Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Something I relate to. What do you make of that? Is he afraid that something is going to come undone?
Like everyone in the family is aware that it could go away any second in very different ways. Exactly.
Sam, thank you so much for talking to us.
Thanks to our guests, Tame and Lisa and Sam, and we'll see you all next week.
Hello, and welcome to the White Lotus official podcast, Companion to Season 3. I'm Chia Tolentino.
We will be your co-hosts throughout this journey in Thailand. We'll be recapping and breaking down the episodes, discussing some of the larger big picture themes. We'll be speaking with the cast and the crew.
And if you haven't had a chance yet, I strongly recommend you check out the Look Back episodes of this podcast in which host Evan Ross Katz dives deep into the first two seasons of White Lotus and speaks with everyone from Mike White to Jennifer Coolidge. You can find those episodes on this very podcast feed.
Are you holding back your greatest tidbit about this season specifically, which is...
Well, I'm Gia. I write for The New Yorker. I'm one of those toxic people that believes, like, but if I went to The White Lotus, I would just have an amazing time and be happy. Funny enough, though, I have been to all three shooting locations. I mean, not in connection to specifically the filming of The White Lotus, but I have been... more or less a vacationer in all three places.
So I'm an asshole just like the rest of them slash us.
It's true.
Before we get into the recap of the episode, I have a burning question. Who did you have the most immediate identification with on this season?
You never leave. I'm a Chelsea through and through.
You know, every season of this show, I've identified with the person that gets brought there but, like, definitely can't pay for it. You know what I mean? Although I will say... When I have been to, respectively, Hawaii or – like I never have a bad time on vacation. I believe like very – I have a strong like moral belief in one should never have a bad time in a beautiful place.
And I don't think I ever have. But again, that's toxic denial on my part. But Chelsea, just clueless, happy, you know – party girl along for the ride, just trying to get people to get drunk with her. I guess I'm sort of aging out of that phase of my life, but the part where she's at the bar and meets another girl that's there for no reason, basically, and is just like, should we get pissed?
Well, the part where I most identified with her, obviously, is when she gets poured the taster of wine. And she's like, I'm sorry to complain, but it's actually not very much you poured me. And she doesn't know that it's a normal thing that rich people do. That was what I was like, oh, she's me, I'm her.
Okay, so this episode is called Same Spirits, New Forms, like all the White Lotus episodes. It's written and directed by Mike White. And like all of the season openers, we get, you know, a shot of paradise. We get a monkey sitting on a tree branch overlooking this gorgeous sort of twilight paradise, you know, pastel sky Thailand scene. We're meeting a ton of people.
The first two we get are Zion and Amrita. Amrita is teaching Zion to meditate in this beautiful pagoda. And this beautiful scene is broken up by the sound of gunfire. He leaves the pavilion. He jumps into a pond trying to stay clear of the gunfire. And then he sees the body, the traditional body in this season floating in the water.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, totally. Well, I also think it's like the previous deaths were more or less accidental, right? And this one is, you hear a gunfire and you're like, okay, I mean, someone is shooting to kill.
Someone set out to kill somebody, right? With more sort of violent intention that was previously there.
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