'The White Lotus' isn't a whodunnit. So why are we watching it like one?

Dec 13 2022 by Mashable

 

The White Lotus is a lot of things: a social satire, a bedroom farce, a tragi-comedy. But it is not, nor has it ever been, a whodunnit. The deaths, introduced at the top of each season, are never the main thrust of the story, as they are in Knives Out, See How They Run, and Death on the Nile. Even when these deaths occur, they're treated more as afterthoughts or a tawdry source of gossip among the surviving guests.

Still, the show's fans love to play detective.

From week to week, viewers

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