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Because in this life you cant win.
Yeah, you’re able to try.
But in the end, youre just going to lose, big time.
Because the world is run by the Man.
Thats a snippet froma monologue spoken by Jack Blackas fake substitute teacher Dewey Finn in the movieSchool of Rock.
On one side of her is a staffer who looks vaguely like Lani but is not actually Lani.
If you squint through a blast of sunshine, this new guy might pass for Armond.
But well get to that shortly.
But she cant bring herself to leave him.
After seeking guidance from Belinda, who has understandably had it with helping white women You want my advice?
I am all out, Belinda tells her Rachel reunites with Shane at the airport.
It is unclear whether she knows Shane killed Armond (she must, right?
), but if she does, even thats not enough to push her to bail on the marriage.
Im happy, she tells him, completely unconvincingly, a look of defeat on her face.
It is as obvious as a turd on a Polo shirt in a suitcase that she is lying.
Rachels going to be miserable for the rest of this marriage, and shes going to pretend she isnt.
But the quote-unquote heist only gets Kai in trouble and binds the Mossbachers closer together.
We can be one of those boat families, he says, cluelessly, hilariously, sadly.
We can waterboard, he adds, making his obliviousness somehow more egregious.
When Olivia corrects him, laughing Its wakeboard, Dad he says, Same thing.
It is not the same thing.
The supposedly woke Olivia (Sydney Sweeney) makes that very clear in an accusatory conversation with Paula.
Something bad could have happened, she says, referring to her mother.
Paula, heartbroken for Kai and struck by Olivias lack of perspective, replies: Something bad did happen.
But you are, Paula tells her.
Actually, you are.
You think youre like this rebel but in the end, this is your tribe.
While Paula is right to say this to Olivia, she also could be speaking directly to herself.
Paula doesnt really encourage Kai to lift items from the Mossbachers safe because its in his best interest.
It is not in his interest at all.
But didnt Paula do a version of the same thing with Kai?
In the finale, Paula has to choose her tribe.
Its too hard to do the ethical thing all the time.
The one person in the Mossbacher group who veers off the status quo course is Quinn.
We need you, as he realizes his dream.
I find it challenging to think that Quinn actually gets to stay and go on that Hokulea, though.
Its hard to believe Quinn got even one foot out of the airport before somebody stopped him.
But everything inThe White Lotustells us thats not possible.
In reality, he winds up back on the plane.
