White Lotus Season 3: Finale

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After doing a quick temperature check it appears that a lot you either disliked the finale or were conflicted by it. While I don’t disagree that some aspects of it felt rushed or unearned, I still think that the ending was satisfying for three main reasons (a little McKinsey slay over here):

1. It wasn’t an unpredictable side character who died/killed – don’t you just hate when a random dark horse appears out of the blue to kill everyone? We spent the whole season with these characters and it was nice to see them in action.

2. Everyone turned out to be evil (honestly, the whole point of the show) – although White Lotus is heavy handed at times, it nonetheless doesn’t pretend to be serving up a big life lesson which I appreciate. We’re just watching people being people (kind of what Laurie’s monologue was about).

3. Most of the storylines were addressed. We are meant to see only a snippet of these characters and it would feel overly moralistic if the show tried to make some grand conclusions about how the rest of their lives would play out. White Lotus is, at the end of the day, a show about people in pretty places doing evil things and it fully delivered on that by basically making “good” characters (Piper, Belinda, Gaitok) turn evil and evil characters (Timothy, Saxon) turn out to be slightly better expected.

PIPER

• The dinner scene when Piper confesses that she looked deep inside her soul and found nothing but a Chanel flap was my favorite scene of the entire show by a mileeeee

• Also, I guess Piper is one of those siblings that can only be doing their own thing and no one else can take it from them. This is like when my little brother took up snowboarding because I was the stronger skier (not a flex he was just awful)…

• Note Piper ditching her usual formless pillowcase dresses for a more va-va-voom colorful number on the boat ride back. She’s accepting that she’s a little bit more like Mumsy than she imagined.

• But also, stained mattress is an issue? Has Piper been to college? Piper freshman year when she had to do her own laundry:

  

• I’m afraid Victoria and Selina Meyer went to the same school of parenting:

  

VICTORIA

• This show is in love with leaving things up to audience interpretation, which is sometimes fun but sometimes aggravating. With this in mind, I am choosing to believe that Victoria at the very least suspected something was amiss financially and was torturing Timothy a little bit with her various remarks about how she hates financial criminals and would rather die than be upper middle class broke.