‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Finale: Right here’s Who Dies

Spoilers for the season finale of The White Lotus to comply with. 

After seven weeks of hypothesis, theme tune dance events, and shut examination of 1 suspiciously positioned {photograph} of cowboys, The White Lotus has revealed who dies on the finish of what was purported to be a soothing week’s trip. 

The physique depend started on Quentin’s yacht, the place Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) sussed out what viewers had suspected: these gays, as she advised the boat captain, had been making an attempt to kill her. Niccolo‘s black bag turned out to be precisely as suspicious as Tanya believed it to be, and she or he pulled out the gun to tearfully shoot Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his mates (and nonetheless made time to demand, unsuccessfully, that Quentin inform her if Greg was having an affair). 

Nevertheless it turned out to be Tanya who was the physique floating within the water all alongside. Making an attempt to make her escape overboard on the dinghy parked subsequent to the yacht, she as a substitute hit her head on the railing, drowning and presumably permitting her absent husband Greg (Jon Giries) to get away with taking her cash in any case. However no less than she stopped some would-be murderers within the course of. 

Within the “Unpacking Episode 7” section following the episode, collection creator Mike White admits he didn’t wish to kill Tanya however “she’s such a diva, larger-than-life feminine archetype, it simply felt like we may devise our personal operatic conclusion to Tanya’s life and her story.” And he instructed that Greg’s a part of the story won’t be finished— “it appears like there’s acquired to be someone who’s going to trace it all the way down to Greg. However perhaps you’ll have to attend to search out out what occurs.” 

The season ends, simply as the primary one did, with all the most important gamers within the airport and on their manner residence. The wealthy and privileged are, as soon as once more, escaping with all their privileges intact, and the spirit of Tanya lives on in Portia (Haley Lu Richardson), who escaped no matter function was meant for her within the homicide plot and wears a really Tanya-worthy head scarf for her flight residence. Reuniting with Albie on the airport, embarking on what won’t be the most effective relationship for both of them, appears like its personal tribute to Tanya, too. 

White has been frank that the useless physique conspicuously positioned at first of every White Lotus season is a instrument for luring in audiences. “When that first season grew to become such a water cooler present [that] individuals had been speaking about, I used to be like, had I solely recognized if I would put a useless physique at first of Enlightened, perhaps individuals would’ve watched Enlightened,” he advised NPR. “You notice these sorts of hooks do really get viewers.”

However the magic of The White Lotus is that the wild theories about bloody endings (Cameron and Ethan jet ski accident? Harper homicide rampage?) don’t get in the best way of the character drama that’s really on the coronary heart of the present. In a season dedicated to inspecting the interaction of intercourse and energy, just about each character has been placing themselves in harmful conditions within the title of affection, lust, jealousy, or some mixture of the entire above. However although The White Lotus isn’t about demise, it was about Jennifer Coolidge—and with a 3rd season formally coming, it’s time to start out reimagining precisely what that may appear to be.