White Lotus

"The White Lotus" just wrapped up its second season, but creator Mike White already has his eyes set on Season 3.

White continued, “I was thinking, it’d be so fun to bring Tanya back because she’s such a great character, but maybe that’s the journey for her, a journey to death. “The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said. And she says, ‘I’ve had every kind of treatment over the years, death is the last immersive experience I haven’t tried.'”

In 'The White Lotus' season two finale 'Arrivederci', we learn who was dead in the water, and the answer uses Mike White's favorite symbolic image to ...

And why else would Niccolo be taking her back to shore with a bag full of rope, duct tape, and a gun? She’s different from a character like Daphne, who sees the storm and swims parallel to it, charting her own path through the chaos. [Mysterious Monkeys](https://www.vulture.com/article/the-white-lotus-episode-3-recap-mysterious-monkeys.html),” she is hysterically upset — her face frozen in a mask of agony and resentment. In The White Lotus, there’s something comforting about our personal irrelevance in tension with other people’s choices, Daphne seems to say, because it gives us freedom to decide for ourselves how we act and react. [95 percent of it](https://oceanliteracy.unesco.org/ocean-exploration) that remains uncharted and unexplored by humans, entire ecosystems in which we have no part. One of the final scenes of “Departures” is Quinn on a Hawaiian-style outrigger boat paddling far away from the shore (and his old life) and moving toward the sun and something new. Those opening-scene deaths signaled a different approach: Gone was an aquatic environment as restorative or welcoming, and in its place was the ocean as mysterious and impenetrable — not too far off from what Daphne says to Ethan about marriage in “Arrivederci.” When Daphne observes, “We never really know what goes on in people’s minds or what they do … Water is a well-established symbol of rebirth in art and literature, and White has recurrently evoked that meaning in his own work with additional layers of fantasy and surreality. [Arrivederci](https://www.vulture.com/article/the-white-lotus-season-2-finale-recap-arrivederci.html),” it is returning White Lotus guest Tanya who is found drowned, marked for death by her frilly, pink, floral dress — so similar to the one worn by the dummy version of Michael Corleone’s first wife, Apollonia, at The Godfather tourist attraction visited by Portia. The first time she tries to scatter her mother’s ashes while on a chartered boat in “ And at the end of “ [The White Lotus](https://www.vulture.com/tv/the-white-lotus), Mike White has made us wonder: Who’s in the water?

Speculation on where The White Lotus season 3 will be set has begun online, with fans wanting a ski lodge season. Mike White wants to look at Eastern ...

[TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVhjvJt/) is [awash](https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRVh2CJ1/) with The White Lotus ski lodge dream casts. “I think the third season, it would be maybe a kind of satirical and funny look at death in Eastern religion and spirituality, it feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.” So are we looking at Asia? puts Carmen Sandiego behind bars figures out where Mike White is setting The White Lotus season 3 will get a free trip anywhere in the lower 48 states!

Will cocaine-addled Tanya's (Jennifer Coolidge) raunchy dalliance with an Adonis come at a price? Does Cameron (Theo James) want his green-eyed tech bro ...

This documentary captures the high-end version of this pressure-cooker atmosphere as the swanky London hotel prepares a Christmas Day tasting menu and summons a 13-year-old opera singer. For the hospitality industry, Christmas 2021 was do or die – after the cancelled festivities of 2020, pubs, hotels and restaurants badly needed a shot in the arm. And will hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) run wild with lust after spending the night with a woman for the first time?

Tanya, Jennifer Coolidge's beloved character in 'The White Lotus', was the revealed to be the guest who died this season. Take a look at the best reactions ...

In what can only be described as the boat ride from hell, Tanya begins to grow increasingly weary of Quintin and her Mafioso lover Niccolo. Of course, we knew that watching Jennifer Coolidge's Tanya fabulously meander around a luxury hotel for another season wasn't realistic. Although Tanya is effectively safe from harm (for the time being), Mike White delivers one last final blow. The season finale, 'Arrivederci', was really a series of unfortunate events for Tanya. With the help of Portia, Tanya realises that Greg has fooled her into coming to Sicily in a plot to murder her and inherit her massive fortune. Below, we round up everything you need to know about why Tanya had to be the one who died, and social media's best reactions to the season finale of The White Lotus season two.

Culture news editor Osman Faruqi and culture reporter Meg Watson have entered the Group Chat to discuss how this legendary season of the show should end – and ...

What does it say about us that even though we both are a bit wary of getting too sucked into the whodunit we can’t stop theorising? Or maybe all the men get in on Ethan and Cameron’s game of jet ski chicken and accidentally kill each other. And we both have vigorously debated many theories in the office over the past few weeks, so I’m not suggesting that everyone who asks “Who’s going to die???” is missing the point of the show. Maybe it’s Albie misguidedly trying to defend Lucia in some way and hurting her in the process. But now the dominant form is 60-second videos dissecting costumes and opening titles and “clues” that often aren’t really clues at all but basic plot. I do agree with you about the whodunit being something of a distraction. Do you think there’s a chance of that this time? He’s talked a lot about how he’s mainly just used the idea (in both seasons) to hook people in. If this show had come out in 2014, there would be 500 thinkpieces a week about What It Says About Gender and Gaslighting and Wealth. And I think ~good guys~ Albie and or/Ethan are the hot tips for a killer… That said, I have also seen a couple of million TikToks and read various Reddit threads about what’s going to happen, so I’m willing to play ball. [reading the recaps](https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/recapping-the-white-lotus-season-two-20221128-p5c1qs.html).

The White Lotus season two has truly had a chokehold on the internet. We mean, what's not to love? Italy, aspirational fashion, the lifestyles of the rich, ...

[BINGE](https://goto.binge.com.au/c/3001951/823586/11099?subId1=who.com.au//white-lotus-who-dies-season-two), live and on demand with a 14 day FREE trial. He confessed he was "head over heels" for the boy in the photo, but he was "heterosexual and completely uninterested". The theory is that Tanya will realise she's being scammed and "kill all the gays" in "self-defence". Then, in a moment of stupidity, she attempted to jump from the vessel and into a smaller boat to flee. Plus, remember the heroine in the opera who killed herself?? And surprise, surprise, it contained nothing more than a gun, rope and duct tape; classic murder stuff.

