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The White Lotus Kill-or-Be-Killed Report: Chattering Monkey Minds
Who seems like they’ve got murder in their heart, and who won’t make it out of this vacation alive? Time for some gut-level early speculation.
Love the way she hits those vowels in “Aah wuz also a TAHR-heel.” I am aware that alumni of both Duke and UNC will have very strong feelings about the way they are being represented on this program, the former by a hard-driving white-collar-criminal father and the latter by a pill-popping, zonked-out, chill-with-sexism-because-her-family-is-so-gorgeous mom, and I look forward to seeing your respective defenses in the comments. The eldest boy is here to be the Dukiest Dukeson Who Ever Duked: He loves working and doesn’t need a vacation and is sexually aggressive in literally every context, including with his immediate family (speculating salaciously about his “hot” sister’s virginity, then asking his brother about porn and strutting naked to the bathroom in front of him … strong Flowers in the Attic energy, no?). Rick is a totally normal man — nothing suspicious about him: He cannot go to Australia for reasons unclear; he responds to his girlfriend asking him questions by accusing her of being “like a fucking machine gun”; he perks up noticeably when he hears Sritala, the owner, talk about her rich American husband, who is in Bangkok.
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