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Haley Lu Richardson spills the most 'perfectly Portia' details from 'The White Lotus'

Adam DiMarco, left, and Haley Lu Richardson in the Season 2 finale of“ The White Lotus.”.

Across the nation Sunday night, millions of people watching the Season 2 finale of "The White Lotus" could be heard screaming, in unison: "Portia, for the love of God, what are you doing? Do not get in that car!"

Few TV characters in recent memory have been as wonderfully vexing as the frazzled 20-something assistant and agent of chaos played by Haley Lu Richardson in the second installment of HBO's hit mystery. Wearing divisive outfits that look like they came straight out of the spring 1999 Delia's catalog — and which have inspired much social media snark — Portia tags along to Sicily with her boss, the flighty heiress Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge), in hopes of an adventure, but she winds up with far more than she bargained for.

Over the course of one particularly eventful week in Italy, she strikes up a flirtation with nice guy Albie (Adam DiMarco) and ghosts him for Jack (Leo Woodall), who seems like a cute, fun-loving "Love Island" reject but turns out

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