/wlg/ - White Lotus General

Don’t ask

i liked piper realizing she was full of shit

Mook's gonna be unhappy after five years max if he doesn't level up again

Piper was supposed to get Piped by Zion

youtu.be/qZxhAM0TUO4?feature=shared&t=1060

Rick's plot was just poorly written, sorry

Pipersisters how will we cope with the fact our girl is weak?

somebody post greg's last cuck chair scene

I've called it since episode 2

bangs the new five millionaire

money problems go poof

still a coalburner

obviously Anon Babble hates women but did anyone else thinka all of the women(except mook)were actually amazing?
Chelsea?
Hags?
Piper?

all he had to do was shoot an unarmed man in the back

I think I failed every single one of my predictions. for me the season should have ended last week, that was my satisfactory conclusion.

they are better written than in most other shows that's for sure

plot was still ass though

mook is the kinda chick you need to keep pushing you out of complacency

Could be a benefit for some. It always seemed to me that poor people with close family units are happier than materialistic people. Could be a grass is greener situation

Was Gaitok's action morally justified? Why not?

Would have been better if Gaitok was the one to shoot Chelsea. Hell maybe have Chelsea getting hit first on the leg or shoulder with Rick trying to carry her to safety and get her medical help only for Gaitok to step in and shoot him hitting them both. The moment Rick died didn't hit as hard because we already knew Chelsea was 100% dead.

and especially victoria, yes

no Saxon reaction to Chelsea dying

literally 90% of the characters don't give a shit that the shooting happened

spend half the season drawing out the family finding out they're gonna be poor only to not show it

This last episode really went out of its way to make me realize how poorly most of the plotlines were finished up. Like, they had almost every character in the show act like a complete retard just to make the plot points happen and it kills me. The entirety of Zion's character was fucking worthless

Hard to decide who's S3 MVP, there's no clear winner. Victoria seems likely but she's going to end up poor. Same goes to Saxon. Gaitok and Belinda won, but they both lost their principle. The Russians perhaps but they don't have much screentime. Hence by default it's Pam

what was chloe's arc/ending supposed to be? feel like it wasn't super conclusive

Lochlan is a "people pleaser"

Chloe has a crush on him and fucks him

Chloe is looking for a guy to cuck Greg, Saxon refuses

I feel like there was a massive missed opportunity here to have Lochlan be the one to do it. It would have given him more of an arc too

piper finally embraces her wealth

don't get to see Tim tell the family they'll be broke

Her and Lochlan will return as hotel workers

the hags and the russians are the winners of the season

just started the finale
what the fuck is Lochlans deal? fuck this little twink bitch ass

double entendre bump

zion won. he didnt have to give up any morals and his moms probably cut him his 10%.

Whose morals? According to his pacifist buddhist views, no he wasnt. The point is that he chose his material desires over his spiritual beliefs by committing needless violence to gain favor with Sritala and impress Mook. At that point Rick was clearly not a treat so the self defense excuse goes out the door.

It was the women trio. They completely accepted their friendship despite its massive faults and embraced each other, so they got to live

They set up all this interesting drama with the Ratcliffs (attempted family annihilation, going broke) then they literally never pay it off and we don’t even see a hint of their reaction?

The only part we really got was the incest handjob and even that was like three lines (though I thought Lochy calling everyone a ‘narcissist’ was subtle and revealing)

It wasn't because he chose the Mook over the Buddha in that moment. He lost himself and that's why he was wearing sunglasses and his smile faded fast when he drove away

walled hags maintaining status quo "won" anything

i dont think so tim

is that hypocrisy though? she was sincere about it, but she's weak. I think Saxon was right, she needs a man. she needs something concrete to give herself to, not something abstract like spirituality, she's not strong enough.

it should have been me.

The show clearly painted them as the winners, either them or Greg the cuck

she fucked Zion

greg was already a winner

cute bulge

True. But when is enough enough? Is she gonna do something stupid like take Gaitok into debt to get plastic surgery?

Yeah I don't like to double dip on winners so I'd still vote for the hag trio

Rate the finale if you haven't on the previous thread

strawpoll.com/B2ZB91dkBgJ/

Pornchai just got Tanya'd, ouch.

who are these guys?

The Four Noble Truths

God

I'd think if Gaitok ended up with a security agency and traveling and was able to jet set with her they'd never be bored, but they'd probably never settle down and have a family.

kier's 4 tempers

Pretty bleak

audience knew russians were the robbers

audience knew chelsea was dying

audience knew jim was rick's father

Sigh

Black lady gets 5mil

immediately cut to screaming monkey

Lol how did that make it in

Also, in what world does a bank not immediately freeze your broke ass single black mom account when 5 mil is wired from a wanted person?
Her annoying eyebrows zoomer son has never heard of crypto?

And why does Cary Coon look like garbage? Was she on the pipe?

