Kaftans, ironic slogan T-shirts, and withering stares on the prepared: The White Lotus is returning to screens with its splashy second installment—and Jennifer Coolidge’s delightfully spacey heiress Tanya McQuoid might be heart stage.
On August 3, Selection revealed that Mike White’s razor-sharp satire about ridiculously privileged friends at an impossibly luxurious resort can be again, presumably with extra dissatisfied CEOs, terrifying twentysomethings, and raging normal managers, this October. The announcement was accompanied by the primary nonetheless from the brand new season, which units the tone for the hilarity that’s certain to ensue: a picture of Coolidge’s Tanya pouting serenely whereas carrying bug-eye sun shades and a sugary pink costume, her blonde curls wrapped up in an identical chiffon scarf.
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The appearing legend is the one sequence common to be reprising her function because the present shifts from the fictional White Lotus group’s property in Hawaii to an equally spectacular one in Sicily, the place a brand new set of unbearable guests will feud with its beleaguered employees members. The ensemble solid for the sequence’s first season was a formidable mixture of established names and rising stars—Connie Britton, Sydney Sweeney, Murray Bartlett, Alexandra Daddario, Natasha Rothwell, Brittany O’Grady—however, this time round, it’s one way or the other much more spectacular. On account of make an look? Comedy stalwart Aubrey Plaza as Harper, a lady on trip along with her husband and his mates; Oscar-winning display screen veteran F. Murray Abraham as Bert Di Grasso, an aged man holidaying along with his son and grandson; The Evening Supervisor’s Tom Hollander as Quentin, a British expat; Help the Ladies’s Haley Lu Richardson as Portia, a younger lady touring along with her boss; and The Daring Sort’s Meghann Fahy and Sanditon’s Theo James as husband-and-wife pair Daphne and Cameron Babcock.
As for the locals compelled to therapeutic massage their egos, three Italian actors have additionally been solid in important elements: Sabrina Impacciatore as Valentina, the supervisor of the White Lotus Sicily; and Beatrice Grannó and Simona Tabasco as Mia and Lucia, two younger Sicilians who’ve a behavior of hanging across the resort. Might a vacation romance be on the playing cards for one in all them, because it was for Kekoa Kekumano’s Hawaiian resort staffer Kai with Brittany O’Grady’s Paula in Season 1?
Whereas we do know that the upcoming seven-part sequence will concentrate on the exploits of friends and staff over the span of every week, simply as the primary installment did, different questions additionally stay. Will Season 2 open with the mysterious loss of life of a serious character, as Season 1 did? And what state will we discover the eccentric Tanya on this time? The latter was partially answered on July 18, when HBO debuted its first footage from the second installment in a preview of soon-to-be-released exhibits. It featured Impacciatore’s Valentina welcoming Plaza’s Harper, Fahy’s Daphne, and James’s Cameron to the resort, and Tanya rushing down a picturesque Sicilian hillside on the again of a Vespa. In the temporary clip, she seems to have embraced la dolce vita, however how lengthy will or not it’s earlier than her neuroses rise to the floor as soon as once more? We’ll discover out quickly sufficient.