The White Lotus
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There is no resolution, Luang Por Teera tells his faithful in the opening moments of the season finale.
Money corrupts, and money cocoons.
No one can afford enlightenment in this economy.
Just look at Belinda, our broken moral compass.
How much does it cost to change what a good person believes is right?
1% of Tanyas net worth will get them back to the table.
Its called brinkmanship, son.
Then she sends the good cop back into the house to push the deal over the finish line.
By dinner, though, theres no money in her account.
When she wakes up in the middle of the night?
Belinda just wants to be rich.
Before she takes off for Hawaii, though, she at least has the decency to tell Pornchai goodbye.
Anyway, about the business …
I really need to think about it, Tanya told Belinda inseason one, just before ghosting her completely.
Instead, Laurie spends the day on her own, boomeranging back to her friends for a soulful dinner.
Kates relished this week in Thailand, she shares.
Jaclyn needed this trip, too.
Unlike Kate and Jaclyn, she didnt find fulfillment in her career, marriage, or even motherhood.
She doesnt have religion.
Their imperfect friendship matters to her because it exists.
She exists, and thats meaningful.
No ethical framework required.
Rick, too, experiences the balm of an epiphany.
He hasnt been to bed, but at least this bender didnt kill him!
Though he tries, Frank cant convince Rick to stay at the party.
He boards the first plane to Koh Samui and seeks out Chelsea on the beach.
I got the monkey off the back, Rick tells her, and he means it.
He just looks different.
And when Chelsea tells him that she believes theyll be together forever, Rick doesnt roll his eyes.
He reciprocates her pledge.
Rick, it turns out, wasnt the only one to catch a flight out of Bangkok.
Gloria was a drunk and a slut and a liar.
Your father was no saint, Jim adds.
You didnt miss out on much.
Im glad, at least, that Chelsea grabbed herself one last mini-donut on the dash out of breakfast.
Hes not even planning to spare Piper any longer.
Victoria is over the moon that her daughter has crashed out of Buddhism school so quickly.
No one in the history of the world has lived better than we have, she tells her family.
Mom brings Pipes to the hotel boutique to buy something anything at all!
just to remind her of the unique rush of late-stage capitalism.
The more you have, the less you have.
Tim, though, is crestfallen at Pipers spiritual wobble.
Now, hes gonna need enough pong-pong seed for four.
(Chekhovs protein shake.)
After dinner, Tim makes a cocktail for everyone in his family, save Lochlan.
Confused Lochlan, who thoughtfully jerked off his older brother so that Saxon wouldnt feel left out.
Lochlan, who tells his dad he could live with nothing if he was forced.
Lochlan, who was hoping to steal his sisters bunk at the monastery anyway.
Tim is a complete monster.
But he doesnt clean out his sons blender.
Its Lochlan who wakes up first on checkout day and decides to whip up a protein drink.
No ones going to make you a man, a jittery Saxon barked at his brother the day before.
You have to make yourself a man.
You have to jerk your own self off.
You have to put the vanilla-bean whey powder in the blender because you want it.
As the poison takes effect, Lochlan imagines himself in the ocean.
Somewhere else in this resort, this beautiful boys mother is eating papaya.
His father is sleeping off the last of his Lorazepam.
And Lochlan is out on the pool deck, embracing the briny slip of a spiritual homecoming.
When Tim finds him, it appears its already too late.
Its too late for Rick, too.
He tears Jims pistol from the old mans holster and shoots him twice.
The entire hotel scurries for cover away from the violence.
Yesterday, his plan was to quit his job because he abhors suffering.
When Mook finds out, she cancels their second date, but so be it.
There is a cost to living a life aligned with your beliefs.
But when the shootout begins, Gaitok is still mulling the situation over.
Hes the man in the booth when duty calls.
The couple plunges into the pond and surfaces in anhomage toOphelia.
No one makes it to the other side of suffering.
Even if you believe that death is a homecoming, this is too much.
Which I think Mike White understands, because he brings young Lochlan back from the dead.
He pukes a little in his dads lap but seems to recover from the episode without asking many questions.
Basically, the richest people ended up okay.
There is no resolution.