Tien
dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/Multi-Form

no juicy sister pussy

sussy deprived episodes

worst season ever

we all figured out the season 2 plot beats too. the journey is the destination.

i liked where they ended with the hags but still felt like their story line could've easily been cut to flesh out the others.

chelsea just felt undercooked, her whole "character" is just having undying love for rick but they don't really go into their backstory/relationshp enough for you to be able to tell if this is earned or if she's a naiive retard

piper did nothing for most of the show, but i like that they still were able to give her an arc, and i like that this arc wasn't some feel good bullshit but a realistic epiphany that her interest in buddhism was a sham and just the result of a spoiled westerner romanticizing something that felt adventurous and rebellious

imagine if she got nude in the last episode during a sex scene with Zion

the amount of seething, coping, and masturbating would be off the charts

Old Anon Babble would have edited 4 CIA silhouettes already

clear the series ran out of time to set up much cooler conclusions, but there were a few scenes through the season that were simply on a different level to anything in previous seasons
Ratcliff's far and away the strongest group the series has had and i'll miss them during season 4
this was actually my least favorite ep of the season (thought last week's was great); outside of the piper's confession, nothing made me go wow and everything felt too telegraphed; of course, sad as well that chelsea and rick were victims of a half-assed imperialism metaphor

Appreciate the belinda take-down, no idea if the greg storyline is done or not

his smile and optimism, gone

I get they were trying to subvert the hotel manager being a commanding force in the show but it just fell flat, like a joke that never landed

saxsimps...

Armond, Tanya, Quentin, and Niccolo

incestbros, we lost..

I read them as more traditional. At least Gaitok was saying that their families know each other. Maybe he would realize she acts too much like a child to raise a child and find someone else. Or have kids and raise them in a multigenerational household. Or maybe Mook will grow up. Who the frick knows

no piper incest :(

This episode sucked ass. So much shit that was built up over the season, just to be abandoned or glossed over.

honestly, the Rick and Chelsea story, if he was looking for a big dramatic moment, it didn't work for me at least.
the 3 hags story was the only one really well written, maybe the only one true 'White Lotus' style. Mike was trying new things and it didn't work out. I knew it would end poorly when the epilogue song was being played mid-episode and not at the very end, like usual.

fell flat

never landed

kek

what a nothing character

this season was so full of wasted potential

i feel bad you grumps didnt enjoy the season as much as i did. i ate my fill and feel highly satisfied with the feast.

i think it's Belinda. Gaitok directly compromised his stated morals and religion by shooting a man in the back, his reward is a job that he's not cut out for and a woman who's love is conditioned on his ambition. he won in the short term, but long term he's probably headed for a reckoning.

Belinda taking blood money is wrong, but it's not like she really owed justice to Tanya. Tanya got her hopes up and then fucked her over on a whim. You could argue she's also headed for trouble eventually since you can't just have someone transfer $5 million randomly and not be expected to answer some questions from like the IRS or whoever but the show glosses over this

how is it not obvious to fucking everyone that Zion is a literal faggot. He's the most rampantly campy homosexual character on an HBO show in a long time

I feel deceived

the mook character did literally nothing all season and was entirely superfluous. every scene she was in could have been deleted and the season would have been the same. im tired of mike the white pretending like he didnt know who she is

yeah I liked how the hags story ended, despite all the bickering and drama they're still friends, and they didn't have to turn jaclyn into the villain

Bros... we lost both of our beautiful English roses in one night. It hurts bros.

Ate your fill of cum, faggot

he and his mom talk about him trying to land girls in an earlier episode

This. P(pier s)imps BTFO in the end, I always was aware that she was as shallow as they come. She thought she was sooper dooper spiritual and deep but was just self aggrandizing in some out of touch narcissistic rich kid way as a device to be judgmental of her families shallowness as if it doesn’t apply to her as well when in reality her and Victoria are absolutely one in the same.

That is actually just what straight college age men are like now

your disparaging words wont make me like the season any less, darkie

Did that bitch finally die?
I watched the first season. Holy shit I've never hated a character so much

Hard to decide who's S3 MVP

Greg obviously

she's the catalyst for gaitok's drive. he's comfortable doing nothing. Without her he's not going to do anything during the shooting

Laurie’s epiphany was the most profound moment I’ve seen in a show in a long time. Carrie Coon is tremendous; I don’t think many other actors could have been as authentic in that moment. It was a very moving statement that she made and kudos to the writers to have it in them to express a part of human nature so well.

It's his family

"the monkey is the killer"

APOLOGIZE

idk who the biggest winner is but I can tell you that Saxon is the biggest loser, they didn't even bother to give his arc a conclusion

Seems like Gaitok had a choice between the monastic, celibate life or a marital life which entails being willing to kill for your family. Alternate ending where Gaitok puts down the gun and becomes a monk would be shit

I wanted a scene where she was expecting a big tip from Tim(like he promised her episode 1) but gets nothing

it is hypocrisy, she looks down her nose at her family as being rich, out of touch snobs, but once she leaves that environment she realizes that she is too. she enjoys feeling superior to them but she isn't

Definitely not Mook, Belinda, or especially Piper but the rest of them were fantastic.

the monkeys are actually a race of hyperintelligent psionic simians who were manipulating all of the guests, so, yes: monke did it. a monke got inside rick's head and made him shoot his father at center mass

people these days just can't read between the lines of a show anymore

bad writing

being a princess peach motivation trophy to super mario does not a good character make

so who was floating in the water then? they left it kind of ambiguous

how is Tim paying for anything when his accounts are presumably frozen

satisfied with the finale but pretty unsatisfied with the season as a whole. this has become one of those modern shows where the meat of the season is wheel spinning just to get you to the finale where stuff finally happens

I'd still have her. I want Piper to judge me and then be angry at me for small stuff.
there's something about the seriousness that she approaches things that is very attractive.

