While Waiting For The White Lotus Season 4, Watch Netflix's Divisive Murder Mystery Show From Last Year Starring 2 Actors From Mike White's Series -

While waiting for the next group of guests to arrive in The White Lotus season 4, Netflix’s murder mystery show from 2024 provides a similarly entertaining viewing experience. With The White Lotus season 3 only being eight episodes long, the Thailand-set outing’s conclusion felt like it had arrived rather quickly following a nearly three-year gap after the season 2 finale. Though The White Lotus season 4 has been confirmed, it’s unclear how long it’ll take for the HBO series to return, increasing the need to find similar shows to watch in the meantime.

Since its 2021 debut, The White Lotus has had a big hold on the market for black comedy satire murder mysteries, with Mike White’s anthology series following the staff and wealthy guests at different fictional White Lotus resort locations around the world. Each star-studded season begins by revealing that someone dies at the end of the week, leaving audiences to guess the killer and victim’s identities. Other studios have put out their own TV answers to the satirical murder mystery craze, with Netflix’s 2024 Nicole Kidman-starring miniseries containing some of the trademarks that have made The White Lotus so popular.

The Perfect Couple’s Themes & Murder Mystery Setup Are Similar To The White Lotus

It’s A Great Next Show To Watch After The White Lotus

Like The White Lotus, Netflix’s 2024 series The Perfect Couple begins by revealing that a major character dies. However, The Perfect Couple operates more as a whodunit, as we know exactly who dies and have to try to figure out who killed her. Also similarly to The White Lotus, The Perfect Couple’s cast of characters are centered around a wealthy, privileged family at a lavish beachfront location, though we also have several figures who don’t come from money. That said, they each bring plenty of secrets and twists that could have led them to commit murder.

Title	Rotten Tomatoes Score
The White Lotus	90%
The Perfect Couple	65%

The Perfect Couple’s closest similarities to The White Lotus lie in its tone and themes, satirizing the ultra-rich while tackling the murder mystery and family dynamics through black comedy. However, while The White Lotus is masterful when it comes to the darker, more dramatic, and bleak themes of its story, The Perfect Couple struggles with that balance. As such, while both are entertaining murder mysteries, The Perfect Couple’s 65% Rotten Tomatoes score being so much lower than The White Lotus’ 90% overall rating reflects the differences in how effectively their overall narratives are executed.

The White Lotus’ Sam Nivola & Meghann Fahy Also Star In The Perfect Couple

Daphne & Lochlan’s Actors Were Also On The Perfect Couple

The overlap between The White Lotus and The Perfect Couple doesn’t stop at their themes and premises. The two shows also share some major cast members. Meghann Fahy, who portrayed Daphne in The White Lotus season 2’s cast, stars in The Perfect Couple as Merritt, who is revealed to have been killed in the first episode. Additionally, The White Lotus season 3’s Lochlan Ratliff actor Sam Nivola stars in The Perfect Couple as Will, the youngest son of the show’s main Winbury family.

Sam Nivola imagery from The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus.

The White Lotus Season 3 Creates A Weird Actor Trend After Netflix’s Hit Murder Mystery Series From Last Year

Actor Sam Nivola seems to be cementing a future in the murder mystery genre, as he plays, once again, a shy rich kid in The White Lotus’ season 3.

Considering there are already some shared cast members between The Perfect Couple and The White Lotus, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see more actors from Netflix’s series pop up in the HBO show’s future outings. Nicole Kidman has already expressed interest in joining The White Lotus (via IndieWire), with big names like Dakota Fanning and Liev Schreiber also being great choices to potentially join The White Lotus season 4’s cast. Of course, there’s always the opportunity for The Perfect Couple’s Fahy and Nivola to reprise their roles from The White Lotus if Mike White goes ahead with his “all-stars” season idea.

Sources: Rotten Tomatoes, IndieWire