Behind the hypnotic music and colorful wallpaper images of the opening credits, a pensive young man appears in the departure lounge of a Hawaii airport.

He returns home from his honeymoon, but he is alone.

While you wait, watch through the window how the operators introduce a coffin with the remains of the person who has died in the hotel where he has been staying with his wife into the hold of the plane ...

Thus begins

The White Lotus

, the recently released six-episode miniseries from HBO that has become in just a couple of weeks one

of the most viewed on the platform

. With a new release every Sunday (at the moment there are four episodes), the outcome of this drama in the form of social satire that captivates the viewer from the first moment is scheduled for August 15.

After the promising airport scene, the story goes back a week earlier, when a group of tourists arrive at the exclusive

The White Lotus

resort

located in a

paradisiacal location on a Hawaiian island

. What at first seems like an idyllic

vacation in the

style of

Vacations at Sea

, with the reception of the hotel employees at the foot of the jetty included, is gradually degenerating as it gets to know the histrionic group of characters from this American production and their dark secrets . Starting with the smiling

resort

manager

Armond; Belinda, the person in charge of the spa, and an intern with a secret that is revealed at the end of the first episode, and following with the rich guests: a young married couple, the dysfunctional Mossbacher family, who is accompanied by a friend of the university daughter , and the extravagant Tanya, a wealthy and unstable woman, who travels alone in search of love and a place to scatter the ashes of her recently deceased mother, each of the protagonists hooks and amuses the viewer with their

problems

and leaves them with You want more at the end of each chapter.

And what are these problems initially?

Well, to know: the wealthy young Shane Patton (Jake Lacy) is obsessed because, despite having the best room in the hotel, this is not the bridal suite, as he supposedly paid for in the reservation;

the father of the family Mark Mossbacher (Steve Zahn) first believes that he is going to die of testicular cancer (the production does not skimp on offering explicit images of them) and then begins an existential crisis when he learns that his father was sleeping with men.

For her part, the mature Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) desperately needs a massage and, incidentally, someone to keep her company.

Accompanied by a bit strident music,

these absurd situations lead to other more serious and darker

that will lead to the surprising death of one of the characters.

Created and directed by Mike White, the series was shot on the island of Maui (Hawaii),

at the spectacular Four Seasons Resort in Wailea,

one of the areas where the most luxurious hotels on the island are located. Even so, the beautiful surroundings, the exclusive hotel and the spectacular beaches, appear in the background and, deliberately or not, are not a primary part of the plot, so that they go almost unnoticed.

The protagonists of this black comedy also include

Alexandra Daddario

(

Bay Watch

,

True Detective

), in the role of the newlywed Rachel Patton, and

Sydney Sweeney

(

Euphoria

), as Olivia Mossbacher, the

snobbish

and critical university daughter of Nicole (Connie Britton,

Nashville

), the successful senior executive who can't help but patronize her family.

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