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White Lotus Season 1 review
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:14 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Subject: Spoilers A Triumph.
I unironically loved it. Thought it was great. Somehow challenged lib social taboos from the lib perspective which is rare. I grew up around people like that so it was very relatable. Nearly all the characters had redeeming and endearing qualities, except Shane, who sucked.
I think Dadarios arc was abrupt. Her getting over being a trophy wife was sudden. Felt like there was more there to explore but I get that when they made it they thought it was just a one-off.
The younger brother going native was 180. The dad winning back his family's respect from fighting the robber was funny and satisfying.
I think the best overall scene was Jennifer Coolidge telling the dying guy that she's crazy and him being like yeah but I still want to smash. That has happened to me in real life countless times where a girl let's her crazy side out right before sex and you just play it cool. Coolidge deservedly won an Emmy but surprisingly not for that episode.
Overall the writing was top tier and surprisingly au courant for our times. I did wish the brown girl got arrested for theft.
My main criticism is there weren't enough boobs. I had to sit through a closeup shot of a fake penis and balls, a man defecating, and an gay ass eating scene and all I got was a bad angle shot of Dadarios nips. 0/10.
Discuss season 1 here but no season 2 or 3 spoilers. Will review as I go. Really hope there's more boobs going forward (but don't tell me).
Sweeney was good acting as herself, a spoiled blonde brat imo. |
Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:16 PM Author: michael doodikoff I will honor your request to not spoil whether or not there are boobs in season 2 or 3 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808503) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:17 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel You're the real hero.
Also want to add Consuela assured me that Sweeney was going to jerk her brother off and never did. Your words caused me injury, Consuela... |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:17 PM Author: cock of michael obama When did I say that? I said watch y tu mama tambien if you want weird gay shit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808507) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:18 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Damn. I must have reading comp fail. Or maybe it was MiG. Either way I remained unzipped the entire time in anticipation of such degeneracy. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808509) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:18 PM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) poasters who disparage this show are being intellectually dishonest. it is the best TV show we've had in like 15 years, excluding Twin Peaks which I consider a very long Film. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808508) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:19 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel I would never lie about Film. I admitted to gunneratttt yesterday that I like explosions and Space Marines. I can't lie about art. I'm physically incapable. I always tell the truth. Lotus for POTUS! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808516) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:20 PM Author: michael doodikoff it really does belong up there in the conversation with Sopranos, the Wire, Breaking Bad, etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808521) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 10:01 PM Author: Trade Wars Are Good And Easy To Win lol no
It’s only a tier below, but clearly |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:08 AM Author: street taco (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809739) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:22 PM Author: richard clock Dunno about best in last 15 years but it is really high quality tv in a landscape where we don't have much of it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808530) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:21 PM Author: Oh, You Travel? ( ) It's ok imo, it's not a big deal. Season 2 wasn't as good. True Detective s1 is better just speaking as a male. WL has a lot of gay stuff/Woman stuff in every season. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808927) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:23 PM Author: UN peacekeeper Excellent analysis ITT including identification of jake lacy's redeeming quality Date: August 17th, 2021 5:27 PM Author: Unhinged stag film friendly grandma
MOlly shannon and d'addario's husband are both honest people, but totally lack self-awareness w/r/t Alexandra's perception of them. Shannon also serves as a "ghost of christmas future" for D'addario if she stays with her husband.
Their blunt honesty creates a destructive aura around them that forces people to confront reality. They destroy the facades people cling to. D'addario has to confront her priority of comfort over deriving meaning from her work as a journalist. The manager has to confront how much he hates the guests.
