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‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Took a Wandering Path to a Satisfying Payoff: TV Review
The Season 3 finale of HBO's 'The White Lotus' took a wandering path to a satisfying payoff.
In the penultimate episode, White’s camera lingered on depressive Rick (Walton Goggins) disposing of a gun he’d meant to use on hotel owner Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), whom he blames for an unhappy, fatherless childhood. Eastern spirituality was a counterintuitive theme for a show as proudly luxurious as “The White Lotus,” and initially manifested in such naked plot devices as the confiscation of the Ratliffs’ phones in the name of “digital detox.” But its overall effect was to make the series’ subtext into text. When the Buddhist monk whose meditation center Ratliff siblings Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola) try out says that our coping devices are “a quick fix” that “create more anxiety, more suffering,” he’s talking about every suite, room and villa every fictional resort guest has ever booked.
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