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Arnas Fedaravičius as Valentin // The White Lotus S3E5

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Bad luck comes in threes. THE WHITE LOTUS 3x01 | Same Spirits, New Forms

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MICHELLE MONAGHAN and ARNAS FEDARAVIČIUS as JACLYN LEMON and VALENTIN THE WHITE LOTUS (2021 - ), dir. MIKE WHITE ↳ 3x05 "Full-Moon Party"

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The White Lotus · S03E05 · “Full-Moon Party”

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White Lotus | S03E08

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I’m so happy Laurie finally got to just speak. That’s all she ever wanted. All she needed was to speak, to breathe, to vent. Honestly it’s hard to be fake. It’s suffocating. Keeping up appearances day in and day out it’s fucking draining. Literally fills up the back of your throat with a guilt shaped lump. Convincing everyone that you live this perfect fantasy life is fucking draining. and convincing yourself? Even harder.

And with that said I’m really happy that all three of them had a moment to just chill together. All three of them sitting on the couch, talking to each other instead of whispering behind each other’s backs. They got to just girls together. And yeah it doesn’t mean everything will be perfect forever one sitting on a couch won’t completely reinvent their relationship with each other or themselves but who cares.

(Random but Kate’s little forehead kiss and Jaclyn’s arm over Kate is SO SWEET it’s so warm and intimate these ladies really love and trust each other its so sweet im gonna cry 😭)

Like Laurie said she doesn’t need a religion or a god to give her life meaning time gives it meaning. So it doesn’t matter what they do or who they become after the trip. Because what matters is now. Time is real. Time is of the essence.

and in that moment they get to just sit together on that couch and talk about innate shit. happy. all happy to just be present. Grateful to just be sitting at the table. It’s sweet and it’s relatable asf and it’s real. I really really love it.

They’ll love each other no matter what.

(Also spoiler but THEY ALL MADE IT OUT ALIVE😝😝)

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Desire & Identity in The White Lotus s3

An important theme this season is how our desires tie into our identities, and how holding onto these idealistic mental representations of ourselves we are doing a grave disservice to our actual selves.

Every character in this show has a unique and interesting connection to desire as it relates to identity. But my favorite four characters right now are Frank, Jaclyn, Lochlan, and Saxon. They are all in their own stages of parsing what they want out of life, and who they are as people. Below I go into my thoughts on each of them.

I think Frank's asian-girl monologue pretty clearly shows this theme. He desired them so much that it became such a fundamental part of his identity that he couldn't distinguish between the two. And although that was an insane conversation, I think it's very interesting to see how he approached his identity crisis. He cut out alcohol and sex, pushing away his desires to see what's left of his identity without them.

Jaclyn is also going through an identity crisis. She desires to be fun, young and hot and that was her identity for a long time with seemingly no issues. Now that she's getting older it's hitting her. She may have even married that young guy to keep a grip on her sense of self. But without him she has decided to sleep with Valentin, who she has hyped up as the "fun, young and hot" guy in her mind.

Lochlan starts off the show talking to Saxon about he doesn't know what he wants, and his actions show he doesn't really know who he is. He desires to be like his siblings, but he's not sure which one at the beginning. He decided to try out Saxon's identity by going to the full moon party in search of all the things Saxon told him to want, like sex and respect. However, as the kiss shows, desiring to be like someone and desiring someone can be fine line.

Saxon starts the show thinking he knows exactly who he is and what he wants. He's his fathers son, he likes working, he likes working out and protien shakes, he doesn't do drugs, he's a simple cishet dude bro looking for a hook up, and the list goes on. But this week every single element of his identity has been attacked. He's been denied his desires; denied his phone, knowing whats going on with his father and at work. He was temporarily denied his blender. No girls have even kissed him let alone fucked him, he did drugs, and now he's kissing not only his sibling - but a boy. His sense of self is being broken down piece by piece. And I'm very excited to see what we find under the rubble.

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The storyline of the three friends in White Lotus really hits close to home for me—especially Laurie’s final monologue—because that’s exactly what lifelong friendships are like. They’re kind of like family: dysfunctional, messy, complicated. You’ve known these people for so long that you see them clearly, you know all their flaws, and sometimes their flaws hurt you.

But you stay. Because you don’t choose your family, but you do choose your friends—even if sometimes you treat them like shit and they treat you like shit back. It’s like a sibling relationship, only without the blood ties. And if you keep them around, it’s because you want to.

Those friendships aren’t perfect, they’re not some idealised fairytale, but at the end of the day, they’re the ones who listen when your relationship ends, or when your job sucks, or when everything feels like crap. You fight, you throw things (metaphorically or not), but deep down, you know they’ll be there. And that’s the most important thing: no matter how much you mess each other up or scream at each other, you’ll end up having dinner at some fancy place, saying how much you love each other.

That storyline hit me so hard because it felt so real. And honestly? That’s what matters in the end. They’re your fucking friends. They stick around when you’re the worst version of yourself. That’s worth everything.

—Signed: someone who’s had the same friends since age 5.