So what actually happened in the second season finale of 'The White Lotus'? Divya Venkataraman 11 Dec 2022. The internet has been buzzing ...

But the last episode of the season leaves room for a coming together of family closer to home: Albie kisses his grandfather on her head, and his father Dominic (Michael Imperioli) tells Albie he loves him at the dinner table. [Sign up to the Vogue newsletter](https://www.newsletters.news.com.au/vogue) We see her flailing underwater after hitting her head, and her fate seems unequivocal: Tanya dies in the cold waters of the Ionian sea, and Daphne brushes up against her corpse the next morning. He informs her a hotel guest drowned at the White Lotus, which we (and Portia) assume is Tanya. Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge) was one of the main threads that connected the first and second seasons of The White Lotus, along with her husband Greg (Jon Gries). We see her and Lucia, happy on the streets of Sicily, in the final scene of the season. Ethan doesn’t believe her, and gets into a physical fight in the water with Cameron, almost drowning him. He warns her to not “be stupid” and to just get on her flight the next day. As she embraces Alessio in the last scenes of the show, it's clear that he was only masquerading as her violent pimp, in order to convince Albie she was in danger. [Harper](https://www.vogue.com.au/fashion/news/harper-fashion-the-white-lotus/news-story/eba3fb1a0fe23e6ae222849b359c1939) (Aubrey Plaza), Ethan (Spiller), Daphne (Fahy) and Cameron (Theo James) come to a head. At the airport, wearing large sunglasses and a hat, Portia runs into Albie. Mia may have come out on top in season two of The White Lotus.

We open on some murder-y dawn waves. Ethan is lying in bed contemplating that time Harper had sex with Cameron even though they haven't been alone together for ...

Dominic is looking at photos of his wife and daughter on his phone and regretting all the times he slept with sex workers - both Italian and American. They talk about her going to Los Angeles with him and she seems to have a genuine moment of guilt about the fact that she's conning this silly little boy out of his money. If only he could have learnt to keep his d*ck in his pants.

The most pressing issue is, of course, who the dead body is that washes up on the coast and is happened upon by Daphne Sullivan (Meghann Fahy). So ...

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SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers up through Episode 7 of “The White Lotus,” airing Sundays on HBO and streaming on HBO Max.

White continued, “I was thinking, it’d be so fun to bring Tanya back because she’s such a great character, but maybe that’s the journey for her, a journey to death. “The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said. And she says, ‘I’ve had every kind of treatment over the years, death is the last immersive experience I haven’t tried.'”

Which would've made it tough for Quentin to get Tanya alone on a yacht with a bag containing half the murder weapons from Clue. Adam DiMarco and Haley ...

Maybe season 3 can take place at the White Lotus in purgatory?) But would we want to keep coming back if The White Lotus didn’t manage to shock us every time? Like Cam and Daphne and Ethan and Harper, the show needs an element of uncertainty to keep the spark alive. [White Lotus season 2](https://time.com/6223583/the-white-lotus-season-2-review/) finale, when he runs into Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) at the airport on their way out of Italy. Jealous Ethan (Will Sharpe) and exasperated Harper ( Not only does he inherit Tanya’s hundreds of millions, but he doesn’t even have to share them with Quentin and company. The latter couple is no worse for the wear because their marriage has always been a farce. That’s not to say there aren’t characters who come out of the season better off than they were going into it. Just about everyone got scammed, from Tanya and Portia and the Di Grassos to Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore), who’s crushed again when newly hired lounge singer Mia (Beatrice Grannò) confirms their obviously transactional relationship as such, to the two young couples constantly performing romance and jealousy for each other’s benefit. Now that his feminist facade has been shattered by a genuine gold digger, he’s ogling hot girls at the airport right along with his dad and grandpa. He might never have let Lucia (Simona Tabasco) con him—or his father Dominic (Michael Imperioli), the original mark—into giving her €50,000. Sebastian](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-artwork), that creepy fresco from the title sequence, those macabre Testa di Moro statues peeking out from every corner—they were all watching the guests’ every misguided move. Even though she’s yet to have her worst fears about Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) confirmed, it’s an understatement for the ages.

The White Lotus has blossomed into a truly massive hit for HBO, as gripping each week as any episode of Game of Thrones ever was, and now after last night?

While we have no direct link between them and Greg, I do wonder if there is literally some sort of evil Legion of Doom being built behind the scenes of The White Lotus with Greg at the apex, which does not seem like such a wild theory after last night. Also, we still don’t know who Greg was talking to on the phone, saying he loved them. Portia, however, was the wrench thrown into the plan, as you’ll recall Greg was agitated that he brought her assistant along. But we do know he’s either somewhat wealthy himself or has wealthy-appearing friends, given his past relationship with Quentin, which was revealed in the past two episodes. These friends, in theory, could have been the group of gays from season 2. In season 1, Greg says he’s in Hawaii on a fishing trip with friends, rich friends, you would imagine, if they can afford to go fishing in Hawaii.

Creating a season finale for an anthology is often a lot more difficult than for a serial. The last episode of an anthology resembles the makings of a series ...

There is one item that requires no interpreting, though: The White Lotus is a hell of a ride, and we can’t wait for the next group of rich misfits to arrive at the hotel chain! We can see from a mile away that everyone involved is being played like a piano by Lucia, and it’s great to see someone outside of the elites get a win in this show. Jack won’t confirm Portia’s suspicions or let on what he was going to do to her, but he has the decency to let her go on her merry way, advising her to skip a reunion with her now-dead boss and go straight to the airport. One storyline that was quite a bit more blunt in its approach, but still wasn’t completely resolved, is that of Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) and Quentin (Tom Hollander). Her penchant for vengeance leads to what we can assume is the two of them hiding under the Italian sun, getting it on without the knowledge of their spouses ever becoming tangible. Series creator Mike White went with the latter choice for most of his characters in the second season of his hit dramedy.

Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) met her watery demise in the season finale, as did practically a full yacht's worth of conspiring gay men. As episode six hinted at, ...

But here, all along, Daphne defied the odds and found a way. Upward mobility isn’t usually rewarded in The White Lotus, as we saw with Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) from season one, and Quentin and his cohort this year. [ biggest shift this season](https://www.vox.com/culture/23425402/white-lotus-review-credits-explained-murder) was how The White Lotus transitioned from feeling like a show about unaware and unchecked privilege with a little murder mystery hanging over it, to murder mystery with a bit of unaware and unchecked privilege on the side. When we first meet her on the beach chatting up the two women on vacation, there’s a sense that she’s kind of a rich dumb-dumb. When she tells Daphne as much as she can without spelling out all the details, Daphne doesn’t even flinch. When Cameron and Daphne tell her they don’t read or watch the news, she’s shocked at their incuriosity about the world. Knowing that his college roommate at the very least kissed his wife, Ethan tackles Cameron (Theo James) in the ocean and punches him in the face. (No, I am not making this up.) Tanya Wick just has to make it to the attached dinghy, but instead of taking the stairs, she decides to jump — whacking her head on the side of the boat and drowning. We never find out what exactly that relationship is, but Tanya — after a frantic call from the subtly abducted Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) — believes that Quentin and his crew were in cahoots with Greg to kill her and cash in an inheritance. And as a result of accidentally drugging the resident pianist, Mia convinces hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) to fire him. Tanya is convinced Niccolò and the gays are going to kill her (“These gays are trying to kill me,” she whisper-hisses, perfectly). And speaking of sex workers, Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò) got a real happily ever after.

The finale proves it: Mike White's Sicily-set drama stuck the landing with a shocking ending.

It’s that it’s EasyJet that they’re waiting for that really makes it sting — or, if one were to think about it for more than a punny second, it’s that not one of the three have learned a thing from their time abroad, or in their whole lives. That places it in fascinating opposition to “The White Lotus” 1, which, though filmed in high COVID under lockdown conditions, ended in a sort of bizarre coda of conditional optimism, as a misfit scion of privilege broke free, for a moment, and paddled out to the wilds of the open ocean. They’ve made it from the wilderness into — for at least a glimmering moment — the heart of society, all thanks to their ability to adapt to other people’s desires. The show seemed to arise out of the most productive sort of creative bad mood, one in which White was primed to interrogate not just our dinner-party politics but those of our bedrooms, too. And here I run the risk of doing what I think White is using metaphor to chastise: The gay men seeking to extract everything of value from Coolidge’s character while claiming to flatter her look a lot like “White Lotus” fans praising the character actress’ iconic performance. Ethan’s and Harper’s (Aubrey Plaza’s) storyline struck me as somewhat one-note throughout the series — a TV gloss on “Eyes Wide Shut” without the clever shifts in tone or the masquerade ball, as both went on a protracted dark night of the libido. And visiting the set in Sicily to interview Coolidge, simultaneously exhilarated and worn, gave me yet more insight into the ways in which Tanya is a sort of extractive collaboration between writer and star — one in which White assigns to Coolidge more than she thinks she can handle, and she soars every time. And then she murders them in a brutal spree before falling to her accidental death, off the edge of the boat. I’d had great sympathy for Tanya in the first season, for all the ways she was human, including her ability to be dreadful to the staff. Which meant that I couldn’t credibly claim the show was in the hunt for the best of the year: After all, I didn’t know how it ended, and whether or not it stuck the landing. In her first season, Tanya moved along a recursive journey from A to somewhere between A and B and then back again: She edged ever so slightly outside of herself in order to begin to show compassion to a hotel staffer, then remembered she was rich and didn’t have to. It was a complete story, but it achieves a sort of comic sublimity in having been flipped, and a tragedy in flipping once more.

In an interview with NPR's Fresh Air last week, the writer and director Mike White suggested that his hit HBO series The White Lotus had less in common with ...

The impulse to follow in the footsteps of high-status people, emulating their experiences and then, by sharing, being emulated in turn? Week by week, The White Lotus achieved what only HBO series, [Taylor Swift ](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-album-review/671811/) [album drops](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-album-review/671811/), and Florence Pugh’s Instagram seem to be able to manage these days: taking over the discourse and leaving very few unsatisfied. (Even Mia and Lucia walked down a busy shopping street arm in arm, jubilant in floral dresses, waving at the notably nonviolent Alessio, just as they had in the first episode.) Meanwhile, Jack, the muscle-bound Essex boy charged with distracting (and possibly doing away with) Portia while Tanya was being dealt with, dropped her on an empty street by the airport instead, his COCK baseball cap seeming to linger unnervingly in one’s memory like the Cheshire Cat’s smile. [Season 2](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/white-lotus-season-2-review/671938/), including the questions of why Lucia and Mia, the sex worker and the wannabe pianist, seemed physically stuck at the hotel, sleeping on sun loungers instead of going home; why every guest at the White Lotus went to Sicily—Sicily!—only to eat all their meals in the same anemic on-site restaurant; and what happened to Tanya in the finale. Season 2 of The White Lotus, in particular, felt like an aggregation of different source materials, many as fascinatingly cerebral as they were delightfully familiar.

As far as deaths go, it's a very Mike White moment. Tanya is defined by her perceived bad luck so of course she would thwart a plan to kill her, only to die by ...

