hey what's up everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott here today to give you
all my thoughts my review and have a discussion with you all about this second episode of
hbo's white lotus we're talking episode 2 which was titled new day and i said it last week in
my first review hey if you guys want to have a discussion about this interesting show well let's
do it and you guys responding well to that first review and here we are breaking it all down with
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below what you think about the second episode how are you liking the mixture of the conversations
being had the drama the comedy the dry comedy the characteristics so far who's your favorite
character let's discuss it all in the comments below so of course this isn't you know a show
that is leaving you on the edge of your seat like oh what's going to happen next but i really enjoy
the pacing that the show has the comedy beast i feel more natural to the situation and not
like over-the-top comedy i'm enjoying seeing these privileged people and seeing their drama what they
consider drama in their lives and i'm just liking where the show is headed and just a conversation
in this episode that we'll talk about i'm really enjoying but i'm i'm having a good time with this
show and and i knew i was gonna probably enjoy it but i didn't know i was gonna enjoy it this much
so i really enjoyed the second episode we're gonna break it down recap it but let me know in the
comments what are you all thinking about this show so far again your pros your cons if you have a
favorite character so far who are you rooting for and again if we are gonna talk maybe some mystery
who is in that box from episode one again full spoilers ahead but let's get into this discussion
this recap as again this episode is titled new day and we're seeing a new day for a lot of characters
right we see that with mark we see that with tonya and we're seeing a a new kind of situation that
rachel may play into as being the trophy wife so it was a really good episode but starting
off the episode we see olivia and her friend paula getting high you know this again is so
interesting to see this younger i think they're probably in their early 20s they're on this
beautiful resort and they're on this beautiful vacation but yet they can't seem to find happiness
and just like going to the beach enjoying some food having a good dance they're just like
bored with their lives which kind of speaks to the society of certain generations just kind of being
the intention span right and not appreciating what's in front of you so i kind of really enjoy
this kind of situation that we have with paula and with olivia but it's in this moment that mark
is is given the good news he doesn't have ball cancer which is definitely something that got
him really excited and he has this new chapter this new day of sorts with his character which
we'll talk a little bit about later but let's talk about olivia and paula for a second which i
didn't want to talk about in my review last week because it was spoiler free but are we thinking
that olivia is romantically interested in paula or is it just a situation where she comes from money
and she almost has this type of persona i have this type of idea that she kind of i want to
say owns paula but she has this kind of greediness and kind of this selfishness that she doesn't want
to share her with this boy that's interested in her and things that nature let me know where you
all are sitting on the fence is it romantically that olivia is in apollo and i don't think that's
reciprocated if it is that route or do you think it is more lines of she comes from money she feels
like she has this type of ownership towards paula let me know you guys thoughts in the comments
it could just be a simple matter of jealousy as well it doesn't even have to be those two
options i just mentioned it could just be she's jealous that paul is getting attention from this
guy and she's not getting the intention so let me know you all's thoughts on that but we have more
discussions about those two characters but what i really enjoyed about this opening sequence is
just seeing our characters waking up again they're all privileged they all have the opportunities
of having their own businesses and things that nature but it's just interesting to see them kind
of waking up you know lucky shane there waking up to rachel but i love in this moment seeing armand
who i would have to say so far he's my favorite character he's really bringing the comedic chops
and just seeing him manage this resort but he is still in shock with the young lady that had
the baby last week and in this in in the midst of all that you can kind of see that ramon the
pressures of being a manager is really weighing on him and we'll have that discussion about
i've been in that position never a resort manager but i've been in a position of management and
it's just like it does weigh on you and all the things you do the customer service the customer is
always right that's why he's my favorite character because i can really relate to making the customer
happy which we'll talk about that scene here in a second but going back to the mossbacher family as
they're waking up and the morning routine is just it's the comedy beast that's really working for me
as well as the conversations but seeing just the the day-to-day lives of you know waking up to your
family and just seeing how quinn is butt ass naked in the closet and the mom's still trying to get
him in the main room we see our man mark again happy as hell that he doesn't have ball cancer
and talking to his daughters and instead again we expect this from paul and olivia they always kind
