The White Lotus season 2

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Anonymous wrote:If nothing else this season is total travel porn and making me want to visit Sicily

You should! FYi all the beach scenes so far were shot in Cefalu, not Taormina. The beach in Taormina is very pebbly and the ocean is rougher there.

Cefalu and Taormina are IMO the prettiest places in Sicily. Spent three years living there and miss it every day!

How is Noto?

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting choice of “Daphne” as a name. This is a character in Greco-Roman mythology.

Facing a potential rape at the hands of Apollo, Daphne permanently undergoes metamorphosis. She begs Zeus to allow her to give up her feminine human form & voice to become an inanimate laurel tree. This metamorphosis protects her from rape, but at the expense of her body and permanent silence.

https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/23/myth-daphne-woman-who-chose-silence-sexual-assault/

That is interesting. Paired with her imagery from the opening credits, it seems like there's more to her story:

What am I missing? I see two cherubs. No Laurel tree though.

DP: two children that represent her motherhood? Or perhaps doing whatever it takes to protect them.

PP - I interpret that as two cherubs (innocent, sweet) trying to cover/protect themselves from something. That would track with the Daphne myth - protecting herself from something aggressive.

Scroll through the rest of the credits imagery.

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To me, every other one makes perfect sense (except Mia as the Sphinx) based on what we've seen so far, but not Daphne's.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting choice of “Daphne” as a name. This is a character in Greco-Roman mythology.

Facing a potential rape at the hands of Apollo, Daphne permanently undergoes metamorphosis. She begs Zeus to allow her to give up her feminine human form & voice to become an inanimate laurel tree. This metamorphosis protects her from rape, but at the expense of her body and permanent silence.

https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/23/myth-daphne-woman-who-chose-silence-sexual-assault/

That is interesting. Paired with her imagery from the opening credits, it seems like there's more to her story:

What am I missing? I see two cherubs. No Laurel tree though.

DP: two children that represent her motherhood? Or perhaps doing whatever it takes to protect them.

PP - I interpret that as two cherubs (innocent, sweet) trying to cover/protect themselves from something. That would track with the Daphne myth - protecting herself from something aggressive.

Scroll through the rest of the credits imagery.

200010516213762

To me, every other one makes perfect sense (except Mia as the Sphinx) based on what we've seen so far, but not Daphne's.

^^Whoops - I don't know what I pasted there.

Here's the link:

https://imgur.com/a/OdyH188

[Anonymous]

I'm also confused by Greg's illness being completely gone. When I was watching S2 I thought for a few minutes that maybe he had died and she was just imagining him being there (like a Sixth Sense type of twist). So I was trying to pay attention to if he was interacting with other people besides Tanya.

Now I think the con artist is probably more likely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If nothing else this season is total travel porn and making me want to visit Sicily

You should! FYi all the beach scenes so far were shot in Cefalu, not Taormina. The beach in Taormina is very pebbly and the ocean is rougher there.

Cefalu and Taormina are IMO the prettiest places in Sicily. Spent three years living there and miss it every day!

Oh man can you do an AMA??

Ask any Qs. It’s a cool place. Can def reco places to visit if your planning a trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If nothing else this season is total travel porn and making me want to visit Sicily

You should! FYi all the beach scenes so far were shot in Cefalu, not Taormina. The beach in Taormina is very pebbly and the ocean is rougher there.

Cefalu and Taormina are IMO the prettiest places in Sicily. Spent three years living there and miss it every day!

How is Noto?

Note is a cute little town. It’s in Siracusa in the south, another really pretty place. The town itself is super old and has a lot of baroque architecture from I think the 17th or 18th century. It has a beautiful cathedral in the main Square, and a bunch of really pretty churches and Palazzo’s. It’s a very typical small Sicilian town with a nice pedestrian walk, some cute green space parks, lots of little cafés and some shopping, though it’s mostly either artwork or souvenir shops. Noto is probably most famous for a flower festival they hold once a year where they make a carpet of flowers and interesting designs. Very similar to what is done in Brussels. I think it’s good for a day trip, you can even hit most of it in half a day. It’s about an hour drive from Catania, the main city in tbt east of Sicily.

