Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The White Lotus” Season 3.
We all knew Natasha Rothwell would be reprising her role as Belinda in Season 3 of "The White Lotus."
But viewers likely weren't expecting Jon Gries, who plays Greg Hunt — the husband of Jennifer Coolidge's character Tanya McQuoid — to be sitting at the resort in Thailand in Episode 1.
But there Greg was. Gries is now the only cast member to appear in all three seasons of "The White Lotus." Here's what to know about his surprise appearance.
What is Greg doing in Season 3 of 'The White Lotus'?
Greg appears at the end of the first episode. The scene starts when Greg's new girlfriend meets Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) at the hotel bar.
Chelsea explains her boyfriend is hiding from her. Greg's girlfriend shares that her boyfriend does the same thing — he tells her to "get lost" because she gets on his nerves.
"Ugh!" Chelsea replies, before asking how long she's been at the resort.
Greg's girlfriend says she's been living in Thailand for a year. They have a house at the top of the hill, though they come to the hotel to get a bite to eat.
"We just got in a fight so I'm letting him cool off," she says. "He's behind me. The bald guy. The one with the orange shirt."
In a shocking reveal, the camera then pans over to a man sipping a drink at a table alone. Lo and behold, it's Greg, looking despondent.
What is Greg's history on 'The White Lotus'?
If you need a reminder, Tanya first met Greg, a sports fisherman, at the White Lotus resort in Maui during Season 1. The pair got married and were vacationing at the hotel in Sicily, Italy, for Season 2.
But their honeymoon phase had clearly worn off. Throughout the second season, Tanya slowly unraveled Greg's plot to have her killed so he could make off with her fortune.
After realizing that Greg had colluded with some of the people she met at the resort to try to kill her and take her money, Tanya went on a shooting spree herself, killing them aboard a yacht.
While trying to get to safety after the rampage, she fell overboard and appeared to die after hitting her head on the way down into the water.
While Greg's return in Season 3 was unexpected for some fans, Coolidge appeared to have manifested his character arc continuing on "The White Lotus" nearly two years ago.
“My hope for Jon is that he’s not finished with Greg,” Coolidge told Jeremy Allen White as part of Variety's Actors on Actors series in 2023. “I hope there’s some comeuppance for evil Greg. I think he should, I don’t know, end up in a meat-grinding machine.”
Though Coolidge's character Tanya is dead, she has ideas for how her spirit can live on.
“If Tanya could come back in any form, maybe she could come back as a seagull and poke Greg’s eyes out,” Coolidge said.
We'll just have to wait and see what creator Mike White has in store for the next seven episodes. The show's second episode premieres on Feb. 23 at 9 p.m. on HBO.
