'The White Lotus' Season 3 trailer teases star-studded trip to Thailand: Watch
Reservations are once again open at The White Lotus Hotel.
HBO on Monday dropped the trailer for the highly anticipated third season of "The White Lotus," which moves the Emmy-winning anthology series to Thailand.
The official logline says the new season takes place over the course of one week, and it looks to be a chaotic one. The trailer teases infighting among the new guests, threats of violence from a man in a mask brandishing a gun and a person falling off a boat.
"Seeking peace can be a trip" is the season's tagline, and a monk foreshadows a possible theme in the trailer by saying, "Everyone runs from pain towards pleasure, but they get there only to find more pain."
The first season of "The White Lotus," set in Hawaii, scored 10 Emmys, including outstanding limited or anthology series. Season 2, which was set in Sicily continued the show with a new cast and White Lotus location, though Jennifer Coolidge's Tanya returned. Season 2 received 23 Emmy nominations and won five awards.
This will be the first season of the HBO series without Coolidge, whose character was killed off in the finale of Season 2. But Natasha Rothwell is back as Belinda, the spa manager from the first season. In the trailer, she explains she is on an exchange program. And, of course, creator Mike White is once again returning as the writer and director.
'The White Lotus' Season 3 cast, character descriptions
The ensemble cast of Season 3 also includes Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon, Walton Goggins, Jason Isaacs, Michelle Monaghan, and Parker Posey.
According to HBO, Bibb, Coon and Monaghan are playing three longtime friends who haven't seen each other in a while and go on a girls' trip. Goggins plays a "rugged man with a chip on his shoulder, traveling with his girlfriend Chelsea" (Aimee Lou Wood); Isaacs plays a "wealthy businessman vacationing with his wife and three children'; and Posey is a woman vacationing with her husband and kids.
Also starring in Season 3 are Sarah Catherine Hook, Lalisa Manobal, Sam Nivola, Lek Patravadi, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Tayme Thapthimthong, Nicholas Duvernay, Arnas Fedaravičius, Christian Friedel, Scott Glenn, Dom Hetrakul, Julian Kostov, Charlotte Le Bon, Morgana O’Reilly and Shalini Peiris.
Patravadi is playing "one of the owners of The White Lotus and the visionary behind its wellness program."
What is 'The White Lotus' Season 3 about?
The official Season 3 logline reads, "The social satire is set at an exclusive Thai resort and follows the exploits of various guests and employees over the span of a week."
White previously teased in an HBO video that Season 3 would likely be a "satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spiritaulity."
When does 'The White Lotus' Season 3 premiere?
"The White Lotus" Season 3 premieres Sunday, February 16 on HBO, and will stream on Max.