Fabian

roastie

didnt have a satisfying end, but it occassionally reaches higher peaks than anything in the series

one of the zips working for stratchatella

If White Lotus had a competent writer Gaitok's arc would be considered the most tragic character arc of the season, but instead this bumbling retard sees it as a good thing.
Nothing about how others, specifically Thai women broke his spiritual connection to Buddhism by making him commit murder in exchange for social progression and Lisa as a girlfriend. He literally was made to kill a guy by his own people in order to prove his worth and it's treated as good thing. Between that and Chelsea just letting Goggins dome the other guy, what a retarded finale.
The only good bit was somehow the trio of white women having a satisfying arc and Jason Isaacs cause he's great as always

I don't care, that guy is a flaming faggot, all that was missing was him going "yasss u go girl" to his mom. see pic related no straight man has ever done that
this makes sense i guess

I thought his arc reached a conclusion here:
genuinely seeing how happy chelsea was to sprint into the arms of rick, realizing he wants that instead of just fucking random sluts on tinder

A+ bait

idk he looks like he's still got that goofy half smile to me

be piper

name is literally pipe her

doesn't get piped

they showed him get up out of the water

At that point Rick was clearly not a treat so the self defense excuse goes out the door.

You known that because you are the semi-omniscient viewer. From Daitok’s point of view Rick was in the middle of carrying out a mass shooting. He had already just shot four people, was probably still armed, and was carrying away a critically wounded hostage to do god knows what to her. It was a righteous shoot.

yep this was succession seasons 3 and 4, it's annoying as fuck

I think this. some of the peaks were really high.

Anon Babble complaining about how the ending with the family doesnt make sense

clearly missed the signs that the family all died the night before, and Lachlan the morning after

It really wasn't

he's crying under the sunglasses, Tayme Thapthimthong told me himself

also fun fact:

In need of a stable income, Thapthimthong entered the Thai army, where he was posted to Counter Terrorist Operations, equivalent to the US Delta Force. Later, he was made an officer in the Close Projection division of Thailand’s Armed Forces Security Centre – Thailand’s equivalent of the CIA – and was tasked with guarding high-ranking officials. After several years serving in the Thai army, Thapthimthong decided to leave for security contracting jobs, which led him to meet Thai rapper Way and become his personal bodyguard.

the jeets are insatiable

Oh Chelsea is 100% a naive retard, if that wasn’t abundantly clear very early on then you may just be one yourself. That said, in a show full of nothing but flawed individuals, she probably came across the least in the wrong in that regard considering her only real problem other than her codependency was her being extremely overly trusting of strangers and dumb as a bag of rocks but all those things kind of go hand in hand.

True true. Maybe his best choice would be to take Goggins alive and ditch Mook for a more sensible wife. Wouldn't make for a good TV show thoughever

Holy fuck that was a dog shit finale also they broke their rule of showing what happens in the beginning of the season, all for a super safe happy ending for blacky lmao

Also bros so happy to be with that dumb bitch that wanted him to kill people lmao

he was slowly carrying someone, both his hands were occupied(as in no hands on gun). Gaitok could have just ran and knocked him down, hell he had plenty of time to think about shooting him. he only did because he wanted to obey Sritala

Season 4

Gaitok shows up with Chelsea (having been resurrected by the Buddha)

but instead this bumbling retard sees it as a good thing.

No anon, you are the retard if that's what you took from his ending.

You got it wrong, it’s fine. No need to throw a fit about it as if your retarded predictions should have been how it ended

need to watch it again. mid-episode I had the feeling everyone was going to die. not just the family, but every character including Rick, Chelsea, and the hags.

fit

what do you mean fit? in my headcanon it ended after 7 episodes and that's final.

left

Absolutely yes

two on the right

Not even fucking close

I thought they might have been going there, that the other four drank enough poison coladas to all die

Especially when Lochy calls "MOM!" and nobody answers

I think that's a bit of a stretch

I would have asked for 1.5 million. Fucking retards

clearly missed the signs that the family all died the night before, and Lachlan the morning after

that's actually a great headcanon, huh
so the four shadows were Lochlan's family, waiting for him to emerge into the afterlife

Did Schwarzenegger really deserve such a poorly written character arc?

why does the buddhist speak in english? even gaytok and mook talk thai. why is this guy speaking to his flock in english. sloppy

Get banged, Greg watch

I went to TikTok and bluesky and they hated this episode, what gives

MYSTERY NIGGAS

buddhist monk

Parker Posey, Carrie Coon and Aimee Lou Wood are getting nominations. Parker could win it from memes alone. Carrie Coon crushed it that final episode and could get it if they decide to go with the more serious choice. Unfortunately, teef is probably too young to get it yet.

