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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]S 2 was absolute perfection. [/quote]

S 2 was the worst of the 3 in my opinion. It was sort of slow and boring.[/quote]

Yeah, I thought S2 was not as good.  A lot of time spent on the prostitutes and the gay dudes on the yacht, but not a lot of other good storylines; however, I loved Meghann Fahy and Jennifer Coolidge.

Parker Posey and the interesting Thai setting made S3 more interesting/exotic, and the relationship between the three middle-aged friends was interesting and not typically shown on T.V.

I liked everyone in S1 except for breakout star Sydney Sweeney, whose character was unlikeable in every way.[/quote]

I have rewatched all three seasons and think they are all actually uneven but all have enough great moments to make up for the stuff I don't like.

I found the family storyline in Season 1 really boring and didn't care about the college girls or the dad and his midlife crisis. The teenage boy storyline was sort of interesting but underdeveloped. However I loved the battle between the rich finance bro and Armand the concierge over the hotel suite, enjoyed watching Alexandra Daddario play the bro's kind of oblivious bride realizing her new husband is an entitled jerk, loved Jennifer Coolidge's entire arc. The Hawaiian setting winds up being the most bland of the three in retrospect, probably mostly owing to it being Covid when they filmed and they were very limited to just the Four Seasons resort where they filmed.

I really loved the shift to a non-tropical setting in Season 2, loved the two couples and their weird vibes. Enjoyed Jennifer Coolidge but disliked Haley Lu Richardson's character (though I like HLR normally) and found the murderous gays plot silly and ridiculous. Also I loved Sabrina Impacciatore as the hotel manager, but she was underused. I liked the 3 generations of men storyline but I think too much time was spent on it. I thought the two Italian prostitutes were funny and fun and liked how their stories intersected with the hotel guests but didn't love how they resolved.

Season 3 did a great job taking advantage of the setting and incorporating Thai culture and ideas into the plot of the show, but the Thai cast was not as well utilized as the Italians in Season 2. Loved the 3 girlfriends plot the most, though the southern family was really interesting (especially Parker Posey) but that plot line dragged, and wound up really disliking the May-December couple with the guy looking for his dad and hate that the final episode wound up revolving around that. I felt the "murder mystery" aspect of S3 was the weakest of all of them and kind of wish they'd drop that conceit altogether, but maybe other people like it.

Based on my rewatch, I'm really excited about S4. I think South of France/Cannes is going to offer a lot of great opportunities for the show to do what it does best, I'm glad they took it that a direction instead of just another tropical resort and rehashing past themes.[/quote]

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