of find a way to kind of poke fun of the situation or make you kind of feel bad about something that
you're happy about as they're talking about his balls inflating and deflating it was just again
the comedy beats is really working for me in the show but let's talk about ancient romans my
favorite character but the most interesting couple so far the family that's really interesting to me
is definitely the mossbacher in the patton family but rachel gets offered this piece which doesn't
pay that much money to cover a youtube influencer and shane's just sitting there looking like
that sounds like a waste of time sounds stupid and then let's have this conversation as he
talks about her situation her financial situation has changed now that she's married into money and
that is a conversation i want to have with you all in regards to the reality of the situation at hand
and how you all feel about this i've never been married so to my male audience to my
female audience that have that are married and if you were in that position where either you
were making more money than your husband or your husband was making more money than you
and when you guys combined your income and again you don't have to get too in detail
but let's have the discussion how how did you all handle that do you feel in the position
as shane and the tradition of the man making money and supporting the family and the wife
can be the the stay-at-home wife or in this case a trophy wife or do you feel the polar opposite
in where i feel you know to put my stakes in it you know the independence of women not losing
their identity losing who they were before they got married right so again let me know how you
all feel about that conversation the trophy wife versus still having your independence as we see
with nicole's character in the show and let's just have it again there's no right or wrong
answers but i'm just curious to how you all feel about that conversation this is the conversation
that the show kind of brings to the table but speaking of shane he's back at it again he's
hounding our mind about the whole room situation this is why our mind is my favorite character
because i've been in this position where it's just like the customer is always right right and i love
the swerve that hermione gives him when she's like listen it was probably a mistake but i'm gonna do
my best to make the situation better and you just see shane just me and he's still not satisfied
with that resort and that just speaks to the shane character he's never happy he always wants he
always feels like he's right right he always feel like he's old that room where anyone else in that
situation you have a pool side you have your beautiful wife you have this great room you're
you're you you sit you succumb for money but yet he always has to kind of find the the nitty-gritty
and make things bigger than what they are so again this shane character he's the a-hole of the show
uh and i'm really enjoying the way that the actor is portraying the [ __ ] of the show
uh and then again the swerve that hermione gives him is classic because i've been in
that position where he's just like listen i know that you're upset about the situation but hey i'm
gonna work some magic i'm gonna do this that and the other to make things better it's just like
i don't miss those days and be in the management and then for those that are still working in
management or working nine to fives or you know have people that give them the orders
trust me i know where you have where you're at and it can be very frustrating but let's
go back to shane as leave it to him he finds a german couple he finds out that herman was lying
and he calls his mom and the mom mom gets the travel agent involved which we'll talk about but
again we see let's go back to rachel she sees nicole has and this is another interesting
conversation and actually kind of funny it stars that starts off as a conversation that rachel was
having with nicole about okay what is it like to marry into money and in her situation at hand and
how nicole being the breadwinner in her family and the the economy in that conversation was really
really interesting and it was a really fascinating conversation that unfortunately kind of turned for
the bad because nicole finds out what rachel does for a living she found out that she wrote a piece
about her that she took it as a situation where the piece made it seem that nicole was riding
the metoo movement to get to the position of power uh which is obviously a conversation that
is being had in today's society in regards to how you know the the doors have kind of opened
in regards to women being in more position of power uh people of color be in a more
position of power and some people feel like some people take advantage of whether it be a
black lives matter movement the metoo movement so again it's this conversation that the show
it does it's not a political show but it is rooted in reality in regards to the conversations that
you know i have with my friends and my family and it is really interesting so let me know
how do you all feel about that conversation was rachel wrong to phil kind of offended that she
read the piece wrong or do you feel more in line of nicole like how you wrote that and how it
could be a miscommunication in the conversation being had in this situation i'm not a woman but
there are many occasions where women take down women and being a black man black men black women
uh people of color taking down other people so it is a really interesting conversation being had but
in particular with nicole how she views that piece and how rachel viewed the piece that she
was writing as being more uplifting where nicole feels like it was taking her down so again i love
