HBO The White Lotus

[+ tassojunior]

Last episode promo !

What is the necklace falling in the water at the beginning? Is it the one Kai made for Paula? Is she throwing it away or did she give it back and Kai throws it away?

Again, remember, no one commits suicide, someone was killed.

Also the show's been renewed so it's someone expendable. 

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by tassojunior

[+ tassojunior]

Pretty sure it's not Quinn even with a dozen clues it may be. This Hollywood "insider" teases it is, which means it isn't. 

[+ WilliamM]

5 hours ago, tassojunior said:

Pretty sure it's not Quinn even with a dozen clues it may be. This Hollywood "insider" teases it is, which means it isn't. 

No one mentioned the baby sharks Quinn swam with earlier while his dad kept watch  Agree that Rachel and Quinn are too obvious.

[+ E.T.Bass]

The New Yorker piece on The White Lotus was very kind.  Perhaps no surprise some are hooked on the show.

Tomorrow night we'll find out what happened.

....In the meantime here's "Greg and Tanya's" theme.  😉

 

 

 

 

Edited August 14, 2021 by E.T.Bass
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[+ azdr0710]

23 minutes ago, E.T.Bass said:

The New Yorker piece on The White Lotus was very kind.  Perhaps no surprise some are hooked on the show.

Tomorrow night we'll find out what happened.

....In the meantime here's "Greg and Tanya's" theme.  😉

 

 

 

 

very classic sound....I can imagine arriving in Honolulu on the Matson Line in 1928, being whisked off to the Royal Hawaiian, and arriving to find the small hotel quartet gently performing this in the lobby...

Edited August 14, 2021 by azdr0710

[Deadlift1]

Trying to watch it this week but can't get into it?  Reminds me of something ABC would show not HBO.

[+ tassojunior]

16 minutes ago, Deadlift1 said:

Trying to watch it this week but can't get into it?  Reminds me of something ABC would show not HBO.

I think it's a little higher trash than ABC, almost Downton Abbey or Eastenders BBC trash. Fun trash. No one knows you watch it.

[+ WilliamM]

13 hours ago, Deadlift1 said:

Trying to watch it this week but can't get into it?  Reminds me of something ABC would show not HBO.

ABC wouldn't show the scenes with Murray Bartlett and Lukas Gage concerning ass eating.

[+ tassojunior]

Murray says shock ending with surprises throughout finale. 

 

Daily Mail: Murray Bartlett teases 'extraordinary' White Lotus finale. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-9893663/Murray-Bartlett-teases-extraordinary-White-Lotus-finale.html

[+ E.T.Bass]

37 minutes ago, WilliamM said:

ABC wouldn't show the scenes with Murray Bartlett and Lukas Gage concerning ass eating.

Exactly. 

There is so much in The White Lotus that is foreign to what is found on ABC.  

Here is the New Yorker piece, linked below. 

I skimmed it and seems to be free too many spoilers.

The Brilliant, Biting Social Satire of “The White Lotus”       Mike White’s HBO tragicomedy is one of the best shows of the year.

 

 

[jeezifonly]

Chomping at the bit for the Finale this evening. 

[Deadlift1]

Maybe I'll try another episode or two.    My favorite this year was Yellowstone w Kevin Costner 

[+ WilliamM]

A bit unsettling to see Shane and the other guests leave while five members of the staff, including Belinda and Dillon, cheerful welcome the new guests. Unsettling perhaps, but that's what they do

[+ E.T.Bass]

I am not surprised how it turned out. Was a little bit underwhelming. 

But there was a first for me.  I've never seen that on screen before, even if it was camera trick.

[jeezifonly]

I didn’t realize that Mike White was creator/star of Chuck and Buck, a cringe-y indie film that’s now old enough to drink… I hadn’t seen a photo of him til this week somehow.

Still processing the last episode - the interview above sheds some light. 

Bartlett and Coolidge each took me on a ride, kudos to them. 
 

I want to see Dillon as a minor character in another show, having moved to mainland, drinking with some people and somebody says “I bet you must have met all kinds of people working at a spendy resort on Maui - any good stories?”

Edited August 16, 2021 by jeezifonly

[cany10011]

B rated show… none of the characters were too endearing except for Quinn. Running out of good options to watch, which is why White Lotus was ok for me. Good thing it was only 6 episodes…very low committment. 

[+ WilliamM]

Shane is the kind of person who uses the word like in every sentence.

I enjoyed Hawaii, like wow and like what's not to like

[MikeBiDude]

On 8/12/2021 at 3:05 PM, jeezifonly said:

Def shot at 4S Grand Waileia

Four Seasons and the Grand Wailea are two different resorts, no? Right next door to each other but diff properties. I’ve stayed at Grand Wailea and dined at Four Season Maui.

[Deadlift1]

Ok they wouldn't show ass eating on ABC.  I'll finish it up though.  The waiters are worth it.  The one had quite a backside

[+ BenjaminNicholas]

3 hours ago, MikeBiDude said:

Four Seasons and the Grand Wailea are two different resorts, no? Right next door to each other but diff properties. I’ve stayed at Grand Wailea and dined at Four Season Maui.

Correcto.

It's called Four Seasons Resort at Wailea.

[MikeBiDude]

2 minutes ago, Benjamin_Nicholas said:

Correcto.

It's called Four Seasons Resort at Wailea.

I had a feeling you’d chime in! 😉

[+ WilliamM]

Variety on the Dillon's character

Tangled in Armond's  destruction downward spiral, Dillion seems like a  genuinrly good guy who is maybe a little too easily persuaded whether he is cleaning up broken glass in the patio, facilitating Tonya's nautical Ash gathering or opening up his ass cheeks for his boss - he does what's he told without reallying complaining

Armond

 

Variety hates him: he sexually coerced his employees by offering free drugs and flexible shifts

[MiamiLooker]

It was fun to watch, but still too many things happened that didn't make much sense. I may have missed explanations, but it seemed to me the Mossbacher's could have afforded a separate room for the girls. Tanya knew the girls had left the bag on the beach, so wouldn't she have told the attendant this info when she turned in the bag? Did Paula get away with being an accessory to the theft (surely, Kai would have been questioned about how he knew the combination)? Couldn't the canoe team have found a better substitute than Quinn?

[+ pitman]

On 8/15/2021 at 10:03 PM, E.T.Bass said:

I am not surprised how it turned out. Was a little bit underwhelming. 

But there was a first for me.  I've never seen that on screen before, even if it was camera trick.

If you are interested in more scenes of this type.....

 

[+ WilliamM]

9 hours ago, MiamiLooker said:

It was fun to watch, but still too many things happened that didn't make much sense. I may have missed explanations, but it seemed to me the Mossbacher's could have afforded a separate room for the girls. Tanya knew the girls had left the bag on the beach, so wouldn't she have told the attendant this info when she turned in the bag? Did Paula get away with being an accessory to the theft (surely, Kai would have been questioned about how he knew the combination)? Couldn't the canoe team have found a better substitute than Quinn?

Tanya may have been too focused on herself, as usual. Agree about Quinn. That didn't make much sense. Maybe Quinn can live with Dillon as roommates.