The White Lotus Season 3 Premiere: Who That 'Bald Guy' Is and Why You Should Hate Him

Full spoilers follow for The White Lotus through Season 3, Episode 1.

While the new season of Mike White’s hit HBO show The White Lotus has of course given us a bunch of new characters to welcome, inspect, and judge, it also has seen the return of not one but two faces from past seasons. We already knew that Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda Lindsey would be back from Season 1, but in a surprise moment, Jon Gries’ Greg Hunt, also from Season 1 as well as Season 2, also appeared in this first episode. And you know we all hate Greg…

Let’s brush up on our Greg history, why he’s public enemy number one for White Lotus fans, and what his reappearance in the premiere might mean for the new season.

Greg, Belinda, and Tanya in The White Lotus Season 1

If The White Lotus’ ensemble casts have had a “star” player in the past, that honor would go to Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya McQuoid, the hilarious but sort of lost soul of the first two seasons. As with many of the clients of The White Lotus resort, Tanya was very wealthy but also troubled. When we first met her in Season 1, she was visiting the Maui White Lotus with the intention of spreading her recently passed mother’s ashes. Spa manager Belinda helped Tanya through her grief and anxiety, so much so that Tanya proposed financing Belinda so that she could start her own spa.

Tanya also met Greg here, and a romantic relationship began between the two. But Tanya, suffering from constant anxiety and self-doubt, was trepidatious about it. As she said to Belinda, “I just know I’m gonna get hurt.” Tanya tried to end the relationship with Greg as a result, but his apparent good cheer and compassion for Tanya assuaged her fears. (We’d eventually learn that she should’ve trusted her instincts.)

Eventually, Greg revealed to Tanya that he was suffering from a serious illness and that she shouldn’t be surprised if he “dropped dead” at any time. Deciding to leave with Greg for Honolulu, and then possibly move to Aspen to be closer to him, Tanya also opted to not go into business with Belinda. Belinda was crushed by this decision but perhaps not surprised in the end.

The Death of Tanya in Season 2

Tanya returned for Season 2, as did Greg for the first few episodes, when the pair vacationed at the White Lotus in Sicily. Now married, with Greg’s health issues resolved thanks to Tanya’s wealth, things have changed. The type of toxic relationship of her past that she worried about in Season 1 seems to have taken root with Greg, and his previously amorous attitude to Tanya has dissipated – when she prompts him for some action in the first episode of the season, he announces that he has to go wash up first because he has “swamp crotch,” for example. Romantico!

Later, Tanya hears Greg on the phone in the bathroom whispering. He claims it’s just a work thing, and she brushes it off. But then in Episode 2, when she wakes up in bed, she finds Greg just blankly staring into the middle distance. It’s an odd moment, but it passes as he claims he’s fine. At breakfast, Tanya describes her idea of a perfect day in Italy, and Greg, acting nicer than he did the day before, agrees to the plan. “It’s your day to shine,” he says. But that night he tells Tanya that he has to leave their vacation early for work and return to the U.S. This leads to an argument where he reminds her that she made him sign a prenup and that he can’t know that she won’t “discard” him at some point the way she has many of her friends and employees over the years. The episode ends with Greg sneaking a phone call where he tells the person on the other end of the line that he loves them and that Tanya is “clueless as usual.”

After Greg leaves, Tanya is befriended by a group of men who she eventually begins to suspect are out to kill her. By the Season 2 finale, Tanya’s suspicions are proven correct, but she takes out her would-be assassins with a gun in a glorious moment of haphazard triumph, only to then awkwardly die herself when attempting to get off the yacht where the final showdown took place.

The thing is, before she died, Tanya saw a picture of a young Greg with Quentin (Tom Hollander), one of the men who was trying to kill her. Greg apparently had plotted with Quentin to kill Tanya and make it look like an accident so that he could inherit her fortune. Whether or not the authorities ever figured out this plan is unknown by the end of Season 2.

What Is Greg Doing in Season 3?

Good question! We don’t know if he actually did inherit Tanya’s money or not. It’s possible that the police never connected him to the plot which resulted in multiple deaths, including Tanya’s. What we do know is that he is now hanging around the Thai White Lotus where Season 3 is set, and he apparently has a younger ex-model for a girlfriend now.

Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), who is the girlfriend of Walton Goggins’ Rick Hatchett, meets Greg’s girlfriend at the bar, and they bond over their boyfriends who are both older, bald or balding, and generally cranky. Greg also apparently now lives somewhere near the Thai White Lotus.

But does he really? Is it possible this is another scam of Greg’s, and that Chelsea is being sucked into something she doesn’t understand? Will Belinda, back for Season 3, manage to find justice for Tanya by somehow outing Greg as being responsible for her death? There’s no reason for us to think she suspects Greg of any wrongdoing (and she hasn’t even encountered him yet at the resort), plus she doesn’t necessarily owe Tanya anything after the way she was treated. But Belinda is also one of the “good” figures in The White Lotus that we are always rooting for, and it seems like if anyone can right the wrongs that were done to Tanya, it’s her. Of course, ultimately, one of the big questions The White Lotus is always asking is whether or not good people ever really win in the end. Belinda, we’re counting on you.