White Lotus

Created by Mike White, the HBO comedy drama has received critical acclaim in its first two seasons, including a Primetime Emmy win for Outstanding Limited Or ...

One thing that’s not in doubt: The White Lotus is still laugh-out-loud funny.” HBO Max is not currently available in the UK. “[She] needed to give her best fight back [so] that she, in a way, had some kind of victory over whoever was conspiring to get rid of her.” He added: “I was thinking, it’d be so fun to bring Tanya back because she’s such a great character, but maybe that’s the journey for her, a journey to death. “And she says, ‘I’ve had every kind of treatment over the years, death is the last immersive experience I haven’t tried.’” Surprisingly, The White Lotus killed off its biggest character – but not without a fight.

Season finale revealed the identities of the dead bodies teased in the first episode.

As we say, though, Tanya didn't go quietly into that good night. Before dying, she shot and killed Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his murderous associates for ...

They weren’t the only people to meet a grisly end though, so here’s everyone who died in The White Lotus season 2. While Tanya managed to outwit the assassins, gunning them all down in spectacular fashion, she was the victim of her own clumsiness. Poor Tanya was the victim of her husband, Greg, who wanted his wife killed so he could inherit her cast fortune. Before dying, she shot and killed Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his murderous associates for their part in her planned murder. As we say, though, Tanya didn’t go quietly into that good night. [TV series](https://www.thedigitalfix.com/best-tv-series) has given us plenty of potential suspects.

Season two of Mike White's brilliant satire concludes with happy endings, deadly payoffs, and more than a few loose ends.

In the end, just like in the first season, the body count is racked up largely out of self-defence and a dollop of paranoia. Even if the script lacks the organic freshness of the resolution to the first instalment, the work of the casting department has been as impeccable as ever. Jennifer Coolidge has been the anchor holding these two series together, and it’s a shame to see her written out – not least because her panicked slaughter of a boatful of dodgy Eurotrash was vintage Coolidge. “It’s kind of sexy.” And in the end, this dysfunctional ménage à quatre adds little to the finale, other than looking good in swimwear. The cast was an unassuming mix of actors who were big in the Nineties and B-movie pin-ups, and the show’s creator, [Mike White](/topic/mike-white), was best known as the real Ned Schneebly from School of Rock. [The White Lotus](/topic/the-white-lotus) first aired in 2021, it was something of a sleeper hit.

In one of the most shocking scenes on TV in recent years, Jennifer Coolidge's Tanya died after shooting her way through a yacht when she realized Quentin, Greg, ...

“In the end of last season, Tanya is sitting with Greg in the last episode, and he’s talking about his health issues. "I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality," White added. White felt Tanya dying “at the hands of someone else felt too tragic,” and that she “needed to give her best fight back and that she, in a way, had some kind of victory over whoever was conspiring to get rid of her.”

When audiences were reintroduced to Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) this season, they saw her in an unstable marriage, and as events transpired, viewers were ...

He wanted to see her win, in some sense, by not allowing her to be killed by another character, and alludes to the possible return of Greg (Jon Gries) and Portia (Haley Lu Richardson). Initially, when Coolidge was confirmed to be starring in season 2, many figured Tanya would become a recurring character within the series, especially given the recognition her performance garnered. He adds that "maybe that’s the journey for her: a journey to death," and that he did not necessarily want to end her story. [who died in The White Lotus season 2](https://screenrant.com/who-are-the-dead-victims-in-the-white-lotus-season-2/) has kept viewers guessing for weeks, but no one could have predicted that White would kill off Coolidge's character. In a post-finale featurette, the showrunner reflects on Tanya's season 1 remark that she had experienced everything but death, as reported by [TV Line](https://tvline.com/2022/12/11/the-white-lotus-season-2-finale-ending-explained-tanya-dies-mike-white-interview/). [The White Lotus](https://screenrant.com/tag/white-lotus/) was fitting.

The second series of Mike White's savage satire, set in Sicily, came to an end with a brutal and hilarious finale - warning: spoilers.

White’s ability to write scenes that are simultaneously unspeakable and frothy remained remarkable as he got to the spoilery climax of the instalment. [White Lotus in a bespoke nutshell](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/0/real-white-lotus-what-like-cater-every-whim-super-rich/). How stunningly bleak – as was the resolution of the storyline of naïve Albie (Adam DiMarco) and sad-eyed sex worker Lucia (Simona Tabasco), who had of course been stringing him along all this time. Morally-questionable sex was again to the fore in the finale. Relocating from Hawaii to Sicily and with an all-new cast – with one significant exception – the mood was less frenzied, but also more withering. Or was at least hinted at as emotionally impotent nerd Ethan (Will Sharpe) drove himself into a neurotic frenzy over his suspicion that wife Harper (Aubrey Plaza) had been unfaithful with Ethan's toxic frenemy, Cameron (Theo James), during their couples getaway at the Sicilian resort.

In a tense finale, who emerged as the doomed (and clumsiest) hotel guest?

She imagines Greg and Quentin are in cahoots, and there are plenty of dilapidated European mansions to do up. Quentin (Tom Hollander) catches her looking at the photo of a young Greg, and passes it off as a picture of a random, unconnected man with whom he once dropped acid. [Testa Di Moro](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a41978904/the-white-lotus-ancient-myths/), the lingering symbol of infidelity planted in the hotel rooms? She doesn’t go down without a fight: locking herself in a bedroom, retrieving Niccolo’s gun, before shooting most of the crew. [Will Sharpe](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a41776658/will-sharpe-interview-white-lotus-season-2/)) confronts Harper (Aubrey Plaza) about her hotel room incident in [last week’s episode](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a42150514/the-white-lotus-episode-six-recap/), and learns the truth: Harper and Cameron (Theo James) kissed (an indiscretion she labels “a drunk, dumb nothing"), but nothing more. Albie (Adam DiMarco) is trying to bribe his father, Dominic (Michael Imperioli). As she tells Ethan: “You do what you have to do not to feel like a victim of life, you know?” If The White Lotus resorts needs a couples therapist – and given its guests’ history, that would be a bad idea – Daphne should be top of their lists. The pair walk to Isola Bella, a picturesque Sicilian islet, and maybe have sex. Fahy, with a masterful look that captures both Daphne’s surprise and hurt (surely it must be Harper’s potential betrayal that cut her), finds instant resolve. [sustaining her status as this season’s MVP](https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a42166689/daphne-the-white-lotus/), calls Ethan over to her beach lounger. That the most captivating moments revolve around the characters’ blossoming relationships and quieter exchanges is a credit to creator Mike White’s writing. If this season of The White Lotus began in a languorous state, happy to examine our guests’ relationships under the Sicilian sun, the finale proved an altogether more explosive affair.

