The Mike White touch: When Piper argues to Tim that he and Victoria did not really raise their children to be religious, Tim lapses into a reverie about his days as an altar boy, then softly sings “Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming” to himself.

A full moon party hits Mike White's HBO series, with major developments for multiple characters in 'The White Lotus' Season 3, Episode 5.

IT'S BEEN A little over two years since we last took a visit to a White Lotus resort. And while that's just about par for the course in the modern television landscape, you only really begin to realize just how much you've been missing writer/director Mike White's razor sharp world and characters once you're back in.

The incestuous story line has left many viewers clutching their pearls, but “White Lotus” producer David Bernad says it has a purpose and is “not just for shock” value.

The White Lotus has everyone buzzing on the kiss between Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Saxon and Sam Nivola’s Lochlan. On the latest episode of the HBO series from March 16, the Ratliff brothers shared a kiss that was hinted from the beginning of Season 3.