Murray Bartlett on filming The White Lotus: ‘How do we deal with our white privileged guilt?’

The Australian star of slow-burn social thriller The White Lotus talks wealth, race and class

In the penultimate episode of the first season of The White Lotus, a couple on their honeymoon - whose relationship is already fraying - get a tour of their new hotel suite. Leading them is resort manager Armond, who points out that they can, actually, see the beach from this room - they just need to step onto the patio, and peer around the volcano.

There's no better metaphor for the tensions, big and small, that have been percolating since the moment these guests first arrived in Mike White's new HBO series - a show that's become a rare moment of appointment viewing in our various states of lockdown, and which was renewed for a second season last week.