Mike White Defends 'White Lotus' Season 3 After Viewers Call It Slow
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"The White Lotus" Season 3 divided fans for what some claimed was a story that was too slow and boring. Creator Mike White now responds.
  • Nosavingthrow@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    19 days ago

    Edging me into the worst season of the 3 (and not because it was slow).>! Every character chickening out, but Gaitok, sucked and the thing Gaitok didn’t chicken out on sucked. They even sucked the air out of Belinda’s windfall by having her just ditch Pornchai. They didn’t even commit to accidental poisoning after my man couldn’t be bothered to rinse out the blender. Boo.!<

    • funkless_eckEnglish
      5·
      18 days ago

      !Belinda/Pornchai turning into Tanya/Belinda due to Tanya’s money corrupting everything was one of the themes I really liked!<

      • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        At the end of the 7th episode I knew the last one was about to suck because there were no way to wrap up everything in one episode.

  • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    10·
    18 days ago

    White revealed one of the most “disappointing” parts of the finale that he had to cut out. It’s a scene where Piper loses her virginity to none other than Belinda’s son, Zion.

    Did these two characters even meet before the finale? Glad that was cut because it would have felt super rushed and not make a whole lot of sense.

    • funkless_eckEnglish
      5·
      18 days ago

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      !i felt the Sritala’s husband mega reveal at the end of the episode was kinda corny anyway, as was the kid surviving the smoothie with no hospital visit or other ill effects, and none of the rich kids even getting a text about their dad being indicted? There was a lot of build up to a lot of hand waved consequences in this season. It kinda felt like a Marvel movie wrap up compared to the previous two seasons. Adding Zion x Piper would be even worse!<

      • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 days ago

        and none of the rich kids even getting a text about their dad being indicted?

        They didn’t have their phones. They were all in a bag with the resort staff.

        • funkless_eckEnglish
          3·
          18 days ago

          The final scene is them all on their phones. Schwarzenegger’s character works at the company, too.

          • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            18 days ago

            Only for a few seconds though. The phones were in that sack for days, so they had to be powered off or their batteries would be dead. It takes longer than that to boot up and connect after being powered off. Right before the credits rolled you could see the older son’s reaction to something on the phone. My interpretation was that the news had just started rolling in and Dad was about to get a lot of awkward questions.