how this show kind of throws that into the mix with all the different things going on here so i
thought it was funny seeing these two characters paula and olivia on the beach doing coke
and they come across tanya who is just kind of killing their high and interrupting their high
talking about what she's going to do with her mom they don't want to hear that they want to
enjoy their high so they accidentally run off the beach but they forget their bag which we'll
talk about in a second but and we'll talk about tanya in the conversation she has with belinda
but going back to armand who hears it from the travel agent and he has the bag in hand and i
just knew that he's going to take advantage of those prescription drugs the coke the weed which
he does at the end of this episode i think that might relieve him of his stress of his
day-to-day job but let's go to dinner time as we have a moment where nicole is like hey that
woman over there speaking of rachel talking to her daughter olivia she's like she's a fan of mine and
olivia and paula they really know how to dig at their characters and dig at the other characters
in the show she's like a fan of who and again she's not impressed with her mom and there's
another conversation again women taking down women or not being like appreciative of someone having
a higher stature in a male-dominated field and she doesn't really see her mom in that light
she just sees her mom as her mom and not really admiring the the hustle the grind or whatever it
took for her to get to the position of power so again another good conversation being had
but i i like it here where we see rachel breaks the news to shane regarding that she wants to take
the job but then shane being kind of misogynistic comes and says he just says no you're not going
to do the job and then we even see amanda amman coming in with the wine and thinking that he's won
this round and that he's you know the man of power like i just told my wife no i just got a free
bottle of champagne but you know he's still it's not enough for him as we kind of move forward as
uh olivia is talking to hermione about the back she notices that paula is talking to that busboy
again is it romance is it jealousy is it she just wants her friends attention and no one's else let
me know your thoughts on that but we do see armand does take the bag for himself to take those drugs
but i don't want to leave out two of our other main characters and that is tonya and belinda
they have again they're my least interesting interesting characters in the show but they do
have an interesting conversation interesting spin on the situation where belinda talks about how she
her most her clients are privileged are white and they're rich and we see this conversation kind of
transform into well have you ever thought about making your own business and she said yeah but you
know this that and the other it's expensive and we see her offer her money to open up a business
which again we what's the situation there does she feel bad for her is this again handy feeling like
i'm gonna help this person that needs money i'm gonna help this masseuse who changed my life is it
something rooted in positivity is something rooted in her own self-interest let me know where you all
think that that that particular friendship's gonna ahead but wrapping up the episode again
mark has his newfound life he doesn't have ball cancer he's talking to his family he wants to
do scuba sessions with quinn he has his speech at the dinner table about looking at life differently
and we end the episode with mark getting a call from his uncle because we know that he had the the
cancer scare and he finds out that his dad didn't die from cancer but instead his dad had two lives
one that mark was aware of being the family man but two was that he was a gay man and that he died
of aids so shocker for mark for nicole who's in the room and that just puts a
whole new perspective on his life right and this is going to be interesting to see mark
having this high all episode and now his world's kind of crumbling down because i would imagine
the way that mark speaks about his dad he really looked up to his dad and again he thought his dad
died of cancer but he didn't die of that and he also found that his dad had another life
that'll be really interesting to see how that plays out in the coming weeks and we finish the
episode with armand taking the drugs i think he's gonna make i don't think he's gonna get hooked
on drugs but i think he's gonna start using those drugs more and more as he's getting more stressed
at work and we see quinn uh looking at a well on the beach so another interesting episode a lot
of good conversations again about the the let's let's talk about the two families that are at
beef right now because rachel and nicole are at odds and we have the mossbacher versus the patton
family and we have the conversation about a trophy wife versus a wife who is the breadwinner in the
family we have the conversation about what's tonya and belinda's situation is that she's
trying to be helpful to be more positive or is it again self-interest the situation at hand between
paul and olivia is it romance is it jealousy is it kind of feeling some type of ownership over
paula and what can we expect about who's in the box who is the person that is died or murdered or
you know who however they ended up in that box who do you think is the character that will be
revealed to be the dead character let me know your thoughts in the comments again
i really enjoy this show i'm really enjoying the uh conversations that this show has offered and
i want to continue the conversation with you all in the comments so if you haven't already
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