d.anders Posted February 24 Posted February 24 2 hours ago, MikeThomas said: Don't understand all of the fuss about Valentin. I agree. He's OK, but hardly a heart or dick throb. I'm surprised Mike White didn't go for more juice, especially in the face. Bring back that guy from Sex & the City. 2 hours ago, MikeThomas said: he definitely set it up so the robbers would have easy access to the property Hmm, didn't catch that. Have to watch again. 2 hours ago, MikeThomas said: My favorite character so far is Rick's girlfriend Chelsea. At first I thought Aimee Lou Wood's teeth were fake, but then I Googled her. Her teeth are quite famous. LOL. I am surprised a young actress can actually find decent work with those teeth. Her character is a bit of fun, but the coupling makes no sense. Expecting more reveal in future episodes. 2 hours ago, MikeThomas said: The 10 minute start of E2 with the three friends stabbing each other in the back was a bit long. And disappointing, after all that effusive declaration of love since childhood. Where are the normal travelers?
MikeThomas Posted February 24 Posted February 24 50 minutes ago, d.anders said: Where are the normal travelers? The normal travelers are next door at the Koh Samui Resort | The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui WWW.RITZCARLTON.COM Stay in style at The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui, a stunning luxury resort in Koh Samui, Thailand, located on 58 oceanfront acres of a former coconut plantation. MikeBiDude, d.anders, thomas and 1 other 1 3
jeezifonly Posted February 24 Posted February 24 I’m digging the new season. Tanya is present via two characters, who have now recognized one another. I think the girlfriend trio needed more bonding time ahead of filming - not buying the ‘known each other forever’ claim. Love seeing Carrie Coon blond and out of a corset, tho. Most everything til ep5 (of each season) has been exposition and tension exploration - slow by nature, and Mike White’s instincts for pacing work for me. Found the Valentin/Gaitok exchange interesting… Forget Schwarzenegger - I want to see Goggins and Isaacs hate-fuck. 😁 Becket and thomas 2
Rod Hagen Posted February 25 Posted February 25 (edited) How do you people know all these actors? I vaguely recognize the woman who was in the Leftovers and apparently in a season of Fargo (didn't watch Fargo TV series, which is weird because my family is there). Then Parker Posey. (and bald murderer and Spa woman) from other season That's it. Can someone tell me what all these other actors and actresses have been in please? Or are they from Social Media? It reminds me of watching that terrible Only Murderers in the Building show and Emilia Perez and I constantly wonder, who is Selena Gomez, why is she in this? She can't possibly be an actress, her affect is so flat. Who are these people, why are they in White Lotus? Edited February 25 by Rod Hagen FaustOust 1
+ poolboy48220 Posted February 25 Posted February 25 Never expected Walton Goggins would have such a bod. I'm on the fence about whether I dislike Patrick Schwarzenegger's character in this season or Jake Lacy's character in season 1 more. 😁
+ poolboy48220 Posted February 25 Posted February 25 18 hours ago, d.anders said: Where are the normal travelers? Yup. Much as I find myself yelling at the TV "What assholes!", normal people is NOT the focus of this show.
+ ApexNomad Posted February 25 Posted February 25 I thought episode 2 was much better than the first. Exposition and enough backstory is being further fleshed out. And we’re getting peaks of the awkward (funny) dialogue exchanges that White is known for. The scene with the three girlfriends was hilarious, as was the scene with Parker Posey and the blond haired woman whose name is escaping me at the breakfast table. And they even sprinkled the theme music from the previous seasons into the episode as well. thomas 1
d.anders Posted February 25 Posted February 25 15 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: How do you people know all these actors? The simple answer is Google. Helps to refresh the memory. I also see a lot of stuff. I knew Michelle Monaghan from Gone Baby Gone, True Detective, and 3 Mission Impossibles. Carrie Coon is married to Tracy Letts. Her resume is endless. I saw Walton Goggins in Predators, Lincoln, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Tomb Raider. Jason Isaacs resume is endless, too. Almost everyone has seen Harry Potter. Sam Nivola is Emily Mortimer's son. Love Emily. I saw Aimee Lou Wood in Sex Education, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and Living. Hard to forget those teeth. Also with bad teeth, I saw Charlotte Le Bon in Yves Saint Laurent and The Hundred-Foot Journey. thomas and Rod Hagen 2
d.anders Posted February 25 Posted February 25 3 hours ago, poolboy48220 said: I'm on the fence about whether I dislike Patrick Schwarzenegger's character in this season or Jake Lacy's character in season 1 more. Both are turning into the classic Mike White asshole.