[Thomas Mitchell](/by/thomas-mitchell-h1a2un)is a culture reporter at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Connect via For the second year running, Mike White has whisked us away to a beautiful location and shown us how ugly people can be. If the first season of The White Lotus taught us there is no hiding who we truly are, whether at home or in Hawaii, this series offered a more cynical lesson. Even as White resorted to subplots that felt like filler (cc: Valentina and Mia), the unpredictability of the couples’ holiday kept us enamoured. Ethan was on edge last week, but Harper tipped him over in the finale after he bullied a confession out of her. Later on the beach, Ethan tells Daphne that something happened between Harper and Cameron and, not for the first time, she’s unfazed. She’s last seen dancing down the street, planting a friendly kiss on the man we once believed to be her pimp. The last day of holidays is always a time of mixed emotions. To sweeten the deal, Albie offers to help Dominic get back on good terms with his mother. Let’s start with Tanya, who proved to be both dangerous and a danger to herself. Well, it was foreshadowed in episode two (via a scene from The Godfather) that “in Sicily, women are more dangerous than guns”. The season two finale served as a reminder that while one of the year’s most event-worthy shows has sadly ended, had it gone on any longer the series risked overstaying its welcome.

The White Lotus Season 2 finale shocks and delights us with crazy twists and a wicked violent ending.

She gives Bert a big hug for his vote of confidence (“When that girl hugged me, I was aroused,” he confesses to his son and grandson later). This was a perfect farewell to Tanya and another season might run the risk of feeling gimmicky). In one of the most hilarious shots in the episode, all three men gawk at a beautiful young woman as she walks by at the airport, proving that no matter their attested values and beliefs, Bert’s words ring true across generations. Ethan doesn’t want to hear it so he storms off, down to the beach where he finds Cameron and accuses him of trying to sleep with his wife. She asks him what the matter is and he finally tells her. The captain (who earlier revealed to Tanya that he is also one of The Gays) freaks out and hides. The only one of The Gays Tanya didn’t kill (besides the captain) leaps up at this point and leaps into the sea. She uses it to call Tanya and tells her what Jack told her in his drunken stupor: That Quentin is broke but is about to come into a windfall. At this point, because she is Tanya, she does none of the following: She makes a run for a nearby bedroom, locks the door, and unzips the bag. The photograph of Quentin and Greg she finds also doesn’t tip her off entirely, though you can see she’s close to dragging two and two together as she boards Quentin’s yacht and heads back to the White Lotus. Greg (Jon Gries) married her, signed a prenuptial agreement, and then set to work with his old pal Quentin (Tom Hollander) on a plan to kill the heiress and inherit her money.

Take some style cues from Tanya, Daphne, Harper, and the rest of the gang for your next trip to Italy.

This fitted white dress is perfect for the occasion, and will be one you'll want to wear once spring and summer roll around again. Pair with a stylish necktie and a cute clutch, and you're good to go. Just throw in a pop of color with a bag—and you're all set to live the dolce vita. Don't forget a pair of cool-girl sunglasses to tie the look together. Keep it casual a la Harper with a linen striped button-down and white shorts. [The White Lotus](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a37282453/the-white-lotus-season-2/) aired last night, and while the internet is abuzz with how the show ended—and whose [mystery body it was that was found in the sea](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a41926451/who-dies-in-the-white-lotus-season-2-theories/)—we here at T&C can't stop thinking about all the [costumes](https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a42102009/white-lotus-season-2-costumes/) that were thoughtfully chosen for each character.

Theo James on what he thinks really happened between Cameron and Harper in season two of 'The White Lotus' and whether his children with Daphne are actually ...

There are videos making the rounds of you all dancing behind the scenes and generally having a good time. We wanted to make you think, Is it just a combination of Ethan’s paranoia and jealousy? But then I even forgot about the yogurt, so when you just said that, I was like, Jesus Christ, he’s unapologetically such a bad person. That’s why we ultimately wanted that fight to come from a place where Cameron gets confronted and is like, No, what the fuck? They’ve evolved away from each other as friends and now have basically polar opposite visions of the world in front of them. I haven’t seen the episode yet, but Cameron doesn’t give a shit. We did that scene toward the end of the shoot, and we did different versions. He does love his friend, even though he’s competitive with him and wants to dominate him, and he does love his wife. He’s trying to own his friend and own his wife in a search for control. Is that why Cameron was pushing Ethan to get with Mia and Lucia? Although Cameron has elements of being controlling and domineering, he is also loving in his own way, which, for me, made him compelling. “When you do a character, you have to find some way to identify with them,” he tells Vulture.

Early in the episode, Ethan accuses Harper of cheating on him with Cameron. After confronting Cameron—and nearly drowning him in the process!—he finds Daphne to ...

Maybe just the thought of Harper sleeping with his friend (which, for the record, she swears didn’t happen) was enough to reignite the flame. Do Ethan and Daphne go there to decompress, or do they sleep with each other in a fit of revenge? The camera cuts away before we see what happens next, but boy, do they leave a lot to the imagination. Maybe she simply feels for Etha—who is experiencing that level of betrayal for the first time? After confronting Cameron—and nearly drowning him in the process!—he finds Daphne to deliver the news. Early in the episode, Ethan accuses Harper of cheating on him with Cameron.

Will Sharpe, who plays Ethan, sat down with Variety to reflect on the season.

I’ve written a film script, which is a love story set against a period of American history that I think is slightly underexplored and that I wanted to write about for a while. I think he realizes that he wants to fight for the marriage, and that he has to fight for the marriage. I think there is a sort of innate competitiveness in Ethan, and he probably tells himself that he’s someone wants to have status because he’s earned it, and not to sort of go around demanding it. This fear of infidelity and the consequences have sort of hung over this — particularly Ethan and Harper, but all four of them — in different ways across the series. I do find that so funny that after the day that they’ve had, they just come over and sit down with Ethan and Harper. And so I was mindful of that, in the playing of him through the series, always having an eye on the endgame, which for me was that ultimately, all of his actions, whether they’re kind of questionable or laudable, are kind of motivated by love and wanting to get back to a place with Harper that he thinks they should be in. The friendship he has with Cameron is so interesting and fraught. We choreographed it a day or two before with the stunt coordinators, and had a lot of fun trying to work out what’s the best sort of level of trying to make this feel real, and exciting, but also, kind of like two people who don’t really know how to fight going at each other. Ethan seemed to be bubbling up all season, and finally snapped in the finale. And I guess initially, Harper is the one who, as you say, is kind of a little bit judgmental of them. It was such a pleasure to be a part of that. That is exacerbated by the company of Daphne and Cameron, and all the different ways in which that matrix kind of interacts with itself.

