Sunday, February 23, 2025

Our Favourite ‘The White Lotus’ Memes – As We Hibernate Until The Next Season

That last scene of all three generations of men looking back at a pretty girl walking past sets the fact that Mike White owns TV in stone.

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The second season of The White Lotus has unequivocally proven that Mike White owns television.

That last scene of all three generations of men looking back at a pretty girl walking past sets that fact in stone. See the hound dogs doing what they do best up top.

The sweetest redemption here is that Lucia (Simona Tabasco) successfully scammed two generations of these sexist Di Grasso men out of $50 000 (that’s almost R1 million by the way).

Spoiler, I know, but I assume you’ve seen all seven episodes of White’s latest sumptuous satire (the final episode aired on Sunday/Monday local time) and have come here to relish in memes to bide the time until the next season comes out.

The series is now known to keep us all magically on the edge of our seats with a hint of death in the very first episode.

This time, in the season premiere, Daphne (breakout star Meghann Fahy) got our hearts racing with her ironic comment about how nice the hotel is, saying “Oh, you’re gonna die. They’re going to have to drag you out of here,” only to go swimming and actually find a dead body in the water.

Then, the deceptively addictive opening score (which amazingly combines the first season’s Hawaiian score ‘Aloha!’ into a new song with Italian sounds called ‘Renaissance’) keeps the tension going with the metaphor-laden title sequence.

I don’t think any of us skipped the into, because, hot damn, it is powerful.

Anyway, most of us spend our watching time trying to figure out who will end up dead in the last episode, which is already an iconic plot device:

Based on season one, where the hotel’s staff workers were treated as disposable and irrelevant much of the time (as commentary on class), it made sense to think that Mia (Beatrice Grannò) and Lucia, the two local sex workers, would be offed.

But it turns out they were the only two characters who ended the series truly happy and content. While the mess between Cameron (Theo James), Daphne, Harper (Aubrey Plaza), and Ethan (Will Sharpe), seemed to have found some calm at the end, you can still recognise the pent-up tension in their lies about all their shared cheating escapades.

Eventually, we find out that Tanya (Emmy winner Jennifer Coolidge) dies after shooting a yacht’s worth of her new gay friends when she realises that they were conspiring with her husband, Greg (Jon Gries), to exploit a clause in their prenup that meant Greg would inherit her fortune if she died.

The way she fell into the ocean trying to get off the yacht is an oddly fitting ending considering how in season one she was spreading her mother’s ashes from a boat, notes BuzzFeed.

It is sad that Coolidge is gone because she ultimately held the two seasons together. She also birthed most of the memes, starting from this hilarious scene:

Alright, you came here for the memes:

Surely the moment she asked the Italian-speaking captain whether he knitted his own cap, or the moment she told the coked-up mafia pimp that she likes his “giant pupils” are in here as memes, too.

Ah yes, there’s it, the willful ignorance:

It was Daphne that was the queen of using positivity as an absolute weapon though:

Give that girl an Emmy.

Mia, too:

A round of applause for girls using men successfully, yes:

Pity about this win though:

Moving on from the good times to the weirder times:

Wonderful, they found a way to keep Coolidge in season three!

Anyway, HBO has already booked another excursion at a luxury hotel somewhere on a whole new continent, which means a season renewal is definitely happening.

I’ve heard rumours it could be in Japan and be a “funny look at death and Eastern religion and spirituality”.

[source:buzzfeednews]