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The White Lotus’s Jason Isaacs Didn’t Overthink Tim Ratliff


“When it comes to talking about what happens when you pretend to be another person, almost everything I’ve ever said has been complete bullshit.”

In the season’s penultimate episode, he’s still high on prescription drugs, harboring the secret of his family’s impending demise, and contemplating the murder-murder-suicide of his wife and oldest son. Conversations with Victoria and Saxon only add to the pressure that’s built over seven episodes, and Jason Isaac’s patriarch slips further into desperate, Lorazepam-induced oblivion, setting him up as one of several characters who could explode in next week’s finale. All the things you would imagine with a group of people unanchored from their home lives on the other side of the world, in the intense pressure cooker of the working environment with eye-melting heat and insects and late nights.

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