Ep. 2: “Special Treatments” with Tayme Thapthimthong, Lalisa Manobal and Sam Nivola
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Who are the hosts of the White Lotus podcast?
Hello, and welcome to the White Lotus official podcast companion to season three. I'm Gia Tolentino.
And I'm Josh Bierman.
And I'm here to warn you that if you haven't watched episode two of season three, watch it right now before listening to this, because we will spoil every single beat of the episode for you.
What should you know before listening to this episode?
Yes. Although this may be the last warning, because by now you probably know how podcasts work. Yeah. And later on in this episode, we're going to be speaking with Taim Taptim-Tong and Lalisa Manaval, who play Gaitak and Mook, and Sam Nivola, who plays the youngest Ratliff, Lachlan.
Which characters are discussed in this episode?
Josh, I have a question for you before we get into all of this. This is my toxic sex in the city assortative behavior question. After following these characters for two episodes, who are you? Are you still Goggins?
Yeah, yeah. I'm now stronger in the Goggins direction. When he gets into the treatment center and is there in this kind of spiritual repartee with the guru there. I don't need to detach. I'm already nothing. Even nothing can be an illusion you tell yourself. That's when I was like, oh yeah, now I get it. That's where I fit in. Who are you identifying with?
I'm lessening on my Chelsea identification. It's really the party girl aspect of her that I connect with. But she is a little bit more naive and sweet in this episode than I am necessarily. I unfortunately am beginning to identify more with the three women who are constantly talking shit about each other.
And where do you land in that trio?
Oh, God. Well, unfortunately, I'm not. I mean, I'm not a lorry. Never been a lorry. Just kidding. I probably have been a lorry at times in my past. It is one of the women that are eager to be the alpha. This episode is called Special Treatments, and it's once again written and directed by Mike White. The episode starts where the last episode ends, which is like after Carrie Coon has gone to bed. And Kate and Jacqueline, Leslie Bibb and Michelle Monaghan can really get into the gossip. And the dynamic on display between these three women is that everything that they are doing when it's the three of them together is completely fake. And then as soon as one of them leaves, they snap into the mode of truth-telling.
They probably console themselves by believing that their gossip is actually a form of caring because they're talking about, oh, poor things went through this troubled time. But it's not really constructive, compassionate. It's because they don't do anything. There's no action taken. And then later, the other leg of the stool is present when it's. Laurie and Kate.
Talking about Michelle Monaghan.
Yeah, exactly. And then it seemed like she picks up that they're talking about her explicitly, right? They're trying to like basically undo that facade brick by brick in the conversation they were having just before. And then the whole thing with the husband. Yes. There's something weird there, right? She goes on and on. They're so in love. They're addicted to each other. But I mean, are they ever even in the same city?
I don't think they ever see each other. Yeah, and now we just have to wait for the shit talk about Leslie Pipp.
I can't wait to hear what that is.
But it's like you find out when they're talking about Jacqueline that it's like both of those women have been profoundly sexually unfulfilled for a long time and you find it out just in the way that they kind of...
Yeah. Talk. Right. Right. Also, I mean, I feel it's again, I feel like it's difficult to watch, but it's also I think the writing is sympathetic to the characters. Like they're not malevolent. They're all doing it's all kind of self-preservation. Right. Because you're feeling these instincts of comparison and your emotional hackles are based on your friend's success or not. And so so.
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