Because he's talking to westerners you fucking retard

because it's at the teaching temple
also Lochlan and Piper are there, and they don't speak fluent Thai

you'll also notice that the secretary monk with the Apple laptop doesn't do the gay thai goodbye to Piper, he just says goodbye in english. the monks have true wisdom, true detachment, so they can meet others at their level

Lots of good ideas but poor execution. White Lotus went from being a 9/10 show to a solid 6/10

I was hoping the anthology format would prevent the show from decaying over time like most others do but it was not the case.

It wasnt always reflective of the overall quality of the episode, but there were little interactions and moments sprinkled through that were just insanely good
like too-good-for-tv good

Time for one of them to put on their big girl pants and compete in lead actress

everyone in the group was westerners? i guess i missed that

They'd be so happy together. Meditating and talking about spirituality all day. Get into some tantric

his face didn’t even appear in Lochlan’s delirium vision

truly grim

”i, however, can’t be bothered”

Yeah, it was an outsider class sort of thing.

why waste good writing on someone who can't act?

Enlighten me then nigger, how is it a bad thing when he got a wife, a new higher paying job and a big ass smile on his face at the end?

mike white literally said in the podcast that he thinks gaitok is happy, and that we all have to sacrifice something for success in life but that in the end he was willing to pay that price to get the job and girl that he wanted (and he did want them, badly enough to compromise his morals to get them).

lazy writing

The anthology format might preserve it from "decay" if the setting, themes, and characters were all the same, like in Black Mirr--oh, wait, that decayed too. Anyway, it's inevitable for there to be some variation in quality BECAUSE of the anthology format. but it coulda been worse. imagine if the Italy storyline was swapped with this one - imagine Albie trying to score with Mook. yeah.

have a little thing for your show where you show the ending devastation at the start of the show

throw it out the window for season 3

why though, now it cant be trusted anymore and its worthless

They showed zion looking for his mom and running from shows. Are we to believe she didnt live in the end either?

not satisfying. getting nothing from the family finding out they are poor after so much buildup was the cop out of the century

Seems like a good way to make income for the monastery just blabbing to some overprivileged Westerners who will forget everything they learn once returning to the west and getting a career

Jesus, Buddha, Zoroaster and Dante from the Devil May Cry series

Dubs confirm incest in S4

what a fucking retard.. he had happiness within reach but just couldn't let go.

That rocks!

Jesus christ I hate these people

Won't happen, whenever there's a big cast, they all have to fight for the same Supporting actress/actor category.

Because he abandoned his morals to do it and will have to continue to keep up the act if he wants to keep what he earned and if mook only wanted him if he's a big strong ooh shoot people man she's a shallow cunt anyways and isn't worth going for

This was definitely the worst finale of the show. It's just Fargo.

How is anything from the beginning incompatible with what was shown at the end?

“Headcanon” is peak copying. The ending filtered you and made you upset so you blocked it out, just admit it like a man instead of plugging your ears and singing “la la la” like a toddler would.

he shouldve given them thangs one last succ

*copium

Belinda won
Zion won
Mook won
Greg won
Chloe won

He had to get it on.

coincidence? I dont think so

smarter opinion than i expected to see on Anon Babble

Hags won?
Russkys won?

best scene was parker posey telling piper straight up that shes a christian because shes an american

reminded me of franks speech in s1 about colonialism and winners and losers, or s2 when imperiolli says men and women are different

I'm joking, man. don't ever take art so seriously, it's just a tv show. I like Mike, I think he has done better in the past but it was fine, the season had some great moments.

zion wading through bodies in the water to find his mother in a mass shooting

next day: totally happy

seems pretty shit to me but you're right I guess that could have happened in a unshown seen

mike also said in the hbo podcast that he thinks season 4 will probably be less serious and melodramatic and actiony than s3 and probably closer to the satire type show that s1 was, which I think I much prefer. he said maybe something having to do with the art world, or a film festival, or something like that.

I wanted more from the trio, they were there next to Jim and Sritala when the shooting happened, they needed more involvement in the scene, should have shown them protecting eachother and having eachother's backs or the different ways they would act in a crisis, for example jaclyn would have a hysterical panic attack, laurie only caring about getting to safety herself with not care for her friends while kate tries to keep jaclyn safe. Something like that. Very underbaked the way they handled it.

kek

scene*
I can't type think properly right now. tired.

Belinda is treating Pornchai the same way Tanya treated her in season 1. The cycle just keeps repeating.

be Zion

go on vacation

get 5 million dollars

go home

what was the point?

actually this makes me think my wild prediction for season 4 that I made a few threads ago might be possible.
a meta season where a white lotus is being taken over for a week by a hollywood production so they can shoot a scene there. and the “guests” are the cast and crew of the film.

On this you and I agree entirely, what I'm saying is that this fucking moron of a showrunner doesn't treat is as the tragedy that it is because in his mind he just overcame his religious beliefs for better things in life.
No joke I think the anons here are smarter about reading between the lines than the show's writer. As such, I will call you my friend and I will call the writer a fucking retard who needs to never interact with other cultures again.

