Watch: Out 'White Lotus' Creator Mike White on Shocking Season 2 Finale and More

With the "White Lotus" Season 2 finale in the rearview mirror, the show's out creator Mike White is discussing how the hit HBO comedy ended, that shocking death, and much more.

White revealed in a special behind-the-scenes video from HBO that aired after the finale Sunday night that Tanya's (Jennifer Coolidge) death had been planned since the end of Season 1 last year, The Wrap said.

"In the end of last season, Tanya is sitting with Greg in the last episode and he's talking about his health issues and she says, 'I've had every kind of treatment over the years. Death is the last immersive experience I haven't tried.' And I was thinking it'd be so fun to bring Tanya back because she's such a great character, but maybe that's the journey for her is like a journey to death," he explained. "And not that I really wanted to kill Tanya because I love her as a character and I obviously love Jennifer," White continued. "But I just felt like you know we're going to Italy, she's such a diva, larger-than-life female archetype, it just felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya's life and her story."

White stressed that it was important that Tanya not be murdered, however.

"I just think her dying at the hands of someone else felt too tragic," he said. "It felt like she needed to give her best fight back, and that she in a way had some kind of victory over whoever was conspiring to get rid of her. So it just made me laugh to think she would take out [this] cabal of killers and that after she successfully does that, she just dies this derpy death. It just felt like that's so Tanya."

White also alluded to "White Lotus" Season 3, talking about what happened to Tanya's husband Greg (Jon Greis), who was M.I.A. in the finale after it was revealed that he had a possible connection with Quentin (Tom Hollander).

"I think as far as what happens to Greg and the conspiracy of Tanya's death, it's possible that I think Portia is scared enough to just leave it alone but the fact that all of those guys die on the boat feels like there's gotta be somebody who's gonna track it back down to Greg. But maybe you'll have to wait to find out what happens," he said.

Discussing the themes of the two seasons – and the the third – White said that the "first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex, and I think the third season would be maybe a kind of satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality, and it feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus."

"And then I got [to the hotel in Italy] and I was like, this is not the right place for that kind of topic. It gave me the idea that to focus more on sexual jealousy and adultery and infidelity and a more operatic kind of bedroom farce," he added. "[In] the first season, we did so much about privilege and about how money is used as a wedge between relationships, both intimate and in even surface relationships. And I just felt like maybe we should try to not repeat that same idea and just felt like sex was always such a fertile theme to explore. The place sort of forced my hand in a way."

White also opened up about what it was like to direct sex scenes, which included two full-frontal moments.

"As a director, I'm very timid about asking people to undress and get into sexual situations. It's not my wheelhouse. There were definitely times on this shoot that I was like, what have I got myself into? My threshold for awkwardness is very low," he explained. "The actors are much more confident and uninhibited than I am. That was new terrain for me. It just felt like it was important because it really is baked into the narrative."

"It's funny, though, how now that the show is airing, how much you realize a graphic sex scene or a sex scene that kind of is titillating for various reasons, does just spike and generate an interest in the populace, for better or worse," White added.