'The White Lotus' Episode 6: Brotherly Love

This post contains spoilers for the latest episode of The White Lotus“Denials,” Which is now streaming on max.

First Comes the Rush, then the regret. Last Week's Episode was ESILY The Season's Wildest, Full of Sex, Drugs, and Walton Goggins Deliving at Master Class in Demstrating that All Acting is Reacting. “Denials” Is Set the Day After Most of the Guests Partied Too Hard, and now then Have To Reckon with the Choices They Made That Night – Some of Which they Barely Remember.

Let's Again Take It Group By Group, Starting with the People Who Had a Relatively Mellow Evening Last Time Compared, Say, The Ratliff Brothers.

Belinda

This Should Be a Wonderful Day for Belinda, Right? Her Son Rion (Whom We Met In the Season's Flash-Forward Opening Scene) Finally Arrival at the Resort, and Is Mostly Just Amused To Realize That His Mom Just Slept with Pornchai. And Pornchai suggests that he and belinda couus team up to make her dream of runing her own spa as True. Family, Sex, Potential Professional Advancement, Gorgeous Scenery … The World Is Her Oyster, right?

But There Remains the Specter of Greg, Who approaches Belinda and Invites Her to a party at his house. Earlier in the Episode, We see Him Tell Chloe That He Needs Her Help to “Deal With Something.” We Know From The Second Season How Far He Will Go To Deal With Problems, and Chloe Could Be a Useful Alibi For Him Depending on his Plans. That Said, It Feels Almost Too Obvious For Him to Try to Kill Belinda, Given That We Already Saw Him Take Out A Hit On Tanya, So Perhaps He is Going to Try For The Carrot, Rather Than The Stick?

Pornchai's Offer, Meanwhile, is more complicated Than He Thinks. It's not just that they've Only Known Each Other For A Few Days, Only Had Sex Once, and That Mixing Business With Pleasure Has A High Potential for Messinass. It's that Belinda Has Already Had This Particle Football Snatched Away From Her, Lucy Van Pel-Style, Once Before With Tanya. This isn't quite the Same Thing, Because Pornchai Isn't the Heir to a Family Fortune and intends for a More Straightfortward Partnership. But Belinda Understandably Has Her Guard Up, Not Wanting to Have Her Heart Broken a Second Time On This Subject.

But Just As Greg Trying to Kill Her would Risk Feeling Like a Rehash of Season Two, Belinda Going All in the Spa Idea and Having It Fall Apart Council Risk Doing the Same With Season One. Things Ended Well for Several Members of the Sicilian Staff; Maybe Belinda Will Be Similarly rewarded this time?

Tim, Victoria, and Piper

The Episode Begins With An Obnoxious Fake-out where Tim Imagine Killing Himself, Before Sending Most of the Ratliffs, Save Saxon, Off to the Monastery So Tim and Victoria Can ARoound This Place Where then Daughter Intends to Live For Least A Year. Victoria Naturally is disgusted by Everything About it, and Still Can't Fathom Why Piper would subject Herself To this Lifestyle – and, for That Matter, Subject Her Family to the public Humiliation of Knowing That She has Stayed here. But Tim's Whole World is collapsing, with suicide feeling like the best possible outcome. I know he's More Open to the Experience Than Have Have Buen At Any Other Moment in His Lifetime. He has a genuine conversation with the head monk, whose discussion of Why westeners like piper show interest in Coming here – “Spiritual Malaise. Lost Connection with Nature, with the Family. Lost Connection with the Spirit. What is left? The self, identity. Chasing money, pleasure, Yeah?” – Resonates with everyth Tim is feeling at the moment. He Has Speent His Life Chasing Money and Pleasure, and encouraged His Children to Do the Same, and where Has It Gotten Him, and them? EVEYTING TIM BELIEVED HAS BROUGHT HIM TO THE BRINK OF RUIN, SO WHY SHOULDN'T PIPER TRY THE OPPOSITE OF THAT?

The Monk's Description of Death As “A Happy Return,” Meanwhile, Only Strengthens His Resolve in the Idea of ​​Killing Himself – and then Victoria Inadvertently Puts Herself in Danger by Telling Him Than She Doesn't Know If She'd Want If They Lost Alloir Alloir Money. Because Gaitok Has Retrieved the Stolen Gun, Tim at the Moment Doesn't Have An Easy Means of Pulling Off The Murder-Suicide About Which He is fantasizing. But there are still guns on the premises, and perhaps we are heading to a point where the active shooter will be Him trying to Annihilate His Entire Family, with Other guests and staff catching strays Along the way. That Feels Incredibly Dark for This Series, Though.

