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Chapter 1: Why is White Lotus Season 3 considered the best season?
Season three of The White Lotus is by far the best season because Mike White's genius is his ability to articulate these very deep emotions through simple dialogue. Even normal conversations at dinner become these deep statements on female friendships, the wealthy versus the working class, age gap relationships, spirituality, or compromising your morals in order to get what you want.
How experiences with other people bring out our own deepest insecurities. And while I very much miss Jennifer Coolidge, my favorite thing about this season is that every storyline was interesting to me. There were no static characters. Everything felt so dynamic and the people that they were in episode one versus episode eight could not be more different.
What's fascinating is that they were all tied together through this idea of toxic relationships and this very toxic relationship they have with their self-identity. Very early on in the show, the monkey even says to Piper, identity is a prison. develop this mindset.
If I can't be this person, if I don't have this thing, this wealth, this relationship, this whatever, then I can't be the person I want to be. I can't be happy. And we trick ourselves into feeling that way at the detriment of our own joy. We become a victim of the expectations that we set for ourselves. And this happens all throughout the show. Some of the best moments of the
dynamics, a family on a vacation, being in a three-person friend group feeling left out, this sort of age gap and experiences in relationships, Mike White intentionally reuses these tropes to make it feel like the show is almost satirizing itself sometimes, or rather in a conversation with itself. exploring the discourse in these relationships that we all have.
And what I love about this is we'll constantly see these tropes reappear, like a family on vacation in every single season, yet the way these families interact with each other could not be more different. However, we always feel ourselves reflected in them in some way. The entire essence of The White Lotus as a show is exploring this.
It is exploring our relationships with wealth, with loved ones, with our family, with society and culture as a whole to make us introspect and think differently about the way we interact with our very own friends.
There was no greater example of this to me than, again, this season with moments like these three girls and the dialogue they had, this feeling of competitiveness to the way that this family interacted with each other, to the way that wealth has really come across this entire series with narratives like Belinda spanning all three seasons. I think that this was by far the best season of the show.
And my goal with this episode is hopefully to prove that point to you.
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Chapter 2: How does White Lotus explore toxic relationships and self-identity?
Like that entire line of thinking is rooted in this idea of insecurity, this idea of like feeling like you need to look at something outside of yourself to feel more like yourself. Like I only feel beautiful and desirable when somebody else is desiring me, yet that doesn't change how you look yesterday or how you're going to look tomorrow, right?
like it is just this feeling of that gratification that we need and what's so fascinating to me and I think this happens in female friendships a lot from the way a lot of my female friends have described it but also just all friendships is how that turns into this concept of competition again like even when not directly expressed you know I think what's interesting about Jacqueline's
character is like, I think she's genuinely doesn't view the situation and the argument like she did anything wrong. Because that is the way a lot of these people think when they have this inadvertent, like, nature of just doing it to validate themselves. And, again, we see how this is, like, really at her own detriment.
Like, she has this very loving boyfriend back home that we see her husband, that we see her on the phone with, blah, blah, blah. And everything she said about how crazy they were for each other is so true. And that, I think, was very, very interesting to explore. I also loved when they kind of, like,
We're always kind of talking shit about each other a little bit or at the very least like expressing discontentment with a lot of the choices or like things they said. And I actually read this article recently or so that was so interesting talking about how there is a study that says that like friends who are.
comfortable kind of like roasting each other or insulting each other to their face, generally have longer lasting friendships. And I think it's very much because of things like this. Because when you don't feel this ability to like express those things fully, they fester within you.
And when you don't have a place to, you know, like put that, seek that out, it turns into, again, this resentment, this competition, this rage. And that is where these three women are kind of constantly asking at one another in different ways. You know, two of them are talking shit about the other girl's political beliefs.
And the other two were talking shit about how the girl kind of is, you know, she doesn't look as good as she used to. And then the other two were talking about how, oh my gosh, she's so obsessed with male attention, blah, blah, blah, right? Like they're always just like nitpicking at each other. But again, like what is so interesting about these three is that dialogue.
But something I found fascinating was, did you know that the actors of The Three Girls and the White Lotus thought that their characters were going to be the disappointment of the season? I was at this panel with HBO where a lot of the cast was there, and they were talking about this, how when they all got their scripts, they were reading through and were like, oh, my God, this other line has –
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