d.anders Posted February 25 Posted February 25 1 hour ago, ApexNomad said: I thought episode 2 was much better than the first. I watched it again, and watched a few YouTube analysis videos. I guess I changed my mind on how I feel about Ep 2. The music is growing on me. The visuals in the opening credits deserve a deeper dive. 1 hour ago, ApexNomad said: the scene with Parker Posey and the blond haired woman whose name is escaping me at the breakfast table. Yes, Parker Posey did a brilliant job handling Leslie Bibb. Not an easy scene to pull off. Seeing it for a second time, it makes you even more uncomfortable. Well done. Nicely acted. Editing is perfect. + ApexNomad, MikeBiDude and thomas 3
jeezifonly Posted February 25 Posted February 25 22 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: How do you people know all these actors? I vaguely recognize the woman who was in the Leftovers and apparently in a season of Fargo (didn't watch Fargo TV series, which is weird because my family is there). Then Parker Posey. (and bald murderer and Spa woman) from other season That's it. Can someone tell me what all these other actors and actresses have been in please? Or are they from Social Media? It reminds me of watching that terrible Only Murderers in the Building show and Emilia Perez and I constantly wonder, who is Selena Gomez, why is she in this? She can't possibly be an actress, her affect is so flat. Who are these people, why are they in White Lotus? It’s the streaming that got small. Fame comes at a much quicker pace than the development of talent. I have a really hard time distinguishing between lithe younger women all wearing same long drapey hair with same dentistry and same lip fillers. I may have seen them, but most credits they have are genres that I don’t watch a lot. I can appreciate the work, if it’s good, in what I’m watching. But on a scale of 1-100, my level of performer fandom overall rests in the low single digits. Rod Hagen 1
Rod Hagen Posted February 26 Posted February 26 23 hours ago, d.anders said: The simple answer is Google. Helps to refresh the memory. I also see a lot of stuff. I knew Michelle Monaghan from Gone Baby Gone, True Detective, and 3 Mission Impossibles. Carrie Coon is married to Tracy Letts. Her resume is endless. I saw Walton Goggins in Predators, Lincoln, Django Unchained, The Hateful Eight, and Tomb Raider. Jason Isaacs resume is endless, too. Almost everyone has seen Harry Potter. Sam Nivola is Emily Mortimer's son. Love Emily. I saw Aimee Lou Wood in Sex Education, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, and Living. Hard to forget those teeth. Also with bad teeth, I saw Charlotte Le Bon in Yves Saint Laurent and The Hundred-Foot Journey. Thank you for this. I remember Gone Baby Gone. I'm not an Affleck fan, but he did a fine job with that movie. First season of True Detective, second episode, I said to my partner if the next scene is the two of them talking in a car that's going nowhere, we're stopping this show. It was, we did. But maybe Michelle is from later seasons of True Detective. Mission Impossible movies are a fun blur. I shouldn't have been so breezy, I do not know him by name, but of course I recognize Walton Goggins, character actor. Nevertheless, I do find casting him to be strange. He's kinda a nothing. Was Jason in The Wire? That I saw. Dude, he was the long-haired evil guy in Harry Potter?! That's crazy. I adore Emily. I have a fascination with broadcast news, and her character in The Newsroom was EVERY female broadcast producer, ever. Don't know why her son is in this; a seems like a move out of HBO's Girls playbook: cast the star's kids, see what happens. If MAX could afford F. Murray Abraham last season, why not just hire Emily for this season instead of her son? (I'm thinking out loud, I know you don't have an answer :-) ) Those ALW movies mean nothing to me, and I see a lot. Good on you for the deep dives. So far she is my favorite character and actor in the season. It was a bit long, not her fault, but I saw and liked Yves Sant Laurent. Again, she's boring, I don't get the casting. Yes, I know Google. My bafflement was/is that others in this thread seem to know so many of the actors by sight rather than site. I recognize and accept that that's part of getting older, not knowing the guests on SNL