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Updated 1 week ago,April 19, 2025
How have you been since theWhite Lotusfinale?
Did you call your whitest friend and tell her that shes your soulmate?
Did you make the sound of Fabian shrieking and falling into the water your ringtone?
The White Lotus
Did you text that one friend who drinks too many protein shakes and say, I told you so?
It only took eight episodes.
However, it has also resurrected an old Tanya storyline in the mostWhite Lotusway possible.
(Spoilers ahead.)
Lets start with Piper.
You know, like all of us did in college!
(Three people die in the finale.)
He also proves her right about their Amor Fati.
These two were always end game.
All it took was money.
She just immediately goes full selfish rich person and says goodbye forever.
In the same stroke, the old Tanya storyline is both resurrected and then surpassed in callousness.
People rarely change, money corrupts, and rich people get what they want.
Thats why Belindas turn fits so well into the season and series as a whole.
In fact, we can almost forgive the show for having done Tanya dirty by keeping Greg/Gary alive.
Ultimately, there are many aspects of Season 3 that didnt hit well with fans.
The white ladies were never integrated into the plot, even though that Carrie Coon monologue is undeniably iconic.
The subplot about Fabian becoming a pop star went nowhere.
The growing menace of the Russians fizzled out halfway through the season.
Worst of all, the monkeys never slapped anybody!
Footage of angry monkeys is to Season 3 as shots of exploding volcanoes is to Season 2.
They were a metaphor all along.
And though Tanya may not have been avenged, theres always Season 4.
Gary has already appeared in three consecutive seasons.
Perhaps Season 4 will be his last, if you know what I mean.