As Americans they knew exactly what to do during a shooting which was to fucking run if you're unarmed.

It's like the Indian woman tried to tell him, he'd become trapped by his own story, and in the end he found out the story wasn't even true.

Belinda is genuinely an awful fucking person
I immediately hated her after her "you can deal with your own damn problems" bit in season 1 and s3 confirmed she's just as shit of a human as that made her seem

Good catch. Sad sad stuff. Although Belinda was not rich when their relationship started. She turned into the thing she hated. How long will their money last? Zesty Zion is probably gonna stick with his MBA for the love of the game. But the mom is never gonna work again most likely. Or lose a bunch of money on failed business ventures out of boredom

the question is was Pornchai approaching with the same cynicism Belinda did with Tanya back in S1? or was he sincere about the whole thing? that's the one thing I can't tell

what I'm saying is that this fucking moron of a showrunner doesn't treat is as the tragedy that it is

This is why I'm calling you a retard. The show is not pitching it as a good thing either.

Zion throws his momma overboard when they're another nautical mile from shore

ayo im rich now, gimme dat Pineapple Suite

Every story line was written so poorly.
Nothing ended properly besides goggins and that shit was so cliche it was awful.
Everything else was half baked as fuck

cringe, not watching season 4

I want my media literacy certificate

I do think Mike White was showing the cycle repeating itself which means if Belinda is Season 4 she is fucked. However, it makes sense to not loop in Pornchai. You just got wired 5 million dollars from a very sketchy source. The fewer people know about that the better.

I think he's genuinely a kindhearted guy and likes her a lot and wants to support her dreams.
It's a good thing it didn't work out, Belinda is a cunt and he deserves better

season 4 will be about Zion's baby daddy getting back from the cigarette store and asking for his share of the 5 mills

teef aint getting a nom, you realize her character is pretty boring once you enter your refractory period. the point of her character is that she's just like chloe and the other young hotties dating an old loser, she's just too dumb/naiive to realize it. in a better show, her arc would have been about her slowly realizing this. instead she stays devoted the whole time and then dies in the ebin shootout right before we get the darth vader reveal. wasted potential

literally me

zion's bussy daddy*

headcanon

Wrong

Alexandra Daddario in season one

But that’s honestly an exception to the rule because good writing, I will admit. Mook is not a well written character nor is she much of a character at all which just makes that bland gook feel so out of place in a show that’s normally populated with as complex characters as White Lotus

watch all 3 seasons

finally see a picture of mike white

hes some faggot that was on Survivor and got voted out first

lmao

i feel like you people overrate the older seasons, it's a 7/10 show and this season maintained that

Thank god you aren't a writer
Their love actually being genuine is the entire driving force of their story

posts are repeating in the same thread now

grim

he is kind of an arrogant prick so i take everything he says with a grain of salt

He got 2nd place which still gets 100k. Entertaining but dumb season because they were always going to give the money to the poor Alabama boy over a rich Hollywood writer.

pic related

Uhhhhh…

Laurie looked so fucking hot after stepping out of the shower on the balcony, I need pics and webms ASAP

Belinda didn't have any money for him to cynically take advantage off, so no. He was genuinely interested in building something with her.

he made it final 3 and probably would have won but everyone knew he was rich

He was a tool and a shallow human being. Most unrealistic thing was how hard he kept trying to pursue the same chick when the resort was bound to have others around. Even reading the book seemed to me like it was just a ploy as he focused only on sex.

Mike White said with the Mook character he wanted to give the thai people someone they could be proud of so to make her a slut or a gold digger was out of bounds

mass shooting

might meet the technical definition, but it was mostly a shootout between two parties, not some guy mowing down civilians. but yeah if anything he'd be even more stoked to be leaving after that with his now rich mother

Wtf Guess I misremembered.
There was this other like Political speech write dude that went home first I think

he literally told lochy he was going after chelsea because she rejected him and that just made him fixate on her

hahah

*crowd boos*
Get the fuck outta here, the shows better the darker it gets I don't want another Tanya-tier fag fest

i'm sure they intend to show that parallel but it's a weak connection IMO. they talked about it once and neither had the means to actually make it happen, it was pretty much just an idea. pornchai should know that asking a woman he barely knows to move to a foreign country and start a business neither of them can afford was gonna be a long shot, it's not at all the same thing as tanya telling belinda she's be her patron and change her life but quitting the deal on a whim

nigga was so obsessed with finding the killer of his father that he became the killer of this father
it was always meant to be...they’re soulmates, traveling together now, already side by side in another life.

Ya you're thinking of the Pod Save America Obama admin faggot, Mike White went on when the show actually was 40 days and not filled with survivor super nerds and people having panic attacks every other day.

oh, yes, anon, please give my life meaning!

