Despite a change in location and a buzzy slew of new faces, the second season of “The White Lotus” initially feels like an echo of the first—then it gives way to a more mature drama.
,” delivers perhaps her best performance to date, depicting the self-loathing that arises when one doesn’t, or can’t, leave a gig they know is sapping their will to live. Her character is another astute portrayal by White of a floundering sort of youthful disillusionment, where a keen awareness of the limitations of an older generation’s mores is only accompanied by a stark loss for a satisfying alternative.
The threat of sexual betrayal hangs over each room of the White Lotus Sicily, a former convent. Figurines of, life-size sculptures of a Moor’s head cut off by his Sicilian mistress for failing to mention his wife and kids, dot the premises. Sad-eyed saints, too, leer from the walls.
Behind closed doors, Cameron, a boorish finance bro, is just as disdainful of Harper and her killjoy self-seriousness as she is of him. But he also can’t help coming on to her—less out of attraction than out of a reflexive competitiveness that has made him pursue any girl in whom Ethan has expressed interest since their college days. And yet the foursome’s most involving dilemma isn’t erotic but existential.
A family fractured by marital faithlessness—perhaps a future version of Cameron and Daphne’s brood—makes up the season’s most compelling grouping. A multigenerational trio of Italian American men from Los Angeles make a once-in-a-lifetime trip to visit their ancestral homeland. But it’s quickly revealed that Dominic has been left by his unseen wife for his many dalliances, and that she has turned their daughter against him.
But, in this gentler season, White saves the knottiest issues for earnest Albie, who is too “nice” to win over Portia. He soon becomes a mark for a high-end escort his age, Lucia , who sees sex work as easy money and attempts to cajole her friend Mia into working the White Lotus with her.
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