Remember when Shane is "flirting" with those two girls at the pool? He immediately calls them out for not actually reading their books. Every 3 days they're onto a new dense book. THat is what his character is. He is the force of truth, and like a tsunami, he does not care who or what he crashes down on
(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4901776&forum_id=2#42964713)
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:33 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel That may be true but they also genuinely suck. Dadario is right. There's more to life than the fucking Pineapple room. Props to the creator for making these characters genuinely detestable. Dadario correctly identifies how soulless and shitty these people's lives are, but then at the last minute is like fuck it I'll be idle rich. It was the least satisfying arc for me. Was hoping she'd break out of the mold. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808561) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:35 PM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) The catch is that she wasn't that interesting herself (oh wow a "journalist") and also kidding herself that she wasn't a willing trophy wife. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808568) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:37 PM Author: richard clock (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808581) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:41 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Being interesting comes from passion and dedication. She seemed to be passionate and genuinely curious and eager to learn. With more drive and pressure on herself she could have achieved something. She was most disgusted when Shannon was making fun of people who work for a living, even at really high end jobs. She was right, that family sucks.
Credit to the show for depicting how the ultra rich use their money to control people, especially their spouse. It's never really all yours. You're always just renting, while your partner is owning. That bit is 100% real. Imagine being RSF's wife lmao. "This bonkers lifestyle is yours, as long as you're devoted to RSF, but that's subject to change and you may have to go back to a shithole in Jersey some day." Grim! |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:03 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) the point with dondarrios character is she had a reverse aspirational bathmat. her journalist goals were superficial and she abandoned them because shane gave her what she actually wants. then she has an aspirational bathmat moment with the striver bitch and suddenly wants to change her whole life. and meanwhile shane, who had taken her at her word, is left confused and frustrated by a sudden change he has no reason to suspect. but of course her career woman fantasy is abandoned, once again, when it's at risk, and she slides into being what she actually wants to be. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808681) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:08 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Shane didn't suspect it because like she said she was swept off her feet and then caught up in the wedding and shit. It didn't hit her until it all sank in. That part was logical and felt right. Right about the time you get second thoughts. And his mom is so entitled. The only truthful thing she said is just how much money changes you because it's obviously true, there's no going back from RSF tier inheritance. CSLG's kids are going to grow up to be all fucked up and weird, too. Ghengis Kahn's grandkids were rich and out of touch.
But I think she did genuinely want to be someone self made and successful. She is consistent throughout the season about this. Always interested in her job. She took the diss from Connie Britton too hard. I never felt like her arc was building up to her accepting her fate as a trophy wife. It seemed like she kept pushing against it, and her going back in the end felt sudden and like an unrealistic capitulation.
It's the same way I felt at the end of Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Charles is an theist for 400 pages and on the last page it just goes, oh well he found God. Eh. I'm allowed to indulge in my own personal critiques. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:51 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) no she didn't. she abandoned it when she met shane and happened to get anxiety about it while on her honeymoon and proceeded to blow it up and when the the consequences of her own decisions became apparent she abandoned it to salvage things. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808822) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:11 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel The show could have done more to convey their duality of her point of view rather than it all building in one direction then a quick flip flop at the very end. Is all I'm saying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808900) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:20 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) the suddenness in how she flip-flops illustrates how superficial her bullshit was. that's the point, there was no real duality, she had a birdbrain moment for a couple days, and when she calmed down and got regulated again she went back.
