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<i>The White Lotus</i> Season 2 Was About Love as Delusion. In the End, It Fooled Viewers Too

The White Lotus Season 2 Was About Love as Delusion. In the End, It Fooled Viewers Too

Spoiler alert: This article discusses, in detail, the White Lotus season 2 finale. If you’ve yet to watch that, do yourself a favor and don’t read this.

“How was Palermo?” Albie (Adam DiMarco) wants to know, in the penultimate scene of the White Lotus season 2 finale, when he runs into Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) at the airport on their way out of Italy. “Not great,” she deadpans. Even though she’s yet to have her worst fears about Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) confirmed, it’s an understatement for the ages.

It also makes you wonder how this tragic vacation might’ve gone differently if things had worked out between her and Albie—two sheepish dupes who finally exchange phone numbers in the season’s final minutes—when they first met. He might never have let Lucia (Simona Tabasco) con him—or his father Dominic (Michael Imperioli), the original mark—into giving her €50,000. Dominic might never have convinced Albie to run interference with his mom, apparently saving a marriage that she probably should’ve ended long ago. Portia might not have spent her last day in Sicily afraid for her life, because she wouldn’t have fallen for Jack (Leo Woodall), the earthy pseudo-nephew, lover, and henchman of “high-end gay” fortune hunter Quentin (Tom Hollander). Which would’ve made it tough for Quentin to get Tanya alone on a yacht with a bag containing half the murder weapons from Clue.

Sure, it’s ultimately Madama McQuoid who kills the gays, not the other way around. But in true self-sabotaging style—and taking full advantage of Coolidge’s unmatched physical-comedy prowess—Tanya manages to shoot her way out of the trap, only to end up in a watery grave of her own making. So central was this character to two excellent seasons of Mike White’s luxury-resort misery-fest that her death was unfathomable to just about everyone (including yours truly ) publicly hazarding guesses as to who the corpses in Sunday’s finale would be. In retrospect, it seems fitting that a season about love as a delusion would end by shocking viewers who ignored what our own eyes told us about Tanya’s fate because we adored her.

In fact, the only eyes that seemed to observe much of anything at the Sicilian Lotus were inanimate. A Renaissance painting of St. Sebastian , that creepy fresco from the title sequence, those macabre Testa di Moro statues peeking out from every corner—they were all watching the guests’ every misguided move. Yet the characters themselves couldn’t seem to see anything clearly, least of all the far-from-ideal objects of their affection. Just about everyone got scammed, from Tanya and Portia and the Di Grassos to Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore), who’s crushed again when newly hired lounge singer Mia (Beatrice Grannò) confirms their obviously transactional relationship as such, to the two young couples constantly performing romance and jealousy for each other’s benefit. And it all happens because everyone is too busy projecting their own selfish desires and insecurities on each other to fix a critical gaze on their own delusions.

The Di Grasso men are a particularly sad case. Dominic essentially has to bribe a sex worker he personally hired to keep his family from falling apart. Watching Lucia exit with the cash while she thinks he’s sleeping, Albie finally grows up a little. Now that his feminist facade has been shattered by a genuine gold digger, he’s ogling hot girls at the airport right along with his dad and grandpa. Speaking of poor Bert ( F. Murray Abraham ), his big blow came in episode 6, when he discovered that the Di Grasso women of Sicily had no interest in forming a loving bond with a man who’d missed his chance to do right by the Di Grasso women of America.

That’s not to say there aren’t characters who come out of the season better off than they were going into it. Mia got her gig and Lucia got her money; that final shot, in which the two best friends skip off together to make immoderate purchases, might be the closest thing White will ever give us to a happy ending. Jealous Ethan (Will Sharpe) and exasperated Harper ( Aubrey Plaza ) have rekindled their romance by allowing their insecurities to transform them into unfaithful, game-playing rich people like Cameron (Theo James) and Daphne (Meghann Fahy). The latter couple is no worse for the wear because their marriage has always been a farce.

And then, lest we forget, there’s Greg (Jon Gries), whose money-motivated deceptions in the honeymoon suite makes Lucia’s scheme look quaint by comparison. We don’t see what becomes of him once Tanya’s body is pulled out of the sea—probably because it’s so easy to guess his fate. His little Double Indemnity gambit works out even better than (as far as we know) he anticipated. Not only does he inherit Tanya’s hundreds of millions, but he doesn’t even have to share them with Quentin and company.

Of course , given the pessimism White’s shown us about love under heteronormative patriarchy, it’s the middle-aged white guy with two smitten, relatively vulnerable admirers wrapped around his finger who comes out on top. Meanwhile, Quentin might be too dastardly to mourn, but it’s worth noting that he dies, and gets a bunch of his friends killed, doing dirty work for a straight guy. That makes Tanya this modern-day opera’s one true tragic heroine. Doomed by her very existence as a lonely, self-conscious single woman of a certain age with a certain astronomical bank balance, she gets her dramatic, if also supremely klutzy, underwater death scene. Season 3 won’t be the same without her. (Does she have a twin sister Coolidge could play? Maybe season 3 can take place at the White Lotus in purgatory?) But would we want to keep coming back if The White Lotus didn’t manage to shock us every time? Like Cam and Daphne and Ethan and Harper, the show needs an element of uncertainty to keep the spark alive.

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'The White Lotus' Season 2 Finale: How It Ended and Who Died

Sunday's season 2 finale of The White Lotus tied up some other loose ends and revealed who on the hit HBO series will not live to see another resort

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This post contains spoilers for the season 2 finale of The White Lotus.

As a beloved character learned on Sunday's White Lotus season 2 finale, a weeklong getaway to Sicily is truly a trip to die for .

Fans of the HBO series were devastated to learn the fate of Jennifer Coolidge 's Tanya after two seasons. Despite a boatload of social media theories, the climactic yacht massacre and Tanya's easily avoidable, accidental death as laid out by creator Mike White still managed to surprise.

The finale rejoined Tanya after Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his "high-end gays" threw the shipping heiress — whom they'd now dubbed "the new diva of Palermo" — a party at his palazzo in Palermo and hooked her up with Italian stallion/mafia scion Niccolò ( Stefano Gianino ).

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Elsewhere, her assistant Portia ( Haley Lu Richardson ) woke up in a hotel with Quentin's supposed — but hopefully not! — nephew Jack ( Leo Woodall ). After his drunken hints at Quentin's financial issues, Portia was immediately suspicious of Jack when she couldn't fine her phone.

Before leaving the palazzo, Quentin caught Tanya looking at the photo she found the night before, seemingly featuring him and her shady husband Greg ( Jon Gries ) as young men. Although she swore it looked just like Greg, Quentin made up a story about some guy named Steve. Skeptical but unable to uncover the truth just yet, Tanya headed to Quentin's boat with his friends to head back to Taormina.

Later over lunch, Portia confronted Jack once again over her missing phone, but he continued to deny stealing it. He then immediately left his own phone at the table, and Portia took the opportunity to call her boss.

Tanya was surprisingly able to get a signal on the yacht, giving Portia the opportunity fill Tanya in on Jack's revelation Quentin was on the brink of losing his family villa but was expecting a hefty sum of money to come his way soon. At this, Tanya also broke the news to Portia that she'd seen Jack having sex with his "uncle" Quentin. They both agreed they had a bad feeling about everything.

Tanya then told Portia about the photo of Quentin and Greg, suddenly realizing that their prenuptial agreement prevents her husband from getting any money if they divorce. But if she died, he would get it all. Meanwhile, she recalled, it had been Greg's idea to visit Sicily in the first place. Tanya told Portia to get back to the White Lotus so they could "get the f--- out of here."

After the yacht dropped anchor back in Taormina, Tanya looked for a way off the boat and back to safety, but Quentin insisted she stay for dinner, telling her she could catch a boat ride back to land with Niccolò after their last supper together.

En route to the resort, Portia abruptly confronted Jack about having sex with Quentin. He finally caved, telling her to "just leave it alone" and saying he was just doing his job by driving her back to Taormina as his "uncle" had asked.

Hours later, Jack dropped off Portia in Catania, closer to the airport. He urged her to forget about Tanya and fly back home to the U.S. on her flight the next day. "These people are powerful," he told her. "You don't want to f--- with them." Before he sped off, he tossed Portia's phone on the roadside next to her.

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Back on the yacht, Tanya saw Niccolò fishing around in a mysterious bag during dinner and was antsier than ever not to hop into the dinghy of death with him. After another drink, she grabbed the bag and locked herself in a bedroom, discovering that it contained a serial killer kit: rope, duct tape and the gun he'd shown her the night before at the coked-up party in Quentin's villa.

Once the banging on the door began from outside cabin, Tanya panicked. She grabbed the gun and, when the door burst open, shot the gun. After killing Niccolò, she continued firing wildly, fatally shooting everyone aboard except one partygoer and the captain.

As Quentin lay bleeding on the ground, she asked whether Greg was cheating on her, but he couldn't answer, only muster one final, bloody sputter.

After her rampage, Tanya tried to jump into the boat to head to land, but she slipped on her chunky platform heels and hit her head on the dinghy's railing on the way down. Knocked unconscious, she drowned.

Her body was then revealed as the one that Daphne ( Meghann Fahy ) discovered in the first episode. Just off shore, the coast guard discovered the other bodies on the yacht.

Things came to a head for Harper ( Aubrey Plaza ) and Ethan (Will Sharpe) as he accused her of having sex with Cameron ( Theo James ). She ultimately admitted to kissing him, but Ethan was convinced she was lying.

After storming across the beach and punching Cameron in an oceanic bro fight, Ethan took solace in a few words of wisdom from Daphne. She gave him a knowing look, and they headed off to Isola Bella where they may or may not have complicated the love quadrangle even further.

Despite an awkward last dinner, all was right with the young couples, with Ethan and Harper even getting in some vacation sex during their final night.

After a blissful night with Mia ( Beatrice Grannò ), White Lotus manager Valentina ( Sabrina Impacciatore ) let the aspiring singer take over permanently for Giuseppe (Federico Scribiani).

Although she appeared heartbroken to learn that Mia didn't want to pursue a relationship, they agreed to keep things casual and convenient — and Mia even offered her and fellow sex worker Lucia's ( Simona Tabasco ) services as Valentina's wingwomen to meet local lesbians.

Albie ( Adam DiMarco ) proposed Lucia move with him to Los Angeles and even convinced his dad Dominic ( Michael Imperioli ) to give him €50,000 as "karmic payment" so he could help her be free of her supposed pimp. To no one's surprise, Lucia cut and ran with the money, taking one last glance at Albie before she left him sleeping alone on his final morning.

But all wasn't lost — Albie ran into Portia at the airport. When he told her about the unidentified drowning victim and the yacht full of corpses, Portia got the drift of what had happened with Tanya. She commiserated vaguely with Albie about both getting played, and they swapped numbers. Kids!

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The White Lotus Season 2 Finale: Here’s Who Dies

Spoilers for the season finale of The White Lotus to follow.

After seven weeks of speculation, theme song dance parties, and close examination of one suspiciously placed photograph of cowboys, The White Lotus has revealed who dies at the end of what was supposed to be a relaxing week’s vacation.

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. Niccolo‘s black bag turned out to be exactly as suspicious as Tanya believed it to be, and she pulled out the gun to tearfully shoot Quentin ( Tom Hollander ) and his friends (and still made time to demand, unsuccessfully, that Quentin tell her if Greg was having an affair).

But it turned out to be Tanya who was the body floating in the water all along. Attempting to make her escape overboard on the dinghy parked next to the yacht, she instead hit her head on the railing, drowning and presumably allowing her absent husband Greg ( Jon Giries ) to get away with taking her money after all. But at least she stopped some would-be murderers in the process.

In the “Unpacking Episode 7” segment following the episode, series creator Mike White admits he didn’t want to kill Tanya but “she’s such a diva, larger-than-life female archetype, it just felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.” And he suggested that Greg’s part of the story might not be done— “it feels like there’s got to be somebody who’s going to track it down to Greg. But maybe you’ll have to wait to find out what happens.”

