I know everyone’s all into Severance right now—I’m waiting to start until they’re halfway through the season because I cannot TAKE the STRESS, and I don’t want to wait two whole months to see what happens next—but the show I am most hotly anticipating is The White Lotus’s third season. I love this show about horrible people. I’ve re-watched both seasons and man, the layers in this show, they just keep unraveling.
There is so much to unpack, and the third season is coming in February to deliver unto us more terrible rich people being terrible and rich, and more overworked, underpaid locals dealing with their sh-t in a luxury resort.
I’m especially excited for the return of Natasha Rothwell as spa manager Belinda. A new trailer for season three is out, and the way she says “in a goddamn body bag” is perfect—Belinda KNOWS. The trailer is teasing guns, violence, and, well, a body bag, because there are only two rules in The White Lotus and they are that the terrible rich people don’t live in the same world as the rest of us, and someone always dies (and no matter how hard you’re rooting for it to be one of the terrible rich people, it won’t be them).
Season three also includes Walton Goggins, and while I love to see Boyd Crowded thriving, I really bring him up because he’s doing a Super Bowl commercial with GoDaddy. Goggins founded a company called Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses, a real thing that exists.
The Super Bowl ad is about how GoDaddy’s AI slop bucket, Airo, powers his website. That sucks, let’s all agree not to shill for AI. But Brian Grubb is out here asking the hard questions, such as whether or not the Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses are really real, or just part of the GoDaddy hype machine. Which came first, Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses, or the GoDaddy Super Bowl ad about the Walton Goggins Goggle Glasses? I hope the goggle glasses are real, they’re so dumb I love them so much.
