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.

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.

While most episodes of “The White Lotus” roughly follow one day of vacay for the hapless luxury travelers, episode 5 of the third season of this sprawling Mike White-created series lingers on the night of the Full Moon party in Thailand,