Onto these stages, enter the actors — both the travelers and the workers tasked with tending to them.of the show, “The White Lotus” does a far better job managing the storylines around the resort’s guests than it does with the staff members who must serve them. In both seasons, resort workers appear and disappear, their lives reduced to broad archetypes unworthy of true resolution.
A friend who ran a horse packing outfit in Colorado, where he led excursions into the Rocky Mountains, used to get decked out in cowboy duds to provide his clients with postcard color. His normal ensembles of jeans and baseball caps didn’t cut it as “authentic” — even if that’s what he wore when he went riding on his own.
The protagonist in this stage play, of course, is the traveler. “The White Lotus” has its dramas down pat: the spoiled rich kid who threatens to call the manager or the fussy woman who turns each journey into a happiness quest .