Review: 'The White Lotus' returns for Season 2, slowed down and sexed up
Mike White's sorrows-of-the-rich comedy "The White Lotus" returns Sunday to HBO with a second season, set in Sicily. The first won some Emmys, for limited or anthology series, for White as a writer and director and for actors Jennifer Coolidge and Murray Bartlett. The tissue connecting that year and this is the eponymous White Lotus, a worldwide luxury hotel chain, and the presence of Coolidge, back as Tanya.
Like the first season, the second begins with an unidentified dead body before jumping back a week. Here, in a scene that plays like a tip of the fin to "Jaws," a guest of the hotel is found drowned just off the beach. (It's suggested that there may have been "a few" more.) This injects mystery into the story — not a murder mystery, necessarily, since we don't know if murder is involved, or, for that matter, if the body or bodies belong to anyone in
