It takes me less than 24 hours to a holiday to feel that I have been there forever. The suitcase is open, the clothes are scattered, the toiletries that appear on the bathroom bench that I live there. I quickly forget work (sorry for my editors) and other life stress factors and the outside world in general. Whether it is a wedding, a family visit or a pure lost holiday, I am locked.
The same thing cannot be said of all in “The White Lotus” season 3, Although many have tried and succeeded in letting go during their Thailand right.
On the relaxed page are Victoria (Parker Posey) and her children (“I slept as a corpse”), plus Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) exploring physiotherapies; Somewhere in the middle is the trio of Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan), Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Laurie (Carrie Coon), who do their best to unwind but also actively stress each other with each second they spend together; And then there is the ever-high-string Rick (Walton Goggins) and Timothy (Jason Isaacs), plus Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood)-Personal Security undergoes a roller coaster in section 2, “Special treatments.”
Last week I wrote about The positive in Rick and Chelsea’s relationship, which Goggins himself described for IndieWire as “a great love story.” “I think it’s the first love story in the story of” The White Lotus, to be quite honest with you, “he said.” She has not seen him in this position, but she can also take it up. “
Section 2 digs into cracks – not necessarily in the relationship itself, but in the luggage that comes with being so close to another person. Chelsea feels Rick well enough to know that he is tightly wrapped and “a victim of (his) own decisions”, but so far Rick reluctant remains to share more with Chelsea.
But it takes less than a minute for him to share things with therapist Amrita (Shaini Peiris) that he may never have shared with his girlfriend, or at least not unpacked. It is often easier to open up to a stranger – one of the most important principles of professional therapy – and Rick’s session not only determine important details about his character, but contextualizes them with Who he is now. He is an orphan, but the trauma of his mother’s overdose and father’s murder still lives in him and not far from the surface. He is, in his own words, “nothing.”
This scene is perhaps two minutes and a brilliant show of Mike White’s economy as a storyteller. Yes, Rick explains his back story in basic facts – in a way that characters usually do not or cannot without being lazy – but he uses the same tone to say very subjective and extremely dark things about himself. Ever the pros, Goggins carry Rick’s darkness through each scene, and from this point viewers feel the driving force behind him.
“I’ve been around for a long time and I’ve had some great opportunities in my life, but this person is so close to me on a number of levels,” Goggins told IndieWire. “I understood his pain from the first time he started talking on the page. For me, someone who is loyal is to have an opportunity to simmer in this annoyance and to be consumed by this negativity – how he expresses his pain when he has been given the opportunity to do so – is something that reasoned very deeply with I, and I hope That it comes with the audience. “

The tone begins to move this section, with a masked gunman who enters the resort, robs a store and beats Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong) down when he tries to seize them. It is hardly an action or fight sequence, but the type of unexpected events that scream people more when they process than even register in the moment. Chloe and Chelsea immediately deviate in their analysis, as the violence urges Rick and Mook (Lisa Manobal) to safeguard Chelsea and Gaitok respectively.
If “The White Lotus” has taught us one thing, it is that life is expensive and can be sniffed out in sudden (and often rogue) ways.
Superlative
- The least likely to die: Chelsea, because she only had a close conversation.
- Most in need of a Dr. Amrita session: Timothy, which is possibly on Lam After being chewed out over the phone by what sure sounds like Ke Hay Quan …
- Horniest: A strong show of last week’s winner, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), but other important challengers show up; Belinda during her treatment Jaclyn described her young husband, Chelsea and Rick for even if their communication sucks, their physical chemistry does not!
- Most SUS: Greg (Jon Gries), which apparently goes under the name Gary Now. He was always really Gary? Is Greg the lie ?? Sir, who the hell are you? (Honor mentioned: Kate, with separate convos with each of his besties on the other but is also outrageously pleasant to Victoria.)
- Probably die: Gaitok, who also had a close conversation but showed a heroic streak that could put him in danger.
Rating: A-
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