The Mike White touch: When Piper argues to Tim that he and Victoria did not really raise their children to be religious, Tim lapses into a reverie about his days as an altar boy, then softly sings “Lo How a Rose E’er Blooming” to himself.

With the third season of HBO’s The White Lotus nearing its dramatic conclusion, the question looms: will this cultural phenomenon return for another round of biting satire and lavish intrigue? Or has the Lotus finally reached the end of its bloom?