it's about the tension of forcing women into being career shrews and then feeling lesser than if they don't go down that pass. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:24 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Yeah I definitely got it. I'm glad you felt her arc was satisfying. In my opinion she had laid too much foundation to get over herself and go back to luxury. You make payments as a screenwriter as to who the characters really are and that one just felt like a bounced check. If it was always meant to be a fleeting birdbrain moment I think we should have seen that side of her sooner. Something got her to that point, and it feels unresolved. Just my opinion as an art critic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808936) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:29 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) i hear you. but i think not fleshing it out was a choice. the fleetingness of her birdarain moment is shown by it's sudden reversal. if they had a scene with her wrestling about it it would have given her confliction more weight. but it doesn't have any weight: it was a fleeting sperg that resolved itself the moment the consequences became real (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808955) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:32 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel I'm glad you enjoyed that part of the show. When I write a show I'm going to do it my way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808963) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:59 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808659) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:15 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW D’Addario got exactly what she wanted. It highlights how dumb and flighty birdbrain women are and how far from reality they live. She wants to pretend to be a girl boss but then realizes grrr this hard and that she actually has no talent and work ethic, time to rely on those cans to get her through life again yaaaay! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811542) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:16 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Cr that was the entire point of her arc. I just don't like how it all culminated in the final moment without any build up or struggle. That's all I've been saying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811550) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:24 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) ime that's true to life. they don't birdbrain out and then return to reality after serious thought and reflection. they have an emotional bout of anxiety and then return as if it's nbd when they see the guy is moving on. that's part of why they're attracted to aloofness and (excuse redpill words but i can't think of a better one) "dread game" works. the moment a woman thinks you need her is when she starts thinking she can do better. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811586) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:26 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Exactly imagine being surprised by birdbrain swings on a whim and thinking women are capable of deep thought (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811597) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:09 PM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, I think the interesting thing about Shane is that he was so unlikable due to the tropes he's associated with, but he's actually 100% correct.
He paid the honeymoon suite on his honeymoon, he was supposed to have his own private pool, etc. It's not as if the resort says "whoops we're sorry" and he throws a big tantrum. They're trying to pull a fast one on him and when he calls them on it, they lie to him. It's not just bad customer service its borderline fraud.
Same thing with his wife's "work." why is she taking dumb listicle freelance work on their honeymoon? |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:17 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Being flexible an able to adapt is a true sign of character. You can always get a refund from the hotel later. There are things more important than materialism, like spending time with your spouse on your honeymoon. He never once picked up that she was upset. Also it was clear he barely thinks about her at all, is likely to cheat in the future. Your poast smells like duck sauce. "Wouldn't it be great to have a turbohot wife I can throw in the corner and act like she doesn't exist except when I get a hard on?" Yeah, this seems really great, especially from the woman's perspective.
I personally would have no issue with this chick taking the job on our honeymoon if she had always been passionate about it and was really trying to succeed. As long as it didn't overshadow the event and she was present when she needed to be present. If she put the job #1 and made him feel alienated that would be uncool, but if she was dabbling while lounging by the pool with the intent to take it more seriously once she got back home, no issue.
His attitude was "you're never going to do anything anymore except sit around and look pretty" I think most women find unappealing even hot ones. If they have any personality at all they're not going to want that even for beaucoup bux.
Some people just like working and no matter how rich I get I will always want to be with a chick who values productivity. Even if I had a trillion dollars I would want my bitch working. Just how I'm wired. I respect gumption. I'm not like that guy and never will. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:43 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Please tell me your autistic ass has never been married and will never be in the future. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808803) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:16 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Oh I'm the autistic one? You thought Shane was being totally normal being fussy and locked in a game of cat and mouse over the Pineapple Room? Lmao. Women appreciate chill. They show this in the show but I'm still unsatisfied with Dadarios arc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808917) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:51 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; This was the preposterously autistic part of what you wrote: “ I personally would have no issue with this chick taking the job on our honeymoon if she had always been passionate about it and was really trying to succeed.”
A honeymoon is a social custom where society gives newlyweds a week off of work to go somewhere and fuck 3-5x a day and reassure each other that they made the right choice getting married. HTH, Rain Man. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:55 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel You clearly missed the thread on protestant work ethic. In my family, since the day I was born, every vacation has involved some degree of work or school. Some element, to some degree. My ancestors did not believe that God wanted people to take a holiday. But it seems like you have a Ph D in lounging around. My father instilled in me the sense that every day is a battle to keep pushing yourself forward. Any woman who would marry me would already know this. Enjoy your time off, Papist. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809214) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 11:13 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Huh wow yeah I never realized that Protestant work ethic was really just a euphemism for closeted fags who will do anything to avoid having sex with a woman, but when you put it like that it makes sense. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809482) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 11:37 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Eets a me, Luigi. I passa da time, no makea da work. No job, what me worry?! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809540) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:56 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Dissa plotestann wolk etic inna my famiry (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811469) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:00 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811484) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:56 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW You sound like an enormous faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811465) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:24 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) dude, ive said the same thing in discussing the show with friends, and as of yet no strong agreement.
