When it dropped into the middle of our second pandemic summer, HBO’s “The White Lotus” was just what the TV therapist ordered. Set in a gorgeous Hawaiian resort where only the rich could afford to play, filmmaker Mike White’s enthralling 2021 black comedy was both weirdly comforting and wonderfully diverting. Like us, these pampered visitors were living in a “Groundhog Day” bubble, and it made them more than a little crazy. Unlike us, their collective island fever resulted not in fights over who polished off the last of the Peanut M&M’s/hand-sanitizer/printer paper, but in soap-opera blow-ups,…
