The Erudite, Absurd <em>White Lotus </em>Finale
Even for a show that has seemed dubious about human nature, Season 2 ended on a cynical note.
This article contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of The White Lotus.
In an interview with NPR’s last week, the writer and director Mike White suggested that his hit HBO series had less in common with most prestige TV dramas than with the network shows of his youth: ,,. I appreciate his lack of pomposity, but this is total , as one of the artichoke-wielding di Grasso women might say. , across its , has been thrilling precisely because of how deftly it pairs high art with low humor: Aimé Césaire and shitting in a suitcase, mimetic desire and tattoos, Monica Vitti and Peppa Pig. White might be playing to the peanut gallery, but he knows there’s more to his work