shane is a portrayed as sort of a douchey rich bro to make him unlikable. but everything he does is reasonable. armand did double book his room and tried to make him seem crazy and entitled for wanting to get it. he reasonably expected a romantic honeymoon and was confused and annoyed when his wife suddenly wanted to do dumb shit she had abandoned because she suddenly got insecure because she ran into a successful woman she admired who shit on her.
it's really great because they make the guy so unsympathetic but everything he has a problem with is reasonable. except for the mommy shit. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:31 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel You seem butthurt because you booked the Pineapple Room and didn't get it (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808776) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:47 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) i believe there's even a scene where shane tells armond "dude, just tell me you double booked the room."
shane is just angry about being lied to, which is reasonable. armond has all this pent up anger over entitled guests, which he unloads onto shame. who is also dealing with a wife who suddenly decides she wants to do Freeland journalism on their honeymoon completely out of the blue because she got anxiety about running into a career shrew. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:15 AM Author: ........,,,,,,......,.,.,.,,,,,,,,,, Yes - again, i rewatched some of season 1 and they make it clear its not a like-for-like room. His mom presumably paid for a $4,000 a night room and they got put in a $2,000 a night room. He specifically mentions his room is supposed to have a private pool.
Instead of Armond saying "my bad - let me refund you the difference and I'm going to esnd a glass of champagne to your room to say sorry" he treats Shane like a child.
Similarly the writing of the show makes it clear the working on honeymoon situation isn't really close. The Connie Britton character NEEDS to work on the trip. Daddario is a freelancer and the gig isn't even that amazing.
Shane's famly probably dropped $30k on this honeymoon for them to be together and instead she's going to write a freelance blog post for $300 that no one will ever read.
The way White writes it all is very intentional - he's purposefully making Shane correct just to mess with the audience.
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:00 AM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel It's also extremely clear from the script that Rachel is really put off by Shane's behavior, just wants him to drop it, and have a good time and he completely ignores her. He is obsessed with his revenge plot to the point he does more damage to the honeymoon than the booking mishap caused. It's what leads her to be repulsed by him and his family more than the journalism assignment.
I really think it would come down to how invested she was in the work assignment vs being present on the honeymoon. But Shane ignores her a lot of the time, flirts with other women, and basically doesn't listen at all when she talks. I don't know why he would care if she knocked out an article while he was splashing Sydney Sweeney with water daring her to jump in a pool. It's not like she denied him anything. He barely has enough brain cells to listen to a word she says the entire trip. She could probably do the work without him knowing for all he cared.
I can't stand people who think vacations are really serious and in fact I will admit that it has caused stress in relationships in the past. I don't get along with women who feel like leisure time must be maximized. To me the whole point of a vacation is doing, or not doing, anything you want.
But people who feel like they have to get the maximum return on a vacation nauseate me. I have gone on ski trips for a week and only skiied half the time. It's my trip, I'll ski — or not — if I want to. But I've had partners who make vacations feel like a job and that's not fun at all. If I wasted all my time in the sun doing nothing — or doing something — it's up to me. I appreciate a partner who can jive with that. I like to go unscripted.