After weeks of fervent speculation and close examination of costumes and props, The White Lotus season 2 viewers finally got their answer.

But even though The White Lotus isn’t about death, it was about Jennifer Coolidge—and with a [third season officially coming](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/the-white-lotus-season-3-everything-we-know-so-far), it’s time to start reimagining exactly what that might look like. White has been frank that the dead body conspicuously placed at the beginning of each White Lotus season is a tool for luring in audiences. [wild theories about bloody endings](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/12/who-will-die-in-the-white-lotus-season-2-finale) (Cameron and Ethan jet ski accident? The rich and privileged are, once again, escaping with all their privileges intact, and the spirit of Tanya lives on in Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), who escaped whatever role was intended for her in the murder plot and wears a very Tanya-worthy head scarf for her flight home. The season ends, just as the first one did, with all the major players in the airport and on their way home. The body count began on Quentin’s yacht, where Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) sussed out what viewers had suspected: those gays, as she told the boat captain, were trying to kill her.

The White Lotus has blossomed into a truly massive hit for HBO, as gripping each week as any episode of Game of Thrones ever was, and now after last night?

While we have no direct link between them and Greg, I do wonder if there is literally some sort of evil Legion of Doom being built behind the scenes of The White Lotus with Greg at the apex, which does not seem like such a wild theory after last night. Also, we still don’t know who Greg was talking to on the phone, saying he loved them. Portia, however, was the wrench thrown into the plan, as you’ll recall Greg was agitated that he brought her assistant along. But we do know he’s either somewhat wealthy himself or has wealthy-appearing friends, given his past relationship with Quentin, which was revealed in the past two episodes. These friends, in theory, could have been the group of gays from season 2. In season 1, Greg says he’s in Hawaii on a fishing trip with friends, rich friends, you would imagine, if they can afford to go fishing in Hawaii.

Season finale revealed the identities of the dead bodies teased in the first episode.

Meanwhile, others appreciated the fact that Tanya ended up being her own killer, rather than dying at the hands of those who were trying to play her. the only person who could take Tanya out was herself. Finally, Tanya attempts to escape the bloodbath she’s created by taking a leap from the yacht’s high deck, onto the speedboat. It’s a matter of kill or be killed – and when Niccoló bursts through the door to find her, Tanya tearfully shoots him dead. However, Tanya notices the black bag he’s carrying with him and swipes it on a run to the bathroom. Sadly, she botches the jump and hits herself on the edge of the speedboat, and falls into the water to her death.

The White Lotus season 3 creator Mike White plans to plant his next resort further east.

In the same interview Jake Lacy, who played a raging newlywed irked by his suite status, said that he and White had batted back and forth ideas about future Lotus episodes. In a clip unpacking the explosive and surprising season finale, he revealed his thought process behind the decision in a post-finale featurette for [HBO](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-idol-hbo-trailer). Our intention is to do it in the third season. A piece of casting didn’t work in the second season and we’re hoping to [do] that in the third season. [season one](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/white-lotus-review) jetted us to Hawaii, and [season two](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-2) planted us amongst the storied palazzos of Italy, White thinks heading even further east could be the resort's next expansion. A third season has officially been confirmed by HBO, and creator Mike White has given some hints about where his next luxury resort could be planted, as well as what themes the series will address.

The White Lotus creator Mike White teased season three and revealed it maye a satirical and funny look at death' and be set in Asia.

But, White hasn't complete closed the door on her making a return 'Jennifer is my friend and everybody loved her in the first season, and I was like, "I can't go to Italy without Jennifer." It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.' Like, maybe you can’t go to Japan without Jennifer, either,' he explained. Accalimed: The first season went on to be the most-awarded series at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, winning ten awards in the limited series categories, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series; Mike White is pictures with some of the winning trophies Teaser: The White Lotus creator Mike White teased season three during a post-finale interview clip on HBO Max, and hinted that the new season may take place in Asia

'The White Lotus' creator Mike White has teased that the show's planned third season might take place in Asia.

[Deadline](https://deadline.com/2022/10/the-white-lotus-creator-mike-white-hints-at-season-3-location-cast-1235151661/) prior to season two, White mentioned Asia as a potential candidate. HBO Max is not currently available in the UK. “The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said. After the season two finale, however, there are some unanswered questions which suggest some characters might return. As they make a toast, Daphne remarks: “Next year, the Maldives!” “But maybe you’ll have to wait to find out what happens.”

Creating a season finale for an anthology is often a lot more difficult than for a serial. The last episode of an anthology resembles the makings of a series ...

There is one item that requires no interpreting, though: The White Lotus is a hell of a ride, and we can’t wait for the next group of rich misfits to arrive at the hotel chain! We can see from a mile away that everyone involved is being played like a piano by Lucia, and it’s great to see someone outside of the elites get a win in this show. Jack won’t confirm Portia’s suspicions or let on what he was going to do to her, but he has the decency to let her go on her merry way, advising her to skip a reunion with her now-dead boss and go straight to the airport. One storyline that was quite a bit more blunt in its approach, but still wasn’t completely resolved, is that of Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) and Quentin (Tom Hollander). Her penchant for vengeance leads to what we can assume is the two of them hiding under the Italian sun, getting it on without the knowledge of their spouses ever becoming tangible. Series creator Mike White went with the latter choice for most of his characters in the second season of his hit dramedy.

Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) met her watery demise in the season finale, as did practically a full yacht's worth of conspiring gay men. As episode six hinted at, ...