We already are. The poor life they talked about is just normal life

I've never been left so unsatisfed. all that buildup for what? for fuck sake

only piper got an actual conclusion

Thanks

wants to give Thai people people someone they could be proud of

doesn’t give her any remote semblance of individuality or personality

Do you think Mike White was purposely trying to BTFO the slants and their idol culture kek or was it just a happy coincidence it worked out to be accurate that way

That is bizarre, they made her seem very shallow and gold digger-like. She is only interested in Gaitok when she thinks he can get promoted to work directly for the hotel owner.

how long do you wait to cum again

oooweee look what that money make a bitch do

you just dont get it with your westerner mindset

He may have assumed she had more prospects being American. Maybe he would use her for the greencard and grind to build a salon business in the US while she finds clients (black ladies who spend half their paycheck on nails). It can be a bit of both. Marrying someone for the benefits doesn't preclude genuine interest. Think about a man who wants to get married to have children. He's not just in love with a womb

This season wasnt worth watching all in all.
Maybe enjoying chelsea and her teeth but thats about it.

I think worst case scenario he was angling for a green card which is rather innocuous. but I didn't get that vibe either.

well thats the thing belinda has the opportunity now to make her dream come true and whats her answer?
can i be rich for 5 fuckin minutes??

She is the character that breaks the connection of Gaitok with Buddha, if that's supposed to make Thai people proud then the East is falling far before the West

Is greg going to pay every single person that has seen his picture online 5 million dollars?

audience knew jim was rick's father

We did?

What did you guys think about it? anyone else kind of like the Belinda becoming Tanya thing wit with the asian dude at the hotel. I like how the show didn't have a woke thing about race. It is sort of an impersonal money changes you sort of thing. This is unrelated but did anyone else feel kind of spiritually bankrupt at the end. Like I felt uplifted at the end of the first season with the son's arc where he finds his inner peace by embracing nature and rejecting technology. This one didn't have that. It was all so consumerist money wins type of thing. Very spiritually ugly. Also the older women did not have a real arc. I felt nothing when that woman was crying at the end. It felt like the cougars went through nothing of substance together to neccesiate some sort of spirtual apothesis and togetherness.

not really. rick's interest in her is entirely dependent on his mood, he repeatedly makes it clear earlier in the season that he finds her annoying and he encourages her to have a fling while he's gone. him being sad that she dies in front of him isn't proof that he loved her unconditionally. beyond chloe/greg, the show presents numerous examples of old white guy/young hot girl relationships that are shown to be hollow. we aren't told anything about their relationship or history to imply it's some deep love connection, just some vague shit from teef that is only meant to make the viewer see her as naiive

even if you're dumb enough to think they actually were madly in love with each other, thinking their love is the driving force of their story is hilarious, teef is basically irrelevant to the meat of rick's story. hilarious to me that retards on this board think she's some deep, well-written character just because they think her actress is hot

Well anyone that has watched tv shows/movies since childhood did.
Just him muttering while being threated "your mother" and getting cut off was enough to know he was about to say he was his father

im not actually stupid, I was just pretending to be stupid

Well fuck, finally finished it. He really needs to calm down with the fakeouts. You stop trusting a storyteller when they cry wolf too many times. The father thing was common knowledge, even if I stopped believing it after their first meeting. Gaitok’s story was predictable too, but I expected him to save the day. Also the shootout seems rushed and very poorly done. The recoiless long range handgun shooting, wounds and blood, laying in the water scene all felt bollywood tier. Overall nice, I guess, but the moments that had my heart beating turned out to be nothing

I haven't watched the episode yet did the father tried to kill his family?

what a fucking mess

Fan favorite Belinda

Also they should have wrapped up things with the Russians in a satisfying way. Checkov's gun should be axiomatic in story telling.

Sritala wasn't Rick's dad

disappointing 2bh

Tim's conclusion was fine. Lochy almost dying made him realize he cares about his family more than his money and lead to him accepting the hard times to come. It's not super deep but it's something

It's meant to be a murder mystery deal where there are multiple fakeouts to keep the audience guessing

I am such a reddit basedboy but the he was your father line made me gasp. I'm such a sucker for things like that.

Belinda and Greg being in this season at all just felt totally needless honestly

s3 ending was as empty as s2. neither had that pure quinn moment, all happy moments were grifters getting theirs or people making peace with sad realizations.

It's literally all setup so Zion can be rich and go to japan lotus and fuck our waifus

I am such a reddit basedboy but the he was your father line made me gasp. I'm such a sucker for things like that. People might argue that it didn't make sense why the old man would defame rick's mom. But I guess he wanted nothing to do with Rick and wanted a complete seperation and thought he wouldn't do anything.

Yeah, the ending was a little empty and depressing, but realistic I suppose. The three women are shallow. The Russians get to continue on fucking rich girls and harassing people. Bald guy living his cuck fantasies.

he saw what real love is and wanted a piece of it. he's probably not gonna get it because it's hard, but at least now he knows.
he's the character that had most growth. him and Laurie.

watch the episode

He had arguably the best arc. Acting wise, he had great comedic timing and does a lot of subtle acting that hits. He's gonna get a lead project after this for sure.

The worst acting was the dad by far. It was too much, look at me I'm high and spiraling wooo...

