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We already knew before the superb finale of The White Lotus (Sky Atlantic, Monday) aired that there’s going to be a third season of writer-director Mike White’s dazzling eat-the-rich satire.

In Western art history, a mise en abyme is a technique of placing one image inside another, or a story inside a story. It serves the purpose of illuminating the hidden meaning in an image. This can also be thought of as an allegory.

The season that launched a thousand theories concluded Sunday night with “Arriverderci,” as “White Lotus” creator Mike White and company bade farewell to Sicily in a supersized 77-minute finale. Neither predicted the ending correctly (not even close), but columnist Mary McNamara and deputy editor Matt Brennan weren’t too ashamed to…

As the acclaimed HBO series comes to a close next week, Olivia Petter examines why the question of who dies is irrelevant, because the thing that’s killing all of these characters is gender politics