Is that it doesn't really feel like a satire and doesn't add up to much of anything other than a low-key celebration of the 1%. I don't think this series is especially great, but I like it. I'm not exactly sure about Mike White's overall agenda, but I do think he's going for a certain degree of realism and moral ambiguity.
shareI guess he is just trying to show how the wealthy live and operate among themselves focused on cringy situations and dialogues NOT solely on what they own and splashing their wealth (like in shows like Bevery Hills housewives or something where they follow characters in their huge mansions and Ferraris and all that); here the only way we see them splash their wealth is simply the luxury resort where they spend their holidays and the content of their dialogues.
On a similar note there are shows and comedies which portray other categories of people and class like blacks from the ghetto, rednecks in trailer parks, etc...
Look up Land of the Lotus Eaters.
shareWho are the lotus-eaters and what are they known for?
The Odyssey: Book 9. Odysseus and his men land on an island inhabited by the Lotus Eaters, a gentle people who only consume the fruit of the lotus plant. Those who eat the lotus fruit forget about returning home, preferring instead to hang out on the lotus island and eat lotus fruit.
Odysseus' men feast with the lotus-eaters, ingesting the famed fruit and so beheld lose all their desires to go home. They were stripped of their goals, falling victim to the addictive fruit of the lotus. Just like the lotus-eaters, the men became sloths and desired nothing but the lotus fruit.
Basically crack, gambling in Vegas or any hardcore addiction.
It also says this:
Figuratively, 'lotus-eater' denotes "a person who spends their time indulging in pleasure and luxury rather than dealing with practical concerns".
Pretty cool and very plausible theory! So many details, by any chance are you a close friend of Mike White? ha ha :-D
shareNo I don't know Mike White, but I do have a friend named Mike who looks a lot like him!!!
And if you check out the theories that were put forth in the previous season, then you'll probably also find MOST of them were WRONG (which should also prove that I don't have any kind of inside connections to what's happening).
All I have is a BA in LIT (which is why I know about Odysseus and what happened to him).
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Nice. Always fun to find literate people wherever they pop up.
shareIt would be nicer if one could be right once in a while about one's predictions.
But once again it looks like my theory about Lucia ending up being the relative of Bert & Albie & his father was WRONG.
Oh well.
Guess TIME was also a FACTOR at that point & there wasn't enough of it for the kind of a FAMILY REUNION that Bert was hoping for???
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The social commentary is too surface-level to be incisive.
shareSuper slow burn. I'm patiently waiting for the big payoff... oh and the s2 intro music is weird lol
shareAt one point the S2 INTRO MUSIC PARROTS the S1 Music.
Here's an interesting article that explains what the INTRO is about:
https://www.elledecor.com/life-culture/a41847528/white-lotus-season-2-credits/
“We were told it was a ‘bedroom farce with teeth,’”
At the 30 SECOND TIME MARK (in the VIDEO containing the INTRO MUSIC that's also provided in the link) you can hear it PARROTING the S1 OPENING MUSIC.
Here's a video of the S1 MUSIC so you can compare it to the S2 opening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2wj6lJtg_8
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