The White Lotus season 2

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting how so many viewers think Harper is just another Aubrey Plaza sarcastic witty character they love no matter what, so they refuse to consider any ulterior motives. She's just a low-key ball breaking corporate lawyer from Puerto Rican poverty, who just randomly met a rich Yale boy who founded a multi-billion (?) tech company. She is not at all attracted to prestige or money! She's above that! And she totally doesn't fear her billionaire net worth (or at least hundreds of millions) husband whom she has no children with and she doesn't have sex with could leave her like presumably the dozens of other starter marriages she's seen fail around her in the last 10 or so years. Harper is a good person!

Because I actually am a corporate lawyer, on the other side of cases brought by lawyers like Harper, I find this take especially stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting how so many viewers think Harper is just another Aubrey Plaza sarcastic witty character they love no matter what, so they refuse to consider any ulterior motives. She's just a low-key ball breaking corporate lawyer from Puerto Rican poverty, who just randomly met a rich Yale boy who founded a multi-billion (?) tech company. She is not at all attracted to prestige or money! She's above that! And she totally doesn't fear her billionaire net worth (or at least hundreds of millions) husband whom she has no children with and she doesn't have sex with could leave her like presumably the dozens of other starter marriages she's seen fail around her in the last 10 or so years. Harper is a good person!

She.is.not.a.corporate.lawyer.

She is, actually.

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Anonymous wrote:I wanted more Dom! Maybe next season and he will be with Laura Dern. Her is such a great actor but we didn’t really get to see his range.

Doubt it. They made a point of showing Dom's wife and daughter - Dern does not portray his wife. The wife and daughter were both dark haired.

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Anonymous wrote:Ethan was a bigger mark than Albie.

Harper played him like a fiddle with psychological manipulation to get what she wanted — her filthy rich weirdo husband wrapped around her finger and impregnating her.

Cameron and his wife orbited him to corrupt him and bring them all closer, so when they get back Ethan will wire a boatload of money to Cam to “manage”. Asset management is just a scam to milk to money for management fees forever.

Nobody likes Ethan. People just want his money, even the snarky conniving lawyer he’s married to.

I don’t agree with this at all. Harper was not manipulative. She doesn’t seem to care about the money at all and is mostly concerned that it’s going to mess up their marriage (which it does). At the end she is kind of manipulative I guess, when they both ended up playing Daphne/Cameron games with each other, but that’s a result of everything that went down on the trip. She was not like that to start

Totally agree. I also don't get the sense that Harper is anywhere near as enthralled with having the "big" money they now have. It sounds like she grew up working class in Puerto Rico and is still very tight with her family there (if they spent their honeymoon there). She's now a lawyer at a large firm which gives her financial security plus plenty of the nice things in life -- cute clothes, vacations. I think Harper would be happy with her UMC lifestyle and nothing more.

But the thing about Daphne/Cameron that did provoke jealousy was how affectionate they are and how much fun they seem to be having. I do actually think that Harper was right about them in some ways. We see at different times that to some degree, that is a show they put on for themselves and others. We know that Daphne definitely has some strong negative feelings about the cheating and also just how absent her husband sometimes is, but she finds different ways to bury them down deep and enjoy the good stuff about her marriage. And that scene with Cam flossing indicates that he's got some of his own issues that he does a very good job of glossing over.

My personal opinion is that this will work out for a Daphne/Cam couple for a while but that eventually it won't anymore. My experience in life is that at some point you have to deal with the stuff underneath, no matter how good you get at shoving it down. It will happen when you are no longer quite so young and hot and you don't command the same attention you used to, or when your career takes an unfortunate left turn, or when your kids get older and need you less, or when your parents die, or when you get sick or injured and have to confront your own mortality. I've seen it happen many times. Cam and Daphne have worked something out. For now.

