T he third season of The White Lotus opens with a shot of a monkey in a tree, and that's not the only time the animal makes an appearance in the premiere (or the rest of the season, for that matter).

So what does all this monkey business mean for the season? There's a scene where Laurie steps out onto her balcony and sees a troop of monkeys skittering up some trees. She runs in, elated, to ...