The cast of The White Lotus season three

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The White Lotus season three.

If you’ve been watching The White Lotus since its very beginning, you’ll be well aware by now that nothing makes it into the show by accident.

Season three of the award-winning anthology series has been its biggest and most ambitious to date, not just in terms of its massive ensemble cast, enviable locations and some of the most outrageous sequences the show has ever attempted, but also in terms of how jam-packed with Easter eggs and blink-and-you’ll-miss-’em hidden details it’s been.

With the finale now looming – and fans trying to read between the lines as much as possible to try and work out the show’s biggest mystery – we’ve rounded up some of our favourite subtle details from season three of The White Lotus that might have passed you by…

Right, White Lotus fans. Let’s start with all the monkeys, shall we?

Monkeys are everywhere you look in the current season of The White Lotus

You can’t fail to have spotted that monkeys are a recurring motif throughout the current series.

From the simian pals swinging from the trees as they watch over everything going on at the hotel (even one of the first shots of the whole show was a monkey, in case you’d forgotten) to the many statues adorning the resort and guests’ rooms, they’re absolutely everywhere.

But as well as the more blatant references, you might well have missed some of the smaller nods to our primate pals, including in the form of jewellery worn by Lek Patravadi in episode six or the more subtle monkeys that appear in the opening titles.

Mike White teased long before the premiere that season three of The White Lotus would be about Eastern spirituality, with several references across the first six episodes to the idea of the “monkey mind”, a Buddhist concept relating to a chaotic, restless state that stands in the way of true enlightenment.

Lek Patravadi wore a monkey brooch in the most recent episode of The White Lotus

Given quite how many of season three’s guests could be described as being in this particular mindstate, the visual barrage of monkeys could be intended as a reminder of just how far away the characters are from reaching the next state of their spiritual development.

But others have speculated there could be something more literal at play – with one fan theory even suggesting that a particularly zealous monkey could be responsible for the shooting in the finale.

This wouldn’t be beyond the realm of possibility – particularly given that monkeys have been known to steal things from Thai tourists from time to time (and much as we’re rooting for him, it wouldn’t be the first time Gaitok’s firearm had got away from him) – were it not for the fact that cast member Michelle Monaghan has already dispelled this suggestion.

“What? The monkeys do the shooting? Man, y’all have lost it,” she insisted to InStyle.

Michelle Monaghan's character parties next to a monkey statue in The White Lotus

And speaking of monkeys…

Even as far back as the first White Lotus trailer being unveiled, people couldn’t help but pick up on parallels between the Ratliff siblings and the idea of the “three wise monkeys”, particularly after they were spotted in the below formation.

Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola portrayed as the "three wise monkeys" in The White Lotus

The “three wise monkeys” refers to an iconic East Asian emblem for the proverb “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”, with each of the figures typically covering either their eyes, ears or mouth (as Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook and Sam Nivola could be seen doing on the boat in episode one).

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