04-12-2025, 04:21 AM
Crossover content time.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-white-lotus-s1-thats-it.1162518/#post-138417171
All I can say is...what? I literally just finished (as in, 30 mins ago) a rewatch of S1 and it's borderline visionary TV. I maintain that the thesis of the show is that we limit others (and ourselves) in the way that we box them in with our own limiting perspectives and assumptions. Like, the characters are clearly presented as "cardboard cutouts" to inspire the viewer's reflexive eyeroll, and then we are encouraged to question that reflex when they turn out to actually be capable of change and self-reflection--and then when the characters fall back into their comfortable bad habits, so do we by judging them harshly again.
I can't speak to other seasons but S1 of White Lotus rocks.
https://www.resetera.com/threads/lttp-white-lotus-s1-thats-it.1162518/#post-138417171
DominicanGlory wrote:Jumped on this since I purchased an HBO Max sub for TLOU and Bill Simmons won't shut up about it... It was extremely vapid with a bunch of cardboard cutout characters. Nothing much happened and the only character that had a decent arc was Steve Zahn...
Just a bunch of insufferable people being insufferable and not much really happening in the way of intrigue, drama or humor.
All I can say is...what? I literally just finished (as in, 30 mins ago) a rewatch of S1 and it's borderline visionary TV. I maintain that the thesis of the show is that we limit others (and ourselves) in the way that we box them in with our own limiting perspectives and assumptions. Like, the characters are clearly presented as "cardboard cutouts" to inspire the viewer's reflexive eyeroll, and then we are encouraged to question that reflex when they turn out to actually be capable of change and self-reflection--and then when the characters fall back into their comfortable bad habits, so do we by judging them harshly again.
I can't speak to other seasons but S1 of White Lotus rocks.
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