The season ends, just as the first one did, with all the major players in the airport and on their way home. 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. Reuniting with Albie at the airport, embarking on what might not be the best relationship for either of them, feels like its own tribute to Tanya, too.

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. “When that first season became such a water cooler show [that] people were talking about, I was like, had I only known if I'd put a dead body at the beginning of Enlightened , maybe people would've watched Enlightened ," he told NPR . "You realize these kinds of hooks do actually get viewers."

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But the magic of The White Lotus is that the wild theories about bloody endings (Cameron and Ethan jet ski accident? Harper murder rampage?) don’t get in the way of the character drama that’s actually at the heart of the show. In a season devoted to examining the interplay of sex and power, virtually every character has been putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of love, lust, jealousy, or some combination of all of the above. But even though The White Lotus isn’t about death, it was about Jennifer Coolidge—and with a third season officially coming , it’s time to start reimagining exactly what that might look like.

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Lucia and Mia dressed in colorful outfits and smiling out in the streets

Lucia and Mia really turned things around for themselves.

So much for Tanya McQuoid being the connective tissue between the two seasons of The White Lotus . Obviously, spoilers up ahead for the season 2 finale, in which Jennifer Coolidge's character finds herself on a party boat that definitely isn't a party.

The seventh and final episode of the HBO Max series was a master class in social commentary, witty writing and gorgeous shots from writer/director Mike White. It wrapped up pretty much every loose end, while leaving one dangling strand involving Ethan and Daphne. And keeping that mystery unsolved is the point.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the season 2 finale of The White Lotus.

But first, Tanya. It was always going to stretch credulity having yet another person die at a White Lotus resort, but White chose the wildest and weirdly most believable option. The wealthy Tanya did indeed find a picture of her husband Greg and bankrupt British expat Quentin in cowboy hats together. (Although this isn't explicitly confirmed.) She and her assistant, Portia, conclude that Greg colluded with his ex-lover Quentin to have Tanya killed, because their prenup prevents Greg from taking any of her money if they divorce.

In a truly frightening sequence, a shaking Tanya loses Portia on the phone and has to face a boatful of people who want to kill her. She stalls for as long as possible before Quentin's man arrives to take her to shore and likely murder her on the way. Seizing her one opportunity to save herself, Tanya brazenly grabs her killer-to-be's duffle bag and locks herself in a room. Inside the bag, she finds a gun. As the door is kicked in, Tanya braces herself and squeezes the trigger, shooting anyone who comes at her.

Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya sitting on a bench in a fancy room

Poor rich Tanya.

In one of many examples of absurd hilarity, Tanya makes sure to ask Quentin before he coughs up blood and dies whether Greg was cheating on her with another woman. Quentin stares at her incredulously, before carking it (dying, that is, in British English). Sadly, as Tanya attempts to climb down off the boat and escape via a dinghy, she slips and smacks her head on the dinghy's railing before crashing into the water, where she drowns. Her colorful dress made it look like the dead body we partially see in episode 1 was wearing bright boardshorts.

Many thought Tanya would be the only character to appear in every season of The White Lotus, which was renewed for a third outing last month . In one of many smart rug pulls, White has eliminated that possibility. Why would Tanya spend all her time at White Lotus resorts anyway, if they're a hotspot for murder?

Aubrey Plaza and Will Sharpe as Harper and Ethan, sitting in each other's arms in an airport with an erupting volcano in the background

Harper and Ethan have fully accepted one another.

He could also potentially use one of the new characters introduced in season 2 as a familiar link. Let's pray it's Aubrey Plaza's Harper, although that seems unlikely. In a bittersweet turn of events, her eye-rolling, at first strongly principled, lawyer assimilates the same performative marriage facade that Cameron and Daphne put on. It's the only way now for her and Ethan to move forward -- whether they believe each other's stories about cheating or not, it doesn't matter. They're both willing to act out a happy marriage and allow each other to hold some level of mystery. Resting in each other's arms at the airport, they look a picture of peace and solidarity.

This is all after Ethan and Cameron have their inevitable showdown in the sea, but maybe it would have been too obvious and extreme if one or both of them died. The more unexpected turn of events involved Daphne taking Ethan to nearby island Isola Bella -- the shot looks like one of those Instagram pictures of couples leading each other down a path. It's left open to interpretation whether something happened between them, but it seems likely, since Daphne was unfazed by Ethan's worry that Cameron and Harper might have cheated together. She suggestively tells Ethan: "You don't have to know everything to love someone. A little mystery? It's kinda sexy..."

Daphne wearing a pink playshirt leading Ethan down a beach path toward an island

The mysterious leading the mysterious.

In a similarly messy situation, the Di Grasso men leave Sicily 50,000 euros poorer, yet they all seem surprisingly unfazed. Young Albie is momentarily put out by the revelation that Lucia was playing him the whole time, but he's swiftly on to the next opportunity: a changed Portia, who's now had her fair share of excitement and wants to settle for nothing more than the safest, most boring romantic option possible. (At least she looks mortified for one short moment about the fact her boss has just drowned to death.)

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'The White Lotus' Season 2 finale: Who died? Who cheated? Who stole? And what does it all mean?

Spoiler alert! The following contains details from the Season 2 finale of "The White Lotus," "Arrivederci."

All is fair in love and war. Except absolutely nothing is fair in either.

Sunday's Season 2 finale of HBO's Sicily-set satire "The White Lotus" landed with a startling thunk on the side of a boat, as a bombastic episode of television with a murder spree that may not have even been the biggest moment of its 80 minutes.

The "Lotus" finale comes together like a symphony, each scene falling into place like a cascade of musical notes, inevitable yet surprising at the same time. The exquisite finale was impeccably acted and scripted, a fitting ending to a breathtaking story. It is akin to the tragedy of the Season 1 finale, although in many ways Season 2 has outshone its predecessor .

While the first season was an apt exploration of class in a five-star upstairs/downstairs drama, it was still a version of a story we've seen before. In Season 2, creator Mike White molded something all his own, an examination of sexual politics and norms that have radically changed – but also depressingly stayed the same – since the #MeToo movement. Ever astute in his observations of modern life, White offers no answers to the tough questions, or even much hope for our flailing attempts at human connection. But he does provide a ruthless mirror in which to examine ourselves, and a breathless hunger for a third season.

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Who died in 'The White Lotus' finale?

At the end of the week in the stunning Sicilian resort, we learn the body floating in the sea was Tanya's (Jennifer Coolidge), who fell to her death off the side of Quentin's (Tom Hollander's) yacht while trying to escape what she believed was a murder-for-hire plot and left a trio of dead bodies in her wake. It was a stunner, but it also felt inevitable, as Tanya seemed trapped by each move Quentin and his compatriots made on his yacht.

At the beginning of the episode, her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) remained stuck far from Tanya, with Quentin's fake nephew Jack (Leo Woodall), but the pair managed to speak on a brief call that convinces both that their generous companions have been conspiring with Tanya's husband Greg (Jon Gries) to murder her.

Fumbling and bumbling through the motions of socialization after this realization, Tanya attempts to save herself through desperate measures: exclaiming to the non-English speaking captain, delaying tactics and eventually shooting her captors before falling to her death in an ill-conceived attempt to get from the yacht to a dinghy. These scenes ricocheted from slapstick to startling to violent, and Coolidge – already wielding an Emmy for this role in Season 1 – plays it all easily, with Tanya's trademark haplessness.

Jack leaves Portia scared and suspicious, by the side of the road, but she takes his advice not to get involved. She only hears about the deaths at the resort after running into Albie (Adam DiMarco) at the airport. After the terror Jack put her through, Portia is a lot more amenable to boring, safe Albie, asking for his number before boarding her flight.

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Who got conned?

Albie and the other DiGrasso men (F. Murray Abraham and Michael Imperioli) didn't seem to learn much from their time in their ancestral homeland. In the end, Lucia (Simona Tabasco) was conning Albie, and was never beholden to a pimp or stuck in her life of sex work. She gets 50,000 euros out of him before (with an ounce or two of regret) she leaves him alone in his hotel room to live with the fact that his father was right; Albie was an easy mark.

Albie's father Dominic (Imperioli) gets what he wanted in the end: an open line of communication with his estranged wife by placating his son, rather than by engaging in any meaningful acts of remorse or penance. And Nonno Bert (Abraham) is still the same old lech he always was, unable to congratulate Mia (Beatrice Grannò) on her gig as the new White Lotus lounge singer without commenting on his own arousal.

The lack of growth from the DiGrasso men is underlined at the airport, where they're in line for a budget airline no less, when they turn to leer in unison at another woman in a crop top.

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Who cheated?

We may never know exactly what happened between Cameron (Theo James) and Harper (Aubrey Plaza), although Harper attempts to convince her husband Ethan (Will Sharpe) that the only thing that happened between them was a drunken kiss.

After his argument with Harper, an enraged Ethan confronts Cameron in the ocean, and almost makes his so-called college roommate and friend the dead body, before their fight is broken up by a bystander. Ethan eventually finds his way to Cameron's wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy), and tells her of his suspicions about their spouses. Fahey proves herself the star of the series in a 30-second, silent reaction to Ethan's revelation, in which Daphne runs through the stages of grief in quick succession. Her happy, playful facade returns, and she lures Ethan to a small island. What they do there isn't clear, but when Ethan returns to Harper later, he suddenly reconnects sexually with his wife, all indiscretion forgiven.

Who got a happy ending

In the end, it's just Lucia, Mia and hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) who are unabashedly happy at the end of the week at The White Lotus in Taormina.

After finally getting over her own sexual frustrations, Valentina is able to see other sexual harassment in her workplace, if not that she too was behaving inappropriately toward one of her employees. But it's as if her whole body has unclenched after admitting she is a lesbian, down to a slightly unbuttoned blouse and frizzy hair.

Mia and Lucia, meanwhile, are 50,000 euros richer and strutting through the streets of town in the designer clothes they craved at the beginning of the season. Maybe they deceived and drugged and conned their way to their new positions, but they did it to a gaggle of guests who aimed at exploiting them first.

The "Lotus" finale raised as many questions as it answered, but the loose ends aren't especially bothersome. White is singularly accomplished at filling his writing with satisfying ambiguity. There are vagaries and injustices in the messy worlds he creates, but just as in the real world, the characters must just move on or get trapped.

Tanya, for instance, will only leave Sicily in a coffin.

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‘The White Lotus’ Creator Mike White Explains That Shocking Season 2 Finale Death

The showrunner also says lingering questions from Season 2 may be answered in Season 3

Note: the following contains spoilers for “The White Lotus” Season 2 finale.

“The White Lotus” Season 2 finale made good on the show’s promise to reveal exactly whose bodies were floating in the ocean in the season opener, but few were prepared to discover that Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya was one of the victims. According to creator and showrunner Mike White, the seed for Tanya’s death was actually planted in the Season 1 finale of the HBO series.

In the final episode of Season 2, Tanya finally realizes that Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his friends are not who they appear to be. Quentin clearly is old friends with Greg (Jon Gries), and when his yacht arrives back in Taormina, Quentin makes some excuse as to why Tanya can’t get off the boat just yet. Instead, they’re waiting for Niccolo (Stefano Gianino) to show up and personally escort Tanya back under cover of night.

When Tanya goes through Niccolo’s bag and discovers rope, duct tape and a gun, she confirms they’re trying to kill her so Greg can inherit all of her money. She, hilariously, takes all but one of them out with the gun, but when trying to jump down from the yacht into the smaller boat to go ashore, she hits her head and drowns.

In a behind-the-scenes video from HBO that aired after the episode, White said the entirety of Tanya’s Season 2 arc was crafted around her eventual death.

“In the end of last season, Tanya is sitting with Greg in the last episode and he’s talking about his health issues and she says, ‘I’ve had every kind of treatment over the years. Death is the last immersive experience I haven’t tried.’ And 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 is like a journey to death.”

“And not that I really wanted to kill Tanya because I love her as a character and I obviously love Jennifer,” White continued. “But I just felt like you know we’re going to Italy, she’s such a diva, larger-than-life female archetype, it just felt like we could devise our own operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.”

