The White Lotus (HBO)

[ohaimanabu]

Yeah thusfar (apart from everything about the show always feeling a bit off because you know things will escalate one way or another) I didn't get much more from it than the older brother being what I imagine straight guys are like together, and the younger being a big awkward about it. Twist might as well be that the older one is overshouting and trying to prove how straight he is from the moment he arrived.

Wait: I just read there's a body floating in the opening scene.. I thought it was a crocodile swimming towards the son?

LOL it was the back of someone's head

 

[Mvnl]

Saw someone on another forum mention this is 'see no evil/hear no evil/speak no evil'.
The monkey theme definitely's strong this season.

 

[johnoclock]

ddd I read it more as Saxon being straight toxic masculinity personified. Aggressive and hypersexual, only sees life as a game to win, and boxes people into skewed sex hierarchies.

The brother is just giving repressed gay seeing dick for the first time.

Basically.

 

[spaceship]

I’m sensing a potential Emmy nom for Carrie Coon. She’s going to eat that role alive.

 

[heavymetalgaga]

White hinted at the gay incest exploration in his interview with the New Yorker.

 

[spaceship]

I feel like HBO has an incest plot line clause in every show contract.

 

[LTG]

I’m sensing a potential Emmy nom for Carrie Coon. She’s going to eat that role alive.

Would be iconic if she gets in supporting for this and lead for The Gilded Age.

 

[Soygirl]

Mm, the way Carrie Coon simply consumes every scene with her mournful and perpetually disgruntled gaze! I’m due for The Leftovers re watch I fear.

 

[Mvnl]

Probably stating the obvious but I did not feel like the other 2 friends of Carrie enjoyed eachother's company for one second either.

 

[spaceship]

Probably stating the obvious but I did not feel like the other 2 friends of Carrie enjoyed eachother's company for one second either.

I feel like there is something even more sinister.

 

[Mvnl]

I feel like there is something even more sinister.

Knowing the show there probably is.

 

[sesita]

Patrick Schwarzenegger looking like you know he had to do it to em.

 

[spaceship]

My friend is convinced that Carrie is actually Portia's mom.

 

[Mister_G]

To expand on this thought:

One of my favorite things about The White Lotus is, with very few exceptions, you don't actually root for anyone. No one is particularly likable, morally sound, or deserving of any good fortune their way, which makes for an exciting watch. I never go into any particular scene or situation hoping for anything or wanting a certain character to come out on top.

Wait at me actually rooting for Harper, Daphne, Lucia, Mia and Valentina last season, oop.

 

[crash9081]

Wait at me actually rooting for Harper, Daphne, Lucia, Mia and Valentina last season, oop.

That was why I massively enjoyed the second season over the first.

The first season had zero rootable characters save for Belinda. The second season had multiple rootable (if messy) women to cheer on. I’m hoping that someone other than Belinda is rootable this time around.

 

[boom bazooka joe]

Wait at me actually rooting for Harper, Daphne, Lucia, Mia and Valentina last season, oop.

Well yes, they were iconic.

 

[Denemarken]

Why are people on the internet hating on the new theme song? It popped the fuck off and I think it’s even more enigmatic than the season 2 one

 

[Hudvar]

What I love about this show is that very little can be happening, but it’s so intricately pieced together I’m totally entranced by it.

I love guessing what mad secrets every character will be harbouring.

 

[LTG]

Why are people on the internet hating on the new theme song? It popped the fuck off and I think it’s even more enigmatic than the season 2 one

It’s still a bop, but the S2 one popped off from the beginning and built to the massive crescendo. The S3 one is more lowkey, enigmatic as you rightly say.

 

[BananaJean]

White hinted at the gay incest exploration in his interview with the New Yorker.

Not sure if someone said it earlier in this thread or on another forum but in this political climate this seems like… not a good choice.