Point to my ex tbtp, she was very easy going in this regard. We went on several vacations/staycations that were very fun. We had as many days thingdoing as we did staying in. It was nice. We were on the same vibe. But a previous ex who was a life maximizer drove me nuts. Vacation days were harder than work days. They shouldn't be. Always go with the flow, after all, it's your time to waste. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 7:14 AM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) you're projecting yourself and opinions onto the characters. your opinion about vacations it not something the writers could have written into the characters.
shane is upset that he's being lied to and ripped off. yes, it's over a luxury hotel room, but no one likes being ripped off and lied to. and the things you complain about would seem entitled to people in africa. the entire point is for the audience to dislike shane because "it's over a luxury hotel room", but anyone in shane's position would be annoyed.
your annoyance with his behavior is exactly how dondarrio reacts. instead of empathizing with how any man would be annoyed being lied to, gaslit, and ripped off, she sees it as being a spoiled brat, causing her to torpedo her honeymoon because she suddenly wants to pretend her freelance journo shit is super duper important when it isn't. while *you* may think taking vacations seriously is stupid, it wasn't to shane, or dondarrio up until she met connie, so it's reasonable for shane to be pissed about it.
stop thinking about what HATP thinks and try to empathize and think about how the characters would feel. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:50 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Dadario expressed annoyance with Shane's behavior about the hotel room up until the point of deus ex machina where she suddenly reversed all her opinions over the entire season. That's not me projecting, that's the words on the page. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811429) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 7:06 AM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48810046) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:58 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW I don’t understand why the hotel wouldn’t just admit their mistake, adjust the rate being charged to the proper room and throw in some drinks as a good will gesture. If you paid for a $1,000/night room and they put you in a $200/night room but still charged you $1,000 you’d be OK with that? Very cucky (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811480) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:04 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel The money portion would always get sorted out. But Shane was so invested in something that meant nothing to Rachel. It's a critique of how the rich are so covetous of minutae because they're already had every normal experience. Shane cares about the Pineapple Room more than his honeymoon because having things other people can't have is the most important thing to him, and his working class wife can't relate to that.
The hotel manager picks up on this and indulges himself in fucking with Shane which leads to his downfall. If you're asking why any of this happens in a TV show it's because it's all a macguffin with which to entertain us. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW If you never raise the issue and they lie to you and insist you’re getting what you booked and paid for it absolutely would not get sorted you retarded faggot. The hotel maintains that he got the proper room, why would they refund later? You seem retarded and dickless. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811505) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel (Shane) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811509) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:12 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW (Guy who pays for a Ferrari, takes delivery of a Hyundai and just lets it go) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811529) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:10 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) he cares about being lied to and treated like a child. it was the disrespect. that's why he comes right out and says "just admit you double booked the room."
they intentionally made it about a luxury hotel room as a red herring and to make shane unsympathetic. and yes his focus on it during the honeymoon was bad. but it wasn't about the room at all, it was about his own ego being trampled on. he doesn't care about the room more than his honeymoon, he cared about his ego more than the honeymoon. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:11 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Not sure why this guy would be ok with having someone repeatedly lie to his face, gaslight him and steal from him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811527) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:16 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) tbf shane does overreact. but that's partially because rachel doesn't side with him and then abandons the honeymoon herself, and so he focuses on it out of frustration and trying to regain control over at least one situation and have a win.
rachel should have comforted shane when she saw him getting pissed and encouraged him to enjoy himself and settle the room shit after their honeymoon. and shane should have been in control of his ego enough not to let armond's bullshit ruin his vacation. but it was armond's disrespect that irked shane, not being a spoiled brat over the room. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:17 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811559) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:18 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Cr, also Rachel? Big milkers? Is she suppossed to be a kike? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811562) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:20 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Jfc Rachel does encourage him to calm down and enjoy the moment many times. Are you blind? She literally does from the very beginning. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811573) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:22 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Seems to be a mountain of evidence that Rachel was a kike who clogged the toilets and he needed a suite with more bathrooms (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811578) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:28 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) "and shane should have been in control of his ego enough not to let armond's bullshit ruin his vacation."