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It was important to White, however, that Tanya not die at the hands of someone else.

“I just think her dying at the hands of someone else felt too tragic,” he said. “It felt like 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. So it just made me laugh to think she would take out [this] cabal of killers and that after she successfully does that, she just dies this derpy death. It just felt like that’s so Tanya.”

“The White Lotus” Season 3 has already been ordered by HBO, and given that this is an anthology series the plan is to have a new location and new characters. However, in the post-finale video White alluded to a continuation or some kind of closure to Greg’s murder plot in Season 3.

“I think as far as what happens to Greg and the conspiracy of Tanya’s death, it’s possible that I think Portia is scared enough to just leave it alone but the fact that all of those guys die on the boat feels like there’s gotta be somebody who’s gonna track it back down to Greg. But maybe you’ll have to wait to find out what happens.”

Just as Coolidge was the only character to reprise her role from Season 1 in Season 2, could we see Haley Lu Richardson’s Portia return as she tries to dig deeper into what happened to Tanya? Or Greg? It would fit with the theme White teased as central to Season 3.

“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex, and I think the third season would be maybe a kind of satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality, and it feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus,” White said in the video.

Stay tuned, folks. This particular story may have come to a close, but there’s more “White Lotus” to come.

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The White Lotus season 2 finale has exploded onto our screens, and things certainly went out with a bang rather than a whimper. We finally found out which hotel guests met tragic ends and, in typical White Lotus fashion, there were plenty of surprises in store, too. Each storyline was neatly wrapped up while still leaving us with plenty of questions, but we wouldn't expect anything less from series creator, writer, and director Mike White. This isn't the end for the hit comedy-drama, either – The White Lotus season 3 has already been confirmed, but, for now, let's break down what exactly what happened in season 2's dramatic conclusion.

It goes without saying, of course, that there are major spoilers for The White Lotus season 2 finale ahead. Proceed with caution if you haven't seen the episode yet and don't want to know what happens!

Who dies in The White Lotus season 2?

Meghann Fahy and Theo James in The White Lotus season 2

In The White Lotus season 2 finale, we finally learn the identity of the dead body discovered in the ocean by Daphne (Meghann Fahy) in episode 1. It's Tanya, played by Jennifer Coolidge, who dies. The other bodies found belong to Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his associates.

Earlier in the episode, Quentin and his friends take Tanya back to the hotel from the palazzo in Palermo on their yacht. The yacht drops anchor a little way from the shore, but Quentin assures Tanya that Niccolo, Quentin's drug dealer and potential mafia connection, will take her back to the hotel on a smaller boat after they all have dinner. Tanya is suspicious and pretends to use the bathroom so she can investigate what's in Niccolo's duffel bag. It's the gun from episode 6, plus some rope and tape – a textbook kill kit. She locks herself in a bedroom and, when Quentin and co. start trying to open the door, she begins to shoot the gun at random with her eyes closed.

She emerges from the room to find Didier and Niccolo dead. Hugo is still alive, but runs away and jumps off the yacht into the water. Quentin is bleeding out but still conscious, and Tanya asks him whether her husband Greg (Jon Gries) was having an affair. He's too weak to answer, and gives her one last withering look in his final moments.

With the threat to her life eliminated, Tanya attempts to get off the yacht and into the dinghy so she can make her way back to the hotel. She jumps from the deck of the yacht, but misses the dinghy, hits her head, and drowns in the ocean.

What happened to Portia?

Haley Lu Richardson in The White Lotus season 2

Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) gets increasingly desperate to get back to the hotel and confronts Jack (Leo Woodall) about his relationship with Quentin. Jack says it's his "job" to take Portia back to the White Lotus, but he ends up dropping her at the airport instead and warns her not to return to the hotel.

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She reunites with brief former fling Albie (Adam DiMarco) at the airport. Albie asks if she heard that a guest drowned at the hotel and that other bodies were found on a yacht, which makes Portia realize it must be Tanya. Her response? To ask Albie for his number.

Did Harper cheat on Ethan?

Will Sharpe, Aubrey Plaza, Meghann Fahy, and Theo James in The White Lotus

Ethan (Will Sharpe) is convinced that his wife Harper (Aubrey Plaza) had sex with Cameron (Theo James). When he accosts her about it, she says that they kissed in their hotel room, but that was it. Ethan doesn't believe her and he confronts Cameron on the beach – the two get into a physical fight in the ocean until a stranger breaks them up.

Ethan then finds Daphne and tells her of his suspicions. Daphne tells him that he needs to do whatever he needs in order to "not feel like a victim," and the two of them go for a walk to a secluded area of the beach. When they return, the two couples reunite for their last dinner, and both pairs seem at ease with each other. When Ethan and Harper go back to their room, Ethan seems energized and full of renewed passion for his wife. While we don't know exactly what happened while Ethan and Daphne were alone, it's possible that they had sex to get back at their respective (supposedly) cheating spouses.

What happened to Lucia and Mia?

Beatrice Granno and Simona Tabasco in The White Lotus season 2

Believing that Lucia (Simona Tabasco) is in danger from a pimp named Alessio, Albie convinces his father Dominic (Michael Imperioli) to send €‎50,000 to her by promising to put in a good word for Dominic with his mother. Albie and Lucia sleep together again one last time on Albie's last night at the White Lotus, but she sneaks away before Albie wakes up, leading him to realize he got played.

As for Mia, she gets a permanent gig playing the piano and singing in the White Lotus restaurant after sleeping with hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore). The pair have seemingly formed a real friendship, and Mia promises that her and Lucia will take Valentina to Sicily's gay clubs and introduce her to some "hot girls."

With €‎50,000 to their name, along with the money finally paid to them by Cameron, Lucia and Mia are set financially. Lucia previously stated that she wanted to open her own boutique, and she's certainly in a position to do that now.

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The White Lotus Boss Explains Why He Killed Off [Spoiler] in Season 2 Finale

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Warning: This post contains spoilers for Sunday’s White Lotus season finale.

Another White Lotus finale, another dead body — although this one may have surprised us more than we thought.

Sunday’s Season 2 finale fulfilled its promise by revealing whose dead bodies were floating in the water back in the premiere, and shockingly, Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya was among the dead. Tanya discovered Quentin and his friends were plotting to kill her, so she stole Niccolo’s gun and shot them all dead, only she stumbled getting out of the boat and ended up drowning anyway. (For our full finale recap, click here .)

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He didn’t want Tanya to die at the hands of someone else, though: “It felt like 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. So it just made me laugh to think she would take out this whole cabal of killers and that, after she’s successfully done that, she just dies this derp-y death. It just felt like that’s so Tanya.” White adds that the story of what happens to Tanya’s husband Greg and her assistant Portia might not be over yet: “Maybe you’ll have to wait to find out what happens.”

Finally, where is Season 3 headed? ( HBO has already renewed the series .) White says the first two seasons were about money and sex, so Season 3 will be “a kind of satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.” He hasn’t revealed the exact location yet… but should we start making reservations for Tokyo, perhaps?

Give us your thoughts on the Season 2 finale — and where you think Season 3 should head — in a comment below.

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Maybe it could be a dallas tv thing where jennifer’s character awakes in a coffin? Real bummer to see her character taken out, probably won’t watch a season 3

super bummed that Tanya is dead. I threw the TV out the window. Season 3 definitely needs revenge. Greg must pay.

Agreed!! I loved her character!!

Don’t be silly. White Lotus is so much more than just one character.

Exactly! I actually found the storyline surrounding Cameron, Daphne, Ethan & Harper much more intriguing.

Agree–which is why I finished watching season 2 and not season 1. I didn’t care for most of the characters in season 1–especially the tiresome family.

Same here. I Only watched a few episodes of season one but all of season two.

I didn’t want Tanya to die. Disappointed

Wow! So many twists and Tanya! She killed the bad guys but jumped off the boat?? I guess she was kind of erratic.

Portia was lucky to be alive. I thought he was going to dump her off a cliff. Great season 2

ummm…she didn’t “jump” rewatch the scene again.

Very disappointing! My friends and I only watch for Tanya! The rest are all “yawn” and predictable! Bye to this series, hundreds to choose from out there!

Sad that they killed Tanya off. I will miss her she was the star of the show.

Wow! Now that was an explosive finale! So sorry to see Tanya, such an integral character, die! She was such a hot mess and so fun to watch. I will watch Season 3 because it is such a well written show.

What happened to Greg

Greg was part of the team who had planned to kill off Tanya. He left so that she would have an excuse to take off with them and eventually be assassinated so he’d get her fortune. It looks like he got it… their pre-nup stated if she died he’d inherit it all. The theme of the show this season seemed to all be about being conned, and every one of the scammers in the show got what they wanted.

Pretty sure in the real world that a Police investigation would reveal the ruse. :-)

Including the h00kers?!

In season three, I want to see if Greg pays. I hope he doesn’t get away with it.

Season two was great,and Italy was beautiful. I hated that it was Tanya who was the one floating in the ocean. I’m so glad she picked those scumbags off one by one. Alvie deserved so much better than that hooker who screwed him over. In the end,the nice guy won,though. I’m hoping Portia receives Tanya’s inheritance and not the trash of a human,Greg. I still have unanswered questions.

There was nothing to indicate that Porsha was anything more to Tanya than just another in a long line of assistants . No way would she be in Tonya’s will or inherit anything.

I think it was pretty clear that Greg wont get away with murder. When Portia finds out it was her boss who died she will connect the dots and report it to the police. Remember Portia already knew Greg was involved in the scheme. In addition to that the boat captain and one of the high end gays survived on the boat and another high end gay was not on the boat. I expect that other one who clearly refused to participate will also fess up. And maybe Jack will fess up also. Still didnt they say more than one guest was in the water? There was just Tanya.

They said a guest died in the water and the were told there were more bodies. They never said where. The bodies were from the boat.

You read my about the others.

Portia is not going to the police, not after Jack warned her not to f*ck with these people.

People keep saying Portia will go to the police, but she was literally at the airport about to the board a plane, happily talking to Albie when we last see her. She clearly had no plans to skip her flight and go tell someone what she knows. And if she regrets that later, how is she going to afford to go back to Italy? And if she does, what proof does she have?

Also, the boat capatin doesn’t speak English, and why would the other high end gays confess and go to jail when they can say nothing and get money from Greg? Even if someone does discover Greg’s connection, he could spin it as I had to leave so I had my wife meet up with some old friends for company. Even if the police figure out he was planning to kill Tanya, she actually killed herself by accident. Tanya’s the only murderer as far as the police as concerned.

Greg’s involvement only matters to contest the will, but there’s no one else in Tanya’s life, so who would challenge him? Maybe that could be a season 3 plot, but a theme of White Lotus is bad people getting away with things. Greg got away with it. Not the way he expected, but it he did.

Really disappointed that Tanya died. She is such a vibrant character and was the most fun to watch. Hope that in third season, Greg is not allowed to gain from Tanya’s death. Not sure I will watch without Tanya. Maybe a twin could appear to reap havoc? PLEASE!?

Maybe Portia will seek revenge.

That’s perfect! Tanya’s twin, love it

First of all, I want to say I have followed Mike White’s writing career since I saw “Enlightened” , School of Rock, ..He’s just one of the most original voices out there. I love “White Lotus” you just never know what to expect until it hits you in the head! I was terribly sorry to see Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya go. she just fills the screen and is so damn funny. She has come a long way from Seinfeld’s girlfriend massuse! It gave Tanya some dignity to fall into the ocean after shooting the people who were going to kill her anyway. Truly she was the Madame Butterfly of this season. I can’t wait until next White Lotus. Bravo Mike White!! Brilliant cast.

S3 – Japan yes. AMAN KYOTO $2k/night very White Lotus

The Four Seasons in Chiang Mai Thailand would be my guess for Season 3. Japan is not very religious.

When Cameron made his toast at the table I think he said “next year The Maldives” so maybe….

