The White Lotus (HBO) TV Show • Page 7

Watched the first 2 episodes, so good

 

I finished episode 3. I'm so enthralled! And I have so many questions. Steve Zahn rules.

 

Yeah I’d say wishful thinking, he harassed an employee got him fired and then was consoled by the authorities and the employee’s bosses after he literally killed the guy. Pretty sure that’s only going to reenforce his elitism.

 

I loved this.

 

I interpreted as reinforcement of his elitism as well. In the end he doesn’t seem to care that he killed Armond, he seems to only have cared that he regained control over rachelBasically in the end all the rich white people leave with happy and with what they want with zero regard for the lower class they ruined along the way. Happy for Quinn though.

 

All done. Great show. Justice for Kai

 

interesting

 

I like that. I did not want to follow the same guests outside the hotel or somehow manufacture them all being there at the same time again

I bet Quinn is working there in S2 though

 

Really gorgeous cinematography on this show

 

Pretty sure we already knew that about season 2

 

yes the tweet is from august 11

 

Yeah this was great. Perfect casting and loved the use of music throughout. I was definitely disappointed about some of the endings but they also weren't unrealistic sadly.

 

Thought this was very bad after drawing me in after the first ep. hated the endings.

 

reality sucks shit sometimes.

 

idk I'd be lying if I didn't say the ending has retroactively made me enjoy the show less, but it wasn't like terrible.

 

It’s a great show with a thought provoking ending. It’s tough to see all this criticism tbh, makes me wonder if people are missing the entire point.

 

Yeah i love how it was wrapped up

 

Someone in my family (they’re very wealthy) was complaining about the show the other day, that Connie Britton’s character is a trope—how there are rarely any rich successful woman in television that aren’t portrayed as mean or self-centered, and then, when we got deeper into this conversation, she suggested that not everything is about white privilege. To me this is precisely an example of what this show is satirizing—rich white people denying their privilege, shrugging off entire narratives (of colonialism, of bringing other people down, of their comfort costing others’ discomfort).

 

All that can be true and the ending can still be considered anti climactic

as I said, I loved the show and I loved the themes and I picked up on all of that and the ending still fell flat to me.

 

What else did people want from the ending?

 

I think people wanted one of the guests to die.

 

It’s ok if someone didn’t like something about the show as much as you

 

idk why but i feel like this show is in for a true detective type season 2

 

I didn't want any of the guests to die.

I was disappointed how Rachel's storyline dissolved, I was disappointed that the storyline about Mark's dad wasn't really touched upon after the initial reveal -- even though the subject matter is super unique and interesting, I think Quinn's motives regarding the decision he made weren't really explored, Kai's main thing and the fallout were essentially happening off screen...

I could go on. I think the show could've used one more episode.

 

These are solid criticisms tbh, but unfortunately not the show we received. With only six episodes, I think the narrative Mike White chose to highlight is an important one. I’m glad we got something that makes people uncomfortable, something that makes them shift in their seats a bit. I do think focusing more on Kai would’ve lent itself to a different show. As great a storyline that would’ve been, this show is loyal to the POV of the rich American guests. It’s pretty much asking a lot of the questions Steven Zahn poses at some point. As white Americans, what do we do with our privilege? How do we reconcile with our culture? With our comfort (and others’ suffering)? What do we do about this eternal “free pass,” always getting away with it—how do we cope, or break free from the awful truth? (That we’re the villains, or at the very least, complicit).