I’d Watch A Separate White Lotus About What Happened on The White Lotus

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Spoilers for The White Lotus season three finale below.

Leslie Bibb, Sarah Catherine Hook, Jason Isaacs, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Jon Gries at HBO's The White Lotus Season 3 Finale Event at Four Seasons Hotel Westlake Village, California on April 6. (Photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)

Sunday night’s 90-minute White Lotus season three finale was the amuse-bouche for the real White Lotus drama: what happened on the HBO show’s Thailand set? “It was a theatre camp, but to some extent an open prison camp: you couldn’t avoid one other,”¹ Jason Isaacs, who played Daddy Ratliff, told The Guardian in an interview published in February. “There are tensions and difficulties, I don’t know if they spilled from on screen to off-screen, or if it would have happened anyway.” (To some of us, a theatre camp is an open prison camp.)

Did Isaacs suffer more than the rest of the ensemble, or is he just more vocal about it? Shooting the show at the Four Seasons Koh Samui was “a cross between high school …