The group at the villa is going to kill Tanya, or try. Perhaps the pre-nup has a clause that says if she cheats it’s null, or that he gets paid out if she dies without foul play. So they olan to take her out on the yacht and throw her in the ocean or something like that. I agree that Greg has been playing a long con on her since season 1.
Jealousy is going to tear up the foursome with Aubrey plaza. She’s now actively making her husband jealous, and he looks like he’s going to snap.
Lucia is probably scamming Albie, but there’s a possibility that she’s not, and the ‘boyfriend’ is either a real boyfriend and doesn’t know she’s an escort, or he is her pimp and is really threatening her.
As for who dies at the end, we know it’s at least two people and they get dragged from the water. So my first guess is that Harper and the gang will go boating, and a knock-down fight will happen on the boat and cause it to capsize or something like that, and some/all of them will be drowned. They’ve been foreshadowing this throughout the series with ominous long swims in the ocean, reckless jet skiing, and characters becoming increasingly paranoid and unhappy with each other.
Second guess is that Lucia’s boyfriend/Pimp will show up and Albie will think Lucia is under threat and attack him, and someone gets killed. Third is that Quentin tries to kill Tanya on his yacht and several peoole wind up going overboard.
One thing they’ve done really well is to maintain a sense of impending risk and danger over all the main groups so you can’t predict which ones will be the victims. You can make plausible cases for any of them.
I don’t think Daphne is going to be lying happy on the beach if anyone in her party (Cameron, Ethan or Harper) died the previous week. So I doubt it’s any of them.
It could be Jack who died. He’s clearly being exploited by these older men, he’s by far the lowest on the rungs of the social ladder of any of the characters and the show creators seem to want to highlight class conflict and the multiple layers of exploitation all the way down the socioeconomic hierarchy. Seems like he’s the logical “fall guy” for the older/wealthier men to set up and potentially expose to risk. He also seems to be using heavy drinking as a coping mechanism for this arrangement he’s found himself in, and he could overdo it.
I’ll have to watch the first episode again. I got the impression that Daphne was on her second week there, that she had extended her vacation. (And, BTW, wasn’t there another woman next to her? Who was that?)
I feel like I should add that I don’t think this season is remotely as good as the first. The first season had a menagerie of truly interesting and memorable characters, tangled in a compelling tale of intrigue with a lot of “dramatic relief” interspersed with the cringey comedic hijinks. Also, the White Lotus resort was itself a character of sorts, with an effective sense of world-building. This season honestly feels like a mere pastiche of movies like Sideways and Roger Dodger, based on well-worn tropes about infidelity and midlife crises, with Jennifer Coolidge’s character awkwardly shoehorned in. Not terribly impressed.
BTW, anyone remember a brief scene in which Harper and Daphne were in town for shopping or something. Daphne had to go to the ATM, so Harper was alone in the town plaza and she suddenly became aware that she was being stared at by a bunch of local guys. I’m male but even I found it uncomfortable. (Apparently, based on something I read, the scene was a sort-of recreation of one from L’Avventura, a film by Michelangelo Antonioni and starring Monica Vitti.)
Yes, it was physically the same as the scene in L’Avventura (1960) and shot in the same place. However, in the WL scene we don’t get to hear what the men are saying, as you do in the movie.
If they were stereotyping Italian men, then, so was Antonioni.