2x07 Arrivederci

That ending was wild. What a season and what a finale! Fantastic pacing and suspense.

• This season the local characters are left in a better place than where they started, unlike the first season. Lucia is set for a bit. Mia got her dream job. Both getting what they wanted and being carefree and menfree. A win for the working girls! I do appreciate the stylistic choice of dresses for this ending scene, especially Lucia. The difference from her work outfits was super stark to me. It’s so rare to see a sex worker actually not be the victims or villains or just sad.

• Albie is such an aggravating character. So dumb but so righteous in his mind. Lucia played him like a fiddle. Turns out he is just like his dad and grandfather but with a different twist. He sold out his mom for a woman he met three days ago. His character arc was subtle but really well done. I liked when his dad asked him, "How are you going to get through life being such a huge mark?", he has to know he’ll be providing for Albie for his whole life. That shot of all three DiGrassos watching after the same girl in the same way in the airport was so good and perfectly sums up their characters. Albie and Portia deserve each other.

• Portia has been out in public all day and wait until she was in a private enclosed space with Jack to start asking why he is having sex with his uncle?! Annoying and dumb the whole way through. Her and Albie deserve each other, a match made in straight heaven. It was on brand for her to ask for Albie’s phone number right after he told her about the drowning and dead bodies on the yacht.

• Great acting from the guy who played Jack because he was legitimately normal at first and then got worse and worse as the story progressed. He was so creepy and the end.

• I think Tanya dying was too obvious and I thought for sure they would give us a twist but nope. Kind of disappointing. I was wondering how she survived so long considering how dumb she is, so of course she goes out the stupidest way possible, very fitting for her character. She asked the dying man if her husband was cheating on her, Tanya was never the brightest bulb in the box. I feel like the line "these gays are trying to murder me" was written knowing full well it would become a viral meme used in group chats and tweets for years. I just wish we knew more about the Greg situation - who was Greg talking to on the phone in that other episode when he says “yeah she has no clue as usual” or something like that, and then “I love you too”. His storyline still has a lot of question marks and I wonder if he will be on season 3, vacationing with his newfound wealth. I hope Portia speak up about what she knows when she gets back to the states, I don't want Greg to win like this.

• I don't really buy the Ethan/Harper happy ending - they're just resigned to be Daphne/Cameron and happy about it. I am so confused by their storylines like the lesson is, have sex with someone else to save a marriage? Huh? Ethan and Harper have been fighting and bitching all these vacation days, then they get laid and their relationship magically fixes itself? So lack of sex was literally their only issue? Why did Ethan struggle with having sex with Harper in the first place? Ethan sucked the entire show honestly. He continuing to gaslight Harper that he “didn’t do anything” and he’s “always been honest” is so wild. He’s a terrible partner, he cheated first and then protected his friend (who is not a friend actually) rather than tell his wife the truth, then he had the audacity to demand the truth from Harper? He and Daphne definitely had sex, I feel like that's the only reason why Ethan was finally able to get over his jealousy. I really liked the scene where Ethan tells Daphne that he thinks that Cameron and Harper hooked up. Meghann Fahy is amazing, her facial expressions in that scene were incredible.

• My only problem is that the finale was predictable, no element of surprise. I had hoped for another plot twist that we wouldn’t see coming. Overall, the season was good. Some might say the ending was rushed because it’s up to out imagination to determine how everything really is resolved but that was the case with season 1 ending as well. The ending was typical in terms of Mike White’s writing. The White Lotus is not a show where things get resolved in a tidy way. Each character’s narrative arc is more about how they are changed by their week on vacation. The stories can’t really wrap up in a super conventional way (besides the death, of course) because the idea that life goes on beyond the White Lotus is so central to the show.

What a great finale. Not so much on the who died portion as I knew before we got here who was dying. I wish we had more information about Greg though. I expect him back season 3 because I really hate that he walks away a winner. I didn’t like him last season and definitely don’t like him now.

I said how the characters in this show is meant to be hated and I stand by that. Ethan has been an annoying little shit since the beginning when all he had to do was tell the truth like he kept saying he does. It is ridiculous they come away from this as a couple that mimics the Daphne and Cameron. They’re horrible people and terrible partners.

Portia and Alvie… so consumed with their own BS. How he could not see he was being played idk. Why she got into a car with a man she suspected of being part of a murder attempt on her boss is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. They’ll be like Ethan and Harper in a couple years.

Lucia, eh. A grifter is a grifter and I feel bad that she took advantage of that poor boy but he should have seen it coming when she asked for money to fix her problems. A flight to america would have been a much cheaper and probably safer way to run away from them.

I’m happy for Valentina. I saw her episode 1 and said she needs to get laid. I was right. Didn’t see her being a lesbian tough, but that’s even more a win to me. I’m glad she’s letting loose a bit. And I’m glad mia is getting her dream.

Kind of disappointed we never saw a confrontation between C&D about their past aggressions. Or some kind of character development outside of their scenes with E&H. But then again, this is why their relationship works I guess. They ignore their issues and carry on loving each other and spending ridiculous amount of money left and right. LOL Honestly, I found their dynamic the most compelling and thought provoking. (Maybe followed by the 3 generations of the Di Grassos.) While everything else is fairly entertaining, it's nothing we haven't already seen before. Anyways, it's like C&D found themselves stuck in this vicious cycle of mind games and trust issues and for all we know most of it could've been based on nothing. I mean it takes D but 2 seconds after E tells her something MIGHT have happened between C&H for her to proceed with her revenge plan so she wouldn't feel like a victim. What I'm saying is, YES, Cameron is a liar and a cheat, but Daphne should at least make sure some of these accusations are true before getting back at him, say, by bringing a CHILD into this world OUT OF SPITE. Obviously this child is loved and cared for, but what if that wasn't the case? IT IS WILD, I TELL YOU! They are CRAZY and I low key want a whole show on them.