Smart, funny, and compulsively watchable, HBO’s “The White Lotus” is a TV satire that strikes a perfect balance between vicious and empathetic, skewering the superrich while humanizing their outlandish foibles. The series follows wealthy tourists at a luxury resort whose dream vacation turns deadly, yet remains alluring. For readers seeking similar themes, novels like “If you want to open on a dead body” by Amina Akhtar, “The Hunting Party” by Lucy Foley, and “Salisbury Square” by Emma Rosenblum offer rich depictions of the wealthy behaving badly, with murder mysteries and dark humor.
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