You would've done the same thing as Belinda if you were in her place right?

sure but she's not obligated to start a business with pornchai just because he asked her. and it still has the issue of either her moving to a foreign country (she would not want to be close to greg) or asking pornchai, who she barely knows, to move to the us for this. not to mention, how is she going to explain that she suddenly came up with enough cash to open a spa? she could have left it more open i guess and said she has to leave but give him her number so they can stay in touch, maybe get things off the ground later, but even without that it's only superficially the same thing tanya did

rick's interest in her is entirely dependent on his mood

No it isn't, the extent to which he's able to express it is.

The cuck part was funny, but the Belinda stuff could have gone. Was nice to imagine getting a sudden influx of money. That would feel awesome for at least a year until boredom sets in

Yeah I thought the same thing about the prostitutes winning the whole thing.

The two body guards complimenting baitok right before they died after bullying him every episode is so fucking poorly done lol. Wow dude we changed our minds you're so cool and tough

yeah lets stay at the hotel of the extremely affluent and powerful man with a colorful past of crime who I attacked at his house after deceiving his wife

absolute garbage

I don't think that's actually what they were doing

It would have been better if the cuck thing was just a mind game to fuck with Saxon. More interesting.

Gaitok should’ve died in the pistol crossfire, with the camera capturing the exact moment he chose not to shoot Rick.....a split-second decision. Now he’s missing out on rapid spiritual growth… all for some dull, two bit hoe

greg/chloe arguably had a happy ending. tim's ending isn't happy but he at least seemed to have accepted what's to come

they were mocking him

They were making fun of him

Belinda is the most shallow character of the entire series and Mike has been hammering that since s1. everyone else had some kind of redeeming quality (even fucking Paula and Olivia), but not Belinda.

this season was sawatdee CRAP LMAO!

Why were they speaking of the event that happened like 7 days ago as if it just happened then?

lochy danced with the old ones in the deep dark abyss. he won but it will take him a while to realize it.

I had the most growth whenever Laurie was on-screen

defaming the mom was fine and made sense, i just think the reveal was pointless if he was gonna die immediately. would've been more interesting imo if he had told rick he was his father last episode, rick left, and then showed up this ep with his goons for revenge and told rick that was just a lie he told to get rick to leave

because they’ve been out of town in bangkok for about half the season

He already felt real love

gaitok should have died after putting his gun down, then one of the bodyguards survives and we see mook talking to him in an interested way

That’s well and good as a whole, but the process leading up to the drinks, then backing out, then lochy with an elaborate death scene all at the very end feels cheap. I can get over the suicide one in the other episode

ok guess im retarded
definitely didnt seem like mocking him that time
seemed genuine but poorly written

I thought they were still bullying him and being sarcastic. Like "you'll never be like us so stop trying"

I thought Greg was gonna be Rick’s Dad, lol

yes it is, you're never given any reason to think otherwise

Which part of it? I would have 100% took the money, not because it’s a lot, but it was a deal that isn’t safe to say no to. I’d leave someone I just met for sure.

his face when he realizes his irl dad arnold is gonna see him jacked off by another dude

I guess they thought it was the biggest event of his life and he was still reeling from it

Belinda didn't even give Poonchai a couple grand like Tanya did

what a cunt

they were mocking him, had to have to one more scene of them being assholes so we wouldn't feel bad when rick domes them

I would do the 4ch thing of being an argumentative asshole for no reason about how much of a pussy people being deflated are, but I realize it actually just depends on what people enjoy and consume in media generally.
Hell, when Chelsea called Saxon a soulless husk in the prior episode I genuinely thought he'd chase after her and rape her thus breaking her innocent spirit and proving himself to be an empty shell.
I agree it's a bit of a downer ending and also not as deep and developed as it should be. Let's look at it this way:

Gaitok is tempted by Lisa and that other bitch. His spiritual self dies, he has become a cog in the machine.

The white womyn trio actually undergo growth, and come out with a better understanding of each other.

Tim's family... well they're fucked kinda. The youngest will likely be "fine" as he will learn to live without money after being reborn. Saxon may become a changed person somehow, being inspired by Chelsea's love for Rick as well as being able to bounce back from the scandal. Tim idk he seems mentally strong, but it's 50/50. The wife and Piper are mentally completely done, might just kill themselves.

Rick and Chelsea die because of goofy writing. There's no excuse there, anyone who's been around a woman knows that she would have done a billion other things before he even got close to his old man. Soap opera tier writing to end things out sadly.

The Russians... somehow are just fine? Most realistic part if you've ever lived there I will say that.

It's almost like you can see how the teachings of Buddha could have saved a LOT of these people, but in the end they couldn't abide by it for multiple reasons which lead most of them to their demise.
imo Rick and Chelsea should have died but with a better leadup in the previous scenes, Lochlan should have died as he let go of the material earlier, and Gaitok should have suffered mental anguish for committing violence towards an unarmed man.

Pornchai would have just liked fucking her once more I think
She couldnt even give him that.

He's one ugly fuck though

He will always be Ned Schneebly to me, and to a lesser degree the english teacher in Orange County

lochy telling saxon he jerked him off so he wouldn't be lonely while he was fucking chloe

kino scene

Chekhov's Gun

Chekhov

but that's a Russian name, see? It's actually clever... it became Gaitok's Gun.

