What am I missing about White Lotus?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a slow burn while they set the stage and then it all just breaks loose. Stick with it. It’s worth it!

Agreed, very slow burn. I like Season 2 better though.

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Fantasy Island was helped by Mr Rourke’s arrival explanations to Tattoo. Could use that here.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved it from the jump. I just enjoy that it’s all about subtle relationship dynamics.

What sublte relationship dynamics? There is nothing subtle about them but i do admit that I only watched the first 4 Episodes od Season 1. Is it really worth it to watch almost 4 hours to then maybe have good 2. And I dont like any of them. I know all this is on purpouse but it feels like a show that you watch only to see your favorite actor or just backround noise (how I started to use it after Episode 1). Idk iff ill continue, still dont know how a good finale is suposed to be worth all that but idk. Ofc I also read hear that season 2 is suposed to be better? It probably is but if Season 1 cant catch me I dont think season 2 can. Also im just really surprised how praised the show is. Buut yea maybe its just not for me idk

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a soap opera full of smut filmed in pretty places. Acting as if it’s high brow and you “get it” because you’re so high caste and live such decadent life is hilarious. It’s not “prestige TV,” it’s gutter trash literally full of lying, drugs, sexual deviancy, prostitution, profanity, and various smut.

This season there was just a “humorous” incest scene with two straight male boys performing a gay sex act on each other. Last season there was a “humorous” scene where a young bisexual nephew was having anal sex with his gay uncle shortly after he had sex with a young female co-star.

Really high brow TV. Totally not degenerate smut. You’re a prole if you don’t “get” this sort of TV and consume it week in and week out.

You did understand that that wasn’t actually his uncle, right?

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And the young "nephew" wasn't bisexual. He was being paid.

What do you call a guy who has sex with both men and women?

You understand he didn't have to be in any way sexually attracted to the other guy, right?? He was BEING PAID.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I loved it from the jump. I just enjoy that it’s all about subtle relationship dynamics.

What sublte relationship dynamics? There is nothing subtle about them but i do admit that I only watched the first 4 Episodes od Season 1. Is it really worth it to watch almost 4 hours to then maybe have good 2. And I dont like any of them. I know all this is on purpouse but it feels like a show that you watch only to see your favorite actor or just backround noise (how I started to use it after Episode 1). Idk iff ill continue, still dont know how a good finale is suposed to be worth all that but idk. Ofc I also read hear that season 2 is suposed to be better? It probably is but if Season 1 cant catch me I dont think season 2 can. Also im just really surprised how praised the show is. Buut yea maybe its just not for me idk

I think you should work on your spelling and grammar before indulging in any tv shows at all.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a soap opera full of smut filmed in pretty places. Acting as if it’s high brow and you “get it” because you’re so high caste and live such decadent life is hilarious. It’s not “prestige TV,” it’s gutter trash literally full of lying, drugs, sexual deviancy, prostitution, profanity, and various smut.

This season there was just a “humorous” incest scene with two straight male boys performing a gay sex act on each other. Last season there was a “humorous” scene where a young bisexual nephew was having anal sex with his gay uncle shortly after he had sex with a young female co-star.

Really high brow TV. Totally not degenerate smut. You’re a prole if you don’t “get” this sort of TV and consume it week in and week out.

You did understand that that wasn’t actually his uncle, right?

+1
And the young "nephew" wasn't bisexual. He was being paid.

What do you call a guy who has sex with both men and women?

You understand he didn't have to be in any way sexually attracted to the other guy, right?? He was BEING PAID.

To be fair, yes, he was being paid - but we don't know that he's not also bi even without the $. Just not bi for this guy without the $, probably.

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Anonymous wrote:I loved it from the first episode. It may not be for you.

I travelled a lot in high end places when I was dating someone who made a lot of money. If you haven't done that, or worked in one of these places, it may not resonate as much with you.