yeah, shane's frustrations were an overreaction. she did a few "calm down babes" and when that didn't work decided to do $300 freelance journalism gigs. sometimes men need more comfort that a few "babe it's just a rooms." but at least you seem to agree that it wasn't about the room now, which is the only point i was trying to get across. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:30 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel What? No it was definitely about the room (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811609) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:19 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel The cr thing to do is spend your entire honeymoon locked into an escalating pissing contest while pissing off your prole wife who doesn't care at all. I always do this personally, because can't stomach being slighted by some prole. As a jet setting richmo I realized what matters is the finer details of travel. Every small thing counts! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811564) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:20 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW No one said that you dumb faggot. We said he was right to be angry and his birdbrain cunt wife exacerbated the situation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811575) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:45 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) you're currently embroiled in an acrimonious debate over the interpretation of a TV show. can you really not understand how shanes frustrations were reasonable, but that his actions in response to them weren't? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811684) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:47 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel No. Again if I wrote the show it would have been completely different. My opinions on art have always been radical and intransigent. I never liked or agreed with anything Shane did. Which is just like, my opinion, man. I'm not like him at all. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811694) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW If you wrote the show it would have been a pile of shit that never got made (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811699) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:50 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Yeah because I'm literally not a gay Jew from Santa Monica. Prerequisite for the job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811712) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:55 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW Seems like being dumb and devoid of talent would be your main problem (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811745) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:56 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Yes in addition to being a brown incel there's also that (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811750) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:51 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) you not relating to what the creators intended to convey doesnt change what they intended to convey. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811726) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:53 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Right but they definitely did intend to convey that Shane was fussy and persnickity about the room and that it bothered Rachel. I don't see how you can argue against that. Portraying the rich as covetous about minutae is one of the major themes of the show. Shane overreacting is the central plot point of his entire arc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811735) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:57 PM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) "if I wrote the show it would have been different" is such an absurd and meaningless thing to say. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811754) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:44 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; It’s a brilliant character. So great that Mike White just banged out the whole season during their two week quarantine in the dead of 2020. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808805) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:51 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808823) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:36 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Connie Britton as the mom was also 180. Loved her character. I grew up around so many rich white women just like her lol. Literally so many.
I remember one time my friends rich as fuck parents got divorced and wandering through the empty cavern of their joint property mansion, gutted and ready for pictures to be listed and just seeing a framed picture of the happy Boomer couple in Hawaii in the 80s and the mom had the big hair. Cheesy Hawaiian shirts. The mom left because the dad didn't value and validate her. Lmfao. She left him for an hvac guy who went to a pentacostal church and spoke in tongues. Lol, just, lol. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:47 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; While I loved Steve Zahn and thought he was great, his character relative to Connie Britton’s was dumb. Smacked of Hollywood people who know wild mismatch couples where one person is a has been or never was and the other person made it. In the real world strivers like Connie Britton’s character would be embarrassed at work events and would have divorced him long ago. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808810) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:49 PM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) is she really a striver though, I thought it was clear that they were very wealthy and she didn't need to "work" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808815) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:44 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; She is a CMO and leads a call with a giant audience in her globohomocorp’s Chinese office. She’s 100% perfect casting for what female megacorp execs are like. Attractive for her age but well past her prime, soft in style, voice, mannerisms yet able to signal her displeasure in an instant with just a look or an awkward silence. Connie Britton is always great but she was awesome and underrated in S1. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809184) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:51 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809204) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:08 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) i think the point is the struggle for a man to remain masculine in a post-femenism world where the provider, and typically leader, role is usurped by the woman. he was a fine guy and could have done well on his own, but connie was superior. so what are we to do? if connie was to divorce him she wouldn't have found some man she could admire to fulfill the role of man. but steve could find someone lesser than him to fill a support role. dudes better than connie like trump, musk, bezos, etc wind up with traditionally feminine women, not with career shrews they can respect like men.
that's the whole thing with her arc imo. she starts out dismissive of steve and treating him like a wife, which is emasculating. but he goes on to prove his value by defending her. i don't think the show provides any solutions to this "career shrew/house husband" dynamic, and perhaps there isn't one because it is unnatural, but it presents it in a very honest way. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:30 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel "When I'm talking you're not talking" - Hilaria Baldwin
Women are 180 imo |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 8:15 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel I've met lots of successful women whose husbands are merely a sperm donor. Sometimes they hang on extra tight the worse the dude is. Sometimes they stick around just because not being divorced makes them feel like they're better than other people, which is in line with her character. I thought it was totally realistic.
