Jennifer Coolidge is poised to return for The White Lotus Season 2

TVLine

The actress, who received widespread acclaim for her performance as boozy socialite Tanya McQuoid, has been "booked" to return for the Mike White satirical dramedy's second season, reports TVLine. HBO hasn't confirmed Coolidge's return. White recruited Coolidge to The White Lotus, telling her he wrote the Tanya character specifically for her. The New Yorker's Rachel Syme called Tanya McQuoid "one of the great TV performances of recent memory, and almost certainly the greatest of Coolidge’s career.... With Tanya, White allowed Coolidge to foreground the melancholy, or at least place it in bracing balance with her campier tendencies. She starts out playing Tanya for laughs, but instead of veering into full caricature she brings a shocking poignancy to the character’s most unhinged comedic moments. Just when you think you can dismiss Tanya as a deranged aristocrat with no depth beyond her pockets, she will blurt out the phrase 'Oh, mother, mother, mother, mother' in a way that reveals an ocean of suppressed hurt."