Opening scene for HBO’s “The Big Bang Theory” The White Lotus introduces a coffin, and then it flashes back one week. It will surprise viewers to see who the unlucky Hawaiian resort guest is.
However The White LotusThe pandemic passion project, ” – a producer and actor Mike White,” is less of a proper Agatha Christie–style murder mystery and more of a Kafkaesque rumination on human misery. Shane (Jake Lacy) is a rich and naive real estate agent. He becomes obsessed about the possibility that he has been wrongly denied the honeymoon room by his wife (Alexandra Daddario portraying one the few less-loathsome character on the show). A masked socialite who is an alcoholic guards the box containing her mother’s ashes, as well as dysfunctional families whose patriarch feels degraded by their more wealthy wife, joins them on vacation.
Nobody is perfect. good, But the main villains are actually two Gen Z college student. The leader of the pair, Olivia (Sydney Sweeney), practices a brand of militant wokeness, terrorizing her mom and dad—aging avatars of Clinton-ian feminism—as well as her brother, whose crime, apparently, was being born a straight white male. Anyone who has ever complained about kids these days will feel some satisfaction when Olivia’s façade crumbles.