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Look, It Had to Happen
Anything less would’ve been malpractice.
In any case, The White Lotus already flirted with a shock incest scene last season, when Tom Hollander’s mysterious Quentin was caught railing Leo Woodall’s Jack, whom he had previously introduced as his “naughty nephew.” Now, in retrospect, it’s all but certain they weren’t actually related beyond being connected by the same criminal scheme, but the moment did result in Jennifer Coolidge’s late, great Tanya McQuoid uttering the deeply memorable line: “Well, he was kinda fucking his uncle.” The second Sicilian season ramped things up by shifting its gaze to carnal matters — the Cameron-Daphne-Harper-Ethan quad, in particular, is a knotty yarn exploring how wealth reshapes sexual politics — and ended its run with Tanya shooting up a yacht, then dying after hitting her head in a vain attempt to jump on a lifeboat. Now wading into Western anxieties around death and spirituality, the season has proved to be a markedly darker and stranger affair: An active-shooter event anchors the opening flash-forward, the image of Ratliff patriarch Timothy pointing a gun to his own head is now ameme, and Sam Rockwell makes a cameo for the ages where his character extensively narrates his journey into embodying an Asian woman.
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