IT'S BEEN A little over two years since we last took a visit to a White Lotus resort. And while that's just about par for the course in the modern television landscape, you only really begin to realize just how much you've been missing writer/director Mike White's razor sharp world and characters once you're back in.

In this week's episode, Rick catches up with up with an old friend, the Ratliff brothers get too close, and Tim has a moment of crisis (again).

In the third episode, Lanfear proposes an unlikely alliance while Nynaeve and Elayne get to know where Liandrin might have gone. Read!