IT'S BEEN A little over two years since we last took a visit to a White Lotus resort. And while that's just about par for the course in the modern television landscape, you only really begin to realize just how much you've been missing writer/director Mike White's razor sharp world and characters once you're back in.

Just like seasons 1 and 2 before it, season 3 of “The White Lotus” introduced a mysterious death during episode 1. Belinda’s ( Natasha Rothwell) son, Zion (Nicholas Duvernay), heard gunshots and saw a dead body floating in a pond, but we don’t yet know who was facedown in the water or who was shooting.