We should have seen that White Lotus ending coming, writes rilaws
, though, the more I began to see its inevitability. Of course the blithe richies were going to pack up and leave the hotel almost entirely unscathed, folding back into the relative ease of their lives, leaving the dead and injured and scarred behind them. It’s not a subtle point, but it’s a valuable one—one I should have seen coming, and now understand as probably the only way things could have gone.
The bookend scenes of the series, with Shane pouting and testy in the airport terminal, made up the third part of an important triptych inlaid into. Tellingly, gallingly, we never saw Shane interrogated about why he stabbed a hotel manager in his room; even the possibility of consequence was elided, skipped right over as the minor detail it was.
Look how uneventful the loss of these people—their push into poverty, their probable incarceration, their death—was in the show’s deliberately narrow purview, working class people shuffled in and out of the frame until their utility was expended. There was also, of course, Belinda , one of the hotel employees preyed upon by the vampire guests who did, actually, get a small moment to assert herself toward the end of the series.
One line from the series sticks out to me most resonantly, a sorrowful and chilling sentiment that speaks bracingly to the limits of perspective and empathy. “Something bad could have happened,” says a tearful Olivia when confronting her friend Paula about the robbery disaster. Exhausted and disillusioned, Paula responds with a simple, though rather huge reply: “Something badhappen.
In the end, the something-bad was escaped from, soon to be forgotten by all but the ones left behind—and by Paula, now reentering her old life with a tragic understanding, and a shame, in her heart. One hopes all this catastrophe will eventually come to claim the reckless people who got away, that the wave will catch up to even Quinn, swiftly gliding across the sea. Butsuggests that it won’t, not any time soon.
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