In Defense of White Lotus Season 3...
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Why is White Lotus Season 3 considered the best season?
Season three of The White Lotus is by far the best season because Mike White's genius is his ability to articulate these very deep emotions through simple dialogue. Even normal conversations at dinner become these deep statements on female friendships, the wealthy versus the working class, age gap relationships, spirituality, or compromising your morals in order to get what you want. How experiences with other people bring out our own deepest insecurities. And while I very much miss Jennifer Coolidge, my favorite thing about this season is that every storyline was interesting to me. There were no static characters. Everything felt so dynamic and the people that they were in episode one versus episode eight could not be more different.
What's fascinating is that they were all tied together through this idea of toxic relationships and this very toxic relationship they have with their self-identity. Very early on in the show, the monkey even says to Piper, identity is a prison. develop this mindset. If I can't be this person, if I don't have this thing, this wealth, this relationship, this whatever, then I can't be the person I want to be. I can't be happy. And we trick ourselves into feeling that way at the detriment of our own joy. We become a victim of the expectations that we set for ourselves. And this happens all throughout the show. Some of the best moments of the dynamics, a family on a vacation, being in a three-person friend group feeling left out, this sort of age gap and experiences in relationships, Mike White intentionally reuses these tropes to make it feel like the show is almost satirizing itself sometimes, or rather in a conversation with itself. exploring the discourse in these relationships that we all have.
And what I love about this is we'll constantly see these tropes reappear, like a family on vacation in every single season, yet the way these families interact with each other could not be more different. However, we always feel ourselves reflected in them in some way. The entire essence of The White Lotus as a show is exploring this. It is exploring our relationships with wealth, with loved ones, with our family, with society and culture as a whole to make us introspect and think differently about the way we interact with our very own friends. There was no greater example of this to me than, again, this season with moments like these three girls and the dialogue they had, this feeling of competitiveness to the way that this family interacted with each other, to the way that wealth has really come across this entire series with narratives like Belinda spanning all three seasons. I think that this was by far the best season of the show.
And my goal with this episode is hopefully to prove that point to you. I really want to walk through all of these characters one by one and sort of the narrative arcs that they go on to really explain, one, what was my thoughts and feelings, but also why this show is so good at making you explore your own emotions, your own relationships with these things that we've all experienced in some way, yet we can always kind of feel ourselves personified as one of the people, but not always that person, or sometimes it even switches. So with that, welcome back to Nikki and I. I am your host, Nikki Baird. And I could not be more excited to talk about season three of The White Lotus. I have been obsessed with this show. And honestly, like, again, this season really did it for me. I think that the characters were so interesting. I know this is a very not common take.
A lot of people online really love the first two seasons a lot more. Also, I just know that I felt like this void of Jennifer Coolidge in the show felt like it was going to be impossible to fill. Because one, she's just so iconic. And two, she really just like was perfect in that role. You know, it really felt like the first two seasons was Jennifer Coolidge the show. But again, what I think really White Lotus is as a show is this exploration through these ideas of wealth, class, and the relationships that we kind of form with our family, friends, and loved ones around those things. And I think it was very interesting to see some of these tropes reappear in the first two seasons, but also a much different twist on them.
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