I dated a Type A published writer chick once who left me for a dude she admitted was dumb and submissive. She said she simply liked it that way. It's common that two Type As can't be together. Look at Tom and Gisele. Her new beau is a lot like Zahn, just along for the ride. |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:48 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; Yeah but not a C Suite exec who has been climbing for 20 years. It’s typically the case that they wear the pants and their husbands are effectively wives (this was the joke/central conceit in that oppressively Jewish Fleishman is in Trouble show), but the husbands also usually have respectable white collar resumes, or they did at one point and then bowed out to be good wives to their wives. They didn’t quite get there in capturing that element unless I’m forgetting a scene. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809197) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:58 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel You really are extremely autistic. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809224) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 11:14 PM Author: .....;;,,.........;.;.;.;.,;,;,;.;.;,; No. U. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809484) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:01 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW It’s pretty clear you’re beta not type A (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811486) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:05 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Yes I was the sperm donor to a more successful woman many times over. But not so cucky that I could manipulated into submission. Hence the breakups. They were looking for less, not more. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811503) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:06 PM Author: Hang Kikelensky NOW This is cringe fanfic (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811510) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:08 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Cr I've never touched a girl irl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811516) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:07 PM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) lol is this obeezy? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811513) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 6:46 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Just a quick anecdote a friend of mine once was married to an heiress who lived at the Grand Wailei Maui. He said he became miserable and his wife kept him as a tote bag. She didn't understand his need to work a menial job. They ultimately got divorced, he got nothing, and he ended up knocking up a prole woman in proletown USA and has a kid now and works construction. Seems like he won. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808597) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 7:03 PM Author: novus homo (gunneratttt) 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48808683) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 9:59 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel I just figured out what's the secret sauce to the show. I figured out what makes it special.
It's the fact that the writer writes lines for characters that people actually say in real life. Not just rich people but all kinds of people. They're unfiltered. And there's no guardrails typical of the woke era of film. These people feel real because they are real. They're saying what comes to mind — everyone's mind, in these situations. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:05 AM Author: Fyre festival founder (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809731) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 4:18 AM Author: the place where there is no darkness verisimilitude is the hallmark of high fiction (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809922) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 4:34 AM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Mike White's dad was a major league Bible thumper so it's safe to say he grew up around the Other Side for being from LA. His dad knew Jerry Falwell and shit. He had to have been exposed to the Opposition which is probably why he can write people with different perspectives and it's not all canned lines. Shitlibs are only capable of pablum and poor imitation because they don't know anybody who thinks different. Being a gay Christian in Hollywood you definitely learn how to think different. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809931) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 10:00 PM Author: Trade Wars Are Good And Easy To Win What did you think of the rimjob? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809240) |
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Date: April 2nd, 2025 10:04 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel I abhor all forms of homosexuality but the gay hotel manager was pretty funny as a character. But I prefer my homos closeted, out of sight and out of mind. Homosexuality should not be depicted in art ever. Life is about straight people. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48809257) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 3:34 AM Author: the place where there is no darkness "The themes in White Lotus are all a scathing indictment of modernity, as well as an analysis of human nature that stands in stark opposition to the liberal orthodoxy. Virtually every theme in the show is in line with a traditional Christian or classical philosophical view of man’s nature. Infidelity, hedonism, pride, the emptiness of the cycle of material desire in general, sexual roles, the indulgences of women, the lust of men, the nature of guilt, repentance, and redemption. There is a lot there, and none of it is stuff that most of the audience would agree with if presented with it in a straightforward manner.
