Jacques Berlinerblau: White Lotus abounds in happy endings. Those who do whatever they have to do end up in a good place. Propriety be damned.
The characters of "White Lotus" transgress ordinary boundaries of sex and prompt reflection on its meaning.“I, too, am gay. Here, we are all gay. . . Everyone of us is gay. Everyone one of us.” So says Tommaso, an inscrutable yacht captain in the stunning finale of the second season of “The White Lotus.” Skipper Tommaso’s declaration seems to me to refer to more than the literal gay mafia he is ferrying around the coast of Sicily.
Valentina, the female manager of the luxury resort, at first crushes hard on a subordinate employee. Undaunted by that power differential — but happy to later upbraid a male colleague for doing exactly the same — Valentina ends up in bed with Mia, a singer and part-time prostitute who prefers men.This was White Lotus’ season of taboo adjacency. A father and son have separate assignations with Mia’s bestie, a sex worker named Lucia.
Is the show championing one particular gay ethos over and against one particular heteronormative one? Was Tommaso, in his conspicuous knitted white cap, pointing out that the characters on this show — be they male, female, straight, gay, bi — all abide by a less hypocritical, more carnal and infinitely more human moral compass? Such would be refreshing corrective to a majoritarian ethic of sexual repression, fidelity at any emotional cost, and dull romance.
The Stanford kid with his Gen Z sensibilities extracts a “karmic payment” of 50,000 euros from his dad in order to pay off Lucia’s debts to her pimp. Reconciled with his father, the lad eventually admits “she played me.” His dad warned him, and he was right. No big deal though. He learned something.
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