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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:05 PM Author: insecure useless brakes since people wont STFU about it I will watch one season but only one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845320) |
Date: April 14th, 2025 12:06 PM Author: blathering point Skip 2. 1 and 3 are better than 2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845322) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:11 PM Author: insecure useless brakes which is better, 1 or 3? someone was just bitching about 3 so I'm assuming 1. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845336) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:14 PM Author: Gold boltzmann principal's office I’ve only watched season 1 and it was a waste of fucking time maybe 3 is good i wouldn’t know |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:17 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth i'd say 1 is better but they are almost too different to compare. 3 is has a much more serious tone. and the goggins arc is a bit too unrealistic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845354) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:12 PM Author: Obsidian theater voyeur 2 is fine and watchable but 1 and 3 are much stronger (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845341) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:25 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth i rewatched 2 and it's better than i remember. it's all about sexual dynamics and missing a lot of the social commentary.
i appreciate how aubrey plaza and the assistant are both bitter and unhappy because "everything sucks and the world is over." rings very true to me about how white women especially are so apt to getting sucked into this mindset because of the constant negative news cycle. meanwhile the two literal whores are able to find joy despite being in worse material circumstances. the brit chad doing gay for pay is right about how every how pretty much every other period in history is worse than what we're dealing with today, and if you can't find happiness despite the problems in the world that's a you problem.
daphne is portrayed as a vapid dimwit but ultimately she is revealed to be someone that is just choosing to be happy. she's a stay at home wife with kids. yeah cam has problems and the world is on fire, but she copes, in some ways unethically, and is living a better life than aubrey plaza, who cannot cope with the world and be satisfied even though she's living better than 99.99% of humans that ever existed. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:02 PM Author: Obsidian theater voyeur yeah its not bad. you may have nailed why its the worst season though, the best parts of white lotus are the social commentary, not the sexual dynamics. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845543) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:11 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth ty. they do do a great job showing how shitlib chicks despite their progressive bona fides want to get raped by chad. especially xoxoian when it also involves WGWAG. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845570) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:19 PM Author: Copper really tough guy You like your social commentary like you like your morning coffee: reheated.
Omg, it's the SAME characters! It's the same story arc! Serve it to me again, Mike! |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:30 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth season 1 was about individuals struggling to cope with modern society. season 3 was about critiquing modern society overall.
the point was never to lol at out of touch richmos. that was a red herring in season 1 and abandoned by season 3. so if you went in with that expectation it's understandable that you're disappointed that tanya and shane aren't there to laugh at. but that was never really their true purpose to begin with. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:48 PM Author: Copper really tough guy Season 3 sucked in every way possible. Boring and repetitive. The social commentary was all a rehash. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48847724) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:27 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth 1 >> 3 >>>> 2
i like them all and they all have different messages and themes. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:06 PM Author: lavender den I'm with you here (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845555) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:08 PM Author: internet-worthy submissive genital piercing 2>3>1
I like them all though, for different reasons. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:08 PM Author: judgmental knife 3 is by far the worst. This is consensus opinion. Still enjoyable.
1 > 2 > > > 3 imo |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:20 PM Author: Copper really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48847616) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Soul-stirring ladyboy kitchen 3 is the best so far
2 and 1 are about equal imo. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:31 PM Author: domesticated coiffed new version Why do poasters put 1 on a pedestal? Because there’s one or two lines about white male Losers getting discriminated against in job interviews? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845674) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:35 PM Author: Soul-stirring ladyboy kitchen they apparently think the social commentary was better in S1 but it was actually rather on-the-nose, basically the characters just outright stating the commentary at the dinner table. it was handled more subtly in 2 and 3 went a different direction which made idiots mad. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845691) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:46 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth the social commentary was better in s3 but people aren't wrong to have expected the humor and unseriousness of s1. the fact s1 explored these dynamics on a opulent vacation was part of the appeal. upping the stakes and being more serious eliminated that. it's like going to see Rambo and getting citizen Kane.
i liked it and i agree a lot of the critics missed the point. but dismissing criticism that it deviates significantly from the experience the audience rightfully expected isn't fair. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:47 PM Author: Soul-stirring ladyboy kitchen What you’re saying is people want The Same. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845752) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 2:12 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth kinda. that's what you're signing up for when you watch another season of a franchise. that doesn't mean a rehash, but a significant change in the tone and depth is something people aren't wrong to be critical of.
again, personally i loved it, but the critics aren't wrong. especially those that didn't get the social commentary and just wanted to watch the wacky antics of rich people on vacation. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:34 PM Author: Copper really tough guy I didn't think the social commentary in Season 3 was deep at all nor did it take us to new grounds than it did before.