etc.. What I think is difficult for many Gen Xers and Young Baby Boomers, maybe just me and my circle, to wrap their heads around is the enthusiasm, not just among the young, but also people our age, for actors with such, and I'll repeat what I said about Selena, such flat affects. So..dull. Just watch an episode of Graham Norton, the veterans AND the very few young ones ( Obviously, I dislike her music and will never see Wicked, nevertheless I was quite impressed with Arianna Grande's appearance on the show) the younger ones, particularly the American youngers, just don't pop. Again thank you for this summary, much more personal than Google. thomas and MikeBiDude 2
d.anders Posted February 27 Posted February 27 I did not realize in this interview that Parker Posey would claim to be from the south. One would think she wouldn't have any issue with the accent. Like most of the interviewers in show business, Nikki Novak is dreadful. She asks the most idiotic questions, and she wears way too much make-up. Her effusive, ingratiating style newly defines tongue-up-actor's-ass. But the poor actors always seem to have to sit for her shit: Danny-Darko, thomas and Rod Hagen 2 1
Rod Hagen Posted March 1 Posted March 1 (edited) On 2/24/2025 at 11:37 AM, MikeThomas said: The normal travelers are next door at the Koh Samui Resort | The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui WWW.RITZCARLTON.COM Stay in style at The Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui, a stunning luxury resort in Koh Samui, Thailand, located on 58 oceanfront acres of a former coconut plantation. What a horrible Resort. Why can we always count on Ritz Carlton to do things wrong? (Except Afternoon Tea, they often do that quite well). Edited March 1 by Rod Hagen
+ ApexNomad Posted March 1 Posted March 1 6 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: What a horrible Resort. Why can we always count on Ritz Carlton to do things wrong? (Except Afternoon Tea, they often do that quite well). What didn’t you like about the resort?
Rod Hagen Posted March 1 Posted March 1 (edited) 1 hour ago, ApexNomad said: What didn’t you like about the resort? Haven't been there, just going by the website, ewww. Ritz Carlton's are, I guess, generally bad taste? Just being an asshole, ignore me (but it does look awful). Edited March 1 by Rod Hagen MikeBiDude 1
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted March 2 Posted March 2 1 hour ago, Rod Hagen said: Haven't been there, just going by the website, ewww. Ritz Carlton's are, I guess, generally bad taste? Just being an asshole, ignore me (but it does look awful). RC changed drastically when they were bought out by Marriott. At one point, they were a superb hotel chain. I fear that Four Seasons will soon suffer the same fate. They've resisted for a long while.
Rod Hagen Posted March 2 Posted March 2 (edited) 2 minutes ago, BenjaminNicholas said: RC changed drastically when they were bought out by Marriott. At one point, they were a superb hotel chain. I fear that Four Seasons will soon suffer the same fate. They've resisted for a long while. Even in the late '90s I found Ritz Carltons to be an idiot's idea of wealth, so it Predates Marriott for me. Edited March 2 by Rod Hagen + BenjaminNicholas and FaustOust 1 1
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted March 2 Posted March 2 9 minutes ago, Rod Hagen said: Even in the late '90s I found Ritz Carltons to be an idiot's idea of wealth, so it Predates Marriott for me. Well, the changeover started in 1995. The rest was bought in 1998, I believe. RC does some things well, but I no longer think it's their hotels. Their new large-scale yachts are very nice and don't allow Marriott points to be used, keeping a difficult contingent of travelers away from the product. Rod Hagen 1
FaustOust Posted March 2 Posted March 2 (edited) 3 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: Even in the late '90s I found Ritz Carltons to be an idiot's idea of wealth, so it Predates Marriott for me. 3 hours ago, BenjaminNicholas said: RC does some things well, but I no longer think it's their hotels 3 hours ago, BenjaminNicholas said: and don't allow Marriott points to be used, keeping a difficult contingent of travelers away from the product. Now we know not to invite @Rod Hagen or @BenjaminNicholas to go slumming at something as tacky and quotidian as Ritz Carlton. (Or certainly not let them know we might be among the riff-raff to have used Marriott points.) For most people watching The White Lotus, these luxury hotels in exotic settings may only be once-in-a-lifetime experiences or simply a lifelong fantasy. Also having been fortunate enough to have seen my share, I hope I never become so jaded. Edited March 2 by FaustOust thomas, + BenjaminNicholas, Rod Hagen and 1 other 1 1 2
