HBO Max's new Sunday night show is called The White Lotus. Lotuses are flowers that
rise above the muddy water and bloom in beauty. The lives of The White Lotus guests are very
muddy, so let's see if any of them are able to bloom over the course of the season.
But we do know that one person will not bloom. Because someone died.
The episode began with the newly wed, Shane Patton, at the airport alone a week after
the events of episode 1, which of course, suggests that his new bridge, Rachel Patton,
has died. And that may be. She did make a joke about stuffing ourselves and drowning
in the ocean. And writers of shows like to drop cheeky lines like that in the first episode
ahead of later reveals. But Rachel dying would be a little on the nose. And there is another
reason for Shane to be alone. Shane is a loser. Rachel is a kind-hearted journalist. Whereas
Shane is the son of a very, very wealthy Real Estate developer. They got married after having
dated for only a few months and have come to the island on their honeymoon. But they
are already fighting. Shane's mother had booked him the Honeymoon
Suite, which is the more expensive Pineapple sweet, but the hotel gave them the lesser
Presidential Suite called the PALM. And to put salt in Shane's wound, there is another
newlywed couple, a German couple, in the Honeymoon Suite. So Shane may kill that guy in a jealous
rage. Or he may kill the hotel manager because Shane and the hotel manager are already having
a passive aggressive verbal fight which may later escalate.
As a contrast to those two newlywed couples, Tanya MacQuoid came to the island alone with
her mother s ashes, which she wants to spread in the ocean since her mother loved the ocean.
But she doesn't know where to do it. During her consultation with Belinda, Tanya hinted
that her mother did not love her. And neither do men. Tanya has not been able to keep a
man, and we may know why. After her massage, Tanya gave Belinda a two-fold generous tip,
and she is now obsessed with her. Let s hope that Tanya doesn't get jealous and kill Belinda
because Belinda was pretty nice. So Tanya came to the island alone. But Mr.
Mossbacher, or Mark, came with his family. Mark believes he may have testicular cancer.
The episode ended with him waiting for his doctor to call him back. And Mark is extra
scared because his own father died of some type of cancer when Mark himself was the exact
same age as Mark s son Quinn is right now. So basically, Mark feels like he may die.
But the body in the coffin could be that of his son Quinn. The hotel manager, Armond,
told Mark and Quinn that there is a family of sharks, but they are small. And cute. As
we said earlier, show writers like to throw in cheeky little lines for endgame reveals,
so there's a chance, that Quinn, who didn't see any fish the first time he went snorkeling,
goes back out there and finally sees a shark. But not the small, cute ones. Quinn may get
killed by a big, mean shark. Of course, that's unlikely. As is this next
option. Quinn is an introvert who likes gaming. And his sister Olivia bullies him for it.
Olivia and her friend, Paula, have forced Quinn to sleep in the kitchen. They mocked
him in the beginning of the episode and again at the end. But the second time, Quinn snapped
back at his sister Olivia. So there's a chance, albeit a small one, that Quinn kills his mean
sister, Olivia. Or Paula. Quinn also snapped at his mother, Nicole Mossbacher,
when she was babying him by cutting his food. So who knows? Maybe Quinn kills his mother.
For now, there's no other reason to believe that she's the dead body other than the fact
that her daughter may not like her. But for the sake of this episode 1 intro video, it's
worth noting that she is a very successful woman. The CFO of Poof. So let s wait and
see if it is her life goes poof. Speaking of death, Lani is doing the opposite.
She's bringing life to the world. On her first day of work at The White Lotus, Lani has gone
into labor. She is currently having contractions in Armond's office, and as she does so, she's
screaming, which is an interesting contrast to Belinda's Sanskrit singing earlier in the
episode. And last, but not least, the final scene was
shot in a way to suggest that someone was watching Rachel and Shane as they hopped on
the good foot and did the bad thing. If so, who was that? And does he or she kill Rachel,
or is he or she the one to die? We may find out soon, but probably not. They
will probably keep us guessing until the finale. And before we go, it's worth noting that Paula
seemed to have a thing for the busboy, so we may see more of them next week. And there's
other stuff to discuss from the episode 2 trailer, but I'll save that for the next
video. Until then, catcha on the flipside.