Piper was a clone of Rachel for instance except her character was less developed, her arc less fleshed out, she faces fewer challenges, and arrives at the same conclusion. How can that not be considered a rehash? |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:48 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth rachel had already abandoned her career aspirations to be a trophy wife, and struggled with the reality of that briefly, but ended on accepting that. she started and ended as the same person.
piper was presented as being genuine about her spiritual aspirations, only to have those suddenly revealed as superficial. her character was completely different by the end.
not only is "being a career woman" versus "being a Buddhist monk" completely different, but the characters arc are completely opposite. rachel didn't change, she recovered from an identity crisis and ended where she started. piper did a complete 180 on her core identity. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:56 PM Author: Copper really tough guy Nah to all normal people it was the Same Character it was just done better the first time. Your whole argument is that in one season it was blueberry flavor instead of strawberry. Not a fundamental difference. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48847983) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:08 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth i explained why i think there's a fundemental difference. idc about being "right" and welcome a thoughtful alternative perspective. but "nuh-uh it's the same" ain't it.
rachel wanted to ascend to career woman. piper wanted to break away from the rate race. their motivations, and their character arcs, couldn't be more different. the only common thread is that women's ostensible goals are often superficial. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:21 PM Author: Copper really tough guy That's more than just a common thread. They both wanted to Do Shit and the second it was hard they went to a man with money to relax and be comfortable. Seems nearly identical. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848059) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:31 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth the difference of "do shit" between checking out of a soulless society and being a major part of it are completely opposite. and that's in addition to the difference in their arcs of Rachel reverting to who she was at the start and piper doing a 180. but im repeating myself now. you haven't explained why you think my POV is insignificant but just make conclusory statements that it is. if you can't see the difference then it's understandable why you think there isn't one. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848101) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:35 PM Author: Copper really tough guy You don't see the similarly between a daughter who grew up with a toxically materialistic mother wanting to do a life u-turn and study Buddhism for a year and a wife who grew up poor and had to work to survive second guessing living a life of luxury around a bunch of vapid people? I have no idea how you don't think these are the same. The only character tweaks are superficial. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848115) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:50 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth the superficial tweak being diametrically opposed aspirations + one character not changing and the other changing completely.
but yeah when you put it that way i guess being different in every way = they're pretty much the same because they both reinforce the overarching message that rebelling against modernity is hard. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:27 PM Author: domesticated coiffed new version (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48847888) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:35 PM Author: offensive water buffalo *younger brother jerks older brother off. the chick younger brother was banging propositions older brother to be her bull*
gunneratttt: "It's like citizen Kane" |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:39 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth rc fail? do you think im saying season 1 is Rambo?
im just pointing out that audiences can be expected to find a sudden shift in tone and depth jarring and used an action movie and an acclaimed drama to illustrate that. im not saying white lotus is on par with citizen Kane. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:32 PM Author: domesticated coiffed new version https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710060&mc=5&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845677) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:34 PM Author: domesticated coiffed new version https://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=5708392&mc=1&forum_id=2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845684) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:45 PM Author: Saffron Cerebral Pisswyrm no point in discussing "White Lotus" if you haven't seen True Detective S2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845748) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 3:05 PM Author: internet-worthy submissive genital piercing Why? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48845987) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:12 PM Author: Cracking Personal Credit Line Menage rotus (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848023) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:03 PM Author: aquamarine house rigor I think Season 3 is objectively the biggest season with the highest stakes. There's much deeper discussions, bigger questions, more danger, etc.
Season 2 is definitely interesting too and the Jennifer Coolidge storyline gets wild.
Season 1 is the smallest. I get why people have an affinity with it, and its got funny realistic dialogue but its crazy how people were like "Season 3 is so slow" when Season 1 was about if someone would get a hotel room and if a dad and his son would go scuba diving. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:13 PM Author: Copper really tough guy 1 > 2 > 3
I literally just binge watched them all in order in a week. One and two are excellent, three is really boring.
1 with funniest, most original, and most tongue in cheek. It's about rich American white people who are out of touch and it makes fun of them and strikes at the taboos of wealth and detachment from normal life. It's tightly written and never gets boring. Also the shortest. It's the most White Lotus-y of the seasons. Best acting, best cast, best writing. It's totally fresh and worth watching.
Season 2 I really enjoyed and thought was excellent. It was not as good as the first but still very excellent. It still felt fresh and new. It starts slow, the middle really heats up, and then it kind of cools off towards the end but I did enjoy the last episode which was vaguely Tarantino-esque. It deals more with sexual themes than grotesque wealth and humor.
