Money can't buy happiness is one of America's biggest lies. People are usually glad to receive money, except in tragic life insurance payouts. We want to believe that phrase even when it's bogus.?
Beautifully adorned Testa di Moro containers, fashioned like human skulls, are displayed at the made-up White Lotus resort in Sicily. In the second season of HBO's The White Lotus, a receptionist reveals to new guests that the artifacts reflect a tragic folktale:?
It's startling to discover that such exquisite artwork has a tragic history, yet the tourists seem not to mind. However, we as an audience got our cue-it's going to be messy and dark again.?
The show returned for a second outing and made affluent people's suffering amusing one more time.?
Everyone is keeping a wary eye on this show, so if you've been on the internet in the previous five weeks, you've probably heard many of those theories.?
The White Lotus Season 2 is getting closer and closer to its finale, which means that viewers ought to be ready to say goodbye to at least one of their favorite characters. In season 2 of the HBO drama, there are numerous examples of dysfunctional sexual couplings.?
After 'The White Lotus Season 2' Episode 6 was finally released, fans got a heads-up that the perfect little Utopian world of many is going to get turbulent.?
Let's decode the most discussed question, "Who will die?" Here are popular internet theories on who will meet an untimely and shocking death in Sicily.?
Greg was ill throughout the first season of The White Lotus. He seems to be doing OK now, and he's even managing to hide his phone calls from his wife, Tanya.
One Redditor, u/Glitterbitch14, hypothesizes that Greg is a con man.
"My theory: Tanya has been a mark for Greg since season one. I think he always knew she had money and made up a lie about a terminal diagnosis hoping he could avoid a prenup (he brings this up at dinner). That didn¡¯t work, and now he¡¯s stuck and not bothering with the nice guy act. He has arranged for something to happen to her on this vacation. That¡¯s why he was so bugged out when the assistant showed up."
Another Reddit user, u/Unable_Mushroom9355, suggested that there may be a connection between Greg's murder and the story of the Moorish guy that tourists hear when they are welcomed to the hotel.
"I think there's also the possibility of Tanya killing Greg, perhaps accidentally, due to her suspicions of him cheating. Would also work with the Moorish man story and with the lower-class characters getting the short end of the stick. (Although Greg is independently wealthy, he spoke this episode about his reliance on her money and the prenup they signed.)"
Another possibility is that he meets an untimely end that has nothing to do with Tanya.
Ethan, who started off as a charming character, wasn't one as the show progressed.? Fans aren't really in love with his twisted character.?
He is indeed not a fan-favorite. His scenes with Harper give away the fact that their marriage is doomed.?
The fact that he is so devoted to his fitness regimen on vacation that he exhausts himself too much to have sex with his wife in the evenings proves that Harper and he don't really share a good bond.?
"Every character interests me, and the mystery is just a bonus. I am excited to see who dies, but that¡¯s not my primary reason for watching which is refreshing," Twitter user @Eddy_Moviess tweeted. "Ethan for sure on the chopping block though."
Another fan hinted that what if he is the one who got killed?
Redditor, u/kosciuszko123 shared his two cents and wrote,?"I kinda wonder if he¡¯s gonna end up being the/a killer by end of the season. Definitely sensing his time is yet to come in a future episode or more this season."
Mia and Lucia are both visitors at the hotel as of the second episode, which means that any one of them stands a risk of dying.?
Killing the sex workers is a plot device that has been used a lot, but you can always expect the unexpected.?Reddit user u/catfashion?writes,?
"I am assuming Mia and Lucia are one, if not both, dead. The manager made mention of those dead being guests, and they had the scene in episode two about them being added onto the room to become guests."
Another one pointed out that it could be Mia or Portia. The person?theorizes, "The leg seen in the opening scene seems to have pale skin and be shaved, so this would likely be Mia or Portia. I think it works well with Mia, because she's being portrayed as this dreamer with so much potential who just needs to get out of her current situation, and writers love to kill those characters off."