Haha! Harper is an attorney, you can't trust attorneys from the get-go. Spare me her practicing specialty, she knows most of those workplace lawsuits are bullsh*t shake downs. Harper admits to giving her husband's money to her family. Harper admits she wants to launch a non-profit foundation. How do you make a splash in the foundation world? Big money. Her ~ $300k law firm income isn't big money. Late 30s Harper is also yearning for a baby before she's barren. Tick-tock. Harper and Ethan are not attracted to each other, they're just using each other out of convenience. He's an autistic loner, addicted to porn, and deeply weird around women; she needs a deep-pocketed meek husband who can fund her foundation desires and lift her extended family out of poverty and impregnate her to set her for life. She is fully aware at this point without kids, this could be a starter marriage the rich husband could immediately walk away from. And then she's just another rapidly aging, increasingly infertile single lawyer approaching 40. But it's humorous how most viewers are so drawn to Aubrey Plaza, the actress, they don't see what a conniving shyster lawyer she is. She's Megan Markle and Lauren Sanchez with a law degree.

Wow, what female attorney hurt you. This is insane and has no basis in the show

So Harper is just an altruistic corporate lawyer? Imagine believing this nonsense. She's a corporate shake-down artist. She's in a sexless marriage with an autistic weirdo because HE'S FILTHY RICH, period.

1) she’s a plaintiff side employment lawyer. That’s the opposite of a corporate lawyer. 2) She was with him before she sold the company. Divorcing and taking her half would make a lot of sense for her but she wants to save her marriage.

I’m sorry that you hate women but the creators of this show don’t, which is why you’re so completely out to lunch on these interpretations.

Harper didn't hang a shingle. There was a line in episode 1 or 2 that "Harper's a star at her firm." Large corporate firms have talent with niche focuses including labour, employment; discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing. These can be multi-million settlements, if not sometimes class action status reaching into the eight figures.

No, Plaintiff's side employment firms are generally not big corporate firms. It's a totally different business model (contingency vs hourly rate) plus they would be conflicted off a ton of cases because of their corporate clients. But anyway, this line of argument is ridiculous and even if Harper was indeed a "corporate lawyer" (the horror!) that does not mean she was running some elaborate scam on Ethan.

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Anonymous wrote:Ethan was a bigger mark than Albie.

Harper played him like a fiddle with psychological manipulation to get what she wanted — her filthy rich weirdo husband wrapped around her finger and impregnating her.

Cameron and his wife orbited him to corrupt him and bring them all closer, so when they get back Ethan will wire a boatload of money to Cam to “manage”. Asset management is just a scam to milk to money for management fees forever.

Nobody likes Ethan. People just want his money, even the snarky conniving lawyer he’s married to.

I don’t agree with this at all. Harper was not manipulative. She doesn’t seem to care about the money at all and is mostly concerned that it’s going to mess up their marriage (which it does). At the end she is kind of manipulative I guess, when they both ended up playing Daphne/Cameron games with each other, but that’s a result of everything that went down on the trip. She was not like that to start

Totally agree. I also don't get the sense that Harper is anywhere near as enthralled with having the "big" money they now have. It sounds like she grew up working class in Puerto Rico and is still very tight with her family there (if they spent their honeymoon there). She's now a lawyer at a large firm which gives her financial security plus plenty of the nice things in life -- cute clothes, vacations. I think Harper would be happy with her UMC lifestyle and nothing more.

But the thing about Daphne/Cameron that did provoke jealousy was how affectionate they are and how much fun they seem to be having. I do actually think that Harper was right about them in some ways. We see at different times that to some degree, that is a show they put on for themselves and others. We know that Daphne definitely has some strong negative feelings about the cheating and also just how absent her husband sometimes is, but she finds different ways to bury them down deep and enjoy the good stuff about her marriage. And that scene with Cam flossing indicates that he's got some of his own issues that he does a very good job of glossing over.

My personal opinion is that this will work out for a Daphne/Cam couple for a while but that eventually it won't anymore. My experience in life is that at some point you have to deal with the stuff underneath, no matter how good you get at shoving it down. It will happen when you are no longer quite so young and hot and you don't command the same attention you used to, or when your career takes an unfortunate left turn, or when your kids get older and need you less, or when your parents die, or when you get sick or injured and have to confront your own mortality. I've seen it happen many times. Cam and Daphne have worked something out. For now.

