This Forgotten Peacock Show Is Like ‘The White Lotus’ With All The Clues You Were Missing

Now that The White Lotus season 3 has ended, we’re all collectively decompressing, right?

For many who watched the recent finale, the end of the characters’ stories were a little disappointing. The obvious people died and the people who deserved a little hardship lived on. And for those disappointed viewers, they got an explanation in return: The White Lotus isn’t a murder mystery–it’s about characters and there just happens to also be a murder. But what if you wanted a show that had tropical resort vibes that made you want to make your own murder board, red yarn connecting images of every little clue? In that case, you can go back and watch this forgotten gem from Peacock: The Resort.

I was absolutely obsessed with this show when it came out in 2022, including devising wild theories about every little clue before the finale dropped. And three years later, I’m still thinking about it. So now you can, too! (Don’t worry–I’m not going to spoil it for you.)

What is Peacock’s The Resort about?

Noah (William Jackson Harper )and Emma (Cristin Milioti) are on vacation in Mexico and, after an accident on an ATV, Emma stumbles upon an old cell phone. She gets it restored by a local tech shop and discovers through the images and texts in the phone that it was owned by a college kid who had gone missing 15 years earlier–the same summer that his resort was wiped out by a hurricane.

Emma and her husband Noah team up to figure out where this guy and another resort goer had gone missing and why mysterious and otherworldly clues keep finding them. Meanwhile, we get a glimpse back in time with a split perspective between 2007 and 2022. Why did Sam (Skyler Gisondo) and Violet (Nina Bloomgarden) go missing, and what’s connecting them to Emma and Noah 15 years later?

What makes it so special?

As an avid fan of shows that make you think, I loved the way The Resort piled on the clues and intrigue. Every episode of its 8-episode run was filled with clues large and small to puzzle over as you tried to crack the mysteries at the heart of the show. And some of the theories you can come up with are pretty massive. What bridges the gap between the timelines? Why these two groups of people? What makes them special. And what’s with the painting? (You’ll understand that question when you get there.) If you were looking for a show like Lost or Severance that makes you think, then The Resort will scratch that itch.

The one caveat.

Alas, no show is perfect, and there’s one major downside that may make you want to skip it: The final episode. Although the creator of The Resort, Andy Siara, told Deadline that all the characters’ stories wrapped up nicely in the end–meaning they wouldn’t be in subsequent non-existent seasons–I have to wholeheartedly disagree. So many threads were left unanswered. If you were someone who was disappointed in how Lost ended (I’m not one of them), then you’ll find the same kind of disappointment here. And yet…

Even though I was bummed with how the show ended, I still think about it all the time. I think about how amazing most of the episodes were, sans-finale. I think about all the cool clues that dropped in each episode. The locale, the characters, the intrigue. And since I’m planning a rewatch, you may want to see it, too.

Watch The Resort on Peacock.