There’s been a lot of grumbling about how slow the third series of The White Lotus has been. I get it: entire episodes have passed with very little action and, with eight episodes rather than last year’s seven and a weekly release schedule, it’s taken a while to get to the deadly crescendo. But this escalating, intense finale more than makes up for slower moments earlier on.
But with an ominous opening speech from the local Buddhist monk warning of the dangers of violence and the merits of self-restraint, you remember the impending doom signalled by the gunfire that kicked off the first episode. In the next 90 minutes, each character’s arc will come to an end – some more finitely than others.
Nicholas Duvernay as Zion Lindsey and Natasha Rothwell as Belinda Lindsey (Photo: HBO)The White Lotus’s brilliance comes from its skewering of the age-old paradox that money both protects and destroys. This third series hammers home that message harder than any previous one – unlike Jennifer Coolidge’s dearly departed Tanya, very few of the actual rich people have any redeeming qualities this time around, and despite their beautiful clothes and deep pockets, their lives are far from enviable.
Patrick Schwarzenegger as Saxon Ratliff (Photo: HBO)
By some Shakespearean twist it isn’t the family who end up prostrate pool side, but poor innocent Lachlan – the only one who wasn’t fed a cocktail by his familicidal dad but secretly made his own with the seeds left in the blender. But turns out his isn’t the death we were promised in episode one. He survives the poisoning, after “seeing God” in the form of four shadowy monks.
It all comes to a head with the return of Rick from Bangkok, followed by Jim, the man he went there to kill. Rick’s hatred is reignited when Jim calls his mother a “slut”, and he fires two bullets straight into his chest. So ensues the anticipated gun fight, in which Aimee Lou Wood’s sweet, loving and loveable Chelsea is caught in the crosshairs. As if that isn’t devastating enough, who should deliver the second killing – another gunshot, this time into Rick’s back – but Gaitok, who previously lamented his inability to cause harm to others.
Lalisa Manobal as Mook (Photo: HBO)Which brings me to the second way to watch: to go deeper, to uncover a wider, more meaningful message. This series’s final point is more nihilistic than ever: suffering is simply unavoidable. Especially if we inflict it on ourselves.
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