What if "The White Lotus" filmed its new season in the other South of France, the one with stains?

It will therefore be in Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, this peninsula wedged between Nice and Monaco, a discreet paradise for the ultra-rich wanting to treat themselves to a slice of the Mediterranean, that the series "The White Lotus" will set up its cameras during the filming of its fourth season. After Hawaii, Sicily and Thailand, the French Mediterranean coast will be put under the scanner of Mike White, the Simenon of the upper classes on a spree. This was to be expected, as the course of the HBO Max series follows the steps of the luxury hotel group Four Seasons, which, in France, only stops in the capital, Megève and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat. Personally, we would have preferred the showrunner to confront his visitors for the first time with the mountains, their slopes, their cold and its precipices rather than another swim between yachts and infinity pools.
However, the mere presence of the naturist beach on one side of the peninsula and the so-called "Little Africa" beach on the other opens up abysses of storytelling possibilities. Let's remind those who are still unaware that the principle of the series consists of confronting a group of c…

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