I'd treat her like a princess, that's all she needs. I can't believe zoomers let a girl like that roaming around, free as a bird. what the hell are they thinking..

He didn't kill your father

I am your father

I think he's handsome but I have yellow fever

Yeah, I was half-thinking he wasn't gonna though with the drinks and Lochy would recover. Still felt the suspense, but leaving Lochy as the sole survivor would be too dark for this show or even killing Lochy and chalking it up to suicide would be too dark. The build-up made those seem like real possibilities, but didn't bind the plot to realizing them as such

Now i know how women feel when men like mediocre asian women

kek

>Tim's family... well they're fucked kinda. The youngest will likely be "fine" as he will learn to live without money after being reborn. Saxon may become a changed person somehow, being inspired by Chelsea's love for Rick as well as being able to bounce back from the scandal. Tim idk he seems mentally strong, but it's 50/50. The wife and Piper are mentally completely done, might just kill themselves.

you bring up kind of an interesting point here, saxon and lochy now seem like they'll be able to cope with the family downfall, while piper's arc was basically realizing that she can't cope with it even though she started off as the smug one who appreciated the wealth the least

"And I'm, you know, a pleaser. I just want to give everyone what they want"

parker posey just feeding into this breakdown was kino, great scene

i forgot leslie bibb and sam rockwell are together

victoria can just find piper a nice rich north carolina husband to settle down and have kids with

I'm listening to the last podcast episode and god mike white sounds like such a faggot
I refuse to believe he's actually bi

For sure ditching Pornchai made the most sense. I'd like to think I would take the money for assurance and then report the crime once I'm safe back in the US, giving up the money. Thankfully I won't face that kind of temptation. But think about having to lie about where that money came from to all the people you know and having to keep that secret the rest of your life just for some sheckles

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piper will be fine because her mother will help her meet and marry a rich man. and for that reason victoria will be fine, too. she’ll be an intrusive mother in law and mooch off piper’s rich husband. lochy will keep going with the flow and saxon has learned from chelsea to try to work on having a soul.
they’ll actually all be fine.

seduce marry and murder a woman worth half a billion dollars so that you can have the money to watch other men fuck a hooker

What did Greg mean by this?

It would have been cool if Tim went all buddhist and joined the compound. But maybe this season was written to avoid the ending of the first season. Maybe Mike White thought it was contrived if any of his characters actually embraced the teachings of the Buddha.

how come i'm not chinese then?

shot in the head by gaitok before he gets an answer

that's the message. someone pushed her into Tim and made her miserable. now she wants to perpetuate the cycle. Piper needed a Saxon moment but she never had it.

Piper is the new Rachel.

I’m with you… but that last song choice was ASSASSSSSASSSSSS. Why Billy Preston unrated Ryan Reynolds movie in 2009 shit?

Dont forget the original reasoning that has no mention in this one: Making gay guys rich in sicily

Belinda is below mid, probably a bit desperate being a single mom, away from home where it won't hurt her reputation, and the lizard thing sealed the deal for my man Pornchai

can we get a new thread plz

what self respecting NC rich kid is gonna marry a poor girl from a disgraced family? her only shot is giving one her v card and trying to baby trap him

At least I’m proud of myself for guessing he’d make a shake, and then questioning how strong those seeds were

he won

you don't choose your fetish, anon, it chooses you

Time to migrate fellas

I'm gonna be honest, I honestly genuinely thought Sam Rockwell was gonna ask Walton Goggins to fuck him in that last episode after that one monologue. Fully expected that to make a joke comeback

Her being MAGA and the other hags reacting to it was great. And I liked her taking the bald Rusky's story on face value

It's a tragedy. Chelsea tried to fix Rick and failed, while she might have actually fixed Saxon in the brief time they had together.

Maybe Mike White thought it was contrived if any of his characters actually embraced the teachings of the Buddha.

I think the description of life and death from the monk coming back up at the end was pretty nice
What he said could either be interpreted as "life doesn't matter so don't sweat the small stuff" or "life doesn't matter so just kill yourself" and seeing him go from the latter to the former was nice, him taking in the buddhist stuff without directly buying into the "cult" is a good way to tie that up

Nothing pays off at all

I think Tim was making a mountain out of a molehill there. He said he “only” made 10 million on that. They could make it out just fine

Is that what he was trying to do at the elevator? It might have devolved into that if he had stuck around

why didn't Saxon (seemingly) give a fuck about her death

She's not MAGA, she's just an empty shell of a person who morphs herself to fit in with whatever's around her.

Yeah these rich dude always bounce back. Do a few months in jail at worst and your other rich friends will help you because they expect the same treatment if and when they're in the same position. It might have been more of the shame of failing or fearing his family seeing him differently after a life of success that drove him crazy

She morphed into MAGA. Or is MAGA a movement only for the intellectual elite who are immune to outside influence?

What makes you think he didn't give a fuck? It never comes up after. You just see them all kind of cold riding on the boat away.

HE YO FADUH HE TOL ME

saw that one coming from a mile away