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i wasn't really sure the first few eps, they were doing more scenes with yoga and meditation and 'enlightenment' stuff...but once they got into the character stories exclusively i have really enjoyed it. Frank, Rick/Chelsea, and the trio are the most interesting stories, but i also love what PP is doing on her role.

i think for me the biggest difference this season is...S1 was freaking Hawaii and S2 Italy was breathtaking. Thailand basically looks...hot,  humid, buggy, and not particularly enjoyable. some of the shots are incredible (like the yacht among the islands) but overall everything generally looks hazy, the sunlight is very desaturated, i'm pretty sure we haven't seen an actual blue sky since the season started. even when the guests are supposedly sunbathing around the pool, there's no direct sunlight. the light constantly looks like dusk. and apparently i do not like it lol.

i have wondered if that's just the season during which they decided to film or if the climate is always like that...🤔

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8 hours ago, irishtexan said:

Sure. It's just that it makes for boring television. He feels like a completely wasted (literally and figuratively) character. What's the point? 

Haven’t they had those before in this series? I think that entire family is flying home together in a montage with slow music playing and 1000 yard stares. 

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5 hours ago, mchookem said:

i wasn't really sure the first few eps, they were doing more scenes with yoga and meditation and 'enlightenment' stuff...but once they got into the character stories exclusively i have really enjoyed it. Frank, Rick/Chelsea, and the trio are the most interesting stories, but i also love what PP is doing on her role.

i think for me the biggest difference this season is...S1 was freaking Hawaii and S2 Italy was breathtaking. Thailand basically looks...hot,  humid, buggy, and not particularly enjoyable. some of the shots are incredible (like the yacht among the islands) but overall everything generally looks hazy, the sunlight is very desaturated, i'm pretty sure we haven't seen an actual blue sky since the season started. even when the guests are supposedly sunbathing around the pool, there's no direct sunlight. the light constantly looks like dusk. and apparently i do not like it lol.

i have wondered if that's just the season during which they decided to film or if the climate is always like that...🤔

It do be humid af there. But, I live in Hawaii and think in general Thailand beaches kick Hawaiis ass. The show isn’t really showcasing that though. Time of year does matter but direct sunlight is definitely not an issue. 

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Tim’s arc over the past three episodes hasn’t been about what he does, but about how he’s thinking.   
 

Previous episode has him struggling with thoughts about how to kill himself, then the monk gives him a model of the afterlife that gives him the resolve to actually do it.  But before he can do it, Victoria says she can’t live an uncomfortable life, which he knows is waiting for her, so he adds her to the plan.  Now Saxon throws his eggs into Dad’s basket and links their fates.  
 

Tim hasn’t “done” anything… except cook up a plan to murder/suicide his family which IMO has been fascinating to watch.  I think it’s pretty ingenious the way they have shown it progressing.  

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To me it’s a better show to watch in real time verse binge. Watching it real time definitely makes you want to see what happens next week vs binging. I quit halfway through season two but once I started s3 I went back and finished s2. S3 I think wouldn’t be the same binging. But it may just because I am ready to see what the fuck happens next week. They do a great job of giving you something about a character(s) but jump to the next right when you think you are going to get the whole story

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On 3/31/2025 at 3:05 PM, Hank_Hill said:

Not sure what else y’all want from Tim. He’s at a resort in bumfuck Thailand catatonic on benzos and booze contemplating murder/suicide. That’s exactly what a person in that situation would look lllike.

Eh.

 

I'm digging the season but the lorazepam subplot has annoyed the shit out of me by this point. 

Tim should have gone blackout at the very least, or comatose the way he's popping those and downing whiskey.  Esp if he had never taken them.  PP should have gone thru withdrawals like hell as others have said. 

I hope he does die more than the others on this show given his murder fantasies. 

 

 

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16 minutes ago, BurgleBro said:

Eh.

 

I'm digging the season but the lorazepam subplot has annoyed the shit out of me by this point. 

Tim should have gone blackout at the very least, or comatose the way he's popping those and downing whiskey.  Esp if he had never taken them.  PP should have gone thru withdrawals like hell as others have said. 

I hope he does die more than the others on this show given his murder fantasies. 

 

 

His midday nap on day one was about right. But yea PP would be having a bad time and needing to supplement much heavier with booze than they’re showing. If this was season one I could prescribe her a bump, I run in to this literal scenario weekly with benzo patients from Four Seasons Maui

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A lot of weird stories trickling out about on set issues during the filming of White Lotus s3

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/style/white-lotus-composer-season-4-leaving.html

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Cristóbal Tapia de Veer did not have an entirely pleasant stay at “The White Lotus.”

Mr. Tapia de Veer, a 51-year-old composer who was born in Chile, joined a video call on Monday from his home in the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec, a gong the size of a beach ball visible over his right shoulder. We had planned to discuss his score for Season 3 of the HBO show — specifically, its reworked main title theme, which ignited a minor fury among fans when the season premiered in February.

The conversation went in a very different direction. Mr. Tapia de Veer, who has won three Emmy Awards for his work on “The White Lotus,” said he would not be returning for the show’s fourth season.

He described creative disagreements with the show’s creator and director, Mike White, that began during Season 1. Conversations with producers could be “hysterical,” Mr. Tapia de Veer said, and the show’s creative team repeatedly requested music that was more upbeat and less experimental than the work Mr. Tapia de Veer wanted to produce. (Representatives for HBO declined to comment for this article.)

Also Jason Isaacs was interviewed and gave some interesting answers about onset relationships

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It was like a cross between summer camp and Lord of the Flies but in a gilded cage,” Jason Isaacs shared in an interview with Vulture published on Monday, March 31. “It wasn’t a holiday. Some people got very close, there were friendships that were made and friendships that were lost."

Also, I read that Carrie Coon's character is supposed to have a trans offspring but they cut that element out of the season in post production "because of Trump winning" which is a different topic all together. But it seems relevant to the 3 friends storyline if the actors are working with that dynamic in mind.

Anyways, as an audience member there seems like a lot of smoke as to why this season hasnt been as good as the first two. Im still entertained and holding out hope for an amazing finale that ties it all together. 

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8 hours ago, Texzilla58 said:

I think it’s time for a new approach foe S4. The Gemstones should all vacation at a White Lotus resort.

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4 hours ago, cmontexas said:

A lot of weird stories trickling out about on set issues during the filming of White Lotus s3

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/style/white-lotus-composer-season-4-leaving.html

Also Jason Isaacs was interviewed and gave some interesting answers about onset relationships

Link

Also, I read that Carrie Coon's character is supposed to have a trans offspring but they cut that element out of the season in post production "because of Trump winning" which is a different topic all together. But it seems relevant to the 3 friends storyline if the actors are working with that dynamic in mind.

Anyways, as an audience member there seems like a lot of smoke as to why this season hasnt been as good as the first two. Im still entertained and holding out hope for an amazing finale that ties it all together. 

They talk about the Coons/Trans kid thing a bit in the long piece I posted above. Part of the reason to cut it was to get it down to a manageable length. Apparently, they could've had eight 100-minute episodes if they put in everything he initially wanted/shot. This was supposed to be filmed in 2022 but was delayed because of the writer's strike. They felt that having that storyline in there today, after Trump won and essentially declared war on that community, that it was an unnecessary "add" to the show. White's intention isn't for this to be a political show. I think the only thing remotely political was when Coons/Monaghan speculate on Bibb having voted for Trump.

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