The White Lotus

I watched the first three episodes of White Lotus (half the season). I wouldn't go so far as to say people talk like they do irl, but there is something natural and incidental about the happenings, like they weren't curated for TV, they just happened.

Favorite characters: Armond and the dad. The newlywed husband looks and acts like a 6 foot phallus. His wife is just a little pathetic; she too often succumbs to his charisma, she tries too hard to be pleasant. I can't get behind the mom's fixation on Zoom optics, nor Quinn's fixation on gaming, due to my technology aversion, even when those characters seem acceptable otherwise. Olivia and her friend are arrogant. The sad woman is fun, but her ditzy air just can't really be my style; her therapist is too boringly and exhaustingly affirming. That really just leaves the dad, who tries hard to be honest, and Armond, whose actor is fabulous.