But here, all along, Daphne defied the odds and found a way. Upward mobility isn’t usually rewarded in The White Lotus, as we saw with Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) from season one, and Quentin and his cohort this year. [ biggest shift this season](https://www.vox.com/culture/23425402/white-lotus-review-credits-explained-murder) was how The White Lotus transitioned from feeling like a show about unaware and unchecked privilege with a little murder mystery hanging over it, to murder mystery with a bit of unaware and unchecked privilege on the side. When we first meet her on the beach chatting up the two women on vacation, there’s a sense that she’s kind of a rich dumb-dumb. When she tells Daphne as much as she can without spelling out all the details, Daphne doesn’t even flinch. When Cameron and Daphne tell her they don’t read or watch the news, she’s shocked at their incuriosity about the world. Knowing that his college roommate at the very least kissed his wife, Ethan tackles Cameron (Theo James) in the ocean and punches him in the face. (No, I am not making this up.) Tanya Wick just has to make it to the attached dinghy, but instead of taking the stairs, she decides to jump — whacking her head on the side of the boat and drowning. We never find out what exactly that relationship is, but Tanya — after a frantic call from the subtly abducted Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) — believes that Quentin and his crew were in cahoots with Greg to kill her and cash in an inheritance. And as a result of accidentally drugging the resident pianist, Mia convinces hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) to fire him. Tanya is convinced Niccolò and the gays are going to kill her (“These gays are trying to kill me,” she whisper-hisses, perfectly). And speaking of sex workers, Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò) got a real happily ever after.

From The White Lotus to Succession and Industry, we can't get enough of TV shows about seriously wealthy people. We asked psychologists to explain our ...

You’ll find us pouring a (highly unseasonal) Aperol spritz to toast Tanya & Co and revel in their mess. You might expect watching shows about the super-rich to involve more upward comparison than down – after all, these characters seem to have everything (and you certainly wouldn’t catch them wondering when to put the heating on). [social comparison](https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-the-social-comparison-process-2795872), which explores how people evaluate their own achievements, opinions, values and status by comparing themselves to others, could account for our love of these shows, too. Even reality shows such as [Selling Sunset](https://www.stylist.co.uk/tag/selling-sunset) and the Real Housewives franchise, with their lingering shots of extravagant mega-mansions boasting unfathomably high square footage, are cashing in on our fascination with the monied. “There is an element of seeing them at a level of human vulnerability that we can relate to,” says Dr Touroni. “It taps into our curiosity about the rich and famous and the kinds of lives they lead,” says Dr Elena Touroni, consultant psychologist and co-founder of Seeing all the trappings and wealth and luxury on screen can prompt a longing to have some of those opportunities, says Dr James Newman, chartered psychologist and psychology academic at “It’s an opportunity to take our minds off what we’re struggling with and imagine what life might be like if money was not an issue.” [available to stream on NOW](https://www.nowtv.com/ie/online/the-white-lotus/iYEQZ2rcf32XR9BdJWHTfy), White Lotus fans have been plagued with some major questions. And just who is going to meet an unfortunate, watery end in the Mediterranean Sea, as the flash-forward opening scene of episode one foretold? Humans are inherently curious creatures, and our natural nosiness means we are fascinated by spaces that seem exclusive, inaccessible or somehow off-limits. Is said ‘uncle’ (aka Quentin, played by Tom Hollander) blackmailing our beloved Tanya, and could he have an as-yet-undisclosed link to her husband Greg (Jon Gries)?

Other times, they seem to warn people to stop talking. In the season finale, when she speaks to Ethan (Will Sharpe) about their respective partners, her eyes ...

[the show.](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-2-deaths-ranking) She doesn't need to say much, but when she does, the subtext is loud. [The White Lotus](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-3). In the [season finale](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/white-lotus-season-2-finale-who-dies), when she speaks to Ethan (Will Sharpe) about their respective partners, her eyes appear to calculate a situation in real time and covertly offer him a [slice of revenge](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-2-reviews). In the final episode she tells Ethan there's a part of her husband she'll never know, but rather than become consumed by paranoia she acknowledges this is key to her attraction to him. At points, they appear to [observe](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-books-season-2) more than she lets on. Inviting him into her philosophy, she then walks off with him to a deserted bay across the water. The inference is that they slept with each other, and, if appearances are to be believed, her school of thinking saves Harper and Ethan's marriage. Has Mike White pulled the rug on us again? [Theo James is done being put in a box](/culture/article/theo-james-the-white-lotus-interview) Rather than fight these truths, Daphne has opted for finding her own happiness and version of justice. [good time](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-2-horny-old-man-2022). But the only fool in writing her off was us.

In the first episode of the satirical anthology show from creator Mike White, the audience learns there are multiple bodies on the resort's premises. Last ...

She later panics and hits her head in a desperate attempt to jump on a speedboat, ultimately drowning. It just felt like that's so Tanya," he continued. It just felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya's life and her story." [The White Lotus' sexual awakening scene is more important than you think](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a42196114/white-lotus-valentina-lesbian-sex/) [Last night's (December 11) eventful finale](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a42214473/white-lotus-season-2-ending-explained-death/) finally revealed whose corpse Daphne (Meghann Fahy) sees in the water in the prologue. [The White Lotus: Sicily](https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a42011365/the-white-lotus-renewed-season-3/) after seven tense, sexy episodes with a side of murder.

Here's who lives, who dies, and who leaves Italy changed forever in The White Lotus season 2 finale.

