White Lotus

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love this show! It is funny but cringey.

Some spoilers:

Did I need to see Steve Zahn’s actual scrotum in the scene about testicular cancer? Uhmmm, no.

Jennifer Coolidge and Natasha Rothwell are both awesome.

The hotel manager guy is great.

I want something good to happen to the son who goes to sleep on the beach.

It was a prosthetic and they used a different actor to wear it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love it. The teenage girls are off the charts with their pills and self absorption, and it saddens me how realistic they are. I love the whiny man baby. I don’t know the actor, but he has been perfect cast. Connie is perfection. Everyone has a job here and does it well. Love the looony single lady who is obsessed with her masseuse. The shows cracks me up.

Her scene with Rachel in ep 2 is WOW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love it. The teenage girls are off the charts with their pills and self absorption, and it saddens me how realistic they are. I love the whiny man baby. I don’t know the actor, but he has been perfect cast. Connie is perfection. Everyone has a job here and does it well. Love the looony single lady who is obsessed with her masseuse. The shows cracks me up.

All of this. The whiney man child was Fran in Girls--he's great.
The daughter was so familiar, then I realized she played the young child bride in Handmaid's Tale. Such a different role!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love it. The teenage girls are off the charts with their pills and self absorption, and it saddens me how realistic they are. I love the whiny man baby. I don’t know the actor, but he has been perfect cast. Connie is perfection. Everyone has a job here and does it well. Love the looony single lady who is obsessed with her masseuse. The shows cracks me up.

All of this. The whiney man child was Fran in Girls--he's great.
The daughter was so familiar, then I realized she played the young child bride in Handmaid's Tale. Such a different role!

And he was Pete on The Office!

[Anonymous]

Ps I know it wasn’t Steve Zahns actual scrotum. I just don’t think I needed to see any scrotum. 😎

[Anonymous]

What? The White Lotus Rebellion? Heard of that?

[Anonymous]

I love this show so far. Getting a bit of a Coen brothers vibe.

[Anonymous]

I'm intrigued and I'm going to keep watching. It's not laugh out loud funny to me, but I'm still looking forward to more episodes.

[Anonymous]

I love Jennifer Coolidge's character, and that poor spa manager turned cranial sacral masseuse. So funny.

Loving this series so far! HBO Max does it again!

[Anonymous]

I just watched the newest episode. I was iffy at first, but man this show gets better with each episode. I wish I could binge it, can’t wait for the next episode!

[Anonymous]

I'm really loving this show. Just watched the 3rd episode.

- I couldn't quite figure out why Steve Zahn was cast in this role the first couple episodes. But when his character went off the deep end in response to the news about his dad, I got it. Really enjoying where that character is going after feeling ambivalent at first.

- I really love how layered so many of the interactions are. You'll hear characters describe them several different ways and they are all true. Like when Connie Britton's character had that conversation with the newlywed bride, and the girl winds up devastated because of the confrontation, but later Connie mentions it to her family that she found it really gratifying to talk to someone who admired her. The confrontation aspect was nothing to her. Stuff like that is so true to life and the show demonstrates it really deftly.

- The boat scene tonight was so great and one of the first truly laugh out loud funny bits on the show. My DH and I were talking about how most happy couples would be upset about the situation at first, but then because it was so over the top ridiculous, it would instantly become one of your favorite stories to tell as a couple. "Remember on our honeymoon when we tried to have that romantic dinner at sea and instead that insane rich lady made us attend her mom's funeral? That was hilarious!" We would tell this story at dinner parties for decades because it's amazing. But the fact that this couple is just uncomfortable and awkward the whole time, and the guy so angry it's all he can think about, demonstrates what a bad match they are and in particular how self-involved and high strung the guy is.

- Olivia is so gratingly annoying. Paula doesn't annoy me as much -- I think there is more going on with her and her politics/smugness is grounded in something more real than Olivia's desire to stick it to her rich, successful mom.

- I am confused, though, as to why that family is sharing a one bedroom suite (albeit a huge, gorgeous one) necessitating the girls sharing the pullout and the son sleeping on a cot. It just seems like they could afford, at a minimum, a 2 bedroom suite. Or one suite and one regular room. I'm trying to figure out if there's going to be some explanation for it (like the mom is cheap and that's part of deal, or they did it on purpose for some other reason), or if it was just a convenient plot device to force a bunch of conflict in the family. I find it very distracting, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really loving this show. Just watched the 3rd episode.