Haha! Harper is an attorney, you can't trust attorneys from the get-go. Spare me her practicing specialty, she knows most of those workplace lawsuits are bullsh*t shake downs. Harper admits to giving her husband's money to her family. Harper admits she wants to launch a non-profit foundation. How do you make a splash in the foundation world? Big money. Her ~ $300k law firm income isn't big money. Late 30s Harper is also yearning for a baby before she's barren. Tick-tock. Harper and Ethan are not attracted to each other, they're just using each other out of convenience. He's an autistic loner, addicted to porn, and deeply weird around women; she needs a deep-pocketed meek husband who can fund her foundation desires and lift her extended family out of poverty and impregnate her to set her for life. She is fully aware at this point without kids, this could be a starter marriage the rich husband could immediately walk away from. And then she's just another rapidly aging, increasingly infertile single lawyer approaching 40. But it's humorous how most viewers are so drawn to Aubrey Plaza, the actress, they don't see what a conniving shyster lawyer she is. She's Megan Markle and Lauren Sanchez with a law degree.

Wow, what female attorney hurt you. This is insane and has no basis in the show

So Harper is just an altruistic corporate lawyer? Imagine believing this nonsense. She's a corporate shake-down artist. She's in a sexless marriage with an autistic weirdo because HE'S FILTHY RICH, period.

1) she’s a plaintiff side employment lawyer. That’s the opposite of a corporate lawyer. 2) She was with him before she sold the company. Divorcing and taking her half would make a lot of sense for her but she wants to save her marriage.

I’m sorry that you hate women but the creators of this show don’t, which is why you’re so completely out to lunch on these interpretations.

Harper didn't hang a shingle. There was a line in episode 1 or 2 that "Harper's a star at her firm." Large corporate firms have talent with niche focuses including labour, employment; discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing. These can be multi-million settlements, if not sometimes class action status reaching into the eight figures.

Large corporate firms don’t sue large corporations. There are some decent sized plaintiffs firms, but you can’t, as a rule, sue corporations for wage & hour violations then expect them to come back and hire you for their products liability defense case. She’s clearly at a plaintiffs side firm, not biglaw or anything like it.

Also 4 of your “niches” are really all the same niche. You’re wildly out of your depth both on the topic of legal practice and literary interpretation.

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting how so many viewers think Harper is just another Aubrey Plaza sarcastic witty character they love no matter what, so they refuse to consider any ulterior motives. She's just a low-key ball breaking corporate lawyer from Puerto Rican poverty, who just randomly met a rich Yale boy who founded a multi-billion (?) tech company. She is not at all attracted to prestige or money! She's above that! And she totally doesn't fear her billionaire net worth (or at least hundreds of millions) husband whom she has no children with and she doesn't have sex with could leave her like presumably the dozens of other starter marriages she's seen fail around her in the last 10 or so years. Harper is a good person!

She.is.not.a.corporate.lawyer.

She is, actually.

What do you think it means to be a “corporate lawyer,” exactly?

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting how so many viewers think Harper is just another Aubrey Plaza sarcastic witty character they love no matter what, so they refuse to consider any ulterior motives. She's just a low-key ball breaking corporate lawyer from Puerto Rican poverty, who just randomly met a rich Yale boy who founded a multi-billion (?) tech company. She is not at all attracted to prestige or money! She's above that! And she totally doesn't fear her billionaire net worth (or at least hundreds of millions) husband whom she has no children with and she doesn't have sex with could leave her like presumably the dozens of other starter marriages she's seen fail around her in the last 10 or so years. Harper is a good person!

She.is.not.a.corporate.lawyer.

She is, actually.