But, Mia at least seems to genuinely like Valentina and promises that she and Lucia will take her out to clubs and help her meet women. Ostensibly, this money is meant to help her get away from the abusive and dangerous pimp that seemingly chased her and the Di Grasso family through the countryside in the season’s penultimate episode, but that shadowy figure never actually existed and there was never any real threat to Lucia’s life or safety. He warns her that she doesn’t want to mess with these powerful people and drops her missing phone out the window as he drives away. After a first season that saw locals and service workers repeatedly forced to suffer at the hands of the White Lotus’s uber-rich guests, it’s wildly satisfying to see the non-elites notch some significant wins this time around. Was he supposed to kill her on the way back to the resort? Yes, he was clearly supposed to keep her busy and out of the way—he steals her phone, brazenly lies about it, and repeatedly delays their return to Taormina—but he also seemed to genuinely like her, which makes his decision to let her go feel extra murky. With some help from Portia (Haley Lu Richardson)—who’s having her own problems trying to figure out the reasons for Jack’s (Leo Woodall) extremely suss behavior after he steals her phone and refuses to take her back to the group—Tanya figures out that Greg and Quentin have been plotting to stage her murder. She tells her husband Ethan (Will Sharpe) that yes, Cameron (Theo James) came on to her and, yes, she accepted her suggestion that they go upstairs together. The rest of the season’s deaths—sorry everyone who was predicting one of the Di Grasso men was a goner—are basically the gays who were part of the plan to kill Tanya, including Quentin (Tom Hollander), Didier (Bruno Gouery), and her hook-up from last week Niccolo (Stefano Gianino). (I’m still so mad that Tanya essentially never interacted with the Sullivan/Spillar quartet.) But Coolidge gets several of the season’s best lines—prepare yourself for the inevitable memes!—and ultimately goes out as the result of a freak stupid accident rather than getting murdered by a man. He apparently has a lengthy history with Tanya’s husband Greg (Jon Gries), whose prenuptial agreement means he won’t get any money if the pair divorce, but who stands to inherit it all if she dies. [The White Lotus](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-white-lotus/) has come to an end, filled with suspicion, betrayal, and a variety of rich people behaving badly.

The White Lotus creator Mike White has explained why he decided to kill off a fan-favourite character in the hit comedy-drama's second season finale.

Despite becoming one of the most acclaimed TV releases of 2022, the dramatic conclusion to the satirical series’ second season hasn’t gone down well with everyone. It just felt like that’s so Tanya.” The White Lotus creator Mike White has explained why he decided to kill off a fan-favourite character in the hit comedy-drama's second season finale.

Will Sharpe, who plays Ethan, sat down with Variety to reflect on the season.

I’ve written a film script, which is a love story set against a period of American history that I think is slightly underexplored and that I wanted to write about for a while. I think he realizes that he wants to fight for the marriage, and that he has to fight for the marriage. I think there is a sort of innate competitiveness in Ethan, and he probably tells himself that he’s someone wants to have status because he’s earned it, and not to sort of go around demanding it. This fear of infidelity and the consequences have sort of hung over this — particularly Ethan and Harper, but all four of them — in different ways across the series. I do find that so funny that after the day that they’ve had, they just come over and sit down with Ethan and Harper. And so I was mindful of that, in the playing of him through the series, always having an eye on the endgame, which for me was that ultimately, all of his actions, whether they’re kind of questionable or laudable, are kind of motivated by love and wanting to get back to a place with Harper that he thinks they should be in. The friendship he has with Cameron is so interesting and fraught. We choreographed it a day or two before with the stunt coordinators, and had a lot of fun trying to work out what’s the best sort of level of trying to make this feel real, and exciting, but also, kind of like two people who don’t really know how to fight going at each other. Ethan seemed to be bubbling up all season, and finally snapped in the finale. And I guess initially, Harper is the one who, as you say, is kind of a little bit judgmental of them. It was such a pleasure to be a part of that. That is exacerbated by the company of Daphne and Cameron, and all the different ways in which that matrix kind of interacts with itself.

The White Lotus season two reached its shocking conclusion with Monday (12 December) night's final episode. The major reveal was, of course, the identity of ...

Their relationship was born of love, but it’s fallen into a cycle of games and control,” he concluded. She can go out and deliberately make friends, like when she’s initially against the ice wall that is Harper. Cameron dithers for some time, making no rush when flossing his teeth and finally puts his game face on when coming out of the bathroom. But the end of the series was marked by a number of startling revelations along the way. He’s such a cutie.” He’s really funny, too.

In an interview with NPR's Fresh Air last week, the writer and director Mike White suggested that his hit HBO series The White Lotus had less in common with ...

The impulse to follow in the footsteps of high-status people, emulating their experiences and then, by sharing, being emulated in turn? Week by week, The White Lotus achieved what only HBO series, [Taylor Swift ](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-album-review/671811/) [album drops](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/taylor-swift-midnights-album-review/671811/), and Florence Pugh’s Instagram seem to be able to manage these days: taking over the discourse and leaving very few unsatisfied. (Even Mia and Lucia walked down a busy shopping street arm in arm, jubilant in floral dresses, waving at the notably nonviolent Alessio, just as they had in the first episode.) Meanwhile, Jack, the muscle-bound Essex boy charged with distracting (and possibly doing away with) Portia while Tanya was being dealt with, dropped her on an empty street by the airport instead, his COCK baseball cap seeming to linger unnervingly in one’s memory like the Cheshire Cat’s smile. [Season 2](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2022/10/white-lotus-season-2-review/671938/), including the questions of why Lucia and Mia, the sex worker and the wannabe pianist, seemed physically stuck at the hotel, sleeping on sun loungers instead of going home; why every guest at the White Lotus went to Sicily—Sicily!—only to eat all their meals in the same anemic on-site restaurant; and what happened to Tanya in the finale. Season 2 of The White Lotus, in particular, felt like an aggregation of different source materials, many as fascinatingly cerebral as they were delightfully familiar.

'The White Lotus' season two finale revealed which character meets their fatal end.

Somebody had to catch a plane with it back in the early morning and it made it to camera,” she said. “When she starts to unwind, her costumes get more lively,” the costume designer added. “Portia is not nearly as cool or self-possessed, and the idea was that she wouldn’t always succeed with her styling,” Bovaird added. “We were towards the end of the show, and it got sent back to Rome the previous night by mistake! In the iconic film, Apollonia was killed by a car bomb intended for her husband, played by Al Pacino. [Page Six](https://pagesix.com/2022/12/12/white-lotus-costume-designer-talks-tanyas-godfather-dress-more/).

Jennifer Coolidge sits on ornate bench by luggage. Jennifer Coolidge plays Tanya, a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage. As in Season 1, Coolidge is a comedy ...