Season 3 to me was very disappointing. Rife with channel drift, lazy writing, poorly developed character arcs, lots of repeats of stuff we've already seen. By this point I was totally burned out on the series. It was the least insightful into lives of rich out of touch Americans and got more into darker and spiritual themes. People like this season in the same way that people thought Revenge of the Sith was the best Star Wars prequel because it was the darkest and edgiest. This season is both a departure from the first two seasons in tone and themes, but also a complete repeat of everything you've already seen before if you watched the first two. I really felt at this point that Mike White was creatively tapped out and they were just more episodes because the show is so profitable.
I would definitely watch 1, then 2 if you really like it, and skip 3. I would never watch 3 again. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:31 PM Author: boyish newt marketing idea 1. Sorry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48847666) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:50 PM Author: Pontificating out-of-control parlour 3, 1, 2 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48847967) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:12 PM Author: Cracking Personal Credit Line Menage 1. rotus
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:14 PM Author: bearded french therapy corn cake 2. Michael Imperioli and F Murray Abraham are 1800000, the setting is chill and cool, Jennifer Coolidge is doing kooky shit, and yes Aubrey Plaza is shitty but she doesn't ruin it and she and her AZN husband are so weird and asexual that it makes for another kooky storyline (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848030) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:16 PM Author: Cracking Personal Credit Line Menage the gook dork being addicted to porn or whatever was a boring storyline hopefully that guy gets raped before the end (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848035) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:20 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth a guy insecure and somewhat aroused about his gfs wild sexual past is making you uncomfortable for a reason bp. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848054) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:22 PM Author: Cracking Personal Credit Line Menage weird sexless mystery meat feigning disbelief at the ridiculousness of pairing aubrey plaza with some low t hapa chink--very smooth man
oh also you're a poor gay faggot that sucks brown tranny cock |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:24 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth c'mon that chink was like .0001% chink chads and aubrey plaza isn't a smokeshow. seemed like a realistic WGWAG situation that a gook Chad self made millionaire could only snag a frigid girl next door type. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848076) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:25 PM Author: Cracking Personal Credit Line Menage "yeah you're right, but here's some ricecope" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848080) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:32 PM Author: high-end vivacious ticket booth if having a mid chick with resting bitch face prepared to jump on chads cock at the first opportunity is the top tier outcome for rice boys that's truly bleak. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848105) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:30 PM Author: Copper really tough guy Their relationship was definitely believable fwiw. Perhaps unrelated I felt Walton Goggins and the British chick were also a believable couple despite thinking their story arc ultimately sucked and was boring. Credit where its due Mike White writes believable couples. High point of the show imo.
Ljl at BP thinking DIS IS IMPOSSIBURU! that a jacked half azn guy who is supposedly rich couldn't get a late 30s 7.5. |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:22 PM Author: Copper really tough guy I hated the azn porn guy and thought he was pretty boring but it did end with the vague possibility he got a sympathy lay from Chad's wife and a decent B tier romance scene with Aubrey Plaza. Compared to Season 3, Season 2 was excellent. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848068) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:32 PM Author: Cracking Personal Credit Line Menage that's a shame he should have been raped (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848104) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:36 PM Author: Copper really tough guy Someone should give you a lot of money to write and direct. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848117) |
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Date: April 15th, 2025 8:58 AM Author: boyish newt marketing idea no, they are not. did you lol at the fart jokes like a 10yo? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848683) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:23 PM Author: Razzmatazz sanctuary 2 is best (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848073) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:24 PM Author: Copper really tough guy It's great but not quite as good as one. The people who like 3 are insane. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848077) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:25 PM Author: Razzmatazz sanctuary Yes. Real sick fuck types. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848081) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:31 PM Author: Copper really tough guy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848103) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:38 PM Author: bearded french therapy corn cake 3 was the worst of all worlds. Not dark, not kooky. Should have had Lochy die, Jason Isaacs abandon his family, the three shrews get exposed as whores and disgraced in the tabloids, and Belinda and Zion's boat get blown up as they sail into the sunset (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5710225&forum_id=2#48848119) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:42 PM Author: Copper really tough guy I couldn't agree more. It was too long, they were too precious with the characters. There were too many characters. Mike fell into all the classic pitfalls of mediocre writing. Often when you don't make tough choices about the characters you end up with a morass. I never really felt like we got to know anybody in season 3. For example it's never revealed what Rick's job is or how he got the money to go to the White Lotus. I think Mike thought his arc was really profound. It was like some lesser version of Kill Bill. Ugh. We never really learn anything about him. Why does Lochy commit incest? He barely talks. I already forgot everything about the white chicks. I was never dying for Belinda to get rich or even reappear in the show.
Mike said in some interview the twin deaths of Rick and British chick was beautiful because they go into eternity together. Like, what? Dude, you're too high. No one cares. He has to lay off the drugs. Or get better ones. |