OPINION: 'White Lotus' made me think about the ways I experience my own life as disappointing and sad, which is more than I can say for most binge-fodder,' writes stevealmondjoy. whitelotus
Jennifer Coolidge attends the Los Angeles Season 2 Premiere of HBO Original Series"The White Lotus" at Goya Studios on October 20, 2022 in Los Angeles, California.
I recognized that any resistance to the second season would be futile, in particular because this time around, writer/director Mike White has fixed his gimlet eye on gender relations, in particular the kind of chronic chauvinism we callThis is the kind of show in which more than 50% of the male characters have sex with prostitutes, with no substantial injury to their liberty or marital status.
The older men praise “The Godfather” as the pinnacle of American cinema. Albie, recently graduated from Stanford, will have none of it. “You’re nostalgic for the salad days of the patriarchy,” he says. What the show does manage to capture, in fleeting moments, is the sorrow and solitude lurking beneath all the male predation. “I feel sorry for men, you know,” Daphne says to Harper . “They think they’re out there doing something really important, but really they’re just wandering alone.”
I don’t mean to suggest that men are some special class of victim. Part of the point of a show like “White Lotus” is that men who can’t experience true intimacy tend to inflict their misery on the women around them.
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