The White Lotus [HBO] *Spoilers*

Thelonious Monk

Just finished. Really liked it, maybe the end was a bit rushed but it was fantastic escapism every week. I hope we get another season or two.

Mantis Toboggan

Finished this last night, best season so far for me.

Thelonious Monk

I'm thinking maybe South Africa luxury safari type tent thing next time, rangers with guns and wild animals providing the danger, but then someone on reddit says they have a contract with the 4 seasons to use their hotels, not sure how true that is.

volchitsa

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123377453#Comment_123377453

I've just looked up where they are situated and there is one in the Serengeti, so that would be a possibility wouldn't it?

https://www.fourseasons.com/serengeti/

deandean

Just finished thos season, I thought it was fairly good.

One thing that struck me, is how impossibly thin several of the female cast are. Like, so thin as to look unhealty. I hear that half Hollywood is on Ozempic, maybe that explains it.

Thelonious Monk

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123378011#Comment_123378011

But to be fair all the white women at least were portraying the thin obsessed ozempic prescribed women mike white is trying to portray

cdgalwegian

Slow start, but strong finish. So with season 3 of Hotel Cluedo, it was the security guard, with the revolver, outside the meditation pods.

In Cluedo, we never know who the victim is, and in The White Lotus, it’s impossible to know who the victim will be in terms of motive - because they all die accidentally (contra line of thinking in post #217). In season 3, it’s Chelsea - hence the last episode’s title ‘Amor Fati’: Chelsea, the hippy-chick, ties her fate to Rick’s (I never saw Rick’s Oedipus Rex reveal coming), thereby ending up the accidental victim in the current examination of western greed and our ambivalence to it. This season’s background theme being Buddhist detachment was a great thematic counterpoint to the theme of 'greed and the postmodern condition' running through all the seasons.

Carrie Coon's monologue brings the search for meaning not being though money and status all together -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikleyT_4j0w