This post contains spoilers for the new episode of The White Lotus, “Full Moon Party,” which is now streaming on Max. The first half of White Lotus Season Three was fairly methodical, and at times even restrained, in establishing the new characters and setting up their conflicts with one another. …
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This post contains spoilers for “Same Spirits, New Forms,” the third-season premiere of The White Lotus, which is now streaming on Max. Three seasons in, we know The White Lotus has certain parts of its formula that it likes to repeat. Like the title of the season premiere says: “Same …
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The third season of HBO’s Emmy-winning satire The White Lotus takes place at yet another location of the titular fictionalhotel chain, with Thailand following Hawaii and Sicily. In the opening scene of the season premiere, a character who has spent a lot of time at the Hawaii resort considers this …
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“That’s gonna be the fuckin’ headline for this piece, isn’t it?” Natasha Lyonne asks, in the most Natasha Lyonne way imaginable. “‘Natasha Lyonne Does Not Slide Into Directors’ DMs.’ Which, y’know, trust me — you’re going to get a lot of people writing in to say that isn’t true!” The …
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You may love your family, though you might not like them very much, and just because you’re kin doesn’t mean you have anything in common. Take, for example, the three grown siblings who find themselves forced to share the same air in His Three Daughters. There is Katie (Carrie Coon), …
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Forty years ago, four men put on uniforms, came up with a catchy logo — a startled specter in a red circle with a slash going through it, no big whoop — strapped on some proton packs and saved New York City from an evil deity holed up in a …
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The Gilded Age Season Two begins with hats. Lots and lots and lots of hats. It is Easter Sunday, and all the women of 1880s New York society are putting on their fanciest headgear before heading to church. And by far the most fabulous hat of all is the one …
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In 1962, Loretta McLaughlin, a reporter at the Boston Record-American, noticed a small item buried on page five of a local paper. It detailed the murder of a woman who had been found strangled in her apartment. Something about this seems familiar to McLaughlin, who digs through some old clippings …
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