Reviewing The White Lotus’s first four episodes last year, I wrote in this magazine that the HBO dramedy was entertaining enough as a character study but lacked bite as a satire. Yes, the Hawaiian resort-set series appeared to mock late-model sexual orthodoxies, but what about a new-age “wellness” subplot that begged to be sneered at and wasn’t? Yes, the ultrawoke were (seemingly) skewered alongside the ultrarich, but could that “read” really be trusted given the blurring line between straight-faced leftist overreach and parody?