hey what's going on everybody and welcome back to my channel movie files elliott back again with
my weekly recap breakdown review of the latest episode of hbo's the white lotus we're talking
episode 3 which is titled mysterious monkeys and there was a lot of monkey business going on this
episode and i'm so excited to talk about it with you all and break it all down here in the spoiler
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episode three of the show what'd you think about it let's talk about your pros your cons
is this your favorite episode out of three who's your favorite character out of the first three
episodes let's discuss it all in the comments below so my initial thoughts coming off this
episode i gotta say the episode has his moments you know our mind and everything that we were
getting and learned about him and seeing mark and the aftermath and learn about his dad and
this continuing continuous situation with paula and olivia and all the other characters shane
and his wife rachel but i'm not gonna lie that this episode it wasn't as sharp in the writing
department it wasn't as interesting as some of the other you know the previous two episodes and
i think that kind of boils down to and i mentioned it you know last week whenever we transitioned to
catching up with belinda and tanya nothing against those actresses i'm just not as interested in
their story and we spent a lot of time with tanya in this episode and there are moments i thought it
was funny with her in a boat but i'm just not that invested in that story we spend a lot of time with
them so again there are moments that i enjoyed and we'll break it all down but i just wasn't as
engaged in this episode as i was in a previous two but hey we'll talk about it in this breakdown let
me know what you all thought about it again this is probably my least favorite episode but still
that being said i still enjoy this show and i'm really excited to talk about it with you
all but let me know what you all thought about episode 3 in the comments below so let's kick
things off with the breakdown as the episode opens up and i love by the way i love that the
show is six episodes and it's a six day trip so we're literally not missing a beat from any
of these characters besides them going to the restroom in the middle night or getting like
a snack to eat but this is essentially we're watching their entire day to when they go to
bed and then the next episodes when they wake up so i love that it's in real time because it
makes it feel like you're actually there with them which i would love to be in hawaii right now but
as i digress the episode opens up with paula yet again with mr nobody as she calls him the busboy
it's more than what she's living or saying to olivia she's really into this guy and we'll talk
about the end of the episode obviously but we see that olivia wakes up and is calling for paula and
she's not in the room she eventually comes back in the room and yet again she lies about where she is
which brings me to the question i asked last week what is the deal with their friendship slash
relationship is it a matter of they were friends since they were kids they met in high school they
met in college what is it about olivia is she attracted to paula is it a jealousy thing that
the boy isn't attracted to her that she doesn't want her to spend any time with anyone else
because she's bringing her on this family trip for free i don't know quite yet let me know where
you all stand and we'll talk about more of their scenes later on this breakdown but what is your
thoughts on olivia and paula is it a reciprocal relationship does paula like her vice versa let's
talk about it in the comments ladies and gentlemen but i love again the sequence of waking up in the
morning with our characters as we get the montage of mark reliving the conversation he recently had
with his uncle we see quinn has lost all of his electronics and we know today's society
i'm guilty of it too when you lose this thing it's almost like you lost a hand he loses electronics
we see tanya waking up with her mom's ashes and we see shane and rachel having some morning sex
again this episode was called mysterious monkeys and it was a lot of monkey business a lot of sex
in this episode i mean hey can't blame these people they're on the island you're on vacation
take advantage of it but in that sex scene i don't know if you all noticed this is kind
of showing the the cracks in the relationship and we'll talk about the relationship and how
certain things are higher prioritized than others but it didn't seem like rachel was really into it
and we'll obviously talk about her conversation with her husband a little bit later but
again transitioning into waking up in the morning we see our characters waking up in paradise and we
see the employees coming to work belinda again we spend a lot of time with belinda and tanya
but she's on the phone with her son and she tells him essentially what's going on and the son's like
mom listen take advantage of the situation if she says drum you just say how high which i don't know
how i feel about that again belinda you know we seem to kind of get the idea that she works hard
and she's uh she hasn't been you know getting the the the proper uh due to what she does for
a living and people don't really notice how good of an employee or good of a worker she is a good
of a masseuse good of a person she is she's very undervalued but i don't know if if she should be
so gun-ho on just taking the word of tanya that she'll help her create this business and she just
met her two days ago so i don't really know if i fall in the same campus or something like just
take advantage situation because the situation might take advantage of her it might just be more
of tonya using her for this kind of i need someone to lean on i'm on this island by myself remember
tyne's the only one that isn't with someone uh you know relationship-wise so she's just
gravitating towards someone that's paying her some attention so i don't know if belinda should
put all her marbles in this bowl which is tanya in the situation but let me know if you all feel
like she should take advantage of the situation or if she should be a little bit more reserved about
maybe opening this partnership with tanya let me know your thoughts in the comments but let's
go back to this morning room routine as belinda which by the way someone mentioned the comments
