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C’est La Vie: “The White Lotus” Season 4 Is Going to France

By The Credits  |  November 21, 2025

While it seemed like the most likely destination for a while now, HBO and HBO Max Chairman and CEO Casey Bloys finally said oui, Mike White‘s The White Lotus will be heading to France for season 4.

Bloys confirmed France as the destination for White’s perennially buzzy series during Thursday’s HBO Max programming slate presentation in New York.

“It’s going to be in France,” Bloys said at the presentation, revealing that we’re quite a ways away from White and his team starting production. “Mike [White] is writing and just starting.” As for who will be getting the extremely coveted roles in the fourth season, Bloys said that White was “very, very early” in the casting process. Nabbing a spot on The White Lotus has become a career maker for many up-and-coming actors and a career-booster for the already established. It’s also become something of a very intense theater camp, with the entire production settling into the location—for season one, Hawaii, season two, Sicily, and season three, Thailand—for the entirety of the shoot.

Aime Lou Wood, Walton Goggins. Photograph by Fabio Lovino/HBO

The White Lotus has spent its first three seasons on beaches, with waves crashing against the rocks a common motif as White’s spoiled or otherwise disaffected guests and their harried minders at the resort clash on the coast. For this season, however, White suggested on the White Lotus podcast after the season three finale that for season four, he’d “want to get a little bit out of the crashing waves against the rocks vernacular.”

Will Sharpe and Meghann Fahy in "The White Lotus." Photograph by Fabio Lovino/HBO
Will Sharpe and Meghann Fahy in “The White Lotus.” Photograph by Fabio Lovino/HBO

The White Lotus producer David Bernad told The Hollywood Reporter this past summer that while he couldn’t share White’s ideas for season four, he was confident in them. “I think it’s going to speak to culture in a way that […] is going to be relevant,” Bernad told THR. “I don’t want to say too much [other than] I know what it is and where it’s going, and it’s really exciting and I think people will be happy about the direction of season four.”

Featured image: Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, Michelle Monaghan. Photograph by Courtesy of HBO

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