Part of why the show can get away with this is that they frame it in such an artistic way; nothing is spelled out in the way that would trigger some screeching woman on Twitter. Someone could watch the show, and most people do, and simply see it as yet another visual spectacle like every other one of these streaming shows. Further, it is vulgar, featuring an excessive amount of nudity, which implies that it is embracing rather than criticizing modern norms. The other reason is probably that the writer/director of the series, Mike White, is a homosexual. Regardless of the reasons, however, the show is able to address themes that I don’t recall any popular media having addressed in decades.
The clip in question, where the Sam Rockwell character describes in a frank tone that he spent 1,000 nights having sex with Thai hookers before realizing that what he really wanted was to become a small Asian girl and be fucked by himself, is an absolute description, if not an outright indictment, of the overwhelming majority of the tranny movement.
The trans movement has been framed as an identity phenomenon. Sometimes we hear the term “gender dysphoria,” which means that the man feels as though he is trapped in the wrong body, that his soul is actually that of a woman. Though this does exist, and is a legitimate mental disorder, what is not discussed is that if we remove the children who are being manipulated into becoming trannies by the school system, the overwhelming majority of adult men who become trannies have something called “autogynephilia,” which is not an “identity” but a paraphilia (often called a “kink” in modern parlance), a disorder purely related to aberrant sexuality. It has nothing to do with identity or some incomprehensible thing about the soul being trapped in the wrong body.
Most people have not even heard about this phenomenon, so for me, the Sam Rockwell bit in White Lotus was quite incredible in its content, as well as being hilarious. The way Rockwell says it all so calmly, as if he is describing the most mundane topic, as Walton Goggins sits there listening, is so funny to me. And then that his solution is to become a Buddhist takes it into the realm of the greatest satire vignette I’m aware of."
https://dailystormer.in/oh-little-baby-didnt-know-perverts-exist-i-violated-babys-moral-purity-with-a-funny-youtube-clip/ |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 4:04 AM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel I would also say that the reason the show is so successful is because sometimes in art it's okay to be bad. I mean, in Snow White what is the struggle, the challenge? You know, these sanitized, virtue signaling characters they churn out year after year never have any flaws, always do and say the right thing. And that makes it boring. That makes it not fresh at all. And then White Lotus comes along and has characters that love hookers and blow and it's like, wow, this is refreshing. These people suck. These people create their own problems. They're not just there to scold you on what not to do and be perfect all the time. That's really the twist that makes it so good. That everyone is fucked up and has demons. Finally they made something people can relate to, because in real life everyone is flawed, too. But most of Hollywood is so obsessed with appearances that they can't even write interesting characters anymore. It's been so long since it was okay to be bad.
I think there was a famous quote Matt Taibbi likes to repeat from Isaac Babel about the Soviet Union. "You have every right here except the right to be wrong." Mike White somehow found a hall pass. And he handled it with exceptional grace and talent. |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 4:40 AM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel https://youtube.com/shorts/8ddWrvFUGbY
This is pretty funny. Mike White being a White Lotus character in real life on an EP of Survivor. Just a fag drinking champagne in paradise with a bunch of Hot Chicks. Man he lived it before he wrote it. Crazy. This is the real him lol |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 6:19 AM Author: Yonex Sinner His first film, "Chuck & Buck" is the real him. It's about a guy who constantly fantasizes about sucking his best friends dick. He self actualized on his very first film; got that shit out of the way right quick. The rest of his life has been one giant afterparty. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48810009) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:51 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel Mike: self actualized as an artist since his mid 20s
U: poast on XO |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 9:03 AM Author: Trade Wars Are Good And Easy To Win His dad was a closeted gay man who ghost wrote for all of the big televangelists (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48810320) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 9:04 AM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) that must've been a strange childhood jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48810323) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 12:52 PM Author: Goldman: Arkham Counsel It's kooky when both a father and son are gay. Seems genetic. Like Magic Johnson. Two gays because at some point a closeted gay knocked up a woman. No one talks about this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811445) |
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Date: April 3rd, 2025 1:40 PM Author: Trade Wars Are Good And Easy To Win He says it was a very happy childhood, actually. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5704072&forum_id=2:#48811662) |