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The White Lotus Season-Finale Recap: The Suicide Tree
This show has never been subtle about the interconnectedness of money, suffering, and death, but this is almost too much.
If Belinda’s lightning-fast transformation is a cipher for Mike White’s thoughts on the corrosive power of money, then perhaps Laurie’s emotional speech comes closest to explaining how a good life could be oriented. If any one hotel guest needed to hear Chelsea wax spiritual about the importance of embracing fate — not stall it or run from it — it’s psychotic Tim Ratliff, who finally puts to action the familicidal fantasies that have been preoccupying him. At Sritala’s urging, he shoots Rick in the back as he carries a dying Chelsea across the wooden bridge that spans a ridiculous man-made water feature.
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