Tell me you aren't a lawyer without telling me you aren't a lawyer

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Anonymous wrote:Weeks..those 4 grossed me out...so every time Cameron cheats, Daphne is going to do something to make up for feeling like a victim...what an invitation for disease and disorder

No don’t you see - Daphne is the aggressor. Cam reacts to what she provokes, not the other way around. Don’t you see how she played Harper and Ethan? That’s the point of Daphne: she’s not a ditz; she’s a female psychopath. Psychopaths aren’t all out for violence. In her case it’s all fun and games. She’s says in the first episode she loves Dateline. She loves drama. Daphne sees the uptight couple and commences a little game called Let’s see how we can get this puppet to dance. She feels powerful by getting people to do things and make it seem like she’s innocent and it was their idea. When Harper asks Daphne if she thinks Cam cheats, she says you need to do whatever you need to do to feel better, you should get yourself a trainer. The idea of cheating never occurred to Harper before, and before you know it, she’s cheating!

Same dang thing with Ethan. Daphne knows her actions trigger Cam to cheat. She Does Not Care. She uses that to justify her bad behavior. “See, if Cam wasn’t such a bad guy, I wouldn’t have to do these things to survive in the relationship and not feel like a victim.” Go back and look - Daphne is the instigator of all the cheating. She gives Ethan the same advice, you do what you gotta do to level the score. Cam, Harper, Ethan, they all think in varying ways that they chose to behave this way. But they were manipulated into behaving this way.

At the end, Daphne’s like this is just another Saturday for me. It is immaterial that Harper and Ethan grew closer because of Daphne’s actions (unless of course it was to inspire Ethan to invest more with Cameron because he had a great trip, which in turn benefits her). Her main motivation is to drum up drama and skillfully manipulate people without them even realizing it was her. That is her superpower.

This is fanfic, not at all rooted in the source material. A wife can’t “provoke” cheating by leaving for a night. And she tried to get him to come but he refused because he wanted to… waterski.

Agree. Same mysogynistic take as above.

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Harper's character is not a "good" person...like everyone in White Lotus. Her flaws are that she sees the world as too black and white. She started the season believing fully that she and Ethan were superior and that their love was better. She ended the season succumbing to the same games and lies as those she judged. Think about the first episode when they talk about the news. She couldn't believe Cameron and Daphne don't watch the news, that they just ignore it. Ultimately, that's what she did with any notions of Ethan cheating (and possibly her own). Even her willingness to turn a blind eye to Cameron's inappropriate advances stands in direct contrast with her job and her overall position on harassment.


She is just like everyone else -- complex, flawed, and somewhat unlikeable. That's what makes this show great.

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Anonymous wrote:Ethan was a bigger mark than Albie.

Harper played him like a fiddle with psychological manipulation to get what she wanted — her filthy rich weirdo husband wrapped around her finger and impregnating her.

Cameron and his wife orbited him to corrupt him and bring them all closer, so when they get back Ethan will wire a boatload of money to Cam to “manage”. Asset management is just a scam to milk to money for management fees forever.

Nobody likes Ethan. People just want his money, even the snarky conniving lawyer he’s married to.

I don’t agree with this at all. Harper was not manipulative. She doesn’t seem to care about the money at all and is mostly concerned that it’s going to mess up their marriage (which it does). At the end she is kind of manipulative I guess, when they both ended up playing Daphne/Cameron games with each other, but that’s a result of everything that went down on the trip. She was not like that to start

Totally agree. I also don't get the sense that Harper is anywhere near as enthralled with having the "big" money they now have. It sounds like she grew up working class in Puerto Rico and is still very tight with her family there (if they spent their honeymoon there). She's now a lawyer at a large firm which gives her financial security plus plenty of the nice things in life -- cute clothes, vacations. I think Harper would be happy with her UMC lifestyle and nothing more.

But the thing about Daphne/Cameron that did provoke jealousy was how affectionate they are and how much fun they seem to be having. I do actually think that Harper was right about them in some ways. We see at different times that to some degree, that is a show they put on for themselves and others. We know that Daphne definitely has some strong negative feelings about the cheating and also just how absent her husband sometimes is, but she finds different ways to bury them down deep and enjoy the good stuff about her marriage. And that scene with Cam flossing indicates that he's got some of his own issues that he does a very good job of glossing over.