Good god you status obsessed strivers are so transparent. Yes, people who don’t “get” your cringy soap opera written by a gay man must be proles who’ve never been anywhere. lol

What does the writer being gay have anything to do with anything? Wut

Same reason SATC was rubbish. What does a childless gay bachelor know about about relationships, marriages, kids, and families? Absolutely nothing. The show is nothing but degenerate rubbish. But it’s always humorous to see the nitwit proles convince themselves they’re watching genius.

I agree on SATC, which I found deeply unrealistic about both dating and female friendships -- a strange fantasy.

But Mike White is a thoughtful observer of relationships, marriages, kids and families. He has a really interesting background and upbringing, which I think is a big part of it. His dad was an evangelical preacher who came out as gay, late in life. White was actually one of the first people to learn his dad was gay, because he read some of his dad's journals as a kid. Later on, White watched his dad come out publicly, and the impact on his career as a preacher and relationships with people from the evangelical community. Then also watching his parents divorce over this (amicably) and then his dad beginning to date men in midlife. I think through all of this, Mike White was observing how everyone in his family and community reacted to these events, with curiosity and not judgment. Growing up in a family with those kind of dramatic shifts in relationships and identity, but still retaining a loving, supportive family (from the sound of it) I think helped White develop his style as a filmmaker and storyteller, where he is often looking for the raw truth at the heart of a relationship, underneath what people might say or present to the world publicly, but he isn't judgmental or shaming about it.

His show Enlightened has a similar outlook to White Lotus but, IMO, a much more optimistic tone. Also he is able to dive in deeper on the characters because it's focused on one woman and then the handful of people in her orbit, instead of a large and varied ensemble whose stories only overlap in minimal ways.

So a mentally unwell gay bachelor with decades of trauma. Wow, I’m totally surprised. Good thing he’s not using this soap opera to shove his hedonist fantasies and mockery of religion and monogamy down viewers throats. Oh wait.

Jaclyn Lemon has entered the chat.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I loved it from the jump. I just enjoy that it’s all about subtle relationship dynamics.

What sublte relationship dynamics? There is nothing subtle about them but i do admit that I only watched the first 4 Episodes od Season 1. Is it really worth it to watch almost 4 hours to then maybe have good 2. And I dont like any of them. I know all this is on purpouse but it feels like a show that you watch only to see your favorite actor or just backround noise (how I started to use it after Episode 1). Idk iff ill continue, still dont know how a good finale is suposed to be worth all that but idk. Ofc I also read hear that season 2 is suposed to be better? It probably is but if Season 1 cant catch me I dont think season 2 can. Also im just really surprised how praised the show is. Buut yea maybe its just not for me idk

I think I may have written that, and subtle is not the right word. But the characters are so fleshed out and so specific—it’s just fun to sit back and watch the actors inhabit these obnoxious characters. At White Lotus, you get these over-the-top majestic settings and over-the-top rich people, but these people are still people. Rich or not, we all bring our trauma, our emotional baggage, our obnoxious quirks, and our dysfunctional relationships with us on vacation. I think you could have a show called Best Western and it would be equally compelling. It’s a study of human behavior.

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Anonymous wrote:Just started S1 and am on episode 2. Does this show get good? Thus far I’m finding it so underwhelming relative to all of the chatter. Was this show written for Gen Z? It seems written like it was someone with a cognitive disorder or someone who uses tons of drugs.

It’s definitely not for Gen Z, which has no attention span.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a soap opera full of smut filmed in pretty places. Acting as if it’s high brow and you “get it” because you’re so high caste and live such decadent life is hilarious. It’s not “prestige TV,” it’s gutter trash literally full of lying, drugs, sexual deviancy, prostitution, profanity, and various smut.

This season there was just a “humorous” incest scene with two straight male boys performing a gay sex act on each other. Last season there was a “humorous” scene where a young bisexual nephew was having anal sex with his gay uncle shortly after he had sex with a young female co-star.

Really high brow TV. Totally not degenerate smut. You’re a prole if you don’t “get” this sort of TV and consume it week in and week out.

