Olivia is carrying around her copies of Écrits and Sexual Personae, desperate for someone to see her reading those. Quinn is hoping he can finally have some peaceful alone time with his Switch and his porn. Nicole is just hoping she can recreate the feng shui in her hotel room so her work zoom with China looks acceptable. Nicole, Mark, Olivia, and Quinn Mossbacher were hoping for nothing more than a week in Maui to escape from some of the troubles of their lives in New York or San Francisco or Boston, or wherever they are from. Mark and Nicole Mossbacher The Mossbachers She will soon discover, as The White Lotus not-so-subtly points out, that the ladder is stained with depravity, anguish, and a better-me-than-you attitude.Īre they still together 15 months later? My bet is on “no” if only for the glimmer of hope that something more real is waiting for her on the other side. The tagline for that book is “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking,” which may be appropriate for someone like Shane who has never had to seriously consider a real dilemma in his life until Rachel announces their marriage was a mistake.īut despite what we see transpire with the rest of the guests, the appeal of the social ladder and a comfortable life must have been too tempting in the end for Rachel. It was, then, somewhat ironic that during the entire Maui honeymoon week, Shane was reading a copy of Malcom Gladwell’s Blink. Rachel (and perhaps Quinn near the end) was the only visitor to The White Lotus who was headstrong enough to understand her very real career and identity crises were on a plane much higher than inconveniences like whether or not the hotel suite had a plunge pool. She bit her upper lip and joined Shane to be his “plus-one” at the airport for the second leg of their honeymoon in Tahiti because…why, again? Does she think he has changed his “I’m just playing the hand I’m dealt” mentality because she dared to call him a naïve man-baby? I’m sure the crypto bros at Cornell called him a lot worse while they did lines on their microeconomics textbooks. I’ve been thinking about poor Rachel ever since Season 1 of The White Lotus concluded in August 2021. Surely by now the TripAdvisor score has had a chance to recover, right? There’s no telling how many one-star reviews they received when, over the course of one week, there was a homicide, some light suitcase defecation, multiple visits from the police, an employee-turned-cat-burglar jewel heist, a guest sleeping on the beach, an unhinged woman toting her dead mother’s ashes around, and one all-staff drug-fueled team-building sex-party thrown in for good measure.Ĭonde Nast’s “most romantic resort” in Maui is going to have an image problem for quite some time.īut before we unpack our bags at the Season 2 White Lotus location in Sicily, let’s step back into the Pineapple Suite and remember where we left our Season 1 characters. It’s been about 15 months since we last visited the beautiful but troubled White Lotus resort on the island of Maui.
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