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The White Lotus Didn’t Earn It
Laurie’s monologue teaches a lesson season three failed to grasp.
Terrified of facing the reality of failing his family, he contemplates killing them all (except for Lochlan, his youngest, most aimless son), only to chicken out just at the moment they all start sipping his poisoned piña coladas. Laurie, Jaclyn and Kate are the season’s standout characters, but there’s palpable sweatiness in the challenge of connecting them to the red herring robbery plotline while also doing the heavy lifting of separately shaping each of them. It’s compelling grist for TheWhite Lotus mill, and in sequences — especially Lochlan’s almost-death and Laurie’s monologue — there are flashes where it’s clear that a sturdier, more balanced approach to this season might have resulted in something transcendent.
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