Jack tells Portia that those people are dangerous — does this include Greg? If so, any play for Greg to come after Portia in Season 3 to eliminate the chance of her implicating him in Tanya’s drowning and the whole scheme.

It would be really funny in Season 3 if Greg finds out that Tanya never changed her will after she got married and tried to track down Portia because of some crazy clause she put in it and he can’t access her money and he needs her help.

I was hoping she’d casually mention that (or even lie about it) while she was on the boat with the guys who planned to kill her. Then maybe they would have decided killing her was useless.

This was not shocking in the LEAST. It was immediately apparent to me that Tanya would be a body when she got on the boat.

Was disappointed Tanya died. She was trying to jump off so close to the dingy, then hit her head? Like the twin idea for Jennifer’s character. Just hope there’s some type of twist. Such an elaborate scheme to get the inheritance. Interested in the aftermath but if Jennifer is out, I might not keep watching. Thought she was the best part of show.

Loved it!!! Bravo, Mike! 👏👏👏❤️❤️ Greg! F* that guy! Ughhhh

Would love to see Portia and Albie in season 3 as newleyweds! I was disappointed to see Tanya’s demise but figured she died on her own terms

I’m disappointed they killed Tanya! Geez, Greg was such a cretin and after she saved his life last season, you’d think the script would have seen him get whacked after all his machinations. The Tanya character was goofy but had a good heart.

I seriously doubt that Greg was ever ill. He had a plot all along to get Tanya to marry him so he could kill her and get her money, and the “terminal illness” was a story to make Tanya trust him and want to marry him quickly.

Season 2 was just ok for me. A lot of the scenes were too long, annoying, and boring.

Season 1 was exceptional with how well the characters were developed and the surprise death. Season 2 was just as entertaining but was surprisingly far more explicit with sex issues and images. During the last two episodes my wife and I kept guessing as to which character would die in Season 2; so many possibilities. When Tanya shot her way off the boat I didn’t she her death coming, thinking she would regain consciousness in the water.. What was the best in both seasons were the unanswered questions and we are looking forward to the third installment regardless of wherever the location might be.

Shocked at the way it ended, I had grown to empathize with Tanya and almost feel like I lost a friend.

I agree, she was like a friend!

I was so upset that Tanya died so Greg would still get her money; get rid of him through Karma! I am so glad Portia wasn’t killed by the helper, where does she go?!?! Not big on the couples, really didn’t care for Daphne and her husband .

Who dies on the 'White Lotus' Season 2 finale?

Warning: This post contains spoilers for “The White Lotus.”

After seven weeks of intense speculation , close readings of all the art within the hotel and prying together references to Italian culture , "The White Lotus" has finally revealed which characters end up in body bags at the end of the week in Sicily.

Although many fans thought all the signs pointing to Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) were red herrings, the iconic character has stayed at her last White Lotus resort — but she didn't go down without a fight.

Episode Seven, the Season Two finale, begins the morning after a wild night for Tanya partying at a palazzo in Palermo. Quentin (Tom Hollander), the owner of the villa, informs Tanya they have to head back to Taormina aboard his yacht, so she can make her flight back to the U.S.

Before Tanya and the group of "gays" leave, she returns to a bedroom in the palazzo to take another look at a photograph she saw the night before, which appears to show Quentin and her husband, Greg (Jon Gries), together, many years ago.

Quentin denies the photo is of Greg , and they head out on the yacht. Meanwhile, Tanya's assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), cannot find her phone in her hotel room, despite plugging it in to charge the night before. She questions Jack (Leo Woodall), who was sleeping in bed with her the whole night, and he suggests she lost it.

She manages to take Jack's phone and calls her boss, and the two begin putting the pieces together: Jack and Quentin are not related ( Tanya caught them hooking up in the middle of the night ) and Quentin and Greg could be poised to reap millions from her fortune if she dies, due to their prenup agreement.

Portia tries to find her phone with Jack.

Tanya begins to fear for her life, and the anxiety increases as the vessel slowly makes its way back to Taormina. Niccolo, the Italian local who she had met at the palazzo party, shows up on the yacht to bring her back to the shore on a small boat, carrying the same black bag from the night before where he stored his drugs — and a gun.

As day turns to night, Tanya’s anxiety reaches an all-time high. She asks for more wine to delay the end of dinner, before she runs to the bathroom and grabs Niccolo’s bag. She locks herself inside of a bedroom on the yacht, and grabs the gun out of the bag in tears.

Quentin begins knocking on the door, and eventually breaks it down. Tanya shoots, and doesn't stop firing the trigger until Quentin and several of his associates are dead.

If the shootout wasn't shocking enough , Tanya then tries to jump overboard into a smaller dinghy to make it back to shore. She miscalculates the jump, and bangs her head against the side of the boat before falling into the Ionian Sea.

The show's creator, Mike White, said in an interview aired after the show he wanted to give Tanya's character an "operatic conclusion."

The next day, Daphne (Meghann Fahy) is the one to find her body in the water, just as depicted in the first episode. The foursome — Daphne, Cameron (Theo James), Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Ethan (Will Sharpe), leave the island with their marriages intact, but a lot of questions are swirling about what the couples got up to in their final days in Sicily.

Harper admits to Ethan that Cameron kissed her, but insisted it was "nothing." Ethan accepts the story (not without punching Cameron in the face), but notes there is a significant chunk of time missing between the pair returning to their room and Ethan attempting to knock down the door.

Ethan gets into a fist fight with Cameron on the beach.

“The question of whether Harper and Cameron did more than the kiss, I think probably that’s just all that happened. At the same time, there’s some time that isn’t really accounted for and I think that’s why it’s eating at Ethan,” White said.

Daphne and Ethan also had a trek to Isola Bella, a nearby inlet, after Ethan suggested something had happened between Harper and Cameron, and Daphne says they shouldn't be victims .

“Some of the unspoken things between them, you wonder if that’s going to ultimately catch up with them," White said. “It is somewhat of a happy ending although there’s dark clouds on the horizon too.”

Dominic (Michael Imperioli) also appears to be poised to save his marriage. After giving his son, Albie (Adam DiMarco), 50,000 euros, Albie put in a good word for his father with his mother. Albie swiftly transferred the funds to Lucia (Simona Tabasco), a local sex worker he caught feelings for and was worried she was in danger from another local after he followed them on a trip to explore their family's heritage.

Lucia leaves Albie in the early morning without a word, and she walks away in a new dress with her best friend Mia (Beatrice Granno), who was recently promoted to the hotel's piano performer the day after she hooked up with the resort manager, Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore).

Albie admits he was swindled when he runs into Portia at the airport, and shares with Portia a guest was found in the water and several others were found dead on a yacht .

The pair gets each other's numbers and heads off to their flights, leaving viewers to wonder: Will Albie and Portia be the new Tanya and Greg in Season Three?

White hinted the next season could be set in Asia.

“The first season kind of highlighted money, and then the second season is sex,” White said. “I think the third season would be maybe a satirical and funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality. It feels like it could be a rich tapestry to do another round at White Lotus.”

Anna Kaplan is a news and trending reporter for TODAY.com.

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The White Lotus Season 2 Ending Explained: Who Died And What Happened to Everyone Else

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

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Jennifer Coolidge in The White Lotus Season 2 finale

The following contains major spoilers for The White Lotus season 2 .

Vacation is officially over. Another drama-filled sojourn at The White Lotus has come to an end, filled with suspicion, betrayal, and a variety of rich people behaving badly. Since the series’ anthology format means the season 2 finale is our last outing with this particular group of characters, the show does its best to tie up its (many!) loose ends and show us how their collective time in Italy has changed their lives—for good or ill.

Here’s a rundown of what happened in the supersized The White Lotus season 2 finale from who makes it out of Sicily to the secrets several major characters will be taking home with them.

Who Dies in The White Lotus Season 2?

Although the first episode of The White Lotus season 2 straight up tells us that four people die over the course of this run of episodes, only one of them actually turns out to be a major character.

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The body that Daphne (Meghann Fahy) discovers in the water during the season’s opening moments belongs to fan favorite Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge), who manages to survive a murder plot and gun down the cabal of gay men who appear to be planning to kill her only to fall from their yacht to her death as she tries to reach the dinghy that would carry her back to shore. 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). Hugo (Paolo Camilli) escapes by diving into the water and swimming to shore.

Your mileage will likely vary about The White Lotus’s decision to bring back Tanya (its only returning season 1 character) to not only kill her off but to silo her in a plot that had so little to do with the rest of the action back at the resort. (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.

Was Quentin Plotting to Kill Tanya?

Yes, although the specifics of his plan are never fully spelled out. (To be fair, they probably don’t really need to be.) We know that Quentin is broke and needs money, although he’s told his “nephew” Jack (Leo Woodall) that he’s expecting to come into some any day now. 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.

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. Greg has conveniently left Italy. Jack’s been assigned to keep Portia far from her boss, and mobster adjacent hottie Niccolo has been tapped to kill Tanya en route back to Taormina. But before he can do so, Tanya steals Niccolo’s black bag and barricades herself in a bedroom. Inside it, she finds rope, duct tape, and a gun, confirming the murder plot and arming Tanya for her Final Girl-style kill spree.

After shooting him in the back, Tanya tries to get Quentin to reveal if Greg is cheating on her—a questionable choice of interrogation tacks given, well, literally everything else it appears her husband has been plotting and the extent of whose involvement we still don’t know—but he says nothing before he dies.

Did Harper and Cameron Have Sex?

No. At least, not according to Harper (Aubrey Plaza). She tells her husband Ethan (Will Sharpe) that yes, Cameron (Theo James) came on to her and, yes, she accepted his suggestion that they go upstairs together. But she insists that all they did was a kiss, and though it doesn’t appear that Ethan fully believes her, she sticks to her story, despite the fact that there are some gaps of unaccounted time she never fully explains.

How About Daphne and Ethan? Did They Hook Up?

What exactly happened between Ethan and Cameron’s wife Daphne in the season 2 finale is also left for viewers to decide. After his fistfight with his supposed long time best friend, Ethan fills Daphne in on his suspicions about the idea that something is going on between their spouses. Despite a brief look of devastation (which, to be fair, trying to bang your BFF’s wife is pretty low, even for her repeatedly philandering husband), Daphne’s surprisingly calm about the whole situation.

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“I don’t think you have anything to worry about,” she tells Ethan, reminding him that you can never really know anyone, even sometimes yourself, and that you just have to find a way not to feel like a victim in your own life. By way of changing the subject, she gestures to a beautiful nearby inlet called Isola Bella and says she wanted to make sure she saw it before they left. She invites Ethan to come with her. The two say nothing on their walk across the beach, but the pair’s extended intense eye contact and the dramatic music underscoring their stroll certainly imply that something major is about to happen. (And whatever does happen seems to play a key role in giving Ethan his sexual mojo back with his wife. Maybe Daphne’s right—some secrets are a little bit sexy.)

Portia Escapes Jack

Though The White Lotus finale confirms that Jack is a key player in Quentin’s plot to kill Tanya, we never quite find out the extent of his “assignment” with Portia. 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. Was he supposed to kill her on the way back to the resort? Would she also have been marked for death by Niccolo once she got there? We’ll never know.

Instead, while Jack refuses to confirm any of Portia’s suspicions he at least sets her free, dropping her off near the airport in Catania and advising her to skip looking for her (now-dead) boss and just get on her flight out of Siciliy as soon as possible. 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. How precisely Portia is meant to leave Italy when her passport and all her luggage is presumably either back at the White Lotus or in Quentin’s villa I’m not sure, but at least she lives to buy more indescribable Gen Z fashion another day.

Lucia and Mia Embrace New and Brighter Futures

The most iconic duo of The White Lotus season 2, however, is hands down Sicilian sex workers Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò). 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. After all, Lucia’s plans to scam the Di Grassos weren’t exactly well-hidden, and Mia’s been forthright about her true desire to be a musician since the season premiere. And by end of the finale, both women have gotten almost everything they could have possibly wanted, and both their lives are on new and improved trajectories.

