'The White Lotus' (and Jennifer Coolidge) are back, this time in Sicily. More dark romp than mystery, it fails to build up a narrative head of steam.
and Murray Bartlett. The tissue connecting that year and this is the eponymous White Lotus, a worldwide luxury hotel chain, and the presence of Coolidge, back as Tanya.
It’s easy enough to forget this future fatality, once you’re in the meat of the tangentially connected stories, especially since nothing in those first five episodes is setting you up for a death. None of the principals seems at all a danger to others or themselves, however poorly they get along or whatever darkness they might hold inside, or however much the viewer might want to do away with one or two himself.
Awaiting them at the dock are the martinet of a hotel manager, Valentina , and her staff, putting on an air of practiced friendliness. . Watching from afar are Lucia , a sex worker who has a date arranged with one of the guests — she doesn’t know him by sight, but you’ll have no trouble guessing — and her friend Mia , who wants to be a singer.
Harper and Ethan, who cannot sync up their sex drives, read in bed while Cameron tickles Daphne next door. But is the outwardly happy couple inwardly troubled? Is the seemingly less happy pair fundamentally content? Temperamental opposites, the two couples face each other warily , as in a satirical millennial “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
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