Rod Hagen Posted March 2 Posted March 2 (edited) 2 hours ago, FaustOust said: For most people watching The White Lotus, these luxury hotels in exotic settings may only be once-in-a-lifetime experiences or simply a lifelong fantasy. Also having been fortunate enough to have seen my share, I hope I never become so jaded. Oh I'm not shitting on the White Lotus location, and I doubt Benjamin wouldn't either. That's a Four Seasons, and a pretty nice one too, if maybe too flashy (he and I could both go on and on about how Aman started these kind of resorts and chains like Mandarin Oriental and Four Seasons are approaching gortesquery, but it'd interest nobody, and we'd end up sounding like assholes). Someone in this thread linked to a Ritz Carlton near the Thailand Four Seasons where much of this season is shot, and I couldn't help insulting it, or could help it, and didn't want to. In short Four Seasons generally something to aspire to (they used to let their employees stay free at any location for a short trip once a year, I wonder if they still do), and Ritz Carlton tacky. I am not sot Jaded as to shit on a Four Seasons or a White Lotus location (though I do think the larger FS in Istanbul is megagrotesque (I couldn't help myself, sorry NYCMAN!) In fact I had a lovely and delicious dinner at the Four Seasons in Sicily where they filmed much of White Lotus Season 2. It is funny what you say about Jaded. An American friend of mine who has traveled the world, particularly the Far East, always on a ShoeString, and always looking down on those who don't shoestring it, was thinking about visiting Hawaii. And I told her, when you go to Hawaii you can not compare it to Bali, or Vietnam, or the Philippines or Thailand. You can't say, "Oh I could get a much more beautiful view from a room in Malaysia that only costs..." If you are going to Hawaii, You have to see it as a state nearly all Americans dream of seeing, yet most never can. (Instead, she returned to Mexico and has been traveling down the spine of Latin America for over a year now). Edited March 2 by Rod Hagen + nycman 1
+ nycman Posted March 2 Posted March 2 7 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: (he and I could both go on and on about how Aman started these kind of resorts and chains like Mandarin Oriental and Four Seasons are approaching gortesquery, but it'd interest nobody, and we'd end up sounding like assholes). And yet some of us would be beating off like a teenager to that luxury porn….grin 7 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: (though I do think the larger FS in Istanbul is megagrotesque (I couldn't help myself, sorry NYCMAN!) You just haven’t been there with the right MAN yet…… Rod Hagen and + BenjaminNicholas 1 1
+ BenjaminNicholas Posted March 2 Posted March 2 9 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: (he and I could both go on and on about how Aman started these kind of resorts) Don't threaten me with a good time. And don't get me started on my thoughts on the new Aman NYC + ApexNomad and Rod Hagen 1 1
CuriousByNature Posted March 2 Posted March 2 15 hours ago, Rod Hagen said: Even in the late '90s I found Ritz Carltons to be an idiot's idea of wealth, so it Predates Marriott for me. I've found it really difficult to relate to most of the characters. Now I'm thinking it's the setting - hopefully next season will be set at a Best Western. 🤣 SirBillybob, Rod Hagen and FaustOust 1 1 1
SirBillybob Posted March 2 Posted March 2 1 hour ago, CuriousByNature said: I've found it really difficult to relate to most of the characters. Now I'm thinking it's the setting - hopefully next season will be set at a Best Western. 🤣 That would require true grit and might be unforgiven. Besides, the current season already forecasts a gunfight. CuriousByNature 1
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