Shows Like ‘The White Lotus’ You Should Watch Next

The next season of HBO’s salacious, schadenfreude-rich comedy-drama The White Lotus won’t be released until October, so you’ll have to wait months to witness the antics of an all-new all-star cast (Helena Bonham Carter! Heather Graham! Rosie Perez! Sandra Bernhard!) as they journey to paradise and encounter murder, mystery, and the inevitable consequences of their own greed. In the meantime, here are 10 other shows about rich people getting their comeuppance (or not) in lush locations.

The perfect couple (2024)

Although the cast includes names like Nicole Kidman, Liev Schreiber and Dakota Fanning, the real star of The perfect couple is Donna Lynne Champlin as Nikki Henry, a police detective who has no idea what she’s getting herself into when she shows up in a wealthy Massachusetts island community to investigate a dead body on a beach. The beach is adjacent to a lavish mansion that’s hosting a society wedding involving some of the most self-satisfied rich people you’ll ever meet on television. Kidman plays novelist Greer Garrison Winbury, the groom’s mother. She has nothing but icy contempt for her future daughter-in-law, who committed the cardinal sin of growing up in poverty. As in The White Lotusthe murder reveals the secrets and flaws of a seemingly “perfect” family. Flow The perfect couple on Netflix.

The station (2022)

With Christin Milioti and William Jackson Harper (The right place). this one plays a bit like a romantic drama White Lotus– the setup and setting are similar, but it’s much more about relationships than social status. A couple celebrating their tenth anniversary arrive at a luxury resort in the Yucatan, but things are not as happy as they appear on the surface. Their marriage is slowly collapsing, but a young woman who disappeared 15 years earlier could bring them together. The mystery has threads that tie into the couple’s secrets, as well as the obscure history of the station itself; ultimately, things travel into even stranger territory than we’ve yet encountered on The White Lotus. Flow The station on Peacock.

Nine complete strangers (2021 – )

It’s Nicole Kidman again, this time as Masha Dmitrichenko, director of the chic wellness resort Tranquillum House. The nine strangers of the title (each season has a different all-star cast – sound familiar?) show up hoping for a little healing, but get much more than they bargained for from the mostly well-meaning, but shady and mysterious Masha. She secretly drugs them, for one thing, and her therapeutic program includes things like digging her own grave. It’s pretty crazy, but no one ever said personal growth would be easy. Flow Nine complete strangers on Hulu.

The return (2005 – )

Although it’s significantly less deadly and generally a lot funnier than The White LotusThis is another show about clueless rich people going through life fairly amicably while only occasionally realizing how fragile their self-esteem is when tied solely to money and status. Lisa Kudrow is brilliant as middle-aged actress Valerie Cherish, who plotted one comeback after another over the course of three seasons airing over two decades. Her utter shamelessness in her quest for greater fame is both admirable and embarrassing, even as the series makes clear that women face different burdens in their efforts to maintain relevance. It’s the ultimate dark comedy. Flow The return on HBO Max.

Big little lies (2017 – )

Just like with The White Lotuspart of the thrill of Big little lies is about watching very rich, very attractive, very white (mostly) women facing hard times in beautiful places (in this case, Monterey, California). And as on The White Lotusany threat to the status quo can lead to big drama, at least as much as small differences in the perception of wealth. In the first season, five women (played by Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Shailene Woodley, Laura Dern and Zoë Kravitz) are drawn into a murder investigation linked to a school fundraiser that threatens to expose all their private dirt. are many secrets to discover. Flow Big little lies on HBO Max.

Billions (2016 – 2023)

Billions doesn’t really have the bite to White Lotusbut it’s still a lot of fun, starring Paul Giamatti as the rather ruthless U.S. attorney Chuck Rhoades (based in part on the real Preet Bharara), who works to bring down shady hedge fund manager Bobby Axelrod (Damian Lewis). The tone is that of a darkly comic soap opera, and it stays fresh for seven seasons by playing on the contrast between Axelrod’s willingness to use all the money and power at his disposal to stay on top and get out of prison, and Rhoades’ willingness to resort to shady and not-quite-legal tactics to reel in his big fish. Stream Billions on Paramount+ and Prime Video.

Enlightened (2011 – 2013)

Before The White LotusMike White co-created (with star Laura Dern) this beloved, albeit short-lived, comedy-drama about a middle-aged woman who suffers a complete nervous breakdown following a demotion at the job she has dedicated her life to. After a two-month stay at a holistic treatment center, Dern’s Amy Jellicoe is determined to approach life with a new perspective, focusing on meditation and positive change at work and at home. The results are mixed, but there’s also a quite nice sense that while change is absurd and difficult, it’s also entirely possible (in this, it’s perhaps much less cynical than White’s later series). Flow Enlightened on HBO Max.

Mine (2021)

South Korean television creators have no problem criticizing the ultra-rich, particularly the plutocratic chaebol families who control huge swaths of the country’s economy. Mine target the women who fight for control of the massive fictional Hyowon Group from their family’s outrageously opulent (and extremely photogenic) residential compound. The plans of two increasingly powerful women who married into the family, Hi-soo and Seo-hyun, are upended when the new housekeeper begins a romantic relationship with one of the family’s male heirs, while a new guardian seems ready to reveal old family secrets. It’s a Dynasty-soap opera-style, but one that’s not particularly enthralled by its wealthy characters, and with a self-awareness that leads to moments of dark comedy as various family members creep on each other in pursuit of power. Flow Mine on Netflix.

The prisoner (1967-1968)

Do you want a show with a beautiful setting that confronts questions of identity and authoritarianism in a capitalist context? Fifty years later, The prisoner remains one of television’s most striking dystopias — and it’s set in a candy-colored, pop-art-inspired village that actually looks like a great place to relax. Creator/director Patrick McGoohan plays Number Six, who resigned from his government post as a matter of conscience. Apparently knowing too much, he is knocked unconscious and taken to the isolated and inescapable “Village” which is full of other people with numbers and no names. The Village has all the comforts and amenities one could dream of, and most are perfectly content there, but rebellious Number Six cannot appreciate a luxurious environment that feels like a gilded cage to him. This surreal, psychedelic series builds to a wild conclusion as the mystery of where he really is and why plays out, and makes as good an argument against the heartbreaking impacts of consumer culture and conformity as anything on television. Flow The prisoner on Prime Video and Tubi.

Your friends and neighbors (2025 – )

In Your friends and neighborsJon Hamm plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a recently divorced and recently unemployed New York hedge fund manager. In an effort to maintain the illusion that nothing in his life has changed, he begins breaking into his wealthy neighbors’ homes to steal and sell their belongings, also inadvertently discovering their secrets. This dark comedy isn’t exactly about how difficult it is to be a once-wealthy white man, but neither is it a pointed lesson in the downfalls of toxic masculinity: Coop is an insider forced into the role of an outsider (playing an insider), giving him a unique perspective on the artifice at the center of a life based on the display of wealth. Flow Your friends and neighbors on Apple TV.