Welcome to the White Lotus

Ah so good to be back in the land of beautiful environments and cringy people :) As promised, we’re seeing shades of spirituality, Eastern religion, and death, with the usual dash of entitlement and strained interpersonal dynamics that we love so much. Join Randy, Jenny, and Jason to talk it through. 

Next up: The White Lotus S3E2 “Special Treatments”. Once you’ve seen it, let us know your thoughts.

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Things go all Tarantino in the wildly surprising season two finale! And of course, we get into some deep discussions about sexuality, infidelity, and desire, ‘cuz we aim to please :P

And that’s it for our coverage of The White Lotus for awhile, until we get S3. Thanks for listening everybody. It was seriously fun and endlessly fascinating to talk about this type of show, with this group of hosts, and you guys writing and calling in.

As I said, keep us in your feeds if you want to hear us talk The White Lotus: Thailand, and maybe we’ll drop an episode or two in the meantime.

Ciao for now :)

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Things are getting dark in this second-to-last episode of The White Lotus season 2, with suspicion and threats everywhere. We’re happy to be joined this time by special guest Jenny Ryan!

If you’ve seen S2 already, be sure to stick around for the spoilery segment at the end.

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Lots of possible game playing (and definite game playing) going on at the White Lotus this week, with lies, cheating, everyone messing with each other, and possible scams afoot! It’s all rather delicious.
Stick around for spoilery segment at the end.

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We spent most of this episode naming off condom brands. Enjoy!

Note that we forgot to mention on the podcast: Next week’s ep will be out a few days later, as Jason and Randy are in Boston for a meetup with the Zedheads (my super-fun Patreon group).

PS There IS a spoilery segment at the end of this ep where we talk about implications for the rest of the season.

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This ep spurred a lot of talk about gender, what comes naturally to us vs. what is a social construct, the difference between flirting and harassment, addiction, and a lot more. We know, it’s supposed to be a fun sex comedy :) We definitely had fun talking about it, and we would seriously love to know your thoughts too.

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This show feels like a study in psychology and human sexual behavior, as we try to figure out what everyone wants and what their true intentions are, and whether they even understand themselves. Are you guys finding it as fascinating as we are?

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Buongiorno a tutti! Welcome to beautiful Sicily as we get going with the second season of The White Lotus. It’s more of a sex romp this season, and we’re not shy about the details, so get ready.

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It’s time to row off into the sunset as we’ve come to the end of The White Lotus season one, with this astonishing finale.

Much thanks to all of you for coming along with us! It was a great time, and we’ll see you in Sicily in a couple of weeks for season 2. Ciao.

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Next episode: The White Lotus season 1 finale! S2E1 “Ciao”

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Emotions are all over the place at The White Lotus this week: Anger and resentment, peacefulness, neurotic insecurity, smug self-satisfaction, fear, and admiration, among other things. Join Randy, Jenny, Jason, and special guest Wendy (who’s watching the show for the first time along with us) to talk it through.

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Next episode: The White Lotus season 1 finale! S1E6 “Departures”

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This episode had cluelessly hypocritical moralizing, people disappointing and/or trying to stick it to each other, cringiness, sublime moments, laughs, and sex. So, you know, White Lotus :)

Stay tuned to the very end for a quick spoilery segment if you’ve already seen through The White Lotus seasons one and two (or don’t care about spoilers).

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Next episode: The White Lotus S1E5 “The Lotus-Eaters”

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Most everyone at The White Lotus has sex on their minds this week, and we sexplicate it all.

On a much more somber note, as we’re sure you’ve seen, Maui is in the middle of a terrible tragedy, with wildfires stoked by winds from hurricane Dora having taken many lives, and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. The Red Cross is doing a lot of work to help, like providing shelter, food, and resources for evacuees and first responders, helping people locate missing loved ones, supporting shelters for animals and caring for injured animals in partnership with the Maui Humane Society, and more. You can donate to help this effort by going to redcross.org/donate/hawaiiwildfires.html.

At the end of this episode, Jenny and Jason talk a bit about their experience in Maui.

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Tensions rise among the resort guests and staff this week, but luckily there’s a big bag of drugs to help smooth everything out, so we’re sure everything will be fine soon.

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Next episode: The White Lotus S1E3 “Mysterious Monkeys

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Aloha everyone, welcome to our podcast. Smiles! We’re excited to get started talking about The White Lotus, a standout show of the last few years. This show has such a deliciously beautiful look and feel to it, with so much going on under the surface related to class, race, sexuality, identity, age, and morality, among other things. Plus, we think it’s funny AF. Glad to have you all watching along with us!

Our plan is to cover the first two seasons, episode-by-episode, and then pick up with season 3 (to be filmed in Thailand) when it comes out, hopefully next year.
• The three of us have seen the first two seasons, but we’re going to try our best to be non-spoilery for everyone watching it for the first time.

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Next episode: The White Lotus S1E2 “New Day”

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