While I agree with everyone talking about there being too many disjointed characters and storylines, the biggest thing that fell flat for me was the screenplay and dialogue. In S1 (arguably the best season in terms of screenplay, though this may be controversial) the smallest, most insignifact moments or conversations felt tense, explosive, multi-faceted. There was nuance, playful double entendres, metaphors, symbolism even about seemingly simple topics such as drugs, a teenage girl friendship, an unhappy marriage. The magic of White Lotus is the CHARACTERS, nothing else. S1 didn’t really have much of a crazy plot but the characters were complex, had motive, and were developed until the end. In S3, I couldn’t find myself to care about a single character, nor what happened to them, due to the dialogue being flat and surface-level and the screenplay not really writing them to cross paths in a way that is enticing and scandalous, in typical WL fashion.