“The White Lotus” is one of those shows that sticks with you.
Mike White’s masterful series, which follows a new group of wealthy Americans (and locals) each season as they travel to a different White Lotus hotel, wrapped its second season in mid-December, but we’ve both been thinking about it ever since. So by popular demand, we finally got our act together to podcast about it.
White loves a Big Juicy Theme, and this season it was sex, specifically of the transactional variety. As Jen Chaney put it in her Vulture review, “Season one established that practically every relationship is transactional, and season two goes a step further by suggesting that satisfaction can only be achieved when one understands that essential truth.”
In this week’s episode, we get into the power of transactional sex, what it takes to sustain a longterm sexual partnership, Tanya’s dramatic exit, and the most gorgeous (Valentina’s suits, Daphne’s dresses, and all of Harper’s wardr…