User?u/gumby?writes: "Remember, Mike White's deal with the White Lotus is that it's about wealthy privilege. The elites don't die, just the poor. The wealthy always come out just fine, and the lower class gets shafted (which includes death). Look at the people who got shafted in S1: Armond, Kai, Belinda.?The wealthy-adjacent people don't end up in a super bad place (not dead, or in jail, or cut off from money), but they don't come out as well as the truly wealthy. In season 1, look at Rachel (Shane's wife) and Paula (Olivia's friend). So for season 2, those folks are Portia and possibly Greg."
Reddit user u/nodtny speculates that Tanya and Greg's narrative is an update on the Greek myth of Adriande and Thesus, with Portia standing in for Ariande's nurse, who, in one account of the myth, eventually dies on the island.?
u/PhaseClare giving a nod to the theory writes, "I've been convinced that Portia's going to die for a little while, so this all 100% tracks. A few stray notes/observations to support: Portia hasn't gone swimming, she just sits by the pool. I think she ends up the one drowning (maybe she can't swim and/or gets thrown overboard)? She's said a bunch of times about wanting to just have fun and have an Italian adventure, and I think she's about to get it!"?
The theory continues, "my gut is that shit is going down for Portia and Tanya. I can't tell if maybe Greg arranged this or if he comes back and something goes down...it would be a payday for the hustlers and get Tanya off his back if he arranged it."?
Reddit User u/Moneyfrenzy hints, Tanya is obv getting scammed and is the target, but Portia will be killed instead (darkest ending imo)."
Many are fixating on the Moorish man's narrative, in which a local lady beheads her boyfriend after learning that he is already married.
?A Sicilian woman who fell for a Moorish guy and found out he was married and had kids ends up killing him.?
It's possible that Dominic's relationships with local Sicilian ladies Lucia and Mia might go sour even though he is still married (albeit not happily; his wife, represented by Laura Dern, evidently detests him).
In the second episode, Bert explains how Hades brought Persephone down to the underworld after he kidnapped her.?
Almost immediately after that, the show turns to a scene where Harper is seen swimming in the ocean and Cameron pulling her beneath the water. Did Cameron kill Harper??
Redditor u/CozyMoses shares his theory and writers, "Bert Di Grasso describes the story of Persephone in rather stark and graphic detail during episode 2. Particularly he lingers on the image of Hades stalking Persephone and then bursting from the earth to kidnap her. In the same episode, we see Cameron stalking Harper underwater before suddenly rising out of the depth and scaring her. The camera work, to me, evoked the imagery of Hades stalking Persephone underwater. The camera lingers on the underwater view, sort of like we're underground, and the vaguely threatening conversation they have after has a weird tone to it. Still curious to see where the show goes, though I have been getting a real threatening aura from Cameron."
WBD reported last week that each episode of Season 2 had achieved a new series high with each episode of "The White Lotus," suggesting that the series continues to benefit from the word-of-mouth success it enjoyed in Season 1.?
As opposed to establishing its following early on and then leveling out, which is a more typical pattern of viewing growth, the first installment expanded dramatically over the course of its run.?
WBD reports that the current average for "The White Lotus" episodes across all platforms is 9.5 million viewers, which is approximately 60 percent more than the average for the first season at the same point in time. Now, 10.4 million people have seen the new season's first episode.
F. Murray Abraham as Bert Di Grasso
Jennifer Coolidge as Tanya McQuoid-Hunt
Adam DiMarco as Albie Di Grasso
Meghann Fahy as Daphne Sullivan
Beatrice Grann¨° as MiaJon Gries as Greg Hunt
Tom Hollander as Quentin
Sabrina Impacciatore as Valentina
Michael Imperioli as Dominic Di Grasso
Theo James as Cameron Sullivan
Aubrey Plaza as Harper Spiller
Haley Lu Richardson as Portia
Will Sharpe as Ethan Spiller
Simona Tabasco?as Lucia Greco
Leo Woodall?as Jack
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