One thing that would keep me from watching this season again is having to endure Timothy’s drug-addled spiraling again. So painful and it just draaaaggged. But I also loved Patrick S and can’t wait to see him in something else!
It did feel like they were wasting Jason Isaacs' considerable talents at some point. Truly did DRAG! But man, the highlights from this season might be some of the best of any season.
I agree there were plot holes, but the acting! Saxon’s character was surprisingly well-developed. I had a love/hate relationship with the slow burn of the plot, but fell in love with the characters.
Yes, the characters! The acting! Perhaps this is recency bias talking, but I feel like we got a density of the most memorable characters in this season??
FINALLY FINISHED THE SEASON, THANK YOU FOR THISSSSSS PLACE TO PROCESSSSS.
Thoughts:
1. Chekhov’s blender YES 🤣🤣🤣
2. I need to hear more about what you took away from Carrie Coon’s speech. I was unimpressed, but Sergey was in tears! He said there was this poignant line where she expressed she was just “grateful to be at the table,” similar to the moment like in Away We Go Where they’re like “Are we fuck ups? I think we’re fuck ups”… but I was hung up on the whole “time is what gives our lives purpose” thing — and like, what does that even mean??! Just a cute way to tie up the “old lady” theme??!
3. The yin/yang theme with Chelsea and Rick was AMAZING. So well played out in the final episode, with camera work, sets, lighting, and even the final placement of their bodies in the water. That was beautiful.
4. “I am your father” — added literally nothing to the plot. Like, if he was or wasn’t the father changed nothing about Rick’s journey.
5. Saxon’s arc was the most satisfying to me.
All in all, another amaaaaazing take on what you put so well: in a place designed to remove every discomfort, can you live with yourself? When confronted with who you really are, whatcha gonna do? SO. GOOD.
I don't know why but I have never once been truly invested in what happens at the end of any of the seasons. The closest I can get is wanting to know whether Mike White has made the (correct!) decision that the bad people die or the (very annoying and incorrect decision) that the good people live.
Separately, I would pay lots of money to see a demo chart of who watches White Lotus because it feels very obvious what the answer is. We're all forgetting that there was a time when White Lotus, a show about how rich white people always win and they're so cringe at how they win, did not exist. How is that possible? Mike White deserves a cultural oscar just for conceiving of and executing on the show because it has become a full-on language of its own. Raise your embarrassing hand if part of why you watch this show is because you've been to White Lotus-like places and 5 minutes in you wanted Walton Goggins to shoot you to put you out of your misery (haha, dark, I know, but, real).
One thing that would keep me from watching this season again is having to endure Timothy’s drug-addled spiraling again. So painful and it just draaaaggged. But I also loved Patrick S and can’t wait to see him in something else!
It did feel like they were wasting Jason Isaacs' considerable talents at some point. Truly did DRAG! But man, the highlights from this season might be some of the best of any season.
I agree there were plot holes, but the acting! Saxon’s character was surprisingly well-developed. I had a love/hate relationship with the slow burn of the plot, but fell in love with the characters.
Yes, the characters! The acting! Perhaps this is recency bias talking, but I feel like we got a density of the most memorable characters in this season??
The bearded dragon or whatever tf that thing was needs to win an Oscar. That was a moment of unadulterated suspense.
FINALLY FINISHED THE SEASON, THANK YOU FOR THISSSSSS PLACE TO PROCESSSSS.
Thoughts:
1. Chekhov’s blender YES 🤣🤣🤣
2. I need to hear more about what you took away from Carrie Coon’s speech. I was unimpressed, but Sergey was in tears! He said there was this poignant line where she expressed she was just “grateful to be at the table,” similar to the moment like in Away We Go Where they’re like “Are we fuck ups? I think we’re fuck ups”… but I was hung up on the whole “time is what gives our lives purpose” thing — and like, what does that even mean??! Just a cute way to tie up the “old lady” theme??!
3. The yin/yang theme with Chelsea and Rick was AMAZING. So well played out in the final episode, with camera work, sets, lighting, and even the final placement of their bodies in the water. That was beautiful.
4. “I am your father” — added literally nothing to the plot. Like, if he was or wasn’t the father changed nothing about Rick’s journey.
5. Saxon’s arc was the most satisfying to me.
All in all, another amaaaaazing take on what you put so well: in a place designed to remove every discomfort, can you live with yourself? When confronted with who you really are, whatcha gonna do? SO. GOOD.
I don't know why but I have never once been truly invested in what happens at the end of any of the seasons. The closest I can get is wanting to know whether Mike White has made the (correct!) decision that the bad people die or the (very annoying and incorrect decision) that the good people live.
Separately, I would pay lots of money to see a demo chart of who watches White Lotus because it feels very obvious what the answer is. We're all forgetting that there was a time when White Lotus, a show about how rich white people always win and they're so cringe at how they win, did not exist. How is that possible? Mike White deserves a cultural oscar just for conceiving of and executing on the show because it has become a full-on language of its own. Raise your embarrassing hand if part of why you watch this show is because you've been to White Lotus-like places and 5 minutes in you wanted Walton Goggins to shoot you to put you out of your misery (haha, dark, I know, but, real).