Lucia not only finally manages to get paid by Cameron (at the last possible moment!), she also tricks Albie (Adam DiMarco) into giving her 50,000 Euros. 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. (It turns out that the supposed pimp was actually just a friend.) Albie, surprisingly, seems to take being conned and abandoned in stride, probably because it’s never entirely clear how likely he actually thought the plan for Lucia to visit him in Los Angeles truly was. (The real lesson here is that his family is rich enough that losing 50 large is little more than embarrassing vacation memory, so everyone wins!)

As for Mia, she is officially given the piano gig at the White Lotus thanks to her new bond with hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciator). While it’s not directly stated that her job prospects improved thanks to their hook-up, it’s hard not to assume that their newfound friends with benefits played some role. 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.

Portia and Albie Reconnect at the Airport

Much like season 1, The White Lotus’s second installment ends with everyone back at the airport, ready to head home. Both the Sullivans and the Spillars look content at their gate despite their possible partner swapping, and all three Di Grasso men prove the apparent strength of their collective gene pool by blatantly oogling a hot girl together. (Siiiigh.)

While waiting to board their flights, Albie runs into Portia again. The pair reconnect over their separate disastrous vacation romances—he admits that Lucia conned him and Portia says that Jack was deranged and confirms her trip to Palermo with him wasn’t exactly great. Albie also reports that several dead bodies turned up at the resort though he admits he doesn’t know who any of them were. (Portia’s expression, at least, says she knows she’s not waiting for Tanya anymore.) But despite their various personal setbacks, the two swap numbers, implying that even a dead boss and a lost 50,000 euros can’t stop young love.

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The Ending of 'The White Lotus' Season 2, Explained

Our breakdown of the finale and those shocking deaths.

The second season of the HBO drama The White Lotus has ended, the surviving characters have boarded their planes, and the viewers are left with...a lot of unfulfilled storylines. Many a fan theory has been left floating in the ether after the finale's big reveal of which hotel guest met their demise, and several ticking time bombs simply fizzled out to become a tightly-kept secret. Still, the season finale delivered in stressful scenes and shocked laughter, as each of the plots among the Sicily resort 's guest and staff came to their conclusions.

For anyone who wants to commiserate on the end of this must-watch TV event, follow along as we go through this finale breakdown group by group.

Harper and Ethan make up through jealously and (possible) mutual cheating.

Oh, Harper and Ethan. The spouses came on this strange trip expecting nothing more than general awkwardness, joining Ethan's asshole college roommate Cameron and his fabulous, complex wife Daphne on a couples' trip where the couples barely know each other. Instead, they got a severe test of their relationship as Ethan was suspected for Cameron's cheating and Harper used Cameron's interest in her to give Ethan a taste of his own medicine.

Early in the finale, after some nudging from Ethan, Harper caves and admits that Cameron did kiss her when they went up to their rooms alone. She describes the moment as a "drunken, stupid nothing," and insists that's as far as it went since Cameron is, as she rightly points out, "disgusting." Ethan doesn't entirely believe her, but he focuses on the one part of the situation where there's no doubt: Cameron tried to sleep with his wife, just like he hooked up with all of Ethan's college crushes.

With no hesitation (like, not even a word to Harper), Ethan goes straight to the beach where he fights with Cameron. The two men alternate in attempting to drown each other, but a good Samaritan breaks up the fight after Ethan lands one great last punch. He then goes for a walk on the beach, where he runs into Daphne, sunning and oblivious.

Sweet Daphne has just been trying to ignore her husband's cheating and enjoy her vacation. Ethan ruins that when he directly tells her of her Cameron's infidelity, informing her not of the night with some random locals, but with her husband's tryst with Harper, the woman she was hoping to befriend. She looks sad for a second, before she rallies and gives Ethan a similar "do what you have to do to make yourself feel better about it" speech that she previously gave to Harper. The pair then go on a walk to a secluded part of the beach, where it's heavily implied that they hook up themselves.

In addition to showing that Daphne could rule a small country with her cunning optimism, whatever happened between her and Ethan may have saved Ethan and Harper's marriage. Later that night, after the foursome have one final dinner where everything goes unsaid, Harper and Ethan return to their room and Harper asks what will happen to them. Instead of a fight or a sad separation, the couple who haven't touched each other all vacation finally has sex! We next see them at the airport, cuddling with small smiles on their faces and the reassurance that their marriage just might make it after all.

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Mia becomes the permanent lounge singer.

A quick note for Mia and Valentina, another pairing that could've ended in tragedy but instead finds its way. After their night together in one of the hotel's vacant room, they're woken up by a housekeeper walking in on them. Surprisingly, Valentina just goes back to her post in yesterday's clothes and no one says anything. She makes some major personnel changes with disheveled hair, starting with sending Salvatore back to the beach so Isabella's fiancé Rocco can come back to the front desk.

Later that day, Mia returns to the resort for her lounge shift, and everything's great between her and Valentina. She even offers to take Valentina to the lesbian bars to find her a real girlfriend. Right after they stop talking, with the hopeful smile still on Valentina's face, Giuseppe comes back! Remember the previous lounge singer who was sent to the hospital after Mia gave him something that definitely wasn't Viagra. He has returned with a full bill of health, only to find Mia at his piano. Luckily for Mia, as soon as the drama is introduced, Valentina solves everything by firing Giuseppe and giving Mia the permanent singing gig. Both Mia and Valentina end the night on top of the world, but between the unjust firing and the dead body that'll be discovered the next morning, Valentina probably won't hold on to her job much longer. (We don't see the aftermath, but that's what headcanons are for.)

Lucia scams the Di Grassos out of 50,000 euros(!!).

Though Daphne is the Internet's favorite character, Lucia is the MVP of Season 2, walking away from a man she only knew for three days with a year's salary in her bank account. After "good guy" Albie promised to help her get away from her "pimp" Alessio in Episode 6, the mark wakes up with big plans, telling her she may be able to come visit him in Los Angeles. He goes to meet Dominic at breakfast with a battle plan, asking his father send 50,000 euros(!!!) to Lucia's account. Albie infuses this ask with a level of entitlement that is something to behold, as Dominic understandably refuses. Instead of backing down, Albie suggests that the money could be "karmic payment" for Dominic's history of cheating on his wife, and the son even says he'll put in a good word with his mother to take Dominic back.

This whole season, Dominic has been trying to change his ways and asking Albie to put in a good word with his mom. Because of this, even though he knows his son is being scammed, Dominic actually sends the money to Lucia's account. He tells Albie at dinner, and the 20-something immediately ditches his family to go receive thanks from Lucia. The sucker and the entrepreneur enjoy a sweet night together, and just when you think that maybe they are in love, Lucia sneaks out of the room in the morning, and Albie wakes up to her closing the door.

The last shot of Lucia and Mia is the last sequence of the episode, and it dispels any remaining doubts that Lucia has pulled off the scam of the century. In a parallel to the pair's first walk to the hotel in the premiere, we follow the women as they walk away down the Taormina street, before they stop to greet Alessio at his post (surprisingly as a doorman at another hotel). He was obviously an accomplice in the scam, not a "pimp" from whom Albie has saved Lucia. So the season ends with the two women on top of the world, and Albie doing just fine at the airport (more on that in a bit).

Portia was definitely kidnapped.

Episode 6 ended with only a general vibe that Portia was in danger, as Jack insisted on keeping her away from his "uncle" Quentin's villa. But within her first few minutes of finale screentime, it's clear that Portia's being held against her will, as she discovers that her phone has "mysteriously" disappeared from where she put it to charge. Jack shrugs off its disappearance, pretending that he did not take it, and later at breakfast he reveals that Tanya's heading back to Taormina via yacht, with Quentin and his posse of gays. Jack's going to drive Portia, who's missing her phone and whose luggage is left abandoned back at the villa.

We're about to see throughout this saga that Portia is not the sharpest assistant, but she actually makes a smart move in taking Jack's phone while he's in the restroom. She calls Tanya, they debrief on everything that's going on (including the reveal that Jack and Quentin were sleeping together), and Portia says over and over that she has a "really creepy feeling" about everything that's going on. Before the two women can come up with anything actually resembling a plan, Jack comes back and snatches the phone away. Poor Portia tries to demand that he takes her back to Taormina immediately, but Jack shrugs it off and takes his sweet time getting her to the car to drive her back.

Now, I do get why Portia would feel like she has nothing to do. When Jack's negging is still gentle, he makes some valid points: she probably brought very little money with her, she doesn't speak the language, and her attempts at assertiveness aren't really...assertive. Still, it's hard not to watch and cringe and yell at her to do something as Jack gets more and more frightening. She even confronts him about hooking up with his "uncle," and when he gives a non-response, she still lets him transport her to another location that obviously won't be the hotel. Instead, he drops her on the side of the road near the airport, saying that she shouldn't go back to the White Lotus because the people who hired him are powerful and not to be messed with.

Whether you think she's right to actually listen to Jack's threat, or wrong for not even trying to help Tanya, Portia does walk straight to the airport. We next see her waiting for the flight back to San Francisco, with nothing but her backpack and her ridiculous outfit. There she runs into Albie, who appears to have shaken off the fact that he was taken for literal tens of thousands of dollars. The last we see of them, the duo are exchanging numbers to assumedly date once they get back home. (Mike White, do not let these two show up married next season, I beg you.)

Tanya doesn't make it off the yacht alive.

And so we've arrived to the last guest of this season and the last person we thought the show would actually kill off. Tanya McQuoid was in the most danger all season, but still, she was the only recurring character. We love Tanya (and Jennifer Coolidge) which is why I was low-key stressed the entire episode. By the finale, the show was toying with the obvious sinister plot, letting Quentin become fully menacing even before Tanya and Portia connected the dots between him, Greg, and the prenup. The strongest fan theory (besides Lucia's plan) was proven true: Tanya's husband was the cowboy Quentin knew from youth and Greg hired Quentin and co. to kill Tanya so he could get all her money. I'm still surprised that the plan wasn't just to blackmail, but I guess the stakes were high this season.

Unfortunately, by the time Tanya figures out that Quentin wants to kill her, she has already gotten onto the yacht. The big boat drops anchor about half a mile offshore, and Quentin lets Tanya know that Niccolò, the mafia-connected dealer she slept with in Episode 6, is arriving to personally take her to the shore that night. It'll just be the two of them, and she won't make it to the shore. Trapped, Tanya makes a solid attempt to ask the captain to help her, but he doesn't speak English, and he's gay too! (Lots of gay villain jokes in this season, not all of them great.) That's when Niccolò arrives, with his trusty black bag that Tanya already knows carries a gun.

Tanya is a lot more enterprising than Portia in trying to escape. (Seriously, Portia, you at least didn't get your phone back in the three-hour drive?!) She knows to stall out the dinner, and she gets eyes on the bag. When Quentin says that it's time to go, she excuses herself to the restroom, and successfully grabs the bag! The next sequence is jaw-dropping, with Tanya pulling up her inner strength and arming herself with the gun, shooting Niccolò, Quentin, and Didier through tears. It's a scene that'll earn Coolidge another Emmy, as she then confronts Quentin not about the murder plot, but with a question that is sooooo unimportant: "Is Greg having an affair?" Tanya's gonna Tanya, but I was so proud of her for escaping her death...until she can't figure out how to get down to the dinghy. Not knowing to look for the stairs, she climbs over the railing in heels, slips, falls, and drowns.

So it was Tanya's body all along that floated to the White Lotus beach. It's a very classic Tanya way to go, and just like the Season 1 ending, fans are left with nothing to cheer for, feeling conflicted on how every character will move on after their trip to Sicily (except Lucia and Mia, who are living their best lives). There's also just so much that could've happened this season that didn't. Albie never found out that both he and his dad slept with Lucia, and Harper and Ethan ended up moving past their issues without a real discussion. For all the Sicilian characters, it feels like we're leaving them before the really interesting stuff happens. There could be a whole Lucia, Valentina, Mia sequel and a Quentin, Jack & co. prequel made out of my lingering questions, but that's not the way White operates. Instead, we'll now have to wait for a third installment with a new cast that might be a look at "Eastern religion and spirituality." Whatever happens next, we'll be watching.

