What's so interesting about the White Lotus is that while it's beloved by critics, queers, and coastal elites more generally, Season 3 is one of the most effective pieces of conservative art in recent memory.
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I think this is an interesting take. My reservations are that it is too honest about kinks (conservative art would not let sexual Hangups pollute the family circle yet allow restoration) and women have too much agency without destroying themselves and the people around them. Otherwise yes
The Ratiffs and where they reside plays into that framing. Mike White did an incredible job using them as caricatures of the old money South. Their ancestors probably owned slaves before the War of Northern Aggression, but they don’t want to discuss the matter
White Lotus as a project is about how individualism is a bankrupt ideology and identity is a bullshit concept and suffering is both inescapable and good.
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I’m broke and want to invest in myself not streaming shareholders so I reup and binge as a rule.
I’ve seen so many trans people whose opinion I’ve come to respect, yours included, say it’s as you say.
I’m just going to pass and im sad about that