19 clever details you might have missed in season 3 of 'The White Lotus'

All three main title themes for "The White Lotus" were composed by Cristobal Tapia de Veer (who won't return for season four), and each one takes inspiration from its season's location.

Season one's "Aloha!" paid homage to Hawaiian sounds and rhythms. Meanwhile, season two's viral "Renaissance" ditched the tropics for a tune that transformed from an operatic build to a club banger with 25 million streams on Spotify.

Season three's "Enlightenment" draws from Thai sounds and harkens back to the season's overall theme of Eastern spirituality.

"The song changes every season, and it reflects the tone, mood, and the themes of the season," Gabe Hilfer, the show's music supervisor, told Rolling Stone. "The theme songs for the first two seasons were a little bit more related creatively, but they're totally different songs. Season three is about spirituality, and it's meant to be reflective of that."

Sarah Catherine Hook's name is accompanied by artwork of a woman meditating, which is appropriate since her character, Piper Ratliff, is a religious studies major who refers to herself as a Buddhist.

Patrick Schwarzenegger, who plays the eldest — and horniest — Ratliff sibling, Saxon, is credited alongside an image of two men ogling at a topless woman. The artwork could be meant to foreshadow the character's incestuous threesome.

Ratliff patriarch Timothy (Jason Isaacs), who's in some kind of financial peril, is depicted by a man stuck in a tree — also foreshadowing Timothy's dark turn in the season finale, when he almost poisons himself and his family with toxic seeds from cerbera odollam, known as "suicide fruit" by Thai locals, which grows on trees at the resort.

Mook (Lalisa Manobal) and Gaitok's (Tayme Thapthimthong) sweet flirtation is mirrored by a woman and a man smiling under an umbrella. But the imagery for Thapthimthong's title card — a man trying to tame a vicious tiger — alludes to Gaitok's work struggles this season.

Nivola plays the youngest Ratliff sibling, Lochlan, who nearly dies in the season finale by accidental poisoning.

As Lochlan slowly loses consciousness, he hallucinates himself drowning while four figures resembling Buddhist monks gaze down from the surface. (Earlier in the season, a Buddhist monk tells Lochlan's father that death is a "return to the water you come from.")

The opening credits allude to this near-fatal twist, showing Nivola's name next to a man on his back in the water. He may be floating, drowning, or, much like Lochlan in this scene, stuck in limbo between the open air and the watery depths.

As the Ratliff family travels via boat to the White Lotus resort, siblings Saxon, Piper, and Lochlan sit on a bench in a row. They seem to unintentionally align with the old proverb "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil," which is usually symbolized by three monkeys in different poses.

Saxon's sunglasses cover his eyes (see no evil), Piper wears headphones over her ears (hear no evil), and Lochlan's mouth is covered as he drinks from a bottle (speak no evil).

Season three certainly hasn't been subtle with the monkey symbolism. Time reported that there are more than 140 monkey statues sprinkled throughout Four Seasons Resort Koh Samui, one of the filming locations. These statues and the monkeys that the cameras linger on between scenes reflect the mischief and hijinks taking place at the resort.

Saxon and Lochlan have swapped places in the lineup and the latter wears sunglasses, assuming the role of "see no evil."

Interestingly, Piper isn't wearing headphones in this scene, but her eyes are also closed. This is likely a nod to her epiphany in the finale — that she's "spoiled" and doesn't want to live without creature comforts — after spending one night in a Buddhist monastery.

Meanwhile, Saxon has shed his sunglasses and seems to be heading down a more positive path. Instead of closing his eyes to his wealth and privilege, he reads one of the books that Chelsea gave him: "Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living" by Pema Chödrön.

Saxon is from a wealthy family and his attire and accessories reflect that. In the show, he's seen wearing the Hublot Big Bang Unico Black Magic 44mm watch, which retails for $23,000.

In fact, all the luxury watches featured in "The White Lotus" seem carefully chosen to align with each character's personality and backstory.

Belinda sees them while dining and waves, happy to encounter other Black people at the resort who aren't staff.

The husband-and-wife duo is played by Carl Boudreaux and Natalie Cole, both of whom competed against "The White Lotus" creator, writer, and director Mike White in the reality TV show "Survivor: David vs. Goliath."

Ke Huy Quan told Entertainment Tonight that he's a big fan of the show and said yes right away when he was asked to be part of season three.

The Oscar-winning actor's character Kenneth Nguyen, aka Kenny, is first referenced during the season three premiere when Timothy Ratliff takes a call from a journalist at The Wall Street Journal who's running a story about a shady business deal Kenny made. Timothy is connected because he did Kenny a favor and helped him set up a fund called Sho-Kel as part of some plan involving money laundering and bribery.

Timothy finally gets a hold of Kenny near the end of episode two. Quan doesn't appear in the episode, but his voice is clearly heard panicking on the other end of the line as they discuss why the Journal is investigating them.

"Fuck me, I'm done," Kenny tells Timothy, after explaining that 20 agents just raided his office and have his accounts, emails, and documents.

Kenny continues ranting and says that a whistleblower in his office snitched on him to the media. Details about the business deal are sparse, but Kenny says that he never should have taken a position in Brunei, but the money was too good to pass up.

Kenny also confirms that Timothy is "for sure" implicated.

