Sky has officially confirmed the release date for The White Lotus season three.
The award-winning drama series, created by Mike White, will return with the first episode on February 17, 2025, airing in the UK on Sky and streaming service NOW.
The anticipated third outing takes place in a new White Lotus hotel resort, this time in Thailand, with a new host of hotel guests to get acquainted with, including Jason Isaacs, Parker Posey, Michelle Monaghan, Fallout's Walton Goggins and Sex Education's Aimee Lou Wood.
One familiar face returning to the series is season one star Natasha Rothwell AKA Belinda (the spa manager from The White Lotus resort in Hawaii), who explains she's transferred to the Thai resort on "an exchange programme" in an all-new teaser trailer.
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Romance could be on the cards for Belinda as she locks eyes with a fellow spa employee, who says in voiceover: "I feel like something good is going to come out of this".
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Next we're introduced to Wood as free-spirit Chelsea who is on holiday at the resort with her older boyfriend Rick (Goggins).
He's evidently on-edge, as Chelsea encourages him to try the stress management meditation session – and he has a less than enthusiastic response to the gluten-free rice and coconut balls on offer in the hotel's restaurant.
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Leslie Bibb, Carrie Coon and Michelle Monaghan are teased as three friends who have reunited after some years for a girls' trip, but relations seem strained.
"She literally lives off male attention, it's pathetic," Coon's character Laurie says of Monaghan's Jaclyn, who is seen dancing up close with two men in one party scene.
Meanwhile, Parker Posey is Victoria, the unhappy matriarch of the Ratliff family, consisting of wealthy businessman husband Timothy (Isaacs), sons Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), and Lochlan (Sam Nivola), and daughter Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook).
"Someone stole my diazepam lorazepam, I'm going to have to drink myself to sleep," a miserable Victoria says.
The trailer ends with a montage of clips, showing their vacations ending in tragedy, with guests running away scared, a masked gunman on the loose in the hotel and a body bag being taken away.
"I almost died today – but we got the room comped, didn't we babe? So that was cool," concludes Chelsea, grinning at her boyfriend, who responds: "Yeah, you did a great job babe."
The White Lotus season three will arrive on February 16, 2025. Seasons 1-2 are available to stream on NOW.
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