1, and that she is perhaps the worst assistant in the history of the job.) At the airport, however, we see his head—and Albie’s, and Bert’s—swivel in the wake of a pretty young woman who is passing by. (“The motivation of sex is always primary, I think,” White told me when I spoke to him, earlier in the fall for the (Daphne: “You just do whatever you have to do not to feel like a victim of life.”) Later, Ethan and Harper, each recharged with the sexual attention of someone other than their spouse, finally fuck. In the fifth episode, we discover that Jack is hiding a secret; Tanya catches him in bed with Quentin. The first season of the show focussed on class, and the conflicts that emerged between the haves and the have-nots at the White Lotus resort in Maui. (Fahy is fantastic in the role, but especially in this scene.) “You spend every second with somebody, and there’s still this part that’s a mystery. Still, to my mind, the central point made in the series is that no relationship is detached from the transactional and that power always plays a role in how people deal with one another. [New Yorker Radio Hour](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/russell-moore-on-christian-nationalism).) Ethan and Harper are experiencing bed death; Cameron and Daphne have a de-facto don’t-ask-don’t-tell cheating policy; Albie is horny but doesn’t want to be like his father, whose marriage is in ruins owing to his sex addiction. [the second season](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/more-deadly-decadence-in-the-white-lotus) of “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s hit HBO dramedy, a bright-eyed, slim-hipped strawberry blonde named Daphne (Meghann Fahy), a guest at the White Lotus luxury resort in Sicily, decides to take one last dip in the Mediterranean before her vacation ends and she heads back home, to the U.S. Certainly, in the course of the season, we saw no shortage of conflicts that could have yielded perpetrators and victims: there was the newly rich Ethan (Will Sharpe), seething with jealousy over a possible dalliance between his wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza, brittle and excellent), and his dick-swinging finance-bro friend, Cameron (the brutally handsome Theo James), who is married to Daphne; there was Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage who, along with her assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), had fallen in with a number of sinister, Palermo-based gay men seemingly intent on stealing her fortune by any means necessary; and there was Albie (Adam DiMarco), a wide-eyed, romantically minded Stanford grad travelling with his philandering father, Dom (Michael Imperioli), and still amorous grandfather, Bert (F. But as she swims in the perfect azure waters, her dreamy immersion is shattered by the sight of a dead body, floating on the waves.

Season two finale finally revealed the identities of the dead bodies teased in the premiere episode.

Sadly, she botches the leap and hits herself on the edge of the speedboat, falling into the water to her death. It just felt like that’s so Tanya.” However, when Tanya notices he’s carrying a black bag, she swipes it on the way to the bathroom. [TVLine](https://tvline.com/2022/12/11/the-white-lotus-season-2-finale-ending-explained-tanya-dies-mike-white-interview/), creator and director White explained why he felt it was time to take out season two’s only returning player, Tanya. [Inga Parkel](/author/inga-parkel) Comments [Mike White](/topic/mike-white) has spoken about his decision to kill off a major character in the season two finale of [The White Lotus](/topic/the-white-lotus). As Quentin’s yacht docks close to the mainland, the plan is for his friend Niccoló (Stefano Gianino) to escort Tanya back to the hotel in his small speedboat.

After 'The White Lotus' finale, “Arrivederci,” we know who died and who killed, but all the guests behaved badly during this Sicily vacation.

How guilty is she? How guilty is he? Her dress is awful. Of kidnapping/abducting Portia, aiding and abetting Tanya’s murder-that-turned-out-to-be-an-accidental-suicide, of “uncle”-fucking, and also of running out on that check that time, which is rude. Is Bert slipping her a $50 for that hug? Well, according to Dominic, Bert is guilty of setting the mold of womanizing and delinquent husbandry that has doomed generations of men in this family to misery. I guess it’s good for her that she gets to be the piano girl at what is apparently the only hotel in all of Sicily? Is he guilty? And I could’ve happily gone my whole life without hearing the phrase “Achilles cock.” He seemed to have a really lovely time on this trip, didn’t he? The speed with which Albie transferred the money to Lucia’s account is totally implausible (he just had her routing number??) but the fact that he was so eager to do it, and not even in installments, made me write “He actually deserves to die for the crime of being such an idiot.” It’s also funny that he is so bent on being a good person who helps a damsel in distress that he could not recognize the actual vulnerability of Portia (going to an island with her psychotic boss and a drunk she’d never met) because he was too distracted by the over-the-top performance of helplessness Lucia put on for his benefit. [It was only a kiss](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE)” confession, do you?) But I have a hard time with this whole thing where Ethan, with very little evidence, gets to have the moral high ground, while Harper, who found the condom wrapper, is scrambling to regain his trust. Like, I don’t want to tell someone how to be abducted, but I sure wouldn’t do my big confrontation after I was trapped in a car with my assailant.

Warning: contains spoilers for the finale of The White Lotus 2 (and a vague allusion to events in The Glass Onion). For the last seven weeks, Mike White has ...

It somewhat brings to mind the brilliance of Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion, in terms of hiding a murderer in plain sight, for the death to ultimately be straightforward and a bit embarrassing in how unintelligent a scheme it is. But no, the very final conclusion sees Tanya try to get off the yacht these ‘high-end gays’ (including Tom Hollander in a wonderfully acerbic and conniving turn) had seemingly trapped her on – but what’s a girl to do in her best dress and heels? White teased in this season’s very first scene, before flashing back to a week prior, that yummy mummy Daphne (Meghann Fahy, the standout actor this season) went for one final dip in the Ionian Sea and grimly bumped into the floating body of one of the other hotel guests. And it’s only after she’s gunned down three of the four men she was convinced were trying to murder her – which would have made for an anticlimactic, but again, supremely just and fair, conclusion to this whodunnit. It is an uncomfortable, often sadistic satire, but it’s miraculous that by the end of 2022 we are left with a crumb of hope for the intelligent, hardworking people in the world. Throughout the season you keep thinking that things might not end well, that her job is too risky, that Albie’s “I can fix her” demeanour will ultimately turn violent as it so often does in situations onscreen and off where men and power become the two most threatening things in the world.

In the end, it was fan-favorite Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge) who sipped her last Aperol Spritz, but not before she took a few of her devious captors with ...

