![]() ![]() Survival odds: one Aperol spritz out of five She’s in danger, but The White Lotus has been renewed for a third series, so would White really kill off Jennifer Coolidge? Or will he do worse, and make her poor? Survival odds: three Aperol spritzes out of five Is local sex worker Lucia really under threat from her aggressive pimp or is that another scam aimed at fleecing naive youngster Albie Di Grasso? Are glossy couple Cameron and Daphne actually broke, and hoping Cam’s old college friend, the newly wealthy Ethan, will bail them out, hence Daphne stealing Ethan’s wife, Harper, away for the night and Cam’s refusal to pay Lucia for her services? What happened when Harper and Cam went to the hotel room? And why is the theme tune so obscenely good? So who will die? Other questions still to be answered: who is the cowboy in the photograph with Quentin? The internet is suggesting it’s Greg, Tanya’s absent husband, and that he and Quentin are in it together. White loves to make a point about the ultra-wealthy surviving while the workers pay the price. It’s worth pointing out that Apollonia dies in a car bomb intended for Corleone. ![]() The Di Grasso family – grandfather, father and son – tour filming locations, Portia wears a Godfather T-shirt, and in the trailer for the finale, Tanya is wearing the same dress as the mannequin representing Michael Corleone’s first wife, Apollonia. And there are plenty of nods to The Godfather, not just in the location. Screw around and you’ll end up buried in the garden.” There’s the recurrence of Madame Butterfly, another story of a cruel and faithless husband. There are the head vases, representing the legend of the Testa di Moro, or, as Daphne explains: “It’s a warning to husbands, babe. There are several motifs running through the show. We saw that Niccolo has a gun, and if Chekhov has any say, then it will almost certainly be used. But why, how, and who? The caddish socialite Quentin (played by Tom Hollander) is in fact broke, and trying to separate lost heiress Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge, playing the only character to cross over from series one) from her money it’s likely that a cocaine-fuelled tryst with the mob-affiliated Niccolo, hired by Quentin, has been filmed and will be used to blackmail her. “Rocco, how many dead guests are there?” she asks him. When the hotel manager Valentina arrives, her colleague Rocco tells her that there is more than one body. Presumably, if it was her husband, Cameron, she would have made an effort to pull him out of the water, but that does not mean Cam is safe. The theoriesĪt the very start of the second series, the breezy young American Daphne goes for a swim, encounters a dead body and panic-paddles back to shore. ![]() ![]() Series one took viewers to Hawaii, but this time we have been in Sicily, watching warring couples, and miserable fathers and sons as they attempt to enjoy their holidays and navigate their complicated sex lives. It pits customers against workers, rich against poor, and somebody always dies. Its intricate and beautiful title sequence and excellent theme tune have also encouraged impatient viewers not to “skip intro” but to settle in for the whole experience instead.Įach series of the show takes place around a luxury resort named The White Lotus and follows the trials and tribulations of the mostly unhappy patrons and staff. The drama revived the notion of watercooler TV, with viewers having to wait a week to watch each episode, rather than bingeing it all at once, and the post-episode discussions on Mondays and Tuesdays, at home, in the office and online, have been extravagant and detailed, as fans try to work out what is going on. ![]()
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