last week and i didn't catch it i haven't revisit episode two but apparently armand has a history
with drugs and that he relapse obviously we saw him take the drugs last week but apparently him
and belinda belinda is aware of his drug addiction i have to revisit episode two to confirm that but
she catches him in his car taking a cat nap and this is just one of many examples in this
episode of him just kind of getting further and further away of the person we met in episode one
he's just his job and the pressure of being the manager of the resort is really getting to him
and those drugs are temporarily helping him but it may have him completely go off the rocker as
we see him do some things in this episode that we'll talk about but moving on down to our family
the mossbacher family and their morning routine which is always funny to me but this is an
interesting conversation as we cut to them in the morning topic at hand comes about which dominates
social media cancellation as olivia is seeing that her dad mark is not in the best demeanor
he's obviously upset about what he just learned nicole takes it upon herself to tell the family
what he just learned and live it leave it up to olivia i don't know is she trying to make her
dad feel better or is she making fun of her dad in this moment because she says hey dad maybe grandpa
was a power bottle maybe he was a topper maybe grandmother didn't allow him to use dildos in
their sexual times together so again we don't know that much from olivia besides her being seems to
be obsessed with paula but we don't see that other side of her is she being nice to her dad trying to
lighten the mood or she just doing what she's done these past two episodes which is kind of
making fun of people when they're at a very vulnerable state let me know your thoughts on
where you think olivia was in this moment but the conversation about cancellation because
nicole brings up he has every right to be in his raw emotions after learning that his dad
had a second life and then he died of aids and i'm actually in that camp that i don't think
personally i don't think and i don't know mark's a fictional character obviously but
based on the conversation i don't think he was being homophobic about how he was reacting to
the news he just found out as his daughter saying that he's coming off to be homophobic and i think
that kind of speaks to that younger generation uh in regards to not putting someone's sexual
preference on them but the idea that he just learned that his father had the second life and
what it involved and how he died would be very shocking to someone's whole idea of someone so
i don't think he was being homophobic but again it just kind of goes into society you just think
they're homophobic and as nicole says what's gonna happen gonna cancel him very instant conversation
and this was one of last week had a lot more kind of the trophy wife conversation all the different
things we talked about but this week didn't have as many like that type of conversation in
this episode but again let me know where you all fall on that whole cancellation side there's no
right or wrong answers but let me know did you all feel that mark was being homophobic or was
olivia just being a little bit too you know social media canceling type of mindset let me know your
thoughts in the comments but going back to this all this conversation going on quinn he doesn't
care about anything that he just learned about his grandfather about his dabbing and his feelings
he just wants his electronics as his mom nicole orders him a new phone which again just speaks to
the whole premise of this show these people are on this island they have this beautiful you know food
and and you know the room is great and all this stuff but all the stuff kind of comes out all
the demons come out all the reveals come out on this beautiful vacation which i kind of love about
the show but let's go back to our newlywed couple shane and rachel as they're having breakfast and
the conversation gets brought up about shane being a little bit more horny than usual and he brings
up well i have a hot wife and i love having sex with you and she says to him well that's not like
the top priority for me as it seems to be with you which speaks back to episode one when olivia
and paula kind of brought up some things about the relationship how quickly things moved shane's
very decisive he knows what he wants he's very good with words and it kind of speaks to rachel
falling and i don't think she's in love with shane if i'm being honest with you all i
think she's more infatuated with who he is as a person and what potentially he can offer to her
not saying she's a gold digger by any means and i think she's a very independent character thus far
but i think there was a matter of she saw a particular i don't want to phrase it this way
but she saw a certain opportunity she saw this guy who seemed to have it all and to seem to be you
know there was that attraction there but was that attraction translated to love and i think that she
wanted to love shane but now she's figuring out who he is and how much of an [ __ ] he is that
she's starting to see maybe this person we're not on the same page he cares more about sex i care
more about the connection and they seem to be on two different levels so let me know what you all
think about that topic at hand between the two married new couple but back to our mind which i
love this move by rahman here and he wasn't in the episode that much but i love what he did the back
and forth between him and shane as he set shane up on the boat that earlier in the episode he set
tonya up who's going to be very drunk and going to be very emotional with her letting her mom go on
the boat and he put shane and rachel who wants to do he wants which was surprising shane wanted to
actually do something special for his wife but her mind went ahead and put him on the same boat with
tanya and we'll talk about that awkward dinner but i thought that was such a powerful move by
our mind which i'm at for a second i thought our mom's gonna do actually and be like you know what
i can put this beef behind and do something nice for him maybe he can leave me alone for
the rest of his vacation but no tit for tat and rahman definitely wins this round but let's go
to scuba time as we see mark and you know his son quinn about to go to school but by the way
at this point in the episode mark's drunk off his ass which let's talk about in the comments