[ American Horror Story](https://www.denofgeek.com/american-horror-story/) as the series staple, Gries could take that role as the villainous Greg. In the standard HBO version, the captions say it’s Niccolo who bangs on the door. It gets even more complicated when you realize the Greg caption only appears in the “Unpacking the Episode” featurette and eagle-eared listeners say it sounds like Gries. We only saw one of Quentin’s accomplices escape the boat when he dived into the sea, and if Greg was on board, it’s entirely possible he’s one of the victims of this bullet-riddled bloodbath. Namely, why would Greg go to the effort of concocting this plan and having the perfect alibi of being back in the USA, only to be right there at the crime scene? As well as the danger of being spotted, his DNA would surely be somewhere on the yacht. As things came to a head on Quentin’s yacht, Tanya barricaded herself in a cabin and snatched the gun of Niccolo (Stefano Gianino). Tanya and Greg were the only two characters who returned from The White Lotus season one, and if the closed captions of the season 2 finale are anything to go by, neither of them might be returning for season 3. When she left the cabin, we saw an unknown number of casualties, as well as the hilarious moment she questioned Quentin on whether Greg was having an affair. [ The White Lotus](https://www.denofgeek.com/the-white-lotus/) season 2, and boy that episode 1 tease of “a few” deaths really paid off. Although it sounded like it’s Quentin who tells her to come out of the cabin, the episode’s captions say it’s Greg who’s on the other side of the door. 11’s “Arrivederci”](https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/the-white-lotus-season-2-episode-7-review-arrivederci/) secretly kill the show’s big bad…

The show has experienced a ratings boom since its Oct. 30 Season 2 premiere, which garnered just over 1.5 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max on its debut ...

For Season 2 Episode 6 of “The That’s up a whopping 46% from the series’ previous best, which was the sixth and penultimate episode of the Sicily-set second season on Dec. The first season of “The White Lotus” closed with 1.9 million multiplatform viewers for its August 2021 finale. Discovery’s proprietary viewership data for streaming on HBO Max. Mike White’s dark comedy has experienced a ratings boom since its Oct. 30 Season 2 premiere, which garnered just over 1.5 million viewers across HBO and HBO Max on its debut night, up 63% in comparison to the “White Lotus” series premiere’s audience in July 2021, which also aired on HBO and HBO Max.

Jennifer Coolidge sits on ornate bench by luggage. Jennifer Coolidge plays Tanya, a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage. As in Season 1, Coolidge is a comedy ...

1, and that she is perhaps the worst assistant in the history of the job.) At the airport, however, we see his head—and Albie’s, and Bert’s—swivel in the wake of a pretty young woman who is passing by. (“The motivation of sex is always primary, I think,” White told me when I spoke to him, earlier in the fall for the (Daphne: “You just do whatever you have to do not to feel like a victim of life.”) Later, Ethan and Harper, each recharged with the sexual attention of someone other than their spouse, finally fuck. In the fifth episode, we discover that Jack is hiding a secret; Tanya catches him in bed with Quentin. The first season of the show focussed on class, and the conflicts that emerged between the haves and the have-nots at the White Lotus resort in Maui. (Fahy is fantastic in the role, but especially in this scene.) “You spend every second with somebody, and there’s still this part that’s a mystery. Still, to my mind, the central point made in the series is that no relationship is detached from the transactional and that power always plays a role in how people deal with one another. [New Yorker Radio Hour](https://www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-new-yorker-radio-hour/russell-moore-on-christian-nationalism).) Ethan and Harper are experiencing bed death; Cameron and Daphne have a de-facto don’t-ask-don’t-tell cheating policy; Albie is horny but doesn’t want to be like his father, whose marriage is in ruins owing to his sex addiction. [the second season](https://www.newyorker.com/culture/on-television/more-deadly-decadence-in-the-white-lotus) of “The White Lotus,” Mike White’s hit HBO dramedy, a bright-eyed, slim-hipped strawberry blonde named Daphne (Meghann Fahy), a guest at the White Lotus luxury resort in Sicily, decides to take one last dip in the Mediterranean before her vacation ends and she heads back home, to the U.S. Certainly, in the course of the season, we saw no shortage of conflicts that could have yielded perpetrators and victims: there was the newly rich Ethan (Will Sharpe), seething with jealousy over a possible dalliance between his wife, Harper (Aubrey Plaza, brittle and excellent), and his dick-swinging finance-bro friend, Cameron (the brutally handsome Theo James), who is married to Daphne; there was Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), a hapless heiress in a loveless marriage who, along with her assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), had fallen in with a number of sinister, Palermo-based gay men seemingly intent on stealing her fortune by any means necessary; and there was Albie (Adam DiMarco), a wide-eyed, romantically minded Stanford grad travelling with his philandering father, Dom (Michael Imperioli), and still amorous grandfather, Bert (F. But as she swims in the perfect azure waters, her dreamy immersion is shattered by the sight of a dead body, floating on the waves.

Yet again, this show has proved that it is possible to make outstanding TV that both plays to the crowd and refuses to sing the classics.

Jack became the villain he was always going to be, and it was frightening and tense, though perhaps his warning to Portia, to flee and not ask questions, was a sort of kindness. The marriages of Ethan and Harper and Daphne and Cameron found their way towards a sort of chosen and hard-won contentment in the end. It is surprisingly invigorating to watch a drama and know that it is not going to end in easy resolution or happiness. They’re trying to murder me!” – but it was a chef’s kiss to have her almost get away, having shot her way through her enemies, only to be undone by her own poor aim, and possibly the fact that she didn’t take off her heels before jumping. It wrapped up its storylines with decreasing levels of subtlety, from Albie being “played” by Lucia, moving through the resilience of Daphne’s determined denial, ramping all the way up to Tanya the destroyer, and ultimately the destroyed. Wanting to preserve the magic for another season, it ekes it out just enough to satisfy while dangling a carrot for the next go around.

Leo Woodall talks about the life-changing moment he found out he landed the role of Jack in Mike White's award-winning series 'The White Lotus.

“He did the right thing, but he’s not that nice of a guy. Woodall also explained that Jack's decision not to kill Portia is about who he is as a person, more than his feelings for her. Though Jack decided not to kill Portia, he dropped her off in a deserted and dangerous area. The series will return for a third installment following a new group of guests at another White Lotus property. The fans don’t know much of his backstory other than Quentin helped him when he was in a dark place. He does the right thing in the end.” He gives you just enough so that you are fulfilled and satisfied.” When it got to that bit, I started to think about his backstory, but there’s something so genius about Mike’s writing that I didn’t want to compromise what he’d done.” In one scene, he told Haley Lu Richardson’s Portia that she was his “job.” It was terrifying for her; she even asked if she’d been kidnapped. White doesn’t spoonfeed his audience, and though he answers many questions, he still leaves some things unsaid and undone. For Leo Woodall, who portrayed Jack in the second season, landing this role was life-changing. He had been through a few rounds of Zoom auditions and had battled Covid more than once.

