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Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Pretty solid finale and I'm fairly satisfied with how everything was tied up, with one minor gripe that we never saw what happened with Kai.

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He's going to prison

And Paula has herself to blame but thinks somehow she's noble and the Mossbacher's are the "villains". She ruined this guy's life but because her intentions were noble she seemed to get over it fairly quick. And its back to reading books on colonialism...

Paula is the biggest piece of **** in the entire show... minus Armond's actual ****

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Wife and I are friends with a real life Paula. Hypocrite to the core. Hispanic, adopted as a child by a white family, lesbian married to a white girl, selected blonde white guy as sperm donor. Yet every time we're around them it's all about how men and white poeple are horrible. Definitely a Paula.

I think we know the same person.

LawHall88 said:

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For you Sydney Sweeney fans:

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This is a fantastic movie... and by fantastic I mean not good but Sweeney shows the hammers a ton

Bonzer103 said:

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Late to the game with this one. Finished final episode last night. Loved it, not sure why. My wife asked, so what was that really all about? Who cares, was fun to watch it unfold without having and really expectation of what, why, or how. Excited to start Season 2. Dark comedy at its best.

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"What was the show about" was one of the questions I was trying to articulate as I watched season 1. I think at it's core White Lotus 1 was about very wealthy people (privileged people in today's nomenclature) being oblivious about the impact they have on "regular people" and the wake of destruction for the "regular people" they leave in their path because the privileged people just don't care about the impact of their actions on the "regular people".

The hotel manager is basically driven nuts by having to deal with the BS requests and complaints from customers who are ridiculous and can't be satisfied with anything. Armond pinching a loaf into the dude's Gucci luggage was a classic crap on me (figuratively), I'll crap on you (literally) moment.

The spa lady gets a head fake from someone who finally takes her seriously and wants to invest, until a different shiny object, attention from a guest rather than a servant, gets Tonya's attention and then spa lady is yesterday's news and forgotten and her spirit crushed.

Even with the newlywed couple, the wife is a "regular person" who outkicked her coverage into generational wealth only to realize that her life will be empty and miserable (but she will be pampered and distracted with shiny objects), but she basically sells her soul and her joy to enter the land of generational wealth.

That's what I think it is about.

Parents started watching this after hearing I liked it.

Called them yesterday, they were in the middle of the S2 finale. They said "this is so raunchy, this kind of show is normalizing bad behavior. It's Sodom. Unacceptable"

I said "y'all can stop watching it"

"Oh, well we need to see what happens"

Holy smokes, been living under a not much TV watching rocking the last couple of years with a now 2-year-old. The Ice storm allowed me to binge the first season.

My goodness was this thing great. the acting, the writing, the score, it was all so good. I'm a few episodes into the second season and it looks like they are following it up with another hit.

It's so awkward and funny and off-rails. I've always enjoyed Mike White's stuff, but this is a whole other level of good.