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The White Lotus’s explosive season finale, explained

Who died (and who survived) at The White Lotus.

by Alex Abad-Santos

This article contains spoilers for the season finale of the second season of The White Lotus .

For the last week , White Lotus fans have been losing sleep in stressful anticipation of the series’s season finale and the answer to the show’s ultimate question: Which White Lotus hotel guests are gonna die?

And in Sunday’s finale, we got our answer.

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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, new friend Quentin (Tom Hollander) and Tanya’s husband Greg (Jon Gries) had a relationship — Tanya picked up (a poorly photoshopped) photo of the two in Quentin’s bedroom. 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.

Offshore on Quentin’s yacht, Niccolò (Stefano Gianino), Tanya’s mafioso escort from her cocaine-filled night, arrives to bring her back to shore — just the two of them and a sizable black “cocaine bag” in a tiny boat. Tanya is convinced Niccolò and the gays are going to kill her (“These gays are trying to kill me,” she whisper-hisses, perfectly). In a desperate move, she grabs the bag, finds the tape, rope, and gun inside, and locks herself in a stateroom. When the gays come knocking, she blindly shoots her way out, still whimpering, and manages to mortally wound if not outright kill everyone on the yacht. (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.

Tanya went out doing what she loved most, obviously luring in people with her copious amounts of money and then thwarting them last minute. (The murky status of Greg’s inheritance notwithstanding.)

In a cheerier conclusion than the first season, the rest of the guests got relatively happy endings.

How everyone else fared at the White Lotus Sicily

Fatally miserable couple Ethan (Will Sharpe) and Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza) recovered their missing intimacy, accepting a little bit of mystery in one another. 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. Ethan reveals the possible indiscretion to Cam’s uncannily zen wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy), who gives Ethan basically the same ambiguously erotic pep talk she gave Harper: Don’t be a victim; get yours. Unlike Harper, Daphne takes Ethan on a walk to a private island. After that, and a surprisingly not-weird dinner with the full foursome, Ethan rekindles his attraction to Harper and the two finally have sex.

The Di Grasso men left the island as they came — all terrible with women in their own unique ways. Dominic (Michael Imperioli) has a sliver of hope his wife will talk to him again, thanks to his son’s semi-extortionist blessing; Bert (F. Murray Abraham) still gets sexually excited from a hug. At the airport, Albie (Adam DiMarco) reconnects with Portia, each having been pretty well and thoroughly scammed by the sex workers they unwittingly ditched each other for. The two exchange numbers, so they can go on to hurt each other another day.

Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò) got to achieve their dreams this season: scamming men and singing at the hotel’s piano bar.

And speaking of sex workers, Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò) got a real happily ever after. Lucia played Albie and his dad for 50,000 euro. Alessio, the man supposedly stalking her, wasn’t a pimp or a disgruntled mob boss but just a doorman at a neighboring hotel. And as a result of accidentally drugging the resident pianist, Mia convinces hotel manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) to fire him. Good for them!

Men get played. Women get rich. Yachts became death traps. What a surprisingly jaunty ending for our White Lotus guests (save for Tanya) and oddly hopeful cap to the second season of this beloved HBO show.

The season is a well-executed murder mystery

The biggest shift this season 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. Fans were more determined than ever to decode every potential clue . The change in vibe began in the very first episode.

We meet Daphne who, at first blush feels familiar to anyone who’s seen The White Lotus season one. She’s got perfect hair, a perfect swimsuit, perfect teeth. Big, clean, gorgeous teeth. In White Lotus code, this means she’s probably a horrific monster. Daphne chats up the girls next to her, initiating a conversation about how lucky they are to be in Sicily.

“Italy’s just so romantic,” Daphne tells the women, before getting into the Ionian Sea one last time. “Oh, you’re gonna die. They’re gonna have to drag you out of here,” she says.

As Daphne takes the plunge, the water suddenly doesn’t seem as blue or clear as it did in the wide shot. And then it happens: A pair of floating legs (and Tanya’s corpse that they’re attached to) thump into Daphne, and send her screaming for shore. Onshore, we learn that a number of bodies have been discovered, but no final body count given (beach club supervisor Rocco tells manager Valentina that there’s a “few”). All we know is that the unalive people were guests of the hotel.

That’s where the real show starts.

In season one, the possibility remained that the body bag we saw in the very first episode had been the result of natural causes. But since we saw that end with snotty guest Shane (Jake Lacy) stabbing hotel manager Armond (Murray Bartlett), and started this new season with a whole pile of bodies, it seemed all but assured that foul play would be afoot at the White Lotus Sicily. Were these deaths an accident? Were they on purpose? Murder? Manslaughter? And more importantly: Who died? And who killed them?

White’s sneaky move was to let the subtle, even pedestrian betrayals in relationships feel like clues to a murder mystery. A thousand motives flit across the screen, all possible in the characters’ fragile relationships. Over an innocuous dinner or drinks at the beach, the tension between these characters seems like it might boil over — and occasionally does.

Suddenly, it wasn’t so difficult to see a scenario in which Ethan, frustrated with Harper, would kill his old buddy Cam. It wasn’t impossible to imagine Albie killing Lucia after finding out his father also slept with her, or Jack (Leo Woodall) tossing Portia into the sea because she found out Quentin wasn’t his uncle.

The first season took a big swing , giving us White’s ideas about how American greed and pleasure are interconnected and how Hawaii and Hawaiians became the mainland’s victims. The White Lotus ’s second season doesn’t even attempt to tell a similar story. Instead, it’s skewering gender by way of masculinity, sex, and desire. It’s a more sensational, more sordid, more sinister, and more streamlined story. It’s a less ambitious season, maybe, but a more successful one.

Daphne Sullivan won The White Lotus

The White Lotus didn’t invent miserable rich Americans, nor did it create our morbid curiosity with them. Watching the wealthy writhe in emotional displeasure is a long tradition, from The Great Gatsby to the Real Housewives . There’s something comforting in knowing there are limits to financial security, and witnessing people who could afford anything still be unfulfilled in ways that they’ll never be able to solve. There’s something about the rich on vacation that feels like it could go full Hunger Games .

Yet, despite the endless reasons to hate so many of the main guests — Ethan is so terminally insecure, Harper is a horny grump, Cameron’s a slimeball, Tanya is an emotional vampire, Portia has no backbone, and the Di Grassos have never met a woman they couldn’t impose themselves on — there’s one I would die for: Daphne Sullivan.

Obviously, a lot of my affection for the character comes from Meghann Fahy’s brilliant performance. And just as much can be explained by the ancient proverb : “girl does sociopathic shit, her gays [say] work.”

But it’s also what Daphne represents.

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. That’s the common thread among White Lotus guests. Look how they can’t even understand what’s happening around them.

Adding to that impression is that we also meet eternally mordant Harper, who’s crabby the minute she gets to Sicily. Harper does not want to be there. She hates being on vacation with people she hates.

This irritability makes Harper seem like the show’s protagonist. It allows her to point out how out of touch the people around her are, the implicit position of viewers at home. When Harper tells Cameron and Daphne that she’s an employment lawyer, Cameron quickly spouts on about how most harassment lawsuits are fake. When Cameron and Daphne tell her they don’t read or watch the news, she’s shocked at their incuriosity about the world. If Harper, who the show paints as smarter than the rest of the cohort, thinks Daphne and Cameron are idiots, then they must be idiots, right?

But as the show progresses, Daphne shows herself to be much smarter than she appears — and maybe wiser than Harper herself.

In episode 5, Harper, by way of a condom wrapper and emotional warfare, finds out that Cameron and Ethan did MDMA and that Cameron cheated on Daphne with a sex worker. When she tells Daphne as much as she can without spelling out all the details, Daphne doesn’t even flinch.

Instead of shock, Daphne tells Harper about her trainer Lawrence. They spend an enormous amount of time together. Lawrence makes her laugh. Lawrence keeps her fit. Lawrence doesn’t let her get lonely. She describes him to Harper as blond and blue-eyed, and offers to show her a pic. Instead, she hands over a photo of her blond and blue-eyed children. “Oops,” she says, with the smallest point, and we know she’s never made a mistake at all, but that Cameron has in underestimating her.

“I spend more time with him than Cameron sometimes because he’s so busy at work,” Daphne tells Harper, before her face sharpens into a smile that’s all edges. “The point is, maybe you should get a trainer.”

It’s in this moment that Harper realizes Daphne isn’t oblivious to her life but, rather, fully aware of every moment of it. Like her shopping sprees, infidelity to the point of paternity fraud is one of the ways Daphne has carved out happiness in what could be an utterly punishing life. She’s the trophy wife to Cameron’s wheeling, dealing, cheating asshole finance bro, but Daphne plays the game, too. She just happens to be smart enough to never be left footing the bill. She knows being unvalued will get her further.

Though it looks like they might, Ethan (Will Sharpe) and Cameron (Theo James) did not kiss.

Daphne puts her slightly mercenary wisdom to practice in the final episode, after Ethan tells her something happened with Harper and Cam. Taking just a beat to let the hurt wash over her, she’s quickly ready to metabolize. While we don’t know for certain what happens when Daphne takes Ethan on a walk to La Isola Bella, it seems to lead to a reset in the natural balance of the group, which had gone perilously lopsided for Ethan since he had reason to be suspicious of his wife. Does Daphne really want Ethan? (No, I don’t think so.) Do they actually hook up? (Yes, I think so.) What matters is that neither of them is a victim anymore.

Daphne’s worldview serves both halves of the Spiller couple well, eventually. Each had felt victimized by the other: Harper by Ethan’s expectations and lack of sexual interest, Ethan by Harper’s moods and frustration, both by the other’s lies. Daphne helps put the couple on equal footing by encouraging each one to take their power back. Honesty is overrated; an appreciation for mystery in yourself and the person you love is a much sexier solution.

“You don’t have to know everything to love someone,” she tells Ethan.

She should know; it’s an answer that has paid off her time and again. It’s also worth noting that Ethan and Harper being on good terms with each other is a good thing for Daphne. If Ethan doesn’t see Cameron as a threat, especially if you read his “walk” with Daphne as more than a stroll, he might be open to Cameron investing his money and obliquely funding Daphne’s lavish life.

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. Striving for something more never works out when you play against the ultra-wealthy. But here, all along, Daphne defied the odds and found a way. Just don’t tell anyone about her trainer.

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You might want to sit down for this take on the finale.

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On Sunday night, HBO released the explosive finale of The White Lotus . By now you probably heard that Tanya McQuoid, the ditzy heiress played by Jennifer Coolidge, didn’t survive. In a devastating (... but also kind of funny) series of events, Tanya is seemingly set up by her husband Greg. His suspected lover, Quentin, kidnaps Tanya and traps her on a yacht. Before the credits roll, she manages to kill her captors—but accidentally kills herself while trying to escape.

Despite the absurdity of it all, it seemed like a fairly cut and dry scene. Tanya finds a gun and uses it to defend herself. Then, in an adrenaline-fueled exit, she jumps off the yacht, knocks herself out on a pole, and drowns. While some viewers, like myself, processed her untimely demise, others were busy asking questions—like, where the hell was Greg during all of this? Was he hiding somewhere on the yacht?!

Well, Reddit user Large-Outside-9511 seems to think so. While watching the show, they spotted Greg’s name pop up on screen, which means he could have been one of the many voices yelling at Tanya before she began shooting. Check it out:

The closed captioning said Greg yells, “Tanya,” while she is locked in the room on the yacht. Then we heard people running upstairs and a door slamming at one point. Hugo was hiding behind the couch and the other two were shot. The captain was on the top of the boat so he was one of the footsteps. I’m thinking Greg was on the boat waiting for Tanya to be taken back to the hotel so he could stay the night on the boat and celebrate with Quentin while his wife floats away to her demise.

From there, the user suspect Greg ditched the boat and swam his sorry ass to safety.