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- I am confused, though, as to why that family is sharing a one bedroom suite (albeit a huge, gorgeous one) necessitating the girls sharing the pullout and the son sleeping on a cot. It just seems like they could afford, at a minimum, a 2 bedroom suite. Or one suite and one regular room. I'm trying to figure out if there's going to be some explanation for it (like the mom is cheap and that's part of deal, or they did it on purpose for some other reason), or if it was just a convenient plot device to force a bunch of conflict in the family. I find it very distracting, though.

I was wondering that too, because Connie Britton's character seems to be the head of Facebook or some such corp., but it seems like she is fixated on family togetherness while at the same time taking a meeting constantly. It seems like she somehow believes that cramming everyone into a small suite somehow makes them a close family.

Is the son supposed to be on the spectrum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm really loving this show. Just watched the 3rd episode.

- I couldn't quite figure out why Steve Zahn was cast in this role the first couple episodes. But when his character went off the deep end in response to the news about his dad, I got it. Really enjoying where that character is going after feeling ambivalent at first.

- I really love how layered so many of the interactions are. You'll hear characters describe them several different ways and they are all true. Like when Connie Britton's character had that conversation with the newlywed bride, and the girl winds up devastated because of the confrontation, but later Connie mentions it to her family that she found it really gratifying to talk to someone who admired her. The confrontation aspect was nothing to her. Stuff like that is so true to life and the show demonstrates it really deftly.

- The boat scene tonight was so great and one of the first truly laugh out loud funny bits on the show. My DH and I were talking about how most happy couples would be upset about the situation at first, but then because it was so over the top ridiculous, it would instantly become one of your favorite stories to tell as a couple. "Remember on our honeymoon when we tried to have that romantic dinner at sea and instead that insane rich lady made us attend her mom's funeral? That was hilarious!" We would tell this story at dinner parties for decades because it's amazing. But the fact that this couple is just uncomfortable and awkward the whole time, and the guy so angry it's all he can think about, demonstrates what a bad match they are and in particular how self-involved and high strung the guy is.

- Olivia is so gratingly annoying. Paula doesn't annoy me as much -- I think there is more going on with her and her politics/smugness is grounded in something more real than Olivia's desire to stick it to her rich, successful mom.

- I am confused, though, as to why that family is sharing a one bedroom suite (albeit a huge, gorgeous one) necessitating the girls sharing the pullout and the son sleeping on a cot. It just seems like they could afford, at a minimum, a 2 bedroom suite. Or one suite and one regular room. I'm trying to figure out if there's going to be some explanation for it (like the mom is cheap and that's part of deal, or they did it on purpose for some other reason), or if it was just a convenient plot device to force a bunch of conflict in the family. I find it very distracting, though.

I mean, it’s obviously this. There’s no other rational reason, given the family’s wealth.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s really good. Jennifer Coolidge is amazing. I’ve been watching Enlightened (the creator’s previous show on HBO with Laura Dern that I had never seen) and I think Enlightened is really really good but kind of not fun at all and maybe that’s why it didn’t take off. The White Lotus has the setting, the murder mystery and Jennifer Coolidge and that is what is making it just as good but fun.

The scene in the scuba pool was so uncomfortable, it was amazing. Something about the way they shot it and how everything lasts just a little too long? I mean I read my phone during everything and I was riveted and physically uncomfortable.

I hope Quinn stays the hero, I am rooting for him.

The only thing that’s not quite ringing true to me is how jealous the one girl is of her friend and how her friend is hiding her waiter boy, but maybe they’ll explain why. Or maybe it’s just been too long since I was a teen girl.

Also, fun fact: Mike White (the creator)’s father was a closeted evangelical speech writer until he came out as gay when Mike White was in his teens. He didn’t have aids though.

[Anonymous]

PP, I agree about the teenage girls. In what world would a teen girl keep it a secret from her BFF that she’s hooking up with an older dude on vacation. And why would it make her BFF upset. Unless the one friend has a crush on the other?? Also, now that I think about it aren’t these girls probably 16? And she’s hooking up with an adult employee. I guess he could be a teen and this is a summer job but he didn’t look like it.

I had also wondered why the family wasn’t in an bigger suite. doesn’t make sense. And if it is just a convenient plot line to cram them all together, that seems like sloppy writing.

I do love this series though!