Both 'The White Lotus' creator Mike White and HBO CEO Casey Bloys discussed challenges surrounding Season 3 at its LA premiere.

Mike White’s first job as a television writer, in the late nineties, was on the teen soap opera “Dawson’s Creek.” It was a sentimental show, leavened by sharp, self-conscious dialogue; the titular character,

Jennifer Coolidge’s absence hasn’t dimmed the glow of “The White Lotus.” Although she lit up two seasons of the quirky Mike White drama, she has a kindred spirit in Parker Posey, who takes the third season to her own offbeat heights.

The third season of Mike White’s soap opera, like a holiday happy hour, packs reduced punches It was around the second or third episode of the new season of The White Lotus — you know how time gloops mid-holiday — that I began to feel a little,