Editor’s be aware: The under accommodates spoilers for Season 2 of The White Lotus.
Season 2 of The White Lotus has kicked off with a whodunit begin in Episode 1. While we’re positive this query will probably be answered with the present’s ordinary mix of darkish humor and quirkiness within the coming weeks, we’re clearly additionally fairly within the thriller side of the brand new season — as in, which character was native authorities seen carrying off within the physique bag on the sun-drenched seashore of the White Lotus’ Sicilian location? With an entire new forged of characters to select from, the prevailing idea will probably be fluid and alter from week to week.
After the primary episode, who do we predict was discovered floating within the Ionian Sea? We have an intriguing new group of holiday makers, Sicilian locals, and White Lotus employees this 12 months becoming a member of Season 1 Hawaii holdovers Tanya McQuoid-Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge) and Greg Hunt (Jon Gries). Let’s check out who will probably be having fun with a week-long keep on the resort and who’s most certainly to have met an premature demise in Mike White‘s second installment of the Emmy award-winning ensemble piece.
Is It Someone From the Two Couples Staying at The White Lotus?
Among the company greeted on the dock with complimentary flutes of Prosecco is the squared-away, tightly-wound Harper Spiller (Aubrey Plaza). Maybe per week on the White Lotus is precisely what she must neglect about her work as an employment lawyer representing the sexually harassed, discriminated, and wrongfully terminated. She is touring together with her husband, Ethan Spiller (Will Sharpe), who appears to have come into an excellent quantity of recent tech cash and serves because the extra laid-back, easy-going half of the couple. He spends many of the episode vouching for his previous school roommate and pal, Cameron Sullivan (Theo James) a rich, tech entrepreneur who has invited the Spillers to hitch him and his spouse Daphne (Meghann Fahey) on the White Lotus.
There is certainly rigidity between the 2 {couples} from the beginning. Harper and Cameron have gotten off on the unsuitable foot, however Cameron does not appear to have observed. His charming however passive-aggressive type is not going over nicely with Harper, who sees him as a get-rich-quick, cavalier name-dropper with an overabundance of self-confidence. To be blunt, she thinks he is a “douche” and is not afraid to share her opinion with Will. In the restricted time that we have gotten to know Cameron, she might be onto one thing. Aside from his dismissive perspective towards her authorized work, the truth that he nonchalantly drops his drawers and exposes himself in entrance of her of their shared toilet is severe trigger for alarm. It comes throughout as each grossly narcissistic and blatantly unaware. Something is certainly not proper with Cameron, however is it one thing that may land him within the physique bag? The solely one in all these 4 that we are able to definitively rule out is his spouse Daphne, as she was the one who swam straight into the floating physique in the beginning of the episode.
Is It One of the Di Grasso Men?
Then there are three generations of Di Grasso males. Bert (F. Murray Abraham), Dominic (Michael Imperioli), and the youngest, Albie (Adam DiMarco). The colourful trio of Californians is staying on the White Lotus to go to Testa d’Laqua, the hometown of Bert’s Sicilian mother and father. Aside from some occasional flatulence, Bert is a charmer who’s fast to flirt with just about each feminine he comes throughout. He’s frank and has a type of joie de vive perspective that you just would possibly discover in a gentleman of a sophisticated age. Son Dominic is middle-aged and all too acquainted with his father’s antics. The Hollywood “muckity-muck,” as Bert calls him, is leaving a tumultuous relationship together with his exasperated estranged spouse again within the States and is greater than open to discovering some native companionship with mercurial native escorts, Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Granno). His son, Albie, is usually caught within the center refereeing dad and grandad whereas additionally serving because the latter’s babysitter/chaperone. There are some inquiries to be answered concerning the Di Grassos. Could Bert’s comedowns have landed him in bother with a fellow suitor or jealous husband? Maybe Dominic’s relationship with one of many native name ladies does not go over nicely with somebody on the town. Body bag worthy? We’ll see.
Is There Trouble in Paradise for Fan-Favorite White Lotus Regulars?
Back for an additional keep at their favourite resort, Tanya and Greg Hunt (Coolidge and Gries) are searching for a romantic getaway, however issues are off to a rocky begin. First off, cannot a woman eat a macaroon, or three, or 5, with out dealing with the Spanish Inquisition? So far, Greg is in fairly the foul temper as he raises a stink to simply about every part Tanya does — together with bringing alongside her beleaguered assistant, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) with whom he instantly has an issue, to not point out apparently snacking an excessive amount of on macaroons.
The therapy she paid for appears to have cured Greg’s terminal sickness, however even the kindest and cookiest of individuals have a breaking level. Surely Tanya does not have rescuer’s regret and desires to ship her ill-tempered husband to satisfy his maker — and even worse, eliminate her pesky assistant, who, regardless of being instructed to remain in her room for the week and never smash her romantic escape, retains popping up all over the place to pursue a romantic relationship with Albie. (Just for the report, Greg, it was three macaroons, not 5.)
We Know the Staff Is Always Involved… Somehow
If the primary season taught us something, the White Lotus employees is simply as concerned within the storyline as their company. This time round, resort supervisor Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) is a no-nonsense screw who runs a decent ship. Assistant Rocco (Federico Ferrante) is her poor underling who takes the brunt of Valentina’s wrath. We do not get a whole lot of private info on the employees in Episode 1, however disgruntled staff are identified for desirous to see their hard-ass bosses in a physique bag. Anything is feasible, proper? The sleazy restaurant piano participant even looks like somebody to control.
Episode 1’s Body Bag Front Runner: Cameron
As we said on the outset, issues are simply getting began and the state of affairs is a really fluid one. Each character goes to have a run at physique bag standing sooner or later, however after their dialog at lunch and the next occasions within the toilet, Theo James’ Cameron has all of the qualities you would possibly count on to push a mixture of all of the unsuitable buttons and set somebody off (sure, we caught Daphne’s remark about wives killing their husbands on Dateline). Entitled, opinionated, passive-aggressive, and narcissistic, he has established a lead proper out of the gate. Whether he maintains that benefit all the way in which into the physique bag stays to be seen.
New episodes of The White Lotus Season 2 premiere every Sunday on HBO and HBO Max.