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HBO's The White Lotus is one of the best satires of the past five years, an engaging vacation-based anthology series about wealth and privilege. The first season takes place in Hawai'i, and the second is in Sicily. Each has a different cast of characters, yet they both tell a self-contained story about numerous people at The White Lotus hotel over the course of a week.
Meanwhile, Harper and Ethan's sex life proves to be nonexistent. Ethan would rather go at it alone, and Harper is more passionate about trashing their materialistic vacation-buddies. One of the best scenes is when Mia proves to be a good singer, and another great moment is when Tanya asks for Oreo cookie cake at breakfast. Whether she gets any remains one of the show's greatest mysteries. This episode ends with Dominic having a very good night, though part of him wishes he wouldn't.
It is touching and surprising to see how Olivia doesn't rat out Paula, and that their friendship somehow survives the ordeal of this entire vacation. Mark and Nicole wind up stronger together, too, and Quinn is apparently going to fulfill his dream. Quinn might have changed the most of anyone this entire season, and his character arc is a satisfying one. Discovering who dies and how is classic White Lotus, given that it's so funny and sad at the same time.
Tanya is such a mess when her husband insists he needs to go away for a few days. This is wildly suspicious, so Tanya goes to see a psychic—which is as good as it sounds. The Godfather tour is a pretty cool location, too, and sets off an intergenerational argument about the patriarchy. Albie sees the movie as antiquated nostalgia-fodder, while Bert bemoans how people used to respect the elderly and yet now look at them as "just reminders of an offensive past.
Ethan lies to Harper about the boys' night out, an unwise decision that is going to snowball into a bigger conflict for the rest of the season. The episode ends with a very entertaining make-out duel at the hotel bar, as Portia and Albie try to make each other jealous. Lucia sleeps with Albie after sleeping with his father, which almost makes the audience wonder if she's going to go for all three generations of the family.
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