Turned back into a mannequin.

The interview segments were never my favorite part of Stewart’s Daily Show.

Lol, who hurt you? Finding nuance in execrable characters isn’t a defense or endorsement of them, but this concept seems to be slipping through your fingers. Sure, they’re avatars for a class of people that have left you feeling aggrieved, but that’s not justification for you to steamroll someone’s thoughtful analysis…

I think she was more talking about Kai being arrested. I’m not sure she feels that deeply about the history of Hawaii’s native people.

I’ve been seeing some Twitter anger that Paula didn’t get a ‘happy’ ending, but she’s just another destroyer to come to the island and leave. If we’re supposed to feel sympathetic because she’s a WOC and presumably doesn’t have Olivia’s advantaged background, that ain’t working on me, bubba.

Yeah, I have to say I understood Olivia’s confusion that somehow thinking it was bad to set up a situation where her parents were involved in a frightening moment of violence ...made her asshole? She had many asshole qualities but that surely wasn’t one of them. I feel like this story was more about Paula realizing…

I’m still really struggling to sympathize with Paula. While I believe how upset she was about what happened was sincere, she could have just given Kai the damn bracelet. I still cannot understand that.

Oh I’ve been pretty certain from the start that she’s fairly well off, and not just someone who got a full scholarship or whatever and met this rich girl. (For one thing I suspect if she truly had zero money it somehow would have been mentioned by now.)

I think she did genuinely freeze (or sorta freeze) and that’s why…

Paula’s not the biggest villain, but she’s perhaps the most self-delusional. She is not one of the “good guys.” She’s hate watching her own vacation while still enjoying all the fruits of her host family’s white supremacy. Like Rachel, she maybe wants to be a good person or, perhaps, at least be seen as one.

Exactly - Paula gets to live out her freshman dorm “eat the rich” fantasy while still naively enjoying a rich-person vacation and suffering none of the consequences that Kai will.

Why so much sympathy for Paula? She is clearly a hypocritical asshole. Classic mean girl, happy mooching off her friends’ riches while being an asshole to everyone around her, specially to her benefactors. And, yeah I am not surprised of her thinking that fucking an employee would somehow set her apart, make herself…

“Is she allergic to fire?” was an amazing line, and I’m surprised it didn’t get a mention, but maybe the reviewer didn’t like that it made fun of Paula, Patron Saint of the White Lotus.

I’ve nominated Paula as the biggest villain in this tropical drama.

But I think the point The White Lotus is trying to make is that these employees, Belinda and Armond both, are beaten down by the day-in, day-out frustrations of dealing with guests who mostly don’t care about them at all. That’s why Armond rises to Shane’s bait

That to me is more of an issue of time spent than anything - like, I don’t buy the romance entirely largely because the show is moving at a breakneck pace. What I buy of it is entirely on the actors who sell the awkward chemistry and vulnerability. Like, there are stories where I really don’t need building up a…

Anna Paquin has been in so much stuff that was unworthy of her. Almost Famous almost doesn’t count since she was barely in it 

I thought the movie heavily implied that Penny was continuing her itinerant lifestyle and William moving on from his hangup with her being part of his growth?

I think a good theory on Sylvie’s nexus event was her deciding she wanted to be a hero, instead of a mischievous backstabbing villain

Like most everybody else in the universe, my first exposure to Anya Taylor-Joy was watching The Queen’s Gambit.

Che went for the audience unease that is is food, capping off a story about the Coast Guard seizing a massive haul of guns by assuring everyone that said weapons are now being “safely sold to the mentally disturbed.” “I don’t know why I thought that’d make you laugh,” deadpanned Che, but, yes he does.