The White Lotus (2021)

The benchmark for luxury-resort misery. Mike White's anthology checks a fresh set of wealthy guests into a different White Lotus hotel each season, first on Maui, then on Sicily's coast, then in Thailand, and lets a week of sun, spa treatments and room upgrades curdle into resentment, class warfare and, as each season's opening scene warns, a death. It works because the staff suffer as much as the guests, and the comedy is so uncomfortable you laugh through your fingers. Each season stands alone, so you can start with whichever destination you'd least like to be stranded in. Expect a slow first couple of episodes before the knives come out.