The White Lotus is adding Heather Graham, Rosie Perez, Ben Schnetzer, Tobias Santelmann, Frida Gustavsson, and Laura Smet to its Season 4 cast.

At this point, Mike White's resort-set anthology is HBO's most reliable prestige product. Succession ended. The Last of Us takes years between seasons. Euphoria can't get its act together. But The White Lotus? Mike White cranks out a new season, everyone watches, people argue about the ending, repeat.

Season 4 reportedly takes place in Thailand, which tracks with the show's pattern of increasingly exotic locales. Hawaii was accessible. Sicily was romantic. Thailand suggests White is leaning into more complicated cultural dynamics—tourism, exploitation, the gap between Western wealth and local reality.

The cast additions are interesting. Heather Graham hasn't had a major TV role in years. Rosie Perez is always great. The international names suggest the show is continuing to expand beyond American tourists behaving badly, which is smart—that well was drying up.

Here's the thing about The White Lotus: it works because Mike White is very good at making you hate-watch rich people while also finding unexpected empathy in the margins. Every season has a character you expect to despise who ends up revealing something human. That's harder than it looks.

But the formula is also getting predictable. Dysfunctional guests, put-upon staff, beautiful location, murder mystery, ambiguous ending. At some point, the show risks becoming .