The White Lotus season 2

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Dominic is one ugly dude and so is saliari

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Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

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Anonymous wrote:Dominic is one ugly dude and so is saliari

He's not ugly. What are you talking about.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

I took that as more from Harper's imagination, rather than actual reality. Although i do think it's true when you go to Italy that the men are more openly gawky over women than they are here, so I get how it's a little culture shocky to walk around there.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but it's a scene recreated almost shot by shot from Monica Vitti in L’avventura

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

That was supposed to be Harper's fantasy, I think, after she had the edible. She experienced her afternoon as being the object of lust from all these men - when she can't even get her husband to touch her.

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Oh wow. Thanks for that. So interesting!

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Anonymous wrote:Oh wow. Thanks for that. So interesting!

Sorry, referring to the Vitti film, I hadn't known that at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but it's a scene recreated almost shot by shot from Monica Vitti in L’avventura

Interesting - that's a theme that comes up again and again. Tanya referenced Monica Vitti and in the preview for next week the Tom Hollander character says something about Tanya starring in her own Italian drama (or opera?).

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

That was supposed to be Harper's fantasy, I think, after she had the edible. She experienced her afternoon as being the object of lust from all these men - when she can't even get her husband to touch her.

I could see it being her fantasy maybe except it was before the edible I think.

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Anonymous wrote:Did anyone think the scene when Daphne and Harper were walking through the little town with SO many men just standing around was a little strange. No tourists, nothing going on. Just lots of me gawking.

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but it's a scene recreated almost shot by shot from Monica Vitti in L’avventura

Interesting - that's a theme that comes up again and again. Tanya referenced Monica Vitti and in the preview for next week the Tom Hollander character says something about Tanya starring in her own Italian drama (or opera?).

Thanks for that. So interesting. Definitely not up to speed on my classic foreign films.

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Why is there so much hate for Albie? I think he seems fine.

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Anonymous wrote:Why is there so much hate for Albie? I think he seems fine.

Because he reminds these white women too much of their dorky husbands

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Anonymous wrote:My frustration so far is that the women are so one dimensional. Whereas the men have complex psychology.

You can definitely tell a bunch of middle aged men wrote it, IMO. I was totally unsurprised when the credits ran and it was male name after male name. From the little speech about women never going for nice guys, to the old loser divorcee middle aged Hollywood dad getting attention and a threesome with gorgeous young Italian women... kind of a joke how these male writers just put their own issues/fantasies out there

You are very naive.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the Aubrey four-ple going to do some wife swapping or something? The rooms connect and the "happy" couple seemed open to the idea of connecting them. Then the whole getting naked in front of Aubrey and the "I want you to like me, it's important" speech.

The other thing I thought would come back was the "happy" couple's wife saying she could cut off her husband's balls if she wanted to. If they don't all swap together and just the husband does it, maybe she will kill her husband? Or kill Aubrey's husband if the swap and she is mad that he still loves his wife Aubrey? Her character seems ineffectual but I think there is a hint of something underneath there that could cause problems. (Though she finds the bodies and is horrified so maybe not.)

It felt to me like Daphne purposefully reached out and talked to the two women at the start of episode 1. They did not engage with her first. Like she wanted to create and alibi or story where all was well on the morning of xyz date. She does a quick side glance as she goes into the water that doesn’t look as carefree as the rest of those seconds as she jumps into the water.

The women she is talking to were on Survivor. I don't think we were meant to take anything from that interaction.

Oh I didn't realize they were from Survivor -- guessing from Mike White's season or people he met through Survivor contacts? That's kind of fun -- I love that he's so obsessed with Survivor that he went and got cast on the show, I thought that was hilarious.

Anyway, the fact that it was a bit of a stunt casting doesn't mean that scene doesn't have importance in the show. In Season One, the very first scene is also a flash forward, to the Jake Lacey character at the airport waiting to leave Hawaii, and mention of the plane waiting on a dead body that we're supposed to think is his wife because he seems so upset and he is playing with his wedding ring. Of course the truth was that the dead body was the hotel concierge, who Jake's character killed, and he's worrying over his wedding ring because he's unsure if his wife, who has just discovered (somehow) that he's an entitled a$$hole who can literally get away with murder, will come back to him and they'll stay married. But at the end of the flash forward teaser, they cut to the main cast on the boat just arriving at the resort.

This season started the exact same way, so it makes sense that what appears to be happening in that first scene with Daphne is not actually what is going on, and that we'll get some big revelations over the course of the season that will reveal how we got it wrong. The presence of some Survivor alums in the scene might just serve as further distraction from what is actually going on. I like PP's theory.

Agree 100%. I do think that Cameron is involved - either he's dead or he is responsible - because that scene is the only time so far (and granted we're only on episode 2) that we see Daphne alone. She is connected to Cameron by the hip in every other scene.

Is that her husband Cameron who hugs her when she rushes out of the sea? Watch it again.

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I didn't think it was him -- he was definitely wearing different swim trunks than the ones he borrowed from Aubrey's husband in the first or second episode. I didn't notice what he was wearing on the water scooter, maybe he bought new trunks?

Is Aubrey's character's name Aubrey in the story? Because Cameron called her Aubrey in this latest episode while they were sitting at the breakfast table. ha.

The breakfast scene where they talked about going to Noto? I just rewatched that scene. Cameron does not call her Aubrey. Cameron says "Harper you should go".