Belinda literally became McQuoid. She got her money, then ditched the Thai guy exactly the same way she was ditched by McQuoid… without being a ‘unreliable alcoholic’ as an excuse. She got hers, and ditched the poor guy without a backward glance.
Belinda’s story (and character) arc wasn’t very subtle.
I don’t believe that subtlety (nor anti-subtlety) was the accusation that I made. I had no problem following or understanding what was portrayed on screen.
If the last episode of Mr. Rogers had him drive through the stage set in a cadillac, with a face tattoo, and then he started taking a bat to everything and throwing molotov cocktails, I’d certainly understand exactly what I was seeing. I know what Mr. Rogers is doing. He’s destroying s**t.
But what happened between day T-1 and day T that lead to Mr. Rogers being inhabited by a different personality than he’d ever displayed before?
I’m skipping far ahead here to avoid spoilers. I’m kinda with the OP. I’m three episodes in and I keep waiting for it to impress me. I find it mildly entertaining, but some of the characters are insufferable and I have a hard time watching pointless cruelty. Even the more sympathetic characters are idiots.
The thing that keeps me watching is that there are a metric fuckton of references to existentialism and surrealism, to the point that it cannot be accidental. Nobody in real life says, “I feel like I’m in a Gogol story.” The awful teenage girl characters are reading Freud and Nietzsche.
Does it ever actually do anything with all this? Is this a show about existentialism in some way? Or even great literature? Philosophy? Or is this really just a drama about horrible rich people and not much else?
Which season are you watching? In other words is the show you’re watching set in Hawaii, Italy or Thailand?
Definitely. Justice and Karma do not exist in the world of White Lotus. Bad guys often prevail and good people suffer the capriciousness of reality. The upside is that the outcomes are not predictable, the downside is that the outcomes are never satisfying to the viewer.
I only watched the first season and the first episode on season 2. I didn’t find any good people. I only found a bunch of people I hated. That’s why I handed the remote to my wife. She continued to watch when I’m not around.
Season 1. Hawaii.
OK, so… nihilism?