That had me looking for a 4 Seasons hotel in Colombia, and here it is, the Casa Medina in Bogotá. Would that make a good location from Season 4? I checked out some of the rooms and found this:
April 9, 2025
"Mike White is headed to Colombia. Will #TheWhiteLotus follow him there for Season 4?"
The Howard Stern Show writes on Instagram:
Those are some pretty aggressive contrasts and angles, but you could lean into the "Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" mood:
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"I LOVE IT!" - M.C. Escher
From that headline I thought Mike White was teaching some class at Columbia. And I was looking forward to a new mini-series based on Ivy League drama. Oops.
Tudor madness.
I do like the fireplaces in those rooms.
Is he taking Rachel Zegler back with him?
Can we get her locked up in a Colombian prison?
Or do they have a "no returns, no exchanges" policy?
White was a decent head football coach back in the day at Cal and Illinois (Pac 8 and Big 10), but I doubt he's Ivy League material, so Columbia is out.
Never use the Escher GPS.
Rio de Janeiro would be a visually exotic location.
Fuck.
There. That was my very last "fuck", and I gave it for White Lotus. Whatever that is.
This is more replying to an earlier "White Lotus" post than this one - Mike White both wrote and co-starred in "School of Rock," I would recognize that face anywhere.
Us Lions get really annoyed when people mix up and misspell the University (with a U), with the country (with an O).
Sometimes a trip to Columbia is just picking up some extra cash working as a drug mule, sometimes it is scene scouting, there really is very little difference.
My wife and I spent 2 weeks in Columbia a couple of years ago, including 4 days in Bogota. We stayed in a beautifully refurbished old hotel in the old town La Candelaria area. It was wonderful, but the owners warned us, via a city map, of those places where you should never ever go, for your own safety, even during the day. But this isn't the Columbia of the Miami Vice era. The country is really trying to crack down on the drug cartels as they open up for tourism again. There were federal troops patrolling most areas we visited.
This just screams for an episode that involves a day tour to the Darien Gap, just up the road a bit. Just think of the scenarios!
Just started Season 3 of White Lotus. I'm halfway through the first episode and it looks promising.
Mike White also did another series for HBO, Enlightened. It wasn't as good as White Lotus but it was worth watching, which is better than most of what's on TV. He played a characher creppy, nebbish guy on that series and was good in the role.
Amexpat mentions "a characher creppy, nebbish guy." Nebbish and guy I know, but what is characher creppy?
From all that I've learned about it here, I doubt I would like the show, even without Ms Donkey Teeth.
The dress, the long hair, the smile, pretty girl.
@Narr,
Sorry, "characher" somehow creeped into that sentence. Not sure how, I think I was going to write "character" instead of "guy" in the sentence. I sometimes go through periods where my spelling and cognitive abilities falter. Not sure why.
The nebbish character played by Mike White wasn't in White Lotus. It was in Enlightened and starred Laura Dern who doesn't have Donkey teeth. The woman with Donkey teeth in the current season of White Lotus is very cute and engaging IMO.
Colombia
Mike White both wrote and co-starred in "School of Rock,"
That was his attempt at a normal kid's movie. Mike White goes to Disney world. Really fun. White Lotus is good, and School of Rock is really, really good. Jack Black's all-time best performance, and in a just universe he would have won the Oscar for that.
I just realized School of Rock is White and Black, working together in perfect harmony.
Should have won a Nobel peace prize for that.
I feel bad about my bad spelling. Colombia should feel worse. That is not how you pay tribute to Columbus!
Also, Columbus never actually sailed into Colombia. So I don't know what the hell they are doing.
It would be funny if the Wokes did some hate thing on Columbus day, and a bunch of Colombian protesters yelled at them for being racist and hating on their country.
Bogota?
Mike...Mike...Cartagena is the no-brainer for a Colombia-based TWL4. Jesus, man, look around the country a bit. Bogota??
Metástasis was a great show. It was as close to an exact Colombian copy of Breaking Bad as could possibly have been produced, so if you knew the original, you didn't need to know Spanish to follow the show.
I hated School of Rock. I gather it was supposed to be a comedy, but I didn't see anything funny in it. It was more like we were supposed to just find Jack Black's character so weird and outrageous that we convinced ourselves that he was funny when he wasn't. Or maybe we were supposed to think that a substitute teacher turning his class into a rock workshop was a hilarious concept. It wasn't.
St Croix: In Spanish, Christopher Columbus is called Cristobal Colon. We should rename the holiday to Colon Day - we would get most of the Latinos and all the proctologists to support it!
JSM
JSM, too funny
Poor Columbus, he can't catch a break.
Teacher: "We're going to celebrate the discovery of America by celebrating the search for cancer. Class, put your thumb up your ass."
Class: "Yea, Columbus!"
Teacher: "No, no, it's Colon, Senor Colon. He was financed by the Spaniards. And that's why we love him today. Don't forget to wash your hands."
I listened to the Stern/White piece last evening and was throughly entertained. Stern continues to be an engaging interviewer. H/T to Ms Althouse for the link!
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