“The White Lotus” creator Mike White responded to criticism he’s received from fans about the third season of the popular HBO series, which just aired its season finale last Sunday.

Fans and critics have been complaining that compared to the previous two seasons, this latest installment had a slower pace and was just “boring.” White, who serves as writer and director, said it was all very intentional.

“The pacing and the vibe … it definitely gets under their skin,” White said in response to the criticism on the official “White Lotus” podcast, per Variety.

“There was complaining about how there’s no plot. That part I find weird. It never did … part of me is just like bro, this is the vibe. I’m world-building. If you don’t want to go to bed with me then get out of my bed.”

“I’m edging you! Enjoy the edging. If you don’t want to be edged, then get out of my bed,” the showrunner continued, referencing slang for intentionally delaying gratification during sexual encounters.

“Do you know what I mean?” White continued. “Get the f*** out of my bed. Don’t come home with me.”

Despite the criticism for season 3, it earned some of the highest numbers yet for “The White Lotus,” with 6.2 million people watching the finale. This bested the previous record for viewers by 30%, the outlet noted.

During the same podcast interview, White revealed a deleted scene he wished there was time to include, which involved Piper Ratliff losing her virginity to Belinda’s son, Zion.

“She decides to lose her virginity in the script in the last episode,” White said of Sarah Catherine Hook’s character Piper.

“And she actually has sex with Zion,” he added. “There’s this whole scene where she’s like, ‘It’s true. Saxon is right about this one thing. I need to get this over with.’ And you know how after she leaves the monastery she’s just like, ‘I need to have sex.’ But in the end, it was one of these things where it was like, it’s already an hour and a half.”

White said, “It would have added 10 minutes to the thing. And it had a little bit of a rom-com vibe in the middle of trying to kill the family with the pong pong fruits. It just felt like I was trying to do too much narratively.”

Ultimately, the finale included the deaths of revenge-bent Rick Hatchett (Walter Goggins), his girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), and Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), the hotel owner who Rick thought killed his father, but turned out to actually be his father.