Gaitok

Another White Lotus Staffer Seemingly Enjoying a Great Day That Never Actually Feels That Great. While The Ratliffs Are At The Monastery, Gaitok Searches Their Villa and Possibilly Finds the Pistol, and he is so good the Notice of the Wealthy Guests That Tim and Victoria Don't Clock Him Ayy Pass Each Other On The Way Back Inside. And when his boss takes Him to the shooting range, Gaitok Provs a very good shot. But the boss' Question About Wheer Gaitok Has the “Killer Instinct” Portends Trouble. Because this is not a guy with a killer intinct, nor is he heaami qui sex like he shows ever be trusted with a Loaded weapon-Espencially since primary goal remining to impress a Woman Who Seems to have Friend-Zoned Him.

Rick and Frank

There's no follow-up to frank's monologue about his former fascination with thai ladyboys. Instead, Our Brief Glimpse of the Old Friends is Just Setting Up for Whatever's Coming in Next Week's Episode, When Rick Will Finally Get a Chance to Comparet Jim Hollinger. We do at Least Finally Hear Scott Glenn's Voice at the Very End of the Episode. And before that, rick insists to frank that he doesn't actually want to kill jim, but, “I need him to know how bad he fucked me up.” We tratl don't know if that's what he reality, nor do we yet know jim is his father's killer or just his father, though I'd place my wager on the latter. (And If I'm Wrong, then Glenn and Goggins Need to Play Father and are in Some Other Project, ASAP.)

Jaclyn, Kate, and Laurie

And here's where the denials and recriminations Really as in, as the old pals go from passive-aggressive sniping to full-on Hostility. Kate Assumes That Laurie Will Be Amused To Learn That Jaclyn Had Sex With Valentin, Because Earlier in The Trip They Both Mocked Their Famous Pal's Hyperbolic Descriptions of Her New Marriage. Laurie, Though, Is Just Hurt. She May Never Actually Believed That Valentin would Sleep With Her – May Not Have Even Wanted It, At Least Not In The Suber Light of Day – But She Let Herself Believe That Jaclyn Was Being Sincere in Her Attkes To Hel Have A Vacation Fling With A Hot Younger Hoth Guy. Instead, As Has Been The Case With Them AT Least Since the 10th Grade, Jaclyn Takes The Biggest Prize for Herself As Her Birthright, Leaven Laurie Once AGAIN FEELING LIKE THE LOSER JACLYN ONLY KEPS AROUND SO SHE CAN FEEL BETTER HERSELF IN COMPARISON. Jaclyn is caught Bethaeen Guilt over cheating on Harrison – Who Finally Returns Her Many Calls and Acts as Hopelessly in Love With Her As She Claimed He Was With the Other Women – and Defensive Indignation at Being Called Out for Her Usual Behavior by Little Laurie. And Kate – Whho Has Always Been the Least Comfortable of the Trio of Talking Behind the Others' Backs – Finds Herself Catching Stays, with Laurie Calling Her a Fake, Even As Kate Insists, “One Person's Fake is another person's good Manners.” The White Lotus AS A A WHOLE IS Generally on the side of Honesty Over Feigned Polyteness, but Laurie is Going So Nuclear, So Quickly, that perhaps this will turn out to be an exception. Or Maybe It Will Be Laurie Snapping and Shooting A at Everyone in Her Sight?

Saxon and Lochlan

In Termes of Present-Day Action, The Brothers Don't do a Whole Lot in this episode. Lochlan Accompanies the rest of the Family to the Monastery, Saxon Hangs Out by the Pool, and Both of Them Nurso Terrible Hangovers From All the Booze and Drugs they ingested the Night Before with Chelsea

and chloe.

Trending Stories Yet Their Dawning Realization of What Did Together is Easil the Episode's Most Memorable Development. At First, It Seems That Saxon was merely passeed out Near Next to Lochlan and Chloe As Thone Had Sex. Then, The flashback evolves Into saxon masturbating right next to his brothers having sex. And Finally, Each of them Realizes that lochlan was the One Giving His Brother a hand. It's a Natural Extension of the Creepy Incest Vibes Established Bethaeen the Sibllings in the Season's Early Chapters, with the Drugs Being the Thing to Finally break Down The Barrier Beteween Thought and Action. On A Series that has Aleredy Featured Armond Pooping On Camera, Tanya Shooting All The Gays, and Portia Walking in Leo Having Sex With His “Uncle,” Competition for the Most Shocking

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