My personal opinion is that this will work out for a Daphne/Cam couple for a while but that eventually it won't anymore. My experience in life is that at some point you have to deal with the stuff underneath, no matter how good you get at shoving it down. It will happen when you are no longer quite so young and hot and you don't command the same attention you used to, or when your career takes an unfortunate left turn, or when your kids get older and need you less, or when your parents die, or when you get sick or injured and have to confront your own mortality. I've seen it happen many times. Cam and Daphne have worked something out. For now.

Haha! Harper is an attorney, you can't trust attorneys from the get-go. Spare me her practicing specialty, she knows most of those workplace lawsuits are bullsh*t shake downs. Harper admits to giving her husband's money to her family. Harper admits she wants to launch a non-profit foundation. How do you make a splash in the foundation world? Big money. Her ~ $300k law firm income isn't big money. Late 30s Harper is also yearning for a baby before she's barren. Tick-tock. Harper and Ethan are not attracted to each other, they're just using each other out of convenience. He's an autistic loner, addicted to porn, and deeply weird around women; she needs a deep-pocketed meek husband who can fund her foundation desires and lift her extended family out of poverty and impregnate her to set her for life. She is fully aware at this point without kids, this could be a starter marriage the rich husband could immediately walk away from. And then she's just another rapidly aging, increasingly infertile single lawyer approaching 40. But it's humorous how most viewers are so drawn to Aubrey Plaza, the actress, they don't see what a conniving shyster lawyer she is. She's Megan Markle and Lauren Sanchez with a law degree.

Wow, what female attorney hurt you. This is insane and has no basis in the show

So Harper is just an altruistic corporate lawyer? Imagine believing this nonsense. She's a corporate shake-down artist. She's in a sexless marriage with an autistic weirdo because HE'S FILTHY RICH, period.

1) she’s a plaintiff side employment lawyer. That’s the opposite of a corporate lawyer. 2) She was with him before she sold the company. Divorcing and taking her half would make a lot of sense for her but she wants to save her marriage.

I’m sorry that you hate women but the creators of this show don’t, which is why you’re so completely out to lunch on these interpretations.

Yeah this person clearly has a negative view of women and is trying to project that onto Harper. There's no basis to think she a scam artist and Ethan was a "mark." There is every indication that they had a pretty normal marriage

"How are you going to make it in life if you're this big a mark?"

Dominic calls his son a mark for falling for the prostitute's cliche shake-down.

The lounge singer and hotel manager were easy marks for the other prostitute.

Tonya was a mark to Greg and the gays.

Ethan was a mark to Cameron and Daphne, and also, to his wife Harper.

Duplicitous connivers targeting marks for money and favor was quite literally the theme of the season.

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Anonymous wrote:No way Greg’s getting that inheritance (if they even show it, which I doubt they would). The circumstances around Tonya’s death are far too suspicious, and Portia will piece together what happened and likely tell the cops. Also they have the framed photo of Greg at the crime scene which will be used as evidence of some sort.

Although Tonya died in a dumb way (befitting her character), I still am satisfied that she thwarted Greg/Quentin’s plan.

Dollars to donuts in season 3 we hear somehow (Portia anyone?) that the inheritance didn’t go to Greg so next in line was the lady at the spa at the White Lotus Hawaii so she could open her wellness center.

I LOVE THIS.

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting how so many viewers think Harper is just another Aubrey Plaza sarcastic witty character they love no matter what, so they refuse to consider any ulterior motives. She's just a low-key ball breaking corporate lawyer from Puerto Rican poverty, who just randomly met a rich Yale boy who founded a multi-billion (?) tech company. She is not at all attracted to prestige or money! She's above that! And she totally doesn't fear her billionaire net worth (or at least hundreds of millions) husband whom she has no children with and she doesn't have sex with could leave her like presumably the dozens of other starter marriages she's seen fail around her in the last 10 or so years. Harper is a good person!

She.is.not.a.corporate.lawyer.

She is, actually.

Tell me you aren't a lawyer without telling me you aren't a lawyer

Lie and claim you're some white shoe attorney when you're typing away about a dumb TV show at 11AM EST on a workday.

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Anonymous wrote:Ethan was a bigger mark than Albie.

