Spoiler warning: This story discusses the plot of the season three premiere of White Lotus.

With every season of White Lotus, there are always two big questions surrounding the show: Who’s going to die? And who’s the butt of the joke?

Assuming season three follows in its predecessors’ footsteps, we know who falls victim to the opening scene’s shooting until the end. But one episode down, it’s clear that this chapter set at a Thai health resort takes aim at the hollowness of luxury wellness and for-profit spirituality, and the people who spend massive amounts of money chasing their own well-being. Jesus said a rich man can’t get into heaven; I’m pretty sure the Buddha doesn’t have a saying about achieving nirvana for the right price.

That’s thousands of dollars spent on the one thing that money can’t buy.

This season the show follows a handful of Americans who seem determined to do just that. We have the very rich, very Southern, very cloistered, vaguely incestuous Ratliff clan (headed up by Parker Posey and Jason Isaacs, with Patrick Schwarzenegger, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Sam Nivola as their nearly adult kids); TV actress Jaclyn Lemon (Michelle Monaghan) and her longest-term friends (Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb), who are certainly not envious of or judgmental toward one another; and shifty, grumpy Rick (Walton Goggins) with his naive British girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood). Along with masseuse Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) returning from season one (in addition to another surprising familiar face, but more on that later), they make up our guests.

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