Tag: Enlightened
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‘The White Lotus’ Is Giving Murray Bartlett His Much Deserved Flowers
Since the halcyon days of Tom Selleck, has anyone worked a mustache quite like Murray Bartlett? The Australian actor, previously best known for playing Dom on Andrew Haigh’s shortlived gay drama “Looking,” is having a much-deserved mid-career breakout with “The White Lotus” — and not a moment too soon. Created by veteran writer/director Mike White,…
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‘The White Lotus’ Season 2? Mike White Would Love an McU-Style Anthology Approach
One of the bona fide water-cooler TV hits of the summer is HBO’s “The White Lotus,” creator, writer, and director Mike White’s satirical look at the foibles and follies of a group of rich people vacationing at a hotel in Hawaii. As with previous HBO smashes like “Mare of Easttown” and “Big Little Lies,” discussions…
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‘The White Lotus’: Everything You Need to Know About the HBO Series
Mike White’s return to television is inching closer. The filmmaker is slated to return to HBO via “The White Lotus,” which will premiere on HBO in July.“The White Lotus” will mark White’s reunion with HBO following “Enlightened,” his two-season comedy series that was canceled by the premium cabler in 2013. Since then, White has written…
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‘The White Lotus’ Cast Reveal: Mike White Returns to HBO After ‘Enlightened’
It has been seven years since Mike White’s critically acclaimed-though-not-commercially-successful series “Enlightened” ended its two-season run, and HBO has announced that White will be returning to the fold as creator, executive producer, writer, and director of the series “The White Lotus.”The six-episode limited series, set to begin production this month in Hawaii, is described as…
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Duck Butter review – intense lesbian romance churns up disappointment
Search Party’s Alia Shawkat falls for a Manic Pixie Dream Girl in this occasionally daring but ultimately exhausting 24-hour love storyWriter Mike White and director Miguel Arteta have quietly become one of the most effective yet underrated double acts working in independent film. They’ve created a string of nuanced, darkly funny, usually female-centric films and…