Harper played him like a fiddle with psychological manipulation to get what she wanted — her filthy rich weirdo husband wrapped around her finger and impregnating her.

Cameron and his wife orbited him to corrupt him and bring them all closer, so when they get back Ethan will wire a boatload of money to Cam to “manage”. Asset management is just a scam to milk to money for management fees forever.

Nobody likes Ethan. People just want his money, even the snarky conniving lawyer he’s married to.

I don’t agree with this at all. Harper was not manipulative. She doesn’t seem to care about the money at all and is mostly concerned that it’s going to mess up their marriage (which it does). At the end she is kind of manipulative I guess, when they both ended up playing Daphne/Cameron games with each other, but that’s a result of everything that went down on the trip. She was not like that to start

Totally agree. I also don't get the sense that Harper is anywhere near as enthralled with having the "big" money they now have. It sounds like she grew up working class in Puerto Rico and is still very tight with her family there (if they spent their honeymoon there). She's now a lawyer at a large firm which gives her financial security plus plenty of the nice things in life -- cute clothes, vacations. I think Harper would be happy with her UMC lifestyle and nothing more.

But the thing about Daphne/Cameron that did provoke jealousy was how affectionate they are and how much fun they seem to be having. I do actually think that Harper was right about them in some ways. We see at different times that to some degree, that is a show they put on for themselves and others. We know that Daphne definitely has some strong negative feelings about the cheating and also just how absent her husband sometimes is, but she finds different ways to bury them down deep and enjoy the good stuff about her marriage. And that scene with Cam flossing indicates that he's got some of his own issues that he does a very good job of glossing over.

My personal opinion is that this will work out for a Daphne/Cam couple for a while but that eventually it won't anymore. My experience in life is that at some point you have to deal with the stuff underneath, no matter how good you get at shoving it down. It will happen when you are no longer quite so young and hot and you don't command the same attention you used to, or when your career takes an unfortunate left turn, or when your kids get older and need you less, or when your parents die, or when you get sick or injured and have to confront your own mortality. I've seen it happen many times. Cam and Daphne have worked something out. For now.

Haha! Harper is an attorney, you can't trust attorneys from the get-go. Spare me her practicing specialty, she knows most of those workplace lawsuits are bullsh*t shake downs. Harper admits to giving her husband's money to her family. Harper admits she wants to launch a non-profit foundation. How do you make a splash in the foundation world? Big money. Her ~ $300k law firm income isn't big money. Late 30s Harper is also yearning for a baby before she's barren. Tick-tock. Harper and Ethan are not attracted to each other, they're just using each other out of convenience. He's an autistic loner, addicted to porn, and deeply weird around women; she needs a deep-pocketed meek husband who can fund her foundation desires and lift her extended family out of poverty and impregnate her to set her for life. She is fully aware at this point without kids, this could be a starter marriage the rich husband could immediately walk away from. And then she's just another rapidly aging, increasingly infertile single lawyer approaching 40. But it's humorous how most viewers are so drawn to Aubrey Plaza, the actress, they don't see what a conniving shyster lawyer she is. She's Megan Markle and Lauren Sanchez with a law degree.

Wow, what female attorney hurt you. This is insane and has no basis in the show

So Harper is just an altruistic corporate lawyer? Imagine believing this nonsense. She's a corporate shake-down artist. She's in a sexless marriage with an autistic weirdo because HE'S FILTHY RICH, period.

1) she’s a plaintiff side employment lawyer. That’s the opposite of a corporate lawyer. 2) She was with him before she sold the company. Divorcing and taking her half would make a lot of sense for her but she wants to save her marriage.

I’m sorry that you hate women but the creators of this show don’t, which is why you’re so completely out to lunch on these interpretations.

Harper didn't hang a shingle. There was a line in episode 1 or 2 that "Harper's a star at her firm." Large corporate firms have talent with niche focuses including labour, employment; discrimination, sexual harassment, whistleblowing. These can be multi-million settlements, if not sometimes class action status reaching into the eight figures.