First, the plot. In L'Avventura, Vitti plays Claudia, who joins her friend Anna and Anna's boyfriend on a yachting jaunt in the Mediterranean. During a brief ...

And while we don’t know if Greg is cheating on her, we know that Tanya’s preoccupied with that question even after she’s discovered he hired people to kill her for her money—tragically, they are too full of the bullets she’s just pumped into them to answer—which does seem like a kind of madness, perhaps even enough to distract her when she makes her slip-and-fall plunge off the boat and kills herself. You don’t have to let your partner sleep with someone else, but you can’t expect them not to want to, and if you can’t handle the answers, there’s nothing wrong with not asking the questions. In the finale, tensions between the season’s two married couples come to a head as Ethan, whom Harper suspects of having had sex with a prostitute while she was away for the night with Daphne, comes to suspect Harper of having had sex with Cameron. [Eros is sick](https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/100-lavventura-cannes-statement)” and humanity was in the grip of a “rigid and stereotyped morality.” For all of their intellectual ideas and formal majesty, Antonioni’s movies have endured in part because of—not to put too fine a point on it—the extreme hotness of their leading actors. Daphne has some experience in these matters, and she gives Ethan the same advice she gave Harper: Do whatever you need to do to feel as if you’re even. But the shift from her customary passive aggression to open hostility—she calls Cameron “an idiot” over dinner—sets Ethan on edge, and he presses Harper until she confesses: The two did get drunk, and they did go back to their rooms, and they did kiss. (Tanya, as well as a bunch of “these gays.”) We find out that Lucia (Simona Tabasco) was definitely playing Albie (Adam DiMarco) and the man who played the part of the pimp she needed 50,000 Euros to escape is just a doorman at a nearby hotel. [hot to trot](https://slate.com/culture/2022/10/white-lotus-season-2-aubrey-plaza-jennifer-coolidge.html), but they can’t seem to get on the same page, sexually speaking. Uncertain whether their spouses have had sex but knowing for sure that they came close, Daphne (Meghann Fahy) and Ethan (Will Sharpe) walk across the low-tide sand to Isola Bella, disappearing into the forest as the camera watches from a distance. It’s Plaza’s Harper who gets the charged looks in that L’Avventura pastiche and Tanya who ends up disappearing off a boat, even if it doesn’t take that long for her body to be found. The scene in which a woman walks through a Sicilian courtyard and is menacingly leered at by a gathering crowd of men was re-created in the same location and reenacted shot for shot, with Aubrey Plaza standing in for the iconic Monica Vitti. As she and Anna’s boyfriend search for Anna, who it’s speculated may have died by suicide, they develop an attraction to each other and eventually have sex, although Claudia is consumed with feelings of betrayal toward her missing friend.

Here's who lives, who dies, and who leaves Italy changed forever in The White Lotus season 2 finale.

But, Mia at least seems to genuinely like Valentina and promises that she and Lucia will take her out to clubs and help her meet women. Ostensibly, this money is meant to help her get away from the abusive and dangerous pimp that seemingly chased her and the Di Grasso family through the countryside in the season’s penultimate episode, but that shadowy figure never actually existed and there was never any real threat to Lucia’s life or safety. He warns her that she doesn’t want to mess with these powerful people and drops her missing phone out the window as he drives away. After a first season that saw locals and service workers repeatedly forced to suffer at the hands of the White Lotus’s uber-rich guests, it’s wildly satisfying to see the non-elites notch some significant wins this time around. Was he supposed to kill her on the way back to the resort? Yes, he was clearly supposed to keep her busy and out of the way—he steals her phone, brazenly lies about it, and repeatedly delays their return to Taormina—but he also seemed to genuinely like her, which makes his decision to let her go feel extra murky. With some help from Portia (Haley Lu Richardson)—who’s having her own problems trying to figure out the reasons for Jack’s (Leo Woodall) extremely suss behavior after he steals her phone and refuses to take her back to the group—Tanya figures out that Greg and Quentin have been plotting to stage her murder. She tells her husband Ethan (Will Sharpe) that yes, Cameron (Theo James) came on to her and, yes, she accepted her suggestion that they go upstairs together. The rest of the season’s deaths—sorry everyone who was predicting one of the Di Grasso men was a goner—are basically the gays who were part of the plan to kill Tanya, including Quentin (Tom Hollander), Didier (Bruno Gouery), and her hook-up from last week Niccolo (Stefano Gianino). (I’m still so mad that Tanya essentially never interacted with the Sullivan/Spillar quartet.) But Coolidge gets several of the season’s best lines—prepare yourself for the inevitable memes!—and ultimately goes out as the result of a freak stupid accident rather than getting murdered by a man. He apparently has a lengthy history with Tanya’s husband Greg (Jon Gries), whose prenuptial agreement means he won’t get any money if the pair divorce, but who stands to inherit it all if she dies. [The White Lotus](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-white-lotus/) has come to an end, filled with suspicion, betrayal, and a variety of rich people behaving badly.

Who died in the "White Lotus" finale? What mysteries were left lingering from the Sicilian escapade? What do we already know about Season 3?