In the first-season finale of The White Lotus, Tanya McQuoid tells Belinda, the manager of the spa at the show's titular hotel, that she's determined to ...

Instead of getting played or demeaned like the staff and locals in season one, the locals team up with White Lotus staff to stick it to the Establishment. Only those who understand that they could be a mark as well as a beneficiary in their own transactional relationships get to live to see another day and, presumably, another stay at a White Lotus. Then there’s the person who doesn’t emerge at all from the events that happen in Sicily: Tanya McQuoid, whose story is evidence all by itself of the importance of understanding the transactional nature of relationships. The characters who enjoy the most notable moment of triumph in the finale are Mia and Lucia, and it’s not an accident that they also happen to engage in the most blatantly transactional relationships. They both get what they came for, so to speak, and stroll happily through the streets of Italy as if their cares have completely dissolved, which, for now, they have. Ethan was never really friends with Cam in the first place; he was just engaged in a yearslong competition to prove his own worth. But it also signals that these men are on the same page now, incapable of hiding their sexual desires but also more comfortable with their similarities in that regard. And when we last see the two couples in the airport, they are sitting separate from each other as if they are two sides of the same dysfunctional marital coin. White communicates the idea that Harper and Ethan have something akin to real intimacy through visual language. While one might assume naïve Albie still doesn’t grasp that Lucia took advantage of him, he disabuses us of that notion when he reconnects with Portia at the airport and tells her that he got played. But when you consider which of the guests comes out of that weeklong experience unscathed — you know, relatively speaking — it’s the ones that have accepted that partnerships involve negotiation and are honest with themselves about that. “The Best Things in Life Are Free” is the song we hear as the season-two finale concludes, and it is definitely deployed ironically.

For the season finale of “The White Lotus,” Meghann Fahy stops by the “Still Watching” podcast to discuss her big final monologue, the evolution of Harper ...

I never felt like we rushed through something and didn't really get a chance to sort of sit with it. What do you think pains Daphne more—the potential Cameron betrayal or the Harper betrayal? For me, it was really exciting to see how it ended up cutting together, because I didn't really know what he was gonna choose—which sort of vibe he was maybe gonna pick of the ones that we played with. Listen below, and find a partial transcript of the Fahy interview as well. Meghann Fahy: Well, I think we knew going into it that it was a pretty important moment, so we really took our time with it. “I don’t have Twitter or TikTok, so I only really see what my friends send me and it just cracks me up,” she tells Vanity Fair.

The resort: While you can find four-figure-a-night accommodation dotted along the entire length of the Great Barrier Reef, only Orpheus Island has inbuilt ...

Instead, the “premium” “resort-style” setting we’ve come to expect could be found at the shiny new [Marriott](https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/meldl-melbourne-marriott-hotel-docklands/overview/), where the white lounger-lined infinity pool has views over … [Jackalope](https://jackalopehotels.com/), but their emphasis on art and wine feels a bit too niche for the world White Lotus has been building. Add to that the very real economic issues facing the region and you’ve got a perfect upstairs-downstairs situation, but the manor is a yoga shambala. When the newly minted Greg (Jon Gries) checks in to deal with a pesky cancer recurrence, is there a chance she’ll uncover the dark secret behind his fortune? The premise: Rugged and astonishing, Australia’s far north-west is as remote as you can get. So I’ve assessed five possible candidates based on the existence of a suitably six-star set (sorry Qualia, you’ve been banned from competition after Ticket to Paradise); narrative and thematic potential; and which characters would work best in the setting. There’s also a fair bit of erotic potential in couples feeding each other oysters straight from the sea. And at over $3,000 per person, per night, it’s right in that White Lotus sweet spot. Suitability: A cold, dark destination is not what an international audience would anticipate from an Australian vacation, which could make for a very White Lotus exercise in thwarted expectations. The second season of Mike White’s auteur anthology White Lotus came to its perfectly sticky end on Monday, and like a 1%er who can never be happy no matter how much I take and consume, I’m already ready for season three. The mood: This is Tasmania. The clear White Lotus winner.

Tanya looked like the show's dud, but Mike White pulled off the unexpected yet again.

[season two](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/white-lotus-season-2-finale-who-dies). Pretty soon it was clear The White Lotus actually had the rarest quality in television: it was completely [unpredictable.](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-portia-season-two) The Instagram influencer aesthetics, the quirky, I-think-I’m-having-a-panic-attack soundtrack, the clever [literary illusions](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-books-season-2) for people who enjoy still feeling like they’re at uni – all of these signatures could be easily recreated. We all recognised the glamorous setting, the [all-star cast](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/michael-imperioli-white-lotus-sunglasses), the fact we were – once again – signing up to watch beautiful, wealthy people be awful. In season one, Jennifer Coolidge created a TV character for the ages, a millionaire woman-child with a penchant for high-living and lowly men whose privilege cocooned her from her own hysterical fragility. [The White Lotus](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-3) season one landed in July 2021, it felt like a show beamed from another planet.

evidence boards, because we finally know who the killer of Season 2 is: a boat. · ) that Daphne (Meghann Fahy) discovered in the season's opening scene.

So here are a bunch of hilarious posts about The White Lotus and its season two finale to help you cope with the end of so much greatness. After killing her Palermo pals on their luxury vessel, Tanya tried to flee the crime scene, attempting to jump from the yacht into a nearby dinghy. [Emmy-winning performance](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jennifer-coolidge-wins-first-ever-emmy-dances-while-getting-played-of_n_631f99bbe4b000d98853c4a3) will be missed, but fans of the show also got to experience a whole lot of wins in the final episode — and they were all for women.

With those parting words in Titanic, after the passenger liner sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, DiCaprio's Jack spawned a debate that would last to this day: ...