It’s also pretty close, within about a 20 minute drive, of Ortigia, which is another super beautiful place. Probably my most favorite spot in southeast Sicily. Ortigia is a little island connected to Siracusa that has beautiful ocean surrounding it. You can park in the center and walk from one end to another in about half an hour. It’s just stunning, the typical churches and cathedrals, but lots of pretty alleyways of shops and tiny restaurants. It also has lots of little hole in the wall places that run along the sea wall where are you sit at a tiny plastic table and fisherman bring fresh catches directly from the water into the restaurant.

Sicily is so different from mainland Italy, in good and bad ways. I think season 2 may have a good impact on tourism, which they desperately need. The island gets its share of tourists, but I’m always surprised that it’s not more of a top destination because it’s so easy to get around and see so much in a short time, it has amazing food and wine for super cheap (entire pizza = €5, nice DOCG bottle of wine = €6). And it’s one of those places that appeals to a lot of people because it has great beaches, cities for shopping, loads of historical sites, and between the water activities and volcano, lots of adventure style attractions, all in the same spot. Sicily has so much ancient Greek history in it; watching season two of the show with its heavy handed dose of Greek mythology is taking me back!

[Anonymous]

I think Greg was talking to his adult daughter on the phone. Or maybe a sister. Tanya will think he is cheating on her and will kill him. He'll turn out to be the dead body in the sea.

However, the twist will be that he wasn't cheating, his cancer came back and he was keeping it from her to give her one last magical vacation.

But she won't find out until after he's already dead.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think Greg was talking to his adult daughter on the phone. Or maybe a sister. Tanya will think he is cheating on her and will kill him. He'll turn out to be the dead body in the sea.

However, the twist will be that he wasn't cheating, his cancer came back and he was keeping it from her to give her one last magical vacation.

But she won't find out until after he's already dead.

I like this - but also he's being such a d**k to her on this trip. I guess it could be his own sort of nasty way of doing one last magical vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Greg was talking to his adult daughter on the phone. Or maybe a sister. Tanya will think he is cheating on her and will kill him. He'll turn out to be the dead body in the sea.

However, the twist will be that he wasn't cheating, his cancer came back and he was keeping it from her to give her one last magical vacation.

But she won't find out until after he's already dead.

I like this - but also he's being such a d**k to her on this trip. I guess it could be his own sort of nasty way of doing one last magical vacation.

I think she probably just gets on his nerves big time and he is occasionally a d**ck about it. How could she not? She is such a loon. But he also understands why she is a loon - crazy parents, crazy upbringing, crazy amount of money that isolates her from regular people and normal behavior. So he goes back and forth on her. Sometimes charmed, sometimes repulsed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think Greg was talking to his adult daughter on the phone. Or maybe a sister. Tanya will think he is cheating on her and will kill him. He'll turn out to be the dead body in the sea.

However, the twist will be that he wasn't cheating, his cancer came back and he was keeping it from her to give her one last magical vacation.

But she won't find out until after he's already dead.

I like this - but also he's being such a d**k to her on this trip. I guess it could be his own sort of nasty way of doing one last magical vacation.

I think she probably just gets on his nerves big time and he is occasionally a d**ck about it. How could she not? She is such a loon. But he also understands why she is a loon - crazy parents, crazy upbringing, crazy amount of money that isolates her from regular people and normal behavior. So he goes back and forth on her. Sometimes charmed, sometimes repulsed.

Yeah! That certainly tracks.

I hope they don't have her kill him, then. That doesn't feel very WL if they do. I feel like as bad as Tanya is, we're also supposed to be rooting for her - and to have her murder the husband who's trying to give her a last hurrah before he dies doesn't feel in that spirit. Unless he asks her to do it.

[Anonymous]

I wonder who is going to die? Given the lessons the show is teaching about the rich and powerful, I think it will be the two local girls. (And the body limbs looked female to me. But I'd rather if it were some of the awful men in this series. Ugh.)