who was drunker was it tanya was it mark i think mark was pretty hammered throughout this entire
episode drinking blurry bloody mary mary's and various uh dips and alcohol i think he was drunk
off his ass this entire episode but he's having this conversation he wants to be more honest with
his son and honestly i think he wants to be more honest with everyone in his life as he has a very
awkward uncomfortable conversation with rachel that we'll talk about in a little bit but this
was an interaction i really was looking forward to seeing it and didn't disappoint as we see
olivia and paula at the pool shane coming up to you know mess with them and being very flirtatious
now i initially thought that shane was gonna go up to them and say hey you really hurt my wife's
feelings last week i want you to apologize for her but no he was just essentially flirting with them
which i don't know the angle of if it's his way of trying to like butter them up and get like nice to
them and then eventually say hey can you apologize my wife or he was just essentially being shane
and being an [ __ ] right in front of his wife and just flirting with him and not even realizing that
he's flirting with them but they're playing into and just laughing and rachel's just like you know
what i'm done with this as she goes back up to the room but let me know where you all stand was shane
flirting or was he trying to just get into the good wills of those young girls and eventually
make them apologize to his wife let me know in the comments but we get another very interesting
and a very awkward conversation and interaction between two characters that really haven't spoken
thus far and that is mark and nicole or i should say mark talking about his wife nicole in front of
rachel as he's saying oh you're in your honeymoon and talks about how he still loves his wife but
the spark isn't there which obviously now in the show we're seeing the mirror image of how
how much more in common they have than they realize which nicole is kind of the the shane
per se as far as the finances of her relationship between her and mark and obviously we can see that
mark and rachel are kind of the ones that are just kind of on the back end in regards to the
finances being more reliant on their significant other to be that financial stable within the home
so he goes on and talks about his and his wife's sex life and how it's like very not something
that he's looking forward to is almost like he's forced to but at first the first three years it
took him forever to touch his wife so rachel this whole time like i do not want to be here right now
and i don't want to hear this conversation but i think what she took away from that conversation
is when he said that he still loves her but there isn't that spark anymore which goes back to the
beginning of this episode and goes back to episode one when she tells shane will we always be like
this will we always be young well we always have this type of attraction towards each other which i
think again we're starting to see the crumbling of their relationship and the the love really might
not be there for both characters but my favorite part of this episode was when they were on the
boat because we're seeing tanya is drunk off her ass she is very emotional shane and rachel
are obviously uncomfortable as well as belinda and also the dylan who was there giving them the food
and the drinks and all that but we see her start to throw the ashes over the boat but she just
couldn't do it but again that whole scene the show this episode should have been called uncomfortable
because everyone was uncomfortable in the boat and i was surely uncomfortable watching her talking
about her mom being a nephromaniac and being very jealous and crude and crying and being emotional
it was just a very awkward situation but probably my favorite moment of the entire episode but let's
wrap things up as we see armand and mark sharing a drink and a big moment comes out for a mom very
funny moment as well as mark says you're gay right he says yeah i'm gay and he says you know
he wonders what it's like to have sex with man and hermione asks him would you like to find out
and mark takes his drink and goes about his day but we learn in the very next scene that our mind
at least i think they confirm and he's talking to dylan and he compliments him on his man bun
and said he's really into that type of look so i guess this episode confirms that her mind is
gay which uh will be really interesting to see how that plays out the rest of the episode if
mark's gonna take up that offer of uh what it's like to have sex with a man that would be very
interesting in the coming weeks but wrapping up the episode shane thinks that armand has
gaslighted him he's been ghastly this whole life it's just the hand that he's dealt as him and his
wife eventually have sex and again i think that we're going to continue to see rachel seeing the
flaws in their relationship but wrapping up the episode as we see quinn watching porn on the beach
but we see olivia finds paula having sex again this episode is called monkey mysterious monkeys
and there's a lot of monkey sex a lot of monkey business going on she's having sex with this kid
and while her brother's watching porn on her dad's phone she's watching porn in real life
and again is it jealousy is she upset with her is she like why are you spending time with him
i'm in love with you i can't wait to see what this relationship really is all about but it was very
interesting to see this and i wonder if this is the start off point for maybe olivia being
angry and maybe killing her friend paulo we'll see but nonetheless again there are moments i
enjoyed the boat scene was funny the armand do you want to find out what it's like to sleep with men
was funny but again when we transitioned to tanya and belinda it just it's not as intriguing not as
interesting we didn't get that much from the cold in this episode i really like that character uh
but again the writing wasn't as sharp and i wasn't as engaged but i still enjoyed this episode and i
can't wait to see what episode four has to offer to us so let me know what you all thought about
the episode again your pros your cons and what do you hope to see in next week's episode and let's
have the discussion that we talked about in this episode about the cancellation thing is is mark
being homophobic and and all the stuff that we got in the episode let's have a discussion about it in
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