He would have had enough time to escape to shore before the morning when Tanya’s body was discovered...Absolutely furious Greg won in this situation. I’m thinking next season he will be at the next White Lotus looking for his next con but gets caught.

As wild as it sounds, I'm on board with this is a theory. First of all, the Reddit fan was right— Greg’s name does appear in the closed captions. It’s quick, sure, but maybe we have a clue for Season Three. Speaking of, if the next chapter of The White Lotus is anything like this one, we can expect one returning character. In Season Two, it was Tanya, but now that she’s dead, Greg could be the throughline for round three. After all, Greg's story is the only one without a neat little bow—and even if he did manage to escape, he has quite the mess to clean up.

Not to mention: series creator Mike White teased that Season Three will tackle death and eastern religion. What if Greg travels to a new location to "grieve” Tanya's demise. In that case, I would be thrilled to see what karma has in store at the next White Lotus resort.

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[This story contains major spoilers from the season two finale of HBO’s The White Lotus , “Arrivederci .”]

The White Lotus opened its second season with a dead body to tell viewers that someone they will meet at the HBO show’s resort dies. But after seven episodes of getting to know the ensemble in Mike White ‘s anthology return — this time, set in Sicily, Italy — the ending remained unpredictable.

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The Extreme Pleasures of the “White Lotus” Season 2 Finale

At the beginning of the second season 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. 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. She screams, and soon the police are called, and more bodies turn up. Who are they?

“The White Lotus” is peak spoiler TV (and this might be a good place to say that there will be spoilers in this piece). By starting at the end of the story and only then rewinding to the beginning, the show creates an itch that the audience must continuously scratch, and, by Sunday night’s finale, the scratching had become outright clawing. 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. Murray Abraham). Albie had taken up with a local prostitute, Lucia (Simona Tabasco), who, unbeknownst to him, had also slept with his father, and who was being followed by her apparent pimp. And this was before we even considered the more minor characters (Giuseppe, the disgruntled hotel-bar pianist? Lucia’s friend Mia, the aspiring singer-slash-sex-worker?) It was truly anyone’s guess who the hell was going to die here.

I can’t pretend that there wasn’t something extremely pleasurable, on a plot level, in trying to crack this mystery. And yet the deaths also seemed to me like a bit of a beside-the-point hook: an easy entryway into the deeper business of considering how relationships on the series work—which is what White’s project is really about. “The White Lotus” isn’t a completely cynical show: its characters have feelings and doubts and fears that aren’t entirely subsumed by their baser, more mercenary instincts. 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. Death is significant in the “White Lotus” universe, not because each season has been framed as a murder mystery but because death is the only state in which people can’t jockey for more: more sex, more money, more dominance. As long as you’re still breathing, White tells us, you’re going to keep fighting to get the upper hand, or die trying.

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. This time around, the theme was desire, with most of the battles emerging from the characters’ preoccupation with sex. (“The motivation of sex is always primary, I think,” White told me when I spoke to him, earlier in the fall for the New Yorker Radio Hour .) 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. Portia, meanwhile, is drawn to Jack (Leo Woodall), the supposed nephew of Tanya’s new gay friend Quentin (Tom Hollander). Jack is an Essex boy whose touch is much less cautious than that of Albie, with whom Portia shares a couple of bland kisses early on.

Like the world’s most indulgent couples therapist, White deals with all these conflicts in satisfying yet surprising ways. Yes, Harper admits to some form of a hookup with Cameron, something that the season had been setting up since the very first episode; less expected is the response from these characters’ spouses. An aggrieved Ethan attacks Cameron while the latter is going for a swim, resulting in an underwater tussle that verges on the erotic. After a stranger breaks up the fight, preventing the two men from killing each other, Ethan reveals what he knows to Daphne. In one of the season’s more insightful—or, perhaps, depressing—moments, she responds by asserting people’s essential separateness from one another. “We never really know what goes on in people’s minds,” she tells Ethan, in a chipper but no-nonsense tone. (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. . . . It’s kind of sexy.” Then she and Ethan venture out on what, it is implied, is a sexual engagement of their own, to even the score. (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. But the congress is made possible solely through a complicated calibration whose ante will likely need to be upped.

Lucia, predictably, solicits money from Albie in a roundabout way, implying that it’s the only thing that can save her from her violent pimp. Albie asks his father to wire Lucia fifty thousand euros; in exchange, Albie agrees to put in a good word for Dom with his mother, Dom’s angry ex-wife. “I’ll tell her how sorry you are. . . . and how it seems like you’ve really changed—yada yada,” Albie promises, without much conviction; Dom, he says, should consider the money a “karmic payment” for all the hurt that he has caused his wife, his family, and maybe women in general. Giving your college-age son fifty grand to help out a prostitute might not be the most obvious form of making amends to your wife (and Dom’s main objection to the gambit seems to be animated not by any moral qualms but by the suspicion that Albie is Lucia’s “mark”). In the end, though, the deal seems to work: Dom calls his ex-wife, who agrees to talk to him when he’s back, and resolution appears close at hand. 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. Clearly, becoming a changed man might be more challenging than it looks.

Tanya and Portia’s plotline is the most delightfully twisty of the lot. In the fifth episode, we discover that Jack is hiding a secret; Tanya catches him in bed with Quentin. (This leads to what is perhaps the best line of the show, uttered by Tanya, to a horrified Portia, in the season finale: “Well, he was kinda fucking his uncle.”) When Portia asks Jack about the nature of the relationship between himself and his “uncle,” he explains that Quentin helped him out when he was “in a fucking hole.” “No one’s perfect,” he continues. “Sometimes you do things you don’t wanna do.” Even though this credo rings true of Portia’s oft-demeaning experience of working for Tanya, the idea, once articulated, seems completely unpalatable to her. Her goal in life, she told Jack earlier in the episode, is to be “satisfied,” although she’s not sure if such a thing is possible. The fact that no one is ever satisfied—that everyone endlessly tries to get the most in exchange for the least—is not just her view but also White’s. (Portia’s effective abandonment of her boss in the finale and her choice not to alert anyone to Tanya’s disappearance also suggest that she is looking out for No. 1, and that she is perhaps the worst assistant in the history of the job.)

“The prenup, the prenup, the prenup,” Tanya murmurs, recognizing that Quentin, in an attempt to raise money to refurbish his crumbling palazzo, has made a deal with her husband, Greg (Jon Gries), to kill her off. “He’s gonna pay them with my money so they can decorate their houses or some shit!” Tanya fumes. (As in Season 1, Coolidge is a comedy genius.) According to their agreement, if they divorce, Greg will get nothing of Tanya’s fortune. If she dies, however, he will finally have the upper hand, and her will to live, to win, is too strong for that. Panicked by the realization that, as she says, “these gays, they’re trying to murder me,” she goes out, gun blazing, spraying bullets willy-nilly and killing Quentin and his cohort on the yacht where they were planning to get rid of her. Tanya refuses to be what Daphne calls “a victim of life.” But that doesn’t stop her from eventually becoming a victim of fate. “You got this,” she tells herself, moments before tumbling off Quentin’s yacht, slapstick style, and hitting her head on a dinghy.

The last moments of the finale show Lucia and Mia prancing down the street, arm in arm. As Lucia stops to hug a tall, good-looking man, we realize that he is her supposed terrifying “pimp.” (Albie, after waking up in an empty hotel room to the discovery that Lucia has left without saying a word, admits to Portia, at the airport, that he was “played.”) The karmic debt has been paid, and it’s hard not to feel happy for the two girls, free of the pesky Americans who thought that they held the advantage. The song that plays in the background, however—Sam Cooke’s “The Best Things in Life Are Free”—provides an Opposite Day context to the scene. “All the moon belongs to everyone / The best things in life, they’re free,” Cooke sings. “Love can come to everyone / The best things in life, they’re free.” Wouldn’t it be nice if that were true? ♦

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Mia & lucia are the real winners of the white lotus season 2, the white lotus characters who could return in season 3.

The White Lotus season 2 takes place in Sicily with a new cast of characters, featuring familiar faces such as Jennifer Coolidge and F. Murray Abraham.
The season introduces new characters like Mia, a local Sicilian aspiring singer, and Albie, Dominic's son, who finds a love interest in Tanya's assistant.
The cast also includes notable actors like Aubrey Plaza, Theo James, and Haley Lu Richardson, who play pivotal roles in the unfolding story at The White Lotus hotel in Sicily.

The White Lotus season 2 returned to the titular resort chain, though the White Lotus season 2 cast and characters were quite different the second time around. Created by Mike White, the HBO comedy-drama limited series centers on a group of guests and employees at a fictional hotel in Hawaii and became a hit when it first aired in 2021. HBO soon renewed The White Lotus for a second season as an anthology series, taking place at a White Lotus hotel in Sicily.

The White Lotus season 2 took place in the Italian region of Sicily. The first season featured numerous memorable characters and a talented ensemble cast, including Sydney Sweeney and Jennifer Coolidge. However, only two cast members from The White Lotus season 1 returned for season 2. The White Lotus season 2 mainly focuses on new characters , though many of the actors are familiar faces. Here is The White Lotus season 2 cast and characters.

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Actor Name	Character Portrayed
F. Murray Abraham	Bert Di Grasso
Jennifer Coolidge	Tanya McQuoid-Hunt
Adam DiMarco	Albie Di Grasso
Beatrice Grannò	Mia
Meghann Fahy	Daphne Babcock
Tom Hollander	Quentin
Sabrina Impacciatore	Valentina
Michael Imperioli	Dominic Di Grasso
Theo James	Cameron Babcock
Aubrey Plaza	Harper Spiller
Will Sharpe	Ethan Spiller
Haley Lu Richardson	Portia
Simona Tabasco	Lucia
Jon Gries	Greg
Leo Woodall	Jack

F. Murray Abraham As Bert Di Grasso

Date of birth: october 24, 1939.

Actor : Outside of The White Lotus season 2 cast of characters, F. Murray Abraham is best known for his Oscar-winning role as Antonio Salieri in Amadeus . In that film, he was the envious composer who was jealous of his rival Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His other notable projects include roles in All The President's Men , The Grand Budapest Hotel , Moon Knight , and How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World . He was also a key cast member in the Showtime series Homeland , which earned him two Emmy nominations.

Title	Role
Amadeus (1984)	Antonio Salieri
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)	Mr. Moustafa
Homeland (2012-2018)	Dar Adal

Character : F. Murray Abraham plays Bert Di Grasso, the father of Dominic (Michael Imperioli), a womanizing Hollywood producer who wants to meet his distant Italian relatives. Throughout his stay at The White Lotus, Abraham comes into constant conflict with his son , as he believes Dominic's consistent infidelity is just par for the course.

Jennifer Coolidge As Tanya McQuoid-Hunt

Date of birth: august 28, 1961.

Actor : Jennifer Coolidge is a well-known actress recognized in several movies and TV shows. She enjoyed three huge roles early in her career that made her a star. This includes her role as Jeanine Stifler (the MILF) in the American Pie franchise , Elle's confidante Paulette Bonafonté in the Legally Blonde franchise, and as several characters in Christopher Guest's mockumentaries such as Best in Show and For Your Consideration . She also appeared in A Cinderella Story , Promising Young Woman , and The Watcher . She also had a memorable guest star appearance on Friends .

Title	Role
American Pie (1999)	Jeanine Stifler
Legally Blonde (2001)	Paulette Bonafonté
Best In Show (2000)	Sherri Ann Cabot

Character : Reprising her Emmy-winning role from The White Lotus season 1, Jennifer Coolidge plays Tanya McQuoid-Hunt as part of The White Lotus season 2 cast. Tanya, a wealthy yet troubled woman, finds her marriage on the rocks in Sicily, leading her to a new group of friends — but it doesn't work out well for her in the end.

Adam DiMarco As Albie Di Grasso

Date of birth: april 14, 1990.

