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Each installment was like a snake rearing back and baring its fangs.
In Hawaii, White put class criticism first and cis-het marital tension second.
In Sicily, White switches his prioritization of these ideas.
The intention is naughtiness, but the impact is repetition.
Gathering for vacation this time around are three groups internally bound by love, legacy, and money.
(Describing them as well-to-do would be a disservice to how chaotic most of them act.)
Is she hiding an attraction to Cam and a jealousy of Daphnes stay-at-home-mom lifestyle?
But like the visitors, the locals are constrained by the seasons aforementioned cautiousness.
Nevertheless, the ensemble does what it can.
Given less to work with are Coolidge and Richardson.
Nearly all of this season is like that: hampered by a timidity that undermines its satire.
To be more blunt, maybe White wants us to know he thinks straight people are tedious.
If that was the intention, though,The White Lotusdidnt have to be so literal.
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