlikeable people.
“If I wanted to create a virtuous show, I could do it,” the Good Girl actor told Vulture after the August finale. “I feel like I could create characters that fit some people’s political and cultural agenda and probably my own! That would be pandering.”
Whatever direction White ends up choosing — there are rumors that the show could be headed to Europe and include more than a few familiar faces from season 1 — HBO is on board.
Francesca Orsi, the network’s executive vice president, wrote in a September 2021 statement that she and others at the network “were thrilled to hear where he wanted to go next” and “can’t wait to keep following him wherever he takes us.”
Keep scrolling to learn about the next season of White Lotus:
HBO revealed in an August 2021 release that the new season “leaves Hawaii behind and follows a different group of vacationers as they jet to another White Lotus property and settle in temporarily amongst its inhabitants.” Mario Perez/HBO
It has not yet been confirmed where the second season will take place, but White told Entertainment Weekly in August 2021 that he thinks they will have to go international this time around. "We would go somewhere different because there's no way we could be able to afford the Four Seasons in Maui," the Enlightenment creators said. "So yeah, it would have to be The White Lotus: Kyoto or something.” The fun part about leaving the U.S., he told EW, is that the writers “could get into culture clash ideas and stuff like that.” What’s Japanese for the “Pineapple Suite”? Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP/Shutterstock
For those who hope that they’ll get to see all their favorite characters traveling together again, White has some bad news for you. “I don’t think you can credibly have [all the season-one guests] on the same vacation again,” the Freaks and Geeks writer told TVLine in August 2021. However, he did tease that maybe “it could be a Marvel Universe type thing, where some of them would come back,” he said. “We only made one-year deals with the actors, so we’d have to find out who is even available.” Mario Perez/HBO
In October 2021, it was reported that the Legally Blonde star would return for season 2. It’s unclear whether she is reprising her season 1 character, Tanya McQuoid, a boozy socialite who was at the resort to spread her mother’s ashes — or playing a different person that viewers should assume will be just as hilarious. Mario Perez/HBO
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