“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said. “Did they have some kind of dalliance on the island?” White said of Ethan and Daphne. “It is somewhat of a happy ending, although there’s dark clouds on the horizon, too.” Albie eventually realizes he got played, as Lucia silently slips away from his room in the morning, but he still thanks his father and puts in a good word to Abby, his mother and Dominic’s estranged wife. After dwelling on his “blond hair and big blue eyes,” she shares a photo of her two kids in which her older child sports, you guessed it, blond hair and blue eyes that very much do not resemble her husband’s darker features. After a devastating moment of introspection from Daphne, in which she processes the betrayal in real time and promptly calculates her retribution, she leads Ethan to the isolated island of Isola Bella before the scene cuts away. It felt like she needed to give her best fight back and that she, in a way, had some kind of victory over whoever was conspiring to get rid of her. Even if Portia is rattled enough to stay quiet, Italian police quickly came across the blood-soaked yacht, and White hinted that the fallout of that investigation could find its way into a future season. “I think probably that’s just all that happened,” White said. “But I just felt like, you know, we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva, larger-than-life female archetype — it just felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.” Sensing the danger aboard Quentin’s yacht, as she wined and dined with his band of accomplices off the coast of Taormina, Tanya grabbed a bag meant to bring about her demise — filled with rope, duct tape and a pistol — and shot Quentin, Didier (Bruno Gouery) and Niccoló (Stefano Gianino) in a teary-eyed rampage. Having seemingly escaped the assassination attempt, she gets spooked by the yacht’s fleeing captain, then slips while trying to jump to a smaller boat below, knocking her head on the railing and drowning under the Sicilian moonlight.

From the odd pair of couples to the three generations of male members of the Di Grasso family to Tanya and her assistant, each character has a reason to ...

She had relied on others most of her life, and here she was, trying to make one of the most crucial decisions of her life. Harper and Ethan would continue to be together, but they would surely not remain the honest couple that they used to be. Maybe she did have a soft spot for him, but of course, it was an impossible romance, and she tried to take advantage of it knowing that he came from money. She was told that Niccolo would take her to the shore in a dingy, and she knew now that the man she made out with the previous night would be the one to murder her today. Tanya panicked the moment she realized that this was going to be the end of her life and that her wealth would be distributed among a bunch of gay men to take care of their villas and maintain a high-end lifestyle. After killing her enemies, Tanya had to find a way to get off the yacht and reach the shore safely. He insisted she come to Sicily to end her life with the help of Quentin and his friends. He was further convinced once he realized that the door latch was on and the door to the connecting room was left open. Ethan could not believe that they had only kissed; he knew that Cameron wanted to sleep with his wife, and he furiously left the room. While Ethan and Harper detested Cameron and Daphne’s toxic marriage that involved one-night stands and making up, at the end of the day, they had become the same. Cameron and Ethan were vastly different individuals; Cameron was the popular guy in college who belonged to an affluent family, whereas Ethan was the college nerd who wanted to make it big in life. Throughout their Sicily adventure, the odd pair of couples, Ethan, Harper, Cameron, and Daphne, discussed cheating in marriage and how often the fear of losing their partner can act as an incentive to work towards turning their marriage into a success story.

Jennifer Coolidge sits on ornate bench by luggage. Jennifer Coolidge plays Tanya, a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage. As in Season 1, Coolidge is a comedy ...

1, and that she is perhaps the worst assistant in the history of the job.) At the airport, however, we see his head—and Albie’s, and Bert’s—swivel in the wake of a pretty young woman who is passing by. (“The motivation of sex is always primary, I think,” White told me when I spoke to him, earlier in the fall for the (Daphne: “You just do whatever you have to do not to feel like a victim of life.”) Later, Ethan and Harper, each recharged with the sexual attention of someone other than their spouse, finally fuck. In the fifth episode, we discover that Jack is hiding a secret; Tanya catches him in bed with Quentin. The first season of the show focussed on class, and the conflicts that emerged between the haves and the have-nots at the White Lotus resort in Maui. (Fahy is fantastic in the role, but especially in this scene.) “You spend every second with somebody, and there’s still this part that’s a mystery. Still, to my mind, the central point made in the series is that no relationship is detached from the transactional and that power always plays a role in how people deal with one another. [New Yorker Radio Hour](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/russell-moore-on-christian-nationalism).) Ethan and Harper are experiencing bed death; Cameron and Daphne have a de-facto don’t-ask-don’t-tell cheating policy; Albie is horny but doesn’t want to be like his father, whose marriage is in ruins owing to his sex addiction. [the second season](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/more-deadly-decadence-in-the-white-lotus) of “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s hit HBO dramedy, a bright-eyed, slim-hipped strawberry blonde named Daphne (Meghann Fahy), a guest at the White Lotus luxury resort in Sicily, decides to take one last dip in the Mediterranean before her vacation ends and she heads back home, to the U.S. Certainly, in the course of the season, we saw no shortage of conflicts that could have yielded perpetrators and victims: there was the newly rich Ethan (Will Sharpe), seething with jealousy over a possible dalliance between his wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza, brittle and excellent), and his dick-swinging finance-bro friend, Cameron (the brutally handsome Theo James), who is married to Daphne; there was Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage who, along with her assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), had fallen in with a number of sinister, Palermo-based gay men seemingly intent on stealing her fortune by any means necessary; and there was Albie (Adam DiMarco), a wide-eyed, romantically minded Stanford grad travelling with his philandering father, Dom (Michael Imperioli), and still amorous grandfather, Bert (F. But as she swims in the perfect azure waters, her dreamy immersion is shattered by the sight of a dead body, floating on the waves.

After 'The White Lotus' finale, “Arrivederci,” we know who died and who killed, but all the guests behaved badly during this Sicily vacation.

How guilty is she? How guilty is he? Her dress is awful. Of kidnapping/abducting Portia, aiding and abetting Tanya’s murder-that-turned-out-to-be-an-accidental-suicide, of “uncle”-fucking, and also of running out on that check that time, which is rude. Is Bert slipping her a $50 for that hug? Well, according to Dominic, Bert is guilty of setting the mold of womanizing and delinquent husbandry that has doomed generations of men in this family to misery. I guess it’s good for her that she gets to be the piano girl at what is apparently the only hotel in all of Sicily? Is he guilty? And I could’ve happily gone my whole life without hearing the phrase “Achilles cock.” He seemed to have a really lovely time on this trip, didn’t he? The speed with which Albie transferred the money to Lucia’s account is totally implausible (he just had her routing number??) but the fact that he was so eager to do it, and not even in installments, made me write “He actually deserves to die for the crime of being such an idiot.” It’s also funny that he is so bent on being a good person who helps a damsel in distress that he could not recognize the actual vulnerability of Portia (going to an island with her psychotic boss and a drunk she’d never met) because he was too distracted by the over-the-top performance of helplessness Lucia put on for his benefit. [It was only a kiss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE)” confession, do you?) But I have a hard time with this whole thing where Ethan, with very little evidence, gets to have the moral high ground, while Harper, who found the condom wrapper, is scrambling to regain his trust. Like, I don’t want to tell someone how to be abducted, but I sure wouldn’t do my big confrontation after I was trapped in a car with my assailant.

Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore, in a pink suit) and her staff turn out to greet guests in the second season of HBO's “The White Lotus.” (Fabio Lovino / HBO).

And it depends as much on the open-mindedness of the traveler as on the magic embedded in any given location. And the second season wastes the talents of Impacciatore as the tough Valentina, a sexually frustrated woman who takes out her anger on everyone around her — until she comes to terms with her lesbian desires in the arms of a kindly prostitute. The protagonist in this stage play, of course, is the traveler. [her review](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-07-18/the-white-lotus-hbo-tourism-colonialism) of the show, “The White Lotus” does a far better job managing the storylines around the resort’s guests than it does with the staff members who must serve them. expat once summarized the country’s appeal to me over a beer and a stuffed ashtray: “It’s all about fishing and f—ing.” And what “The White Lotus” gets right is that tourism is theater, the ultimate immersive experience in which everyone and everything has a role to play. The travel industry contrives all manner of ways to objectify the locals for the benefit of tourists on a quest for the extraordinary or the “authentic.” In Belize, I once wrote about a hotel on a private island where I was greeted on a boat dock by smiling staff members all decked out in matching pith helmets — so colonial! The country is regularly billed as one of the happiest places on Earth, based on [studies](https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/sun-sea-and-stable-democracy-what-s-the-secret-to-costa-rica-s-success/) that purport to rank national contentedness. Functioning as stage is the locale — which the travel industry set-designs into a hyper-quaint version of itself for the purpose of tourist appeal. “Across the United States, towns devastated by capital flight, technological shifts, or union-busting make spectacles of themselves desperately framing and reinventing their histories to make the picture appealing to those who might buy a hamburger, T-shirt, suntan lotion, Indian jewelry, a plastic sea gull, a shell ashtray, or a boat ride.” But I have been intrigued by the ways it depicts tourism — especially the high-end part of the business. “Greet them together,” she commands, “with the same right hand.”

If you've been part of the cultural moment that is "The White Lotus," you've most probably inhaled this weekend's Season 2 finale already and are eager for ...

“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said. You know, we did Europe, and maybe Asia, something crazy like that, that would be fun,” White told But maybe you’ll have to wait to find out what happens,” he teased. [staggering events of the finale](https://www.cnn.com/videos/entertainment/2022/12/12/white-lotus-season-finale-cprog-cnntm-vpx.cnn), creator Mike White – who shepherded the at-first one-off limited series to a multiple Emmy-winning show that’s captured the zeitgeist and created [cringeworthy moments aplenty](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/10/entertainment/white-lotus-cringeworthy-moments) – gave a post-credits interview that unpacked the episode. (CNN and HBO are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at ‘White Lotus.’” (Season 1 of the show took place in Hawaii, followed by this season’s bawdy action set in Sicily.)

For the season finale of “The White Lotus,” Meghann Fahy stops by the “Still Watching” podcast to discuss her big final monologue, the evolution of Harper ...

I never felt like we rushed through something and didn't really get a chance to sort of sit with it. What do you think pains Daphne more—the potential Cameron betrayal or the Harper betrayal? For me, it was really exciting to see how it ended up cutting together, because I didn't really know what he was gonna choose—which sort of vibe he was maybe gonna pick of the ones that we played with. Listen below, and find a partial transcript of the Fahy interview as well. Meghann Fahy: Well, I think we knew going into it that it was a pretty important moment, so we really took our time with it. “I don’t have Twitter or TikTok, so I only really see what my friends send me and it just cracks me up,” she tells Vanity Fair.

Jennifer Coolidge sits on ornate bench by luggage. Jennifer Coolidge plays Tanya, a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage. As in Season 1, Coolidge is a comedy ...

1, and that she is perhaps the worst assistant in the history of the job.) At the airport, however, we see his head—and Albie’s, and Bert’s—swivel in the wake of a pretty young woman who is passing by. (“The motivation of sex is always primary, I think,” White told me when I spoke to him, earlier in the fall for the (Daphne: “You just do whatever you have to do not to feel like a victim of life.”) Later, Ethan and Harper, each recharged with the sexual attention of someone other than their spouse, finally fuck. In the fifth episode, we discover that Jack is hiding a secret; Tanya catches him in bed with Quentin. The first season of the show focussed on class, and the conflicts that emerged between the haves and the have-nots at the White Lotus resort in Maui. (Fahy is fantastic in the role, but especially in this scene.) “You spend every second with somebody, and there’s still this part that’s a mystery. Still, to my mind, the central point made in the series is that no relationship is detached from the transactional and that power always plays a role in how people deal with one another. [New Yorker Radio Hour](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/russell-moore-on-christian-nationalism).) Ethan and Harper are experiencing bed death; Cameron and Daphne have a de-facto don’t-ask-don’t-tell cheating policy; Albie is horny but doesn’t want to be like his father, whose marriage is in ruins owing to his sex addiction. [the second season](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/more-deadly-decadence-in-the-white-lotus) of “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s hit HBO dramedy, a bright-eyed, slim-hipped strawberry blonde named Daphne (Meghann Fahy), a guest at the White Lotus luxury resort in Sicily, decides to take one last dip in the Mediterranean before her vacation ends and she heads back home, to the U.S. Certainly, in the course of the season, we saw no shortage of conflicts that could have yielded perpetrators and victims: there was the newly rich Ethan (Will Sharpe), seething with jealousy over a possible dalliance between his wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza, brittle and excellent), and his dick-swinging finance-bro friend, Cameron (the brutally handsome Theo James), who is married to Daphne; there was Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage who, along with her assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), had fallen in with a number of sinister, Palermo-based gay men seemingly intent on stealing her fortune by any means necessary; and there was Albie (Adam DiMarco), a wide-eyed, romantically minded Stanford grad travelling with his philandering father, Dom (Michael Imperioli), and still amorous grandfather, Bert (F. But as she swims in the perfect azure waters, her dreamy immersion is shattered by the sight of a dead body, floating on the waves.