Actor : Adam DiMarco got his start with roles on Disney Channel properties like Radio Rebel and Zapped . However, he gained his first bit of crossover recognition on the SyFy series The Magicians , where he played Todd, a physical magician who tries hard to win Eliot and Margo's approval. He followed that up with the role of Randall Carpoo in The Order, a member of the Knights of Saint Christopher. He also appeared in Pillow Talk as Andy, and as a teenager, he is credited as "Injured Red Shirt" in Star Trek Beyond .

Title	Role
The Magicians (2016-2020)	Todd
The Order (2019-2020)	Randall Carpio
Pillow Talk (2022)	Andy

Character : Adam DiMarco plays Albie Di Grasso in The White Lotus season 2 cast. His character is a recent college graduate and Dominic's son . Albie initially finds a love interest in Tanya's assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), but after she rebuffs him, he soon lands in someone else's arms.

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Beatrice Grannò As Mia

Date of birth: may 6, 1993.

Actor : Before The White Lotus , Beatrice Grannò has worked mostly on Italian-language projects. She was born in Rome and attended a musical academy, which led to her working on a stage career before moving to TV with Don Matteo . She followed up with major roles in Il capitano Maria and Wonder When You'll Miss Me . She has also played the lead in the ongoing series Doc - Nelle tue mani , playing Carolina Fanti. Netflix fans might recognize her for her 2021 role in the series Zero , where she plays Anna Ricci.

Title	Role
Security (2021)	Maria Spezi
Doc - Nelle tue mani (2020-present)	Carolina Fanti
Zero (2021)	Anna Ricci

Character : Beatrice Grannò plays Mia in The White Lotus season 2 cast, and her character is a local Sicilian who's an aspiring singer . She and her friend Lucia find themselves in and out of the White Lotus hotel often. Mia later seduces piano player Giuseppe to further her music career and finds herself in a tryst with Valentina.

Meghann Fahy As Daphne Babcock

Date of birth: april 25, 1990.

Actor : Meghann Fahy got her first big break thanks to soap operas with the role of Hannah O'Connor on One Life to Live . She worked on Broadway for a while before getting her breakout role as Sutton in the Freeform series The Bold Type . She's also had roles in The Good Wife , Chicago Fire , Deception , Law And Order: SVU , and Gossip Girl . She next appears as Merritt Monaco in the Netflix series The Perfect Couple alongside Nicole Kidman, Dakota Fanning, and Liev Schreiber.

Title	Role
One Life to Live (2010-2012)	Hannah O'Connor
The Bold Type (2017-2021)	Sutton Brady
Miss Sloane (2016)	Clara Thomson

Character : Meghann Fahy plays Daphne Babcock in The White Lotus season 2 cast of characters, a stay-at-home mom and Cameron's wife. She and Cameron go on a couple's vacation with Harper and Ethan, and it's quickly discovered that Daphne and Cameron's relationship is exceedingly toxic and not at all what it seems.

Tom Hollander As Quentin

Date of birth: august 25, 1967.

Actor : Tom Hollander got his start as a child actor and then moved on to Broadway for some stage work. He earned mainstream notice in the Oscar-nominated period drama Gosford Park , which led to several major film roles. This includes his roles as Mr. Collins in the 2005 adaptation of Pride & Prejudice and Lord Cutler Beckett in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies . He also had some TV roles, including as Lance "Corky" Corkoran in The Night Manager . In 2021, he played the multiple roles of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II in The King's Man .

Title	Role
Pride & Prejudice (2005)	Mr. Collins
Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)	Lord Cutler Beckett
The Night Manager (2016)	Lance "Corky" Corkoran

Character : Tom Hollander plays Quentin, a gay British expat traveling with his friends and his nephew Jack , who doesn't turn out to be his nephew at all. While Tanya makes friends with Quentin initially, it's found out that their friendship isn't what it seems, and Quentin has a more nefarious plan in mind.

The White Lotus' season 2 ending finally reveals the dead bodies from the premiere, with each guest facing troubling consequences in episode 7.

Sabrina Impacciatore As Valentina

Date of birth: march 29, 1968.

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The White Lotus Season 2: Unpacking That Stupid But Genius Ending

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 been playing us. But not in the way you’d expect the creator of The White Lotus to play you, carefully crafting a whodunnit with breadcrumbs pointing to a mastermind murderer who’d been planning this all along. Nor did he repeat the same successes of the first season, killing a beloved character but in a way that leaves all the detestable rich people mostly unbothered and unharmed, hammering home the point that as much as you can try ando eat the rich, it will never taste as good as it looks.

No, Mike White played us in the sensational second season of his sunny anthology series – moving the first season’s White Lotus hotel resort location from Hawaii to Sicily – by making fun of us just as much as his characters, and making a point that all this – mystery, death, money, sex, power – is actually so much more stupid than we’d want to think. That’s what makes it so delicious.

The end of the first season saw neurotic hotel manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) accidentally cause his own untimely – and deeply unpleasant – death, which saw the rich holidaying Americans shrug and make their way home. But season two of the show is much stickier: sex becomes currency, where money reigned supreme last time, and causes all manner of complications for friends, families, marriages and, well, hospitality workers.

Local sex workers Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò) ultimately win, with Lucia swindling rich boy Albie Di Grasso (Adam DiMarco) as well as his dad Dominic (Michael Imperioli) – they have both slept with her. 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.

But it is, for Lucia and Mia – who after drugging the hotel singer and taking his spot to fulfil her dreams as a musician, gets the job as well as a regular hookup with manager Valentina – a happy ending. It’s the most fair and logical conclusion, but one that The White Lotus up to this point almost suggested was too good to be true. 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. They scam, but in the way that Robin Hood scammed. He, and they, never needed to be saved. What a joy for justice to take on a more untraditional form – and to even still exist.

So, in this season, the locals do win. But what about all the dead bodies that turn up?

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. The genius of this season was to find ample reason for any one of these guests to die, and, even better, for them to have more than ample reason to kill each other.

But what happened in the end was so much more straightforward, so much sillier that it was almost unbelievable. Instead of punishing evil minds or torturing innocent bystanders to prove that greed is bad and capitalism will always kill, White went straight down the middle and… gave an operatic and accidental send-off to the one woman who allowed him to write a second season in the first place.

What happened in the end was so much more straightforward, so much sillier that it was almost unbelievable.

Jennifer Coolidge’s storyline as Tanya, which involved her sketchy husband Greg, a whole haggle of friendly but supremely sketchy ‘high-end gays’, and her dissatisfied and often ungrateful assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) who disappears with a charming but also sketchy Essex boy, sees the one character who’s been with us since the very start shockingly meet her maker. 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.

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? She spies the rescue boat deep down below, but just can’t figure out how to get there. She trips, hits her head, and simply drowns. It’s an awful tragedy, but it’s also really quite funny . It’s nobody’s fault, not the result of some major conspiracy to make her wear those shoes or anchor the yacht in such a way, instead a beautiful end (teased from the moment she claimed “death is the last immersive experience I haven’t tried”) to the trajectory one of the show’s best characters. Definitely wicked in her ways, often ignorant and selfish, incredibly dependent on those around her, deluded when it comes to so many things, but evil Tanya is not. The marrow-deep intensity and awfully sharp critique in the show seemed to point to anything but this.

And that’s why it’s so brilliant: it leans into Daphne’s long-held belief that she – and all the other women of the show, when you think about it – should never be victims, that you can fundamentally always choose how to survive the hand you’ve been dealt. And Tanya did rid herself of danger, for a minute, until her destiny found her. You could call it what Albie designated a “karmic payment,” in some ways.

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 to get to this point, both Johnson and White wrote stories so intricate, with stakes so high and countless possibilities for disaster, that solving a mystery with stupidity was just about the most genius thing they could do. It’s justice and it’s reality – and it’s utterly, undeniably thrilling.

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The White Lotus filming locations: A detailed guide to where the comedy drama was shot

The White Lotus is a popular HBO series that combines black comedy with drama. The story revolves around the lives of guests and staff at a fictional luxury resort called The White Lotus. As each day passes, the dark secrets of the seemingly perfect guests and the friendly staff begin to surface, and there is certainly more than meets the eye. The show is known for its deep dive into social issues, human behavior, and hidden dysfunctions.

Originally, The White Lotus was supposed to be a six-episode limited series. It first aired on July 11, 2021, and quickly became a hit thanks to its unique storytelling, detailed character development, and corresponding filming location. Due to its success, HBO decided to turn it into an anthology series. The second season was released on October 30, 2022, and the third season is planned for 2025.

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Season 1: filming locations in hawaii.

Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea (Image Source - HBO)

The first season of The White Lotus is set in a stunning Hawaiian resort, highlighting the interactions of wealthy guests who come to enjoy a luxurious holiday. However, the hidden truths and dark secrets start to affect both the guests and the resort staff.

Filming at Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea, Hawaii

The beach scenes were shot at Wailea (Image Source - HBO)

The first season was filmed at the Four Seasons Resort Maui in Hawaii. This resort is known for its beautiful beach views and tropical atmosphere. It features 380 guest rooms, three restaurants, three swimming pools, a luxury spa, and an art museum.

The production designer, Laura Fox, redesigned some rooms for the show. The Palm Suite, where Shane (Jake Lacy) and Rachel (Alexandra Daddario) stayed, is the Elite Oceanfront Suite. This room was redesigned with vintage green colors, velvet, and unique lighting for the show.

The Pineapple Suite scenes were filmed in the Lokelani Presidential Suite. This spacious suite has three bedrooms and was decorated with yellow, green, and brown colors. Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) stayed in the Hibiscus Suite, which is the Oceanfront Prime Suite. The Mossbacher family’s Tradewinds Suite scenes were filmed in the Maile Three-Bedroom Presidential Suite.

The beach scenes were shot at Wailea, close to the resort. Most pool scenes were filmed at the Serenity Pool, while the scuba diving lesson with Quinn and his father was filmed at the Fountain Pool.

Season 2: San Domenico Palace, Taormina, Sicily

Season 2 was shot in Sicily (Image Source - HBO)

Season 2 moved to Sicily, Italy, and the main location was the San Domenico Palace in Taormina. This Four Seasons property was once a 14th-century convent with breathtaking views of Sicily's east coast, the Ionian Sea, and Mount Etna. The hotel is known for its old architecture and Michelin-star dining.

The San Domenico Palace has 111 rooms and suites, some with private pools and terraces. The picturesque gardens and infinity pool were used in several scenes. Four Seasons bought the hotel in 2020 and renovated it extensively. Despite the changes, it still maintains its historical charm.

Castello degli Schiavi, Fiumefreddo

A still from Season 2 (Image Source - HBO)

This historic villa was used for a scene with the Di Grasso family. The villa has a 1700s theme with Baroque architecture. It is also famous for its appearance in The Godfather movies.

One where everyone was having dinner (Image Source - HBO)

The crew also filmed in Noto, a town known for its 18th-century architecture. Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Daphne (Meghann Fahy) took a day trip here. They explored the limestone piazza, Palazzo Ducezio, and the cathedral on Corso Vittorio Emanuele.

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Another scenic town, Cefalu, was chosen for some scenes. The town is known for its medieval streets and beautiful beaches. The opening scene, featuring Daphne talking to tourists, was filmed here instead of Spiaggia di Isola Bella.

The scenic beauty that has intrigued the fans even more (Image Source - HBO)

The capital city of Sicily, Palermo, was also a filming spot. Famous for its historic center and Piazza Marina, the city provided many great locations. Shopping scenes with Daphne and Cameron (Theo James) were filmed here. Portia and Jack also wandered through Palermo's old streets.

Season 3: Four Seasons Koh Samui and Anantara Mai Khao Villas, Thailand

Season 3 in Thailand (Image Source - HBO)

Season 3 is set in Thailand. Filming took place at two luxurious resorts. One of them was the Four Seasons Koh Samui , located on a private peninsula. This resort has private hillside villas, each with its own pool. The setting is tropical, with views of the Gulf of Thailand.

The other location was Anantara Mai Khao Villas in Phuket. The villas here are designed in a traditional Thai style. They are surrounded by a beautiful lagoon, a national park, and a golden beach. The natural beauty of these locations added a fresh, new look to the series.

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