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.

The White Lotus creator Mike White previously said that the third season will focus on spirituality, but it’s only in episode 5 that this theme really starts to appear.

Series creator Mike White had teased that Season 3 would be a much darker installment in The White Lotus, even musing that "the other seasons were a rehearsal for this one" during an interview with Time.