‘The White Lotus’ review: Riveting, disturbing viewing along with a fabulous star cast

Mike White’s sharply-written social satire is glorious-looking and thought-provoking in equal measure

There are no easy answers to the many questions that Mike White’s sharply-written social satire, The White Lotus throws up. There are the glaring inequalities and the casual cruelties and the contradiction of tourism — where it brings in the money — but also ravages the land, and finally does not benefit the people of the country. . There is the troubled past of a colonised nation, which resonates so sharply with us; our luxury hotels seem to be functioning as monuments to our imperial history. The White Lotus, which looks at a set of rich, white people over a week’s vacation in an exclusive resort in Hawaii, is a bleak and beautiful dissertation of privilege and exploitation.