And I agree with the theory that maybe Greg's illness is back and that's part of the reason why he's behaving like a jerk, but also trying to give her a last, nice vacation. (Why such a jerk about the macaroons and her weight, though, ugh.)

[Anonymous]

Didn't they say that the body was a guest? And that there were other guests dead? That would exclude the locals. I'll have to go back and re-watch that part because I thought the hotel staff was telling the manager that there was more than one person, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder who is going to die? Given the lessons the show is teaching about the rich and powerful, I think it will be the two local girls. (And the body limbs looked female to me. But I'd rather if it were some of the awful men in this series. Ugh.)

And I agree with the theory that maybe Greg's illness is back and that's part of the reason why he's behaving like a jerk, but also trying to give her a last, nice vacation. (Why such a jerk about the macaroons and her weight, though, ugh.)

I think the body in the first scene is one of the two girls. They are now officially registered as hotel “guests.”

I think Dominic will die. He’s watching The Godfather, specifically the scene where Michael Corrleone is told “In Siciliy, women are more dangerous than shotguns.” Further the story about the head sculptures (Testa di Moro) perfectly describe him: "The story is a Moor came here a long time ago and seduced a local girl. But then she found out that he had a wife and children back home. So because he lied to her, she cut his head off."

Now, the girls know he is married and has kids. But Mia badly wants to visit Los Angeles and doesn’t have the money. She seems to ignore his boundaries he sets and I can see her becoming more and more obsessed with Dominic. She and Dominic are going to have a massive blowup, once she realizes he won’t be flying her to Los Angeles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder who is going to die? Given the lessons the show is teaching about the rich and powerful, I think it will be the two local girls. (And the body limbs looked female to me. But I'd rather if it were some of the awful men in this series. Ugh.)

And I agree with the theory that maybe Greg's illness is back and that's part of the reason why he's behaving like a jerk, but also trying to give her a last, nice vacation. (Why such a jerk about the macaroons and her weight, though, ugh.)

I think the body in the first scene is one of the two girls. They are now officially registered as hotel “guests.”

I think Dominic will die. He’s watching The Godfather, specifically the scene where Michael Corrleone is told “In Siciliy, women are more dangerous than shotguns.” Further the story about the head sculptures (Testa di Moro) perfectly describe him: "The story is a Moor came here a long time ago and seduced a local girl. But then she found out that he had a wife and children back home. So because he lied to her, she cut his head off."

Now, the girls know he is married and has kids. But Mia badly wants to visit Los Angeles and doesn’t have the money. She seems to ignore his boundaries he sets and I can see her becoming more and more obsessed with Dominic. She and Dominic are going to have a massive blowup, once she realizes he won’t be flying her to Los Angeles.

It's Luci who wants to visit LA, not Mia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder who is going to die? Given the lessons the show is teaching about the rich and powerful, I think it will be the two local girls. (And the body limbs looked female to me. But I'd rather if it were some of the awful men in this series. Ugh.)

And I agree with the theory that maybe Greg's illness is back and that's part of the reason why he's behaving like a jerk, but also trying to give her a last, nice vacation. (Why such a jerk about the macaroons and her weight, though, ugh.)

I think the body in the first scene is one of the two girls. They are now officially registered as hotel “guests.”

I think Dominic will die. He’s watching The Godfather, specifically the scene where Michael Corrleone is told “In Siciliy, women are more dangerous than shotguns.” Further the story about the head sculptures (Testa di Moro) perfectly describe him: "The story is a Moor came here a long time ago and seduced a local girl. But then she found out that he had a wife and children back home. So because he lied to her, she cut his head off."

Now, the girls know he is married and has kids. But Mia badly wants to visit Los Angeles and doesn’t have the money. She seems to ignore his boundaries he sets and I can see her becoming more and more obsessed with Dominic. She and Dominic are going to have a massive blowup, once she realizes he won’t be flying her to Los Angeles.

*Edit* - Lucia, not Mia.