In episode two, right before a masked man robs the hotel's store, Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) asks an employee if she can look at a snake choker. Although Chelsea is unharmed, the near-death experience with the robber leaves her shaken.

Then in episode three, she and her boyfriend Rick (Walton Goggins) attend a snake show. But Rick, who feels sympathetic toward the snakes, goes rogue and releases a bunch of them from their cages. As soon as Chelsea sees what Rick has done, she's bit in the leg by a venomous snake and rushed to a hospital.

When Jaclyn, Kate, and Laurie meet Valentin's (Arnas Fedaravičius) friends during episode four, Aleksei (Julian Kostov) shows off a large snake tattoo on his body. Snake imagery is prevalent throughout season three, and, in some interpretations, is associated with evil.

Sure enough, in episode seven, Gaitok notices the tattoo and realizes that Valentin and his two friends were behind the robbery earlier in the season. Aleksei is the one who stole from the hotel's gift shop and hit Gaitok on the head.

Rockwell's casting as Frank, a recovering alcoholic and sex addict, was kept secret from viewers until the character shows up to meet Rick in Bangkok.

Rockwell and Bibb, who plays Kate, have been dating in real life for nearly 18 years. They met at Chateau Marmont in West Hollywood in 2007 and they went on their first date shortly after.

"I think three weeks later, I was, like, 'I love you so much,'" she told Rosie O'Donnell during an appearance on "The Rosie Show."

Bibb and Rockwell's characters don't overlap in "The White Lotus" — but Rockwell and Goggins, whose characters do team up, also have a long history as friends in real life.

"You do eventually see Rick in his environment, with his friend, who's [played by] Sam Rockwell, who's also one of my best friends," Goggins told The Hollywood Reporter. "And this very taciturn guy in all of this pain is suddenly enjoying himself, and I waited a long time to have that. I waited a long time to be around people that I could connect with in this experience because that was Rick's experience. I had that as soon as Sam walked through the door."

Christian Hubicki and his girlfriend Emily have cameos as a couple talking in the background at the club that Kate, Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan), and Laurie (Carrie Coon) visit.

In her brief time in Thailand, Chelsea's life has already been in danger, first when the robber pointed a gun at her and then when she got bitten by a snake. It makes sense that she'd have a charm intended to protect her from evil.

After a debaucherous night at the full moon party in episode six, Saxon wakes up hungover the next morning, stumbles out of bed, and mistakenly puts on Lochlan's bird-and-flower-patterned shorts instead of his own striped pair.

As the episode progresses, Saxon pieces together fragments of the night before and realizes that his "brotherly love" with Lochlan went a little too far, resulting in a threesome.

Chelsea is a spiritual person who believes her much older boyfriend, Rick, is her soulmate. It makes sense that her poolside read would be a book of mystical poetry.

Jaclyn appears to be at the start of the 900-page memoir, and probably won't make much progress on her drama-filled getaway with her friends.

"When Things Fall Apart" is another gift from Chelsea, who offers to help Saxon on his spiritual journey. According to the author's website, the book draws from "traditional Buddhist wisdom" to offer "radical and compassionate advice for what to do when things fall apart in our lives."

Meanwhile, Lochlan is shown reading a book called "A Wall of Ocean," which doesn't seem to exist in real life. The title is more likely intended to foreshadow his watery hallucination later in the episode.

Earlier in the season, Lochlan is shown reading Knut Hamsun's Nobel prize winner "Hunger," a landmark of existential fiction.

In another scene, their mother, Victoria (Parker Posey), reads "The Beautiful and Damned" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, a novel set in the hedonistic Jazz Age.

Michael Cory, the props master on season three, told The Guardian that he worked closely with Mike White to pair each character with appropriate titles.

"Once the actors arrived, we would meet to discuss all the little details that make up their characters and it became much easier to see the whole person," Cory said. "'The Beautiful and Damned,' I originally intended for Jaclyn, but it ended up being perfect for Victoria, and 'The Lonely City' by Olivia Laing [a book about isolation and creativity] was bought for Laurie but we ended up giving it to Piper."

Throughout the season, Chelsea wears a gold pendant emblazoned with the words "Stay Gold."

TikToker Tara Gonzalez identified the necklace as the "Stay Gold Pendant and Golden Tag Necklace" from Flo London, which retails for over $10,000.

The product description reads, "Inspired by the 1983 film 'The Outsiders,' a story of loyalty and the search for meaning, the Stay Gold Pendant and Golden Tag Necklace reimagines the classic dog tag as a symbol of hope and staying true to oneself."

"Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold" is the movie's most famous line — itself a reference to a Robert Frost poem — delivered by Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio) as a reminder to stay optimistic and innocent, even in the face of tragedy. However, the original line from Frost's poem is, "Nothing gold can stay."

Johnny dies shortly after delivering the line, mirroring Chelsea's fate.

Earlier in the season, Chelsea tells Saxon that she and Rick are like Yin and Yang, a symbol of harmony and balance in Eastern philosophy.

"It's like we're in this yin and yang battle, and I'm hope, and Rick is pain," she says. "Eventually, one of us will win."

Chelsea dies by an errant bullet after Rick submits to his violent impulses, steals a gun, and kills his father. Their bodies fall into the water, where they float side-by-side. Rick is face up, while Chelsea is face down — symbolizing the triumph of pain over hope.