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Topic: The White Lotus

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Follow the vacations of various hotel guests over the span of a week as they relax and rejuvenate in paradise. But with each passing day, a darker complexity emerges in these picture-perfect travelers, the hotel's cheerful employees and the idyllic locale itself.



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Re: The White Lotus

I just saw an ad for S03 for this show - looked pretty good.

I never heard of it. Has anyone seen it? Thoughts? Seems to have pretty good IMDb reviews.

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Yeah, very good.  I preferred the first season to the second, but it was still good.

2020.  Meh.

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ok, thank you - might check it out.

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Yeap, s1 was great, s2 good
Can't wait for s3

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Re: The White Lotus

Season 3 is off to a good start with Episode 1.

Good location for this kind of show. Decent variety of characters.

▼Spoiler

My first guess would be the girls trip trio to be the cause of the gun fire smile
At around 31:00 minutes, thai version of Iron Man by Black Sabbath - sweet smile
Background music in general pretty good.

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier

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Season 3 was good. Had a lot of "wtf moments" in there.
Some of the plotlines fell flat at the end and some were left unresolved which was a bit disappointing.

▼Spoiler

Seriously, they didn't show the reaction of the family to the news?
Did not expect Mook to be so shallow, honestly expected Gaitok to stand up to her.
Laurie should've gone more into detail about her life when she had that emotional moment in the last episode.
Belinda taking that money...I really hope that is going to bite her in the a$$ in a future season smile
I kinda was rooting for Rick and Chelsea, really sad.

Did anyone buy the family as an "actual family" - I mean their behaviour as father, mother and siblings - felt completely fake to me. Guess what I am saying is that they were poorly written.

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier

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Re: The White Lotus

WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:

Season 3 was good. Had a lot of "wtf moments" in there.
Some of the plotlines fell flat at the end and some were left unresolved which was a bit disappointing.

▼Spoiler

Seriously, they didn't show the reaction of the family to the news?
Did not expect Mook to be so shallow, honestly expected Gaitok to stand up to her.
Laurie should've gone more into detail about her life when she had that emotional moment in the last episode.
Belinda taking that money...I really hope that is going to bite her in the a$$ in a future season smile
I kinda was rooting for Rick and Chelsea, really sad.

Did anyone buy the family as an "actual family" - I mean their behaviour as father, mother and siblings - felt completely fake to me. Guess what I am saying is that they were poorly written.


In your spoiler you blame the writers. Is it perhaps that the actors lacked chemistry?

Take ChiP's for example, the two main actors hated each other, but you could not tell. Their acting was so good, you thought they were the best of friends.

And I do not want to say anything more and give something away.

Just curious.

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Re: The White Lotus

inkblot wrote:
WilliamDrakeMcGregor wrote:

Season 3 was good. Had a lot of "wtf moments" in there.
Some of the plotlines fell flat at the end and some were left unresolved which was a bit disappointing.

▼Spoiler

Seriously, they didn't show the reaction of the family to the news?
Did not expect Mook to be so shallow, honestly expected Gaitok to stand up to her.
Laurie should've gone more into detail about her life when she had that emotional moment in the last episode.
Belinda taking that money...I really hope that is going to bite her in the a$$ in a future season smile
I kinda was rooting for Rick and Chelsea, really sad.

Did anyone buy the family as an "actual family" - I mean their behaviour as father, mother and siblings - felt completely fake to me. Guess what I am saying is that they were poorly written.

In your spoiler you blame the writers. Is it perhaps that the actors lacked chemistry?

Take ChiP's for example, the two main actors hated each other, but you could not tell. Their acting was so good, you thought they were the best of friends.

And I do not want to say anything more and give something away.

Just curious.

In my opinion the acting was OK from everyone, I really think it was just the writing.
Here some examples from EP01:

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When the family get their rooms, Piper offers to share her room with Lochlan even though Saxon offered to share first...what 22 year old sister would want to share a room with her teenage brother?
In a family with 2 sons and 1 daughter their wouldn't even be a question that the two brothers share the room (imho).
I think this was just done to have Saxon make those weird remarks about genitals. It was hilarious and I liked the scene, but with scenes like that I always think the writers lack the talent to imagine that these characters are supposed to have lived under the same roof for 20 years. And with that in mind that conversation was not believable.

After that how Saxon teases Piper, that was a lot more believable - but also the only time they acted that way. Nothing similar ever happened again. The acting here was good.

When Lochlan joins Saxon on the beach he literally says "Those long plane rides make me so f-ing horny" while grabbing his dick. Now I believe best friends would say and do something like that but not two brothers with that kind of age gap.

The mum with her drug problem, children as old as they are know about problems like that from their parents and know how to "work around it" - but here when she nods off they almost seem surprised.

Shows that deserved more runtime:
Abbys | Dead Like Me | Devs | Firefly | Gangsta. | Jack of all Trades | Kevin (probably) saves the World | Lodge 49 | Mrs. Davis | NYC 22 | Powerless | Roadkill | Special Unit 2 | Star Wars: Tales of the Jedi | Stumptown | Surface | The Brave | The Company You Keep | The Crazy Ones | The Finder | The Middleman | Truth Seekers | Two Weeks to Live | Whiskey Cavalier