Yet, while we know that Tanya is not the sharpest tool in the shed, she was curious enough to uncover the conspiracy to murder her, and skilful enough to eliminate her attackers. Perhaps by climbing down the stairs at the back of the boat. [The White Lotus](/topic/the-white-lotus) creator Mike White saw the agony this has caused fans over the years and thought: What a good idea.

She added: “You know, I've only seen the finale once now. I watched it Sunday night with Mike White. I'm not sure what was me and what was the stunt double. I'm ...

“I had to hold my breath for a long time.” She added: “But I was like, I get why Tom Cruise wants to do his own stunts. I wanted it to be me falling off the boat. “I wanted it to be me. I didn’t want it to be a stunt double. “Mike was like, ‘The water’s really cold!’ And I said, ‘I don’t care if the water’s cold!

The question of whose body is floating in the water turned out not to be the biggest rug-pull of season 2 of The White Lotus. Instead Mike White left a ...

[How Daphne won The White Lotus](/culture/article/daphne-white-lotus-winner) [being disgustingly horny](https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/the-white-lotus-season-2-horny-old-man-2022). Being stinking rich for the most part makes you miserable, we were repeatedly reminded, and watching from the sensory deprivation chambers of our homes in the (second?) lockdown of 2020, that was reassuring. Instead, the biggest surprise is that at the end of a week around the shared buffet of misery, most of the guests are checking out somewhat happy. This totally avoidable suffering is the little chocolate on our TV pillow at the end of a long day. That money doesn't make you happy has always been the bottom line on Mike White's HBO and Sky Atlantic miniseries, The White Lotus.

Michael Imperioli has opened up about filming The White Lotus sex scene in a hot tub while his wife was staying in a room above.

Especially when it comes to this awkward story about a sex scene, which involved [Michael Imperioli in a hot tub](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a42185945/white-lotus-trailer-spoiler-who-dies/) and his actual wife upstairs. Was it hard? It was a long night? I'm playing it cool, it was ok. And I realise my wife is asleep right above this hot tub. [The White Lotus](https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/entertainment/a42131939/aubrey-plaza-psychologically-tortured-co-star-the-white-lotus/).

There was certainly plenty to talk about after the White Lotus season two finale aired; I'll refrain from going too deep into plot synopsis here for the sake of ...

To honor your privacy preferences, this content can only be viewed on the site it There was certainly plenty to talk about after the White Lotus season two finale aired; I’ll refrain from going too deep into plot synopsis here for the sake of those who are still catching up, but consider this a spoiler warning (unless, of course, you’ve already been brave enough to log on to Twitter today). Twitter content

The mystery of The White Lotus was there from its start. In the second series opener, Daphne, the slender, freckled trophy wife, tells new arrivals on the beach ...

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The actor's performance as the deceptively cynical, perennially zen housewife was the standout of the dark comedy's second season.

Instead, Fahy performs Daphne as both seemingly open and guileless and the most opaque of all the characters. An over-the-shoulder smize, as she leads Ethan to an isolated peninsula, of someone getting what she wants. [The White Lotus](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/the-white-lotus) where Daphne is a milder side character or a complement to Plaza’s Harper instead of the most intriguing of the bunch. It’s not just because her incarnation of Daphne is fascinating to watch – bubbly and seemingly aloof, inner calculations briefly rippling beneath her smooth-brained surface. The season finale, which aired this week (spoilers ahead), stuck the landing and [confirmed](https://www.theringer.com/tv/2022/12/12/23505968/the-white-lotus-season-2-finale-recap-review-analysis) creator, writer and director Mike White’s vision of “ [a bedroom farce with teeth](https://www.vulture.com/article/the-white-lotus-season-2-set-visit.html)”. [best (and horniest) examinations of sexual politics](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/nov/23/the-white-lotus-season-two-sex) on TV.

The White Lotus season 2 ended this Sunday with a finale that I'd consider living up to expectations, albeit it sacrificed a major character to do so.

In terms of the focus of the show, White said that season 1 focused on money while season 2 focused on sex, though there was both sex and money in both seasons, certainly. The only immediate suspects are Greg and Portia, given that storyline, but I’d really like to see Cam and Daphne again, out of season 2’s group. In terms of the storyline, while season 2’s main returning character, Tanya, was killed off attempting to escape a plot to…murder her, showrunner Mike White has indicated we may not have seen the last of this storyline, where now Tanya’s scheming husband Greg should have inherited her fortune as a result of her death. So, if the spacing the same, we are looking at probably January/February 2024 for the return of the series, unless production is sped up a bit, or HBO wants to shuffle things around. So, what do we know about season 3 of The White Lotus? The White Lotus season 2 ended this Sunday with a finale that I’d consider living up to expectations, albeit it sacrificed a major character to do so.

'The White Lotus' star Will Sharpe has reflected on whether his character Ethan slept with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) in the finale.

Sharpe went on: “In that moment, he just feels like he has to get the truth from Harper and maybe he does get it from her or maybe he doesn’t, we don’t know. HBO Max is not currently available in the UK. “What’s fuelling the temperature in those scenes is a kind of realisation that he really wants to fight for this marriage, and he’s realised that he needs to fight for it. From a performance point of view, with Harper and Cameron, I felt like I didn’t need to know what had happened because Ethan doesn’t know.” And this is, rightly or wrongly, his way of doing it.” NME is supported by you.

Following the dramatic White Lotus season 2 finale episode we still have a lot of unanswered questions about the series.

But was he actually in on the plan? She explained she was angry at Ethan for lying to her and Ethan looked distraught. I reckon Jack was always just there to distract her and keep her away from Tanya long enough so that Niccolo could kill Tanya. Was he going to kidnap her and murder her? I don't think she would have let him near her long enough for them to kiss, even if it was to get revenge on Ethan. Or was it going to be used for blackmail? [TikToker ](https://www.tiktok.com/@thoughtswgracie/video/7176165898317860138?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1)said they thought this was the early clue Tanya was going to be killed. Speaking of Greg, what is going to happen to him? There were a lot of clues that indicated this was the case. Early on in the episode Quentin (Tom Hollander) reveals Matteo will not be joining them on the yacht, claiming he had to "look after" the house. He was super sad to see Tanya go and was downcast at breakfast. Despite finding out who died, and resolving a number of the storylines, there were still a number of questions which were left unanswered.