It's true large corporate firms often have labor and employment practices and handle class actions. But almost always on the defense side. It is difficult to do plaintiff's side work at any of the major corporate firms because they represent the corporations being sued in their other practices, which would pose major conflicts of interest. Most firms do not want to risk being conflicted for any additional work for a major corporate client, so they would not take a plaintiff's case against that potential client.

It sounds like Harper works for a plaintiff's side boutique. These are not corporate firms and generally just do litigation. They don't also do corporate or regulatory work on behalf of the big companies. A person doing that kind of work would not "hang a shingle" -- those cases are incredibly labor intensive and you need a team to handle them. If you want to do that kind of work, you'd go work for a firm that does it and then maybe eventually open your own firm (or simply make partner at your existing firm, or get wooed by another similar firm to become a partner there).

Class actions can have eye popping settlements, but that can often be due to the size of the class (so the money gets split among the plaintiffs) and it also has to go to pay lawyers fees which can be very high because this litigation can drag on for years and years and sometimes multiple firms are hired to handle the workload.

Separately: how dumb do you have to be to speak authoritatively but incorrectly on the legal industry on DCUM??

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Some great analysis about the show and characters. I was in the camp that found the characters hard to warm to in the beginning but they gradually few on me.

Generally satisfied with the ending and the way they resolved tensions and plot twists.

However the two young hookers playing Alvie to get $50k euros , playing Valentina to get piano gig, beinf best friends with the hotel
Doorman who pretended to be an abusive pimp and being best friends with each other is not credible.

Sex trafficking of teen girls is a huge world wide problem and no less so here in the DMV. Not really comfortable with showing the young hookers as getting out of all their exploits with zero complications or actual dangers.

Mike White said he conceived of that plot line as basically Laverne & Shirley, with these two girls trying to con their way into parties to which they were not invited, and you route for them because they are funny and good hearted and have a good attitude. And that's basically what they were.

I think my favorite storyline wound up being Mia and Valentina, and I wish we could have seen Mia taking Valentina out to the clubs to meet her hot lesbian friends. I really liked that the season starts out with Valentina angrily trying to throw the girls out of the hotel and only reluctantly letting them stay when Dom intervenes, only for them to ultimately be exactly what Valentina needs to change her life for the better.

I also think people got too hung up on the "rules" of season one, which was more explicitly about class, and assumed that all the rich people would again get away with everything and the hotel staff or low SES characters would pay the prices, as in the first season. But this season was about sex, and the power of sex, and while in the long run Mia and Portia are unlikely to come out ahead, this season did show how being young and beautiful and willing to exploit sex for your own gains can pay off. For now.

That definitely made me get most of my predictions wrong. I did not think Tanya would die, and I definitely did not think things were going to work out perfectly for Mia/Valentina

It is definitely a very sunny portrayal of prostitution. Not saying prostitution is always terrible, but a situation like that (happy, independent, well-adjusted women getting what they need by manipulating men) is probably one in a million. That storyline reminded me that this show was written by a man

Agree. And the whole view of cheating was a take by a man too. When women cheat it's emotional and a cry for help, usually. When men cheat it's hormones. Not in this show. Whereas my real life observations don't go along with this. In this show the women are like the men in terms of their sexuality. And that's just not reality.

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Anonymous wrote:It is interesting how so many viewers think Harper is just another Aubrey Plaza sarcastic witty character they love no matter what, so they refuse to consider any ulterior motives. She's just a low-key ball breaking corporate lawyer from Puerto Rican poverty, who just randomly met a rich Yale boy who founded a multi-billion (?) tech company. She is not at all attracted to prestige or money! She's above that! And she totally doesn't fear her billionaire net worth (or at least hundreds of millions) husband whom she has no children with and she doesn't have sex with could leave her like presumably the dozens of other starter marriages she's seen fail around her in the last 10 or so years. Harper is a good person!

She.is.not.a.corporate.lawyer.

She is, actually.

Tell me you aren't a lawyer without telling me you aren't a lawyer

Everyone else on DCUM just sitting around waiting for a chance to tell us they are a lawyer but in comes this schmuck so excited to prove he’s not. I appreciate the novelty anyway!