Maybe even a place where they openly try to have people break away from money and status by giving everyone the same outfits to wear, etc. yet of course it’s all still there anyway?

Ironically, they have a state religion and hardly anyone goes to church; the US constitutionally prohibits a state religion and yet our lives are fucking ruled by whatever has pissed off the Evangelicals this week.

How dare you say that about Jesk?

And would you like a commemorative pewter tankard along with your purchase of the roast chicken and tomato soup which will be served to you in a bread bowl without a spoon?

“before knocking on random doors for seemingly long enough for it to start out as daytime and become night?”

What a deeply cynical and therefore satisfying ending to such a deeply cynical and dark show.

Americans get to be the Tanya and Paula of Afghanistan’s The White Locus: Come in, declare that we’re here to help, spend days (or, you know, decades) convincing locals that we have the solution to their problem, then abandon them when it’s time to go home and leave them worse off than we found them.  And, as ever, no…

I agree. I don’t see any way Armond could have initially resolved the issue at the beginning which would have been to Shane’s satisfaction. He apologized, he told him that they wouldn’t be charged for the Pineapple Suite and he moved them in there as soon as he could.

I agree; the “something bad did happen” is about Kai being arrested and her guilt over letting him take the punishment that she should be sharing.  (I mean, Kai still has a brain and he could have chosen not to go through with it.  But Paula organized, aided and abetted the crime.)

Definitely.  Plus now he’s made his canoe buddies into accomplices!

The Mossbachers are definitely the kind of family where Mom and Dad sit in First class and the kids are in coach.  (which, hey, not knocking it.  If I ever get the chance to fly first class overseas I’m taking it.)

That’s why I think that sort of thing could be interesting.  It’s fine for middle-class people to watch The White Lotus and scoff at how absurd the rich people are.  But the plain truth is that people who vacation at the all-inclusives use that time to pretend they’re rich . . . and generally act accordingly.  

Oh, it’s gotta be at one of those five-star Thai resorts where middle-class people go because they can get a suite for 200 dollars a night, right? And, as you said, it’ll be chock full of pseudo-spiritual bullshit.

While I think Quinn’s is probably the only “happy” ending of the show, you are correct in thinking that eventually he’s going to get bored, or tired of being poor, etc, and call on Mommy and Daddy for money.

Considering Belinda basically transformed Tanya’s life and acted as her own personal therapist (after hours and unpaid, no less) the 20K was meant as a “tip.”  Imagine investing in something body and soul, staying up all night to complete a business proposal and putting your own life on hold while a rich white woman…

I think she only would be if Kai indicated he had an accomplice and because he’s a loyal, stand up guy who thinks himself in love, he’s not going to do that.

Rachel coming to the airport broke my heart. A lot of this show deals with what we as people will do for the freedom and security that money provides.  Kai ended up in jail for grabbing on to a hopeless dream.  Belinda ended up with her heart broken and her dreams crushed.  And Rachel walked back into what she knew…

The flight Shane was on was going to Honolulu, to the bigger hub airport. From there, the planes fly internationally.

I don’t think he realized that he was a dick when sober; I think that he realized he works so hard and is so singularly focused on guest relations that he missed the obvious signs that his trainee was in labor half the day.  Once he realized that, combined with how shitty Shane was being, just kind of made him shrug…

That infant is totally Chekov’s Baby.  Lana (Lani?) was such a major part of the first episode; it’s weird that we haven’t heard much else about her.  Although I guess her delivering the baby in Armand’s office is what kicks off his downward spiral, so perhaps that was her only real narrative function.