DINNERTIME

The first season of The White Lotus, an American satirical comedy drama anthology television series created, written, and directed by Mike White, premiered on HBO on July 11, 2021. The season was greenlit in October 2020 as a limited series, filmed in Hawaii in late 2020, and has an ensemble cast of Murray Bartlett, Connie Britton, Jennifer Coolidge, Alexandra Daddario, Fred Hechinger, Jake Lacy, Brittany O'Grady, Natasha Rothwell, Sydney Sweeney, Steve Zahn, and Molly Shannon. The season has six episodes, and follows the lives of the staff and wealthy guests at a tropical resort in Hawaii. The season received critical acclaim: eleven nominations at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards and nine at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, resulting in ten wins across both ceremonies. Despite being developed as a limited series, on August 10, 2021, HBO renewed it for a second season, making it an anthology series. The second season premiered on October 30, 2022.