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Let’s Read Into That White Lotus Finale
Mike White’s go-to themes and imagery flow through the season-three finale like so many symbolic waves.
As noted in Kathryn VanArendonk’s review, this Thailand-set season is “most defined by all the ways the show keeps reaching back to what’s come before,” and several of Mike White’s go-to symbols, themes, and Easter eggs are on full display through these eight episodes. The second season outright makes the rich look like morons, killing off Tanya, who remains oblivious to the scam she’s fallen prey to until it’s way too late, and letting Sicilian sex workers successfully con the horny men of the DiGrasso family out of significant dollars. It’s grim symmetry that the explosive events of the finale is precipitated by Rick seeking out Amrita in a desperate attempt to be talked (or meditated) down from the edge of taking the rash action that would end in his and Chelsea’s demise.
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