My finger ever on the pulse, as the rest of the world raves about series two of The White Lotus, I’ve been catching up on the first series.

After the first two episodes, Wendy declared it to be “too silly”, but I thought it was marvellous. The series follows an ensemble cast of mostly cartoonish, unlikeable characters spending time at (or working in) a luxury resort in Hawaii. There were six episodes covering a period of a week. It was perfectly paced and uproariously funny, with well-chosen and very current tropes skewered. It was also outstandingly well soundtracked.

This is definitely not a series to judge from its first episode: the premiere has an arc whose pace does not really fit with the gradually increasing tension of the rest of the series. I wonder whether it was a pilot episode that would have benefitted from more reworking when the series was green-lit.

But I’m nitpicking. This was one of the best new comedies I’ve streamed in a long time, and I look forward to diving in to the second series.