It’s Fall Phenomenon, the OCS TV series featuring odious rich vacationers, just finished its second season. A killer game where female characters have big points to play.
The end. As of Monday, September 12, we know which corpses were rejected by the sea at the end of the season 2 finale. White lotus (airing on HBO and OCS at home). The principle was the same as in the first season. the prologue suggests that a suspicious death has occurred in the luxury hotel that gives the series its name. Each season then shuffles the characters around like so many pawns on a 5-star chessboard, leaving us to guess who will end up in the black plastic cover. Of course, we will not reveal who is here. If the sharks ate it anyway guests In Mike White’s White Lotus series, everything comes down to one question: to eat or to be eaten? Manipulate, humiliate, cheat or pay the price. A rule that all characters must play by (especially female?).
In the video: the trailer for season 2 White lotus
White lotus place, in a dream setting (Season One in Hawaii, Sicily for Season Two, the third set to take place in Asia), a handful of vacationers, both wealthy and odious, who regard the hotel staff and grounds in the same way as the furniture in their rooms; as interchangeable objects, vaguely decorative, primarily utilitarian. Their loved ones, families and friends, are not faring much better. how succession (another HBO show), the series plays on our fascination with the ugly, the rich and the evil, and acts as a magnifying glass for the power issues of the time. Morality is never safe, and performance power is immense. Female characters, ambiguous and deep, are no exception.
Harper and Daphne, the Forsaken Wives
In the honeymoon suites with connecting doors, Daphne and Harper enjoy a week’s vacation with their husbands, Cameron and Ethan, friends from college. High thirty-year-olds whose dresses are falling off, as well as their replicas, they have nothing in common except being the wives of rich husbands. The first, the perpetually tanned mother, is equally smiley, carefree (“Honestly, Cam and I don’t even watch the news anymore”) and the first degree, like the second, the high-flying lawyer, is obnoxious, sarcastic, and has a slight superiority complex. The mutual discovery of the two couples and the complex mechanisms that govern their intimacy and sexuality will turn everything upside down. Who has ever cheated? Who knows true harmony? Who has the hottest nights… Jealousy, paranoia, competition. The game of killing in the Taormina sun can begin.
Why do we love them? For their simplicity. Upon meeting each other, the two women open their eyes (more or less quickly) to their marriage. And choose to play or not, with what they imply terrible truths and secret gardens. Manipulate two guys to the front to get exactly what you want (and most importantly, guess it): a certain idea of female power. “I’m not a victim,” calmly declares Daphne (Master Megan Fahy, found in the The bold type), booty wife but not a woman-object to a startled Harper (Aubrey Plaza, with a creaky will). Before happily toasting his glass with a Spritz.
Tanya, Portia and la dolce vita
At a beach bar, another duo drags out their grief. Tanya (the inimitable Jennifer Coolidge, Season 1 Emmy winner), a sultry blonde diva, dreams of herself as Monica Vitti from California, worried about her new husband Greg’s lack of attention (both are the only characters already present in season 2 in the season). And exploits his personal assistant, Portia, a young American with a wardrobe (lime-green nails, a striped bolero over a zebra bikini, a saffron-pleated dress) as inconsistent as his decisions. extends his arms to her, she prefers the arms of the little English batsman who is always ready to party. While his boss allows himself to be soothed by the smoking bows of three strangers who promise him: sweet life.
Why do we love them? Passive and naïve, Tanya and Portia carry their boredom, their melancholy, and their incurable need to be seen to exist throughout the series. One is exciting, the other is a bit heartbreaking. But we still recognize quality in them. Only following their impulses, of course at the risk of harming others (and themselves). Whether it’s expressing absolutely whatever comes to mind (“What a beautiful sight! I wonder if we ever jumped out of here”), having a cocaine-fueled night with a gigolo, or wearing a hideous scarf wrapped around his hat.
Lucia and Mia, wonderful friends
They are this season’s spark of humor, liveliness, and sass. 2. Lucia and Mia (the irresistible Simona Tabasco and Beatrice Granno), young Italians, try to spend as much time as possible in the palace. The purpose: monetize their charms with wealthy vacationers, single or not. If Lucia (who has the same last name as Greco) as one of the heroines A wonderful friend) is determined, Mia, whose dream is to be a singer, is more reserved. But can you get that close to luxury, dollars and a permanent seat behind the piano at the bar without paying for it?
Why do we love them? for their impudence and pragmatism. Lucia very quickly announces to Mia: you should forget being romantic. Yes, the two young women respect nothing (and especially the hotel manager, Valentina) to achieve their goals. But no one gives them a gift. For great evils, great cures, Lucia and Mia sharpen the weapons that are their bodies, their intuition (often right: men are easy to fool) and their wits. To the extent that they would sacrifice their lives for it? It is not necessary. their friendship, the way each supports the other at all costs, makes them the only characters who can genuinely care about anyone but themselves. And it is on that duo, an inseparable character, that the series ends.
Source: Le Figaro