+1. And it is not just tv shows. Someone recently tried to get me to read a book where two daughters get a dad drunk and have sex with him. Can you believe it? Nothing good can be in a book like that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a soap opera full of smut filmed in pretty places. Acting as if it’s high brow and you “get it” because you’re so high caste and live such decadent life is hilarious. It’s not “prestige TV,” it’s gutter trash literally full of lying, drugs, sexual deviancy, prostitution, profanity, and various smut.

This season there was just a “humorous” incest scene with two straight male boys performing a gay sex act on each other. Last season there was a “humorous” scene where a young bisexual nephew was having anal sex with his gay uncle shortly after he had sex with a young female co-star.

Really high brow TV. Totally not degenerate smut. You’re a prole if you don’t “get” this sort of TV and consume it week in and week out.

+1. And it is not just tv shows. Someone recently tried to get me to read a book where two daughters get a dad drunk and have sex with him. Can you believe it? Nothing good can be in a book like that.

Don't you have a bible to go read?
Turn of the tv, and move on with your life.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a soap opera full of smut filmed in pretty places. Acting as if it’s high brow and you “get it” because you’re so high caste and live such decadent life is hilarious. It’s not “prestige TV,” it’s gutter trash literally full of lying, drugs, sexual deviancy, prostitution, profanity, and various smut.

This season there was just a “humorous” incest scene with two straight male boys performing a gay sex act on each other. Last season there was a “humorous” scene where a young bisexual nephew was having anal sex with his gay uncle shortly after he had sex with a young female co-star.

Really high brow TV. Totally not degenerate smut. You’re a prole if you don’t “get” this sort of TV and consume it week in and week out.

You did understand that that wasn’t actually his uncle, right?

ya. the purpose of that scene wasn't to gratitutously show sex, but to reveal to Portia that neither of those men are who they say they are. It immediate makes the situation sinister and dangerous for both Portia and Tanya.

I love the show. every episode has intrigue and humor and complicated characters where you think they are good and they turn out to be bad or vice versa... or they go on some kind of journey. And everything that takes place and is said in the earlier episodes builds to something greater later on.

Wow, thank you for this. We were so lost, we thought it was just drug use, sodomy and prostitution randomly being shoved in viewers faces on a mainstream television show but now we realize it was much deeper and so genius…

What do you want to watch? Puppies and kittens cavorting? Girls and boys shyly holding each other’s hands? A woman gathering flowers while wearing a floppy hat?

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Anonymous wrote:Just started S1 and am on episode 2. Does this show get good? Thus far I’m finding it so underwhelming relative to all of the chatter. Was this show written for Gen Z? It seems written like it was someone with a cognitive disorder or someone who uses tons of drugs.

I recommend binge watching all seasons as soon as possible. The highlight this season is gay male incest. The highlight in season 2 was also…gay male incest.

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Anonymous wrote:Just started S1 and am on episode 2. Does this show get good? Thus far I’m finding it so underwhelming relative to all of the chatter. Was this show written for Gen Z? It seems written like it was someone with a cognitive disorder or someone who uses tons of drugs.

I recommend binge watching all seasons as soon as possible. The highlight this season is gay male incest. The highlight in season 2 was also…gay male incest.

There was no incest in season 2. I also have a hard time saying that the "highlight" of this season is the incident that you're referring to.

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Anonymous wrote:Just started S1 and am on episode 2. Does this show get good? Thus far I’m finding it so underwhelming relative to all of the chatter. Was this show written for Gen Z? It seems written like it was someone with a cognitive disorder or someone who uses tons of drugs.

I recommend binge watching all seasons as soon as possible. The highlight this season is gay male incest. The highlight in season 2 was also…gay male incest.

There was no incest in season 2. I also have a hard time saying that the "highlight" of this season is the incident that you're referring to.

You want to get into the weeds to try to rationalize how depraved this dark comedy show is. The fact is season 2’s most memorable scene was a naked young boy (nephew) seen having anal sex with a bent over older man (uncle). And this season’s most memorable scene has been two drunken naked young male brothers engaging in incest sex.