To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a webbrowser that supports HTML5video The third season of hit series The White Lotus has come under fire after falling victim to a harmful Hollywood trope. The popular show is hooked around a murder mystery each season as the audience follows an eclectic group of hotel guests staying at the titular luxury resort chain . The first season, starring Alexandra Daddario, Sydney Sweeney and Murray Bartlett was set in Maui while the second season – featuring Aubrey Plaza, Leo Woodall and Theo James – took place in Sicily.
Comedic icon Jennifer Coolidge has starred in both seasons as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt. Now, as viewers eagerly anticipate the new episodes set in Thailand, many have been left bitterly disappointed at the first look. The simple six second clip shows the return of season one star Natasha Rothwell, as the fresh crop of elite hotel patrons land in another dreamy looking location where disaster will surely ensue.
The voiceover, goes: ‘What happens in the Thailand, stays in Thailand.’ However, fans have been quick to point out that the entire clip is colour-graded with a yellow-sepia hue that is quintessential of older Hollywood films set in non-Western areas from Mexico to the Middle East. The dusty filter has long been slammed as derogatory, harmful and ‘racist’ representation of the global South.
‘Can we please stop putting a yellow filter on every movie/TV show that takes place outside o.