Did You Catch That Surprising Return in The White Lotus Season 3 Premiere?

Spoilers below.

The White Lotus Thailand has a bald white man problem. No, really. As a scene in the season 3 premiere comically reveals, there are actually a bunch of them at the resort. Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) is quick to point this out to her new friend, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), joking that these hairline-impaired travelers are secretly called LBHs, a.k.a. Losers Back Home, by the staff. One of them just so happens to be Chloe’s boyfriend. But this bald white man, unlike the other visitors, is not a newcomer. He’s Greg Hunt, who appeared in the first two seasons of the show.

Jon Gries as Greg in The White Lotus.

Greg (Jon Gries) first appeared in the White Lotus Maui in season 1, where he met Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) and fell for her… or her money. For starters, he lied about having a terminal illness, which Tanya eventually paid to help treat. In season 2, he takes his then-wife Tanya on a trip to Sicily but leaves abruptly for a suspicious work trip to Denver (he said he works at the “Bureau of Land Management”), leaving Tanya behind. It’s revealed at the end of the season that Greg’s sudden exit was for nefarious reasons: He collaborated with Quentin (Tom Hollander) to murder Tanya, so that he could inherit her wealth. Tanya figures this all out in the iconic “These gays, they’re trying to kill me!” episode and ends up shooting them out in a blaze before falling off the boat and dying. At the time, we didn’t know what happened to Greg, but now we do.

Earlier in season 2, Gries skirted around the question of whether Greg was with Tanya for her money or not. “I think Greg has become accustomed to being taken care of in this situation. At the same time, I don’t think he’s uncomfortable living that lifestyle, and I think that he would live that lifestyle if he had money of his own,” he told Entertainment Weekly in 2022.

Greg and Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) in The White Lotus season 2.

Though Greg doesn’t say much in this season 3 episode, Chloe reveals that they live together near the Thailand resort, which means he quickly rebounded from Tanya and seems to be able to afford frequent visits to The White Lotus. His comeback poses even more questions: Is Greg behind the murder this season too? Should we be worried for Chloe? Or is Greg actually the next victim? If it were up to Jennifer Coolidge, it would be the latter.

“My hope for Greg is that he ends up in some horrific jail somewhere. I think dying would be just too good, too easy for him,” she told Deadline after the season 2 finale, which saw her character’s demise. “He’s a really creepy guy and was plotting this woman’s murder. From the beginning, he saw a woman with a lot of money and wanted to take it from her, and take her life. So, I think he deserves a terrible fate.”

We’ll see if he meets that fate in season 3.