Yet again, this show has proved that it is possible to make outstanding TV that both plays to the crowd and refuses to sing the classics.

Jack became the villain he was always going to be, and it was frightening and tense, though perhaps his warning to Portia, to flee and not ask questions, was a sort of kindness. The marriages of Ethan and Harper and Daphne and Cameron found their way towards a sort of chosen and hard-won contentment in the end. It is surprisingly invigorating to watch a drama and know that it is not going to end in easy resolution or happiness. They’re trying to murder me!” – but it was a chef’s kiss to have her almost get away, having shot her way through her enemies, only to be undone by her own poor aim, and possibly the fact that she didn’t take off her heels before jumping. It wrapped up its storylines with decreasing levels of subtlety, from Albie being “played” by Lucia, moving through the resilience of Daphne’s determined denial, ramping all the way up to Tanya the destroyer, and ultimately the destroyed. Wanting to preserve the magic for another season, it ekes it out just enough to satisfy while dangling a carrot for the next go around.

'The White Lotus' Season 3 is due to hit screens sooner than expected. Here, we reveal the cast, the location and the iconic character making a comeback.

We wonder if White is booking himself in at a White Lotus. And it doesn't seem like White has any plans on booking anything in the foreseeable future either. Our intention is to do it in the third season," Britton told So I need to figure out how to unplug and refresh or something," he added. However, White has since confirmed where he's planning on taking the guests for season three. This is one rumour we're manifesting into reality.

In the first-season finale of The White Lotus, Tanya McQuoid tells Belinda, the manager of the spa at the show's titular hotel, that she's determined to ...

Instead of getting played or demeaned like the staff and locals in season one, the locals team up with White Lotus staff to stick it to the Establishment. Only those who understand that they could be a mark as well as a beneficiary in their own transactional relationships get to live to see another day and, presumably, another stay at a White Lotus. Then there’s the person who doesn’t emerge at all from the events that happen in Sicily: Tanya McQuoid, whose story is evidence all by itself of the importance of understanding the transactional nature of relationships. The characters who enjoy the most notable moment of triumph in the finale are Mia and Lucia, and it’s not an accident that they also happen to engage in the most blatantly transactional relationships. They both get what they came for, so to speak, and stroll happily through the streets of Italy as if their cares have completely dissolved, which, for now, they have. Ethan was never really friends with Cam in the first place; he was just engaged in a yearslong competition to prove his own worth. But it also signals that these men are on the same page now, incapable of hiding their sexual desires but also more comfortable with their similarities in that regard. And when we last see the two couples in the airport, they are sitting separate from each other as if they are two sides of the same dysfunctional marital coin. White communicates the idea that Harper and Ethan have something akin to real intimacy through visual language. While one might assume naïve Albie still doesn’t grasp that Lucia took advantage of him, he disabuses us of that notion when he reconnects with Portia at the airport and tells her that he got played. But when you consider which of the guests comes out of that weeklong experience unscathed — you know, relatively speaking — it’s the ones that have accepted that partnerships involve negotiation and are honest with themselves about that. “The Best Things in Life Are Free” is the song we hear as the season-two finale concludes, and it is definitely deployed ironically.

Leo Woodall talks about the life-changing moment he found out he landed the role of Jack in Mike White's award-winning series 'The White Lotus.

“He did the right thing, but he’s not that nice of a guy. Woodall also explained that Jack's decision not to kill Portia is about who he is as a person, more than his feelings for her. Though Jack decided not to kill Portia, he dropped her off in a deserted and dangerous area. The series will return for a third installment following a new group of guests at another White Lotus property. The fans don’t know much of his backstory other than Quentin helped him when he was in a dark place. He does the right thing in the end.” He gives you just enough so that you are fulfilled and satisfied.” When it got to that bit, I started to think about his backstory, but there’s something so genius about Mike’s writing that I didn’t want to compromise what he’d done.” In one scene, he told Haley Lu Richardson’s Portia that she was his “job.” It was terrifying for her; she even asked if she’d been kidnapped. White doesn’t spoonfeed his audience, and though he answers many questions, he still leaves some things unsaid and undone. For Leo Woodall, who portrayed Jack in the second season, landing this role was life-changing. He had been through a few rounds of Zoom auditions and had battled Covid more than once.

The Season Finale of The White Lotus teaches us many things about what it means to be a human, to be in a marriage, so much more.

The real tragedy is that our beloved character Tanya was the one who had to die, and by her own hands too. She wanted to be a singer. When we see him interact with Portia, we see a man who is willing to be different to the men who have come before him – he doesn’t objectify women, he asks for consent before embarking on a kiss, he is aware that gender is a construct. The slow unravelling of Albie’s true nature was also somewhat of a tragedy to witness. Sure, he doesn’t know at first that Lucia is a sex worker, but the effort he goes to keeping this sexual fling sustained is a bit over the top. I wanted to see the consequences of him being duped by a very clever woman, who knows how to do her job well. Is this the lesson Harper takes on in episode 6, where she decides to go back to her room with Cameron, and does what she wants? And Harper turns into the vile, disdainful kind of person she hated at the beginning of the season. The lesson to repairing a broken relationship where trust and attraction have fallen to the wayside, it seems is — sleep with other married people. In the end, Harper and Ethan were not any better than the couple they spent the whole vacation criticising. He’s honest to a fault,” it seems like cheating was inevitably what brought him back to her. In fact, why not dip your toes into their world of adultery in the meantime and call it even?