White Lotus Season 2 Episode 3 Recap

White Lotus Season 2 Episode 3 Recap: In “Bull Elephants,” the episode where all the previously established dynamics start to disintegrate rapidly, shows a noticeable shift in the mood. This program continues to be mostly about attraction, desire, monogamy, adultery, and other related topics, and I believe this is the darkest side of these themes. Simply removing people from their comfort zones and placing them in new environments that support, legitimize, or at the very least excuse their worst tendencies reveals them.

The White Lotus season 2, episode 3 recap

Think of Harper, Ethan, Daphne, and Cameron. To avoid accidentally offending anyone they are with, they spent the first two episodes acting like someone they are not. However, the awkwardness results from Harper and Daphne being strangers and Ethan and Cameron being old friends from college.

Harper and Daphne spend the night together in a palazzo in Noto. At the same time, the boys are left to fend for themselves in “Bull Elephants” as Harper tries to prove to Ethan that she can be calm and approachable, and Daphne tries to prove to Cameron that she is in control of her own life and can do whatever she wants.

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Daphne reveals what the scenes back at the hotel confirm: Cameron is a cheat, probably a serial one, and her coping mechanism is to remain distant and free-spirited, so she doesn’t become resentful. Daphne and Harper consume food and drink. Although it doesn’t seem to be a long-term plan, you never know.

What Harper hears has her in utter confusion. She’s more like Ethan than she realizes, who crumbles under the weight of cheating even during a drug-fueled evening with Isabella and Lucia. At least he’s not only committed to avoiding sex with his wife.

In the meantime, as was expected, Tanya’s abandonment severely jeopardizes Portia’s relationship with Albie. When Tanya finally gives Portia some space, she is too exhausted to react to Albie’s attempts to be more “aggressive.” The poor, underappreciated assistant is forced to participate in an impromptu Tarot card reading by a local mystic that Tanya ends midway through because it is too negative.

The dynamic between Portia and Albie is among the funniest this season and, overall, is my favorite. Albie is torn between his perceived duty as a hip feminist ally and Portia’s not-so-subtle desire for him to be a bit more take-charge. In the first episode, Portia stated over the phone that she wanted to be thrown around by an Italian guy, and Albie doesn’t seem capable of throwing a party, let alone anything else.

Therefore, his “violence” consists of forcing Portia to join him and Dominic and Bert on a sightseeing tour before smugly claiming that The Godfather is a metaphor for the patriarchy, which encourages males to harbor flimsy power fantasies.

Albie’s attempts in that direction fail when he eventually understands that Portia is referring to a different form of “violence,” as he caught her at the wrong time. Although the constantly crossed wires in this situation are amusing, you can easily picture how people attempting to figure out who they are, what they should be, and what is and isn’t acceptable would muddle a relationship just this way.

In contrast, and possibly on purpose, Dominic’s efforts to avoid being a sex pest are shown as entirely archaic, simple, and barely pitiful, the actions of an older man attempting to reclaim his lost youth. It’s a tale about addiction, how excess and greed overwhelm duty and sorrow.

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We’ve seen enough of those before, and I may be giving it too much credit by saying that this particular subplot is meant to be extraneous to make a point. But this bothers me less than Tanya does.

Tanya has no justification for participating in this season. To begin with, she was a one-note character, but at least she served a crucial role in the first film’s parody of white privilege, including well-intentioned examples. She feels unnecessary in this situation, and the joke has grown stale.