Mike White says The White Lotus composer just didn't like getting notes

“I don’t think he respected me,” White says (via The Hollywood Reporter). “He wants people to know that he’s edgy and dark and I’m, I don’t know, like I watch reality TV. We never really even fought. He says we feuded. I don’t think I ever had a fight with him — except for maybe some emails. It was basically me giving him notes. I don’t think he liked to go through the process of getting notes from me, or wanting revisions, because he didn’t respect me. I knew he wasn’t a team player and that he wanted to do it his way. I was thrown that he would go to The New York Times to shit on me and the show three days before the finale. It was kind of a bitch move.”

White then alludes to issues that were present in the first two seasons, issues which Tapia de Veer did mention in his own interview. But White says after the score for season 2 went viral and was the subject of club remixes and Emmy Awards, Tapia de Veer was even less willing to make adjustments. “He would always look at me with this contemptuous smirk on his face like he thought I was a chimp or something,” White claims, which does corroborate Tapia de Veer’s belief that “Mike feels that I was always unprofessional to him.”

“He is very talented,” White continues. “[But] I’ve never kissed somebody’s ass so hard to just get him to — to lead that horse to water. Have fun with whatever you’re doing next.” If there was any doubt before, it sounds like another stay at The White Lotus is completely off the table.