Skip to content
TVTitles

The White Lotus

2021–HBODrama

Rate it

Colonial wallpaper that will not behave — painted paradise curdling into something predatory while the resort's guests are nowhere in it. Rebuilt from scratch for each new location, with a new theme every time.

The White Lotus rebuilt its titles: three distinct opening sequences are catalogued here across seasons 1–3, running between 91 and 115 seconds.

At 115 seconds at its longest, it opens well above the 50-second median for drama sequences in this catalogue.

It arrived on HBO in 2021, when Curb Your Enthusiasm, In Treatment and The Jinx were also on the network.

Only 139 of the 2,618 shows catalogued here changed their titles at all; The White Lotus did so two times.

XFacebookPinterest

All 3 opening title sequences

Season 1

91s

Hawaii. Tropical wallpaper turning rotten as the camera holds on it, over Cristobal Tapia de Veer's first theme.

Season 2

104s

Sicily. The wallpaper becomes Renaissance fresco and classical statuary, and the theme is rebuilt around opera — the same idea relocated rather than repeated.

Season 3

115s

Thailand. Temple murals and animals replace the frescoes, and the theme drops the vocal hook the first two seasons were known for — a change enough of the audience objected to that it became its own story.

More drama opening titles from the 2020s