This article contains spoilers for the finale of the third season of “The White Lotus.” Unless you are an employee or guest at a white Lotus resort, in that case it appears that your day is not truly possible to be spoiled.
“The White Lotus” is a show about vacations. It deals with holiday DOs and DOS: Go out to the party! (Don't engage in incest relationships during the party.) Sample local dishes! (If that's the case, don't give it to your family unless the fruit is toxic.)
And it's a show about murder.
And apparently, based on Sunday's season finale, no one is hurt by them. Hours after mass shootings took place at the untouched White Lotus Resort in Thailand, the character, who just witnessed a violent tragedy hop on his boat, appears to have come out to work as if nothing had happened.
“Only in Hollywood,” said Tracy Musala Marcez, a professor at Syracuse University who specializes in trauma.
However, some of the characters' responses have raised questions about their validity and encouraged praise for one character's athletic print, but it could be completely normal in the face of trauma, experts say.
“What happens sometimes happens is physically, mentally, emotionally – because you can be overwhelmed and dissociated.
Not everyone experiences acute stress such as flashbacks, nightmares, anxiety and anxiety after a traumatic event, Marcez said. Acute stress disorder, a precursor to post-traumatic stress disorder, is often diagnosed within days of stressful events. The PTSD diagnosis occurs at least in a few weeks.
Dr. Lorenzonolis, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral health at George Washington University, said traumatic responses can include denial, fear, anger, confusion and anxiety.
It can also be emotionally detached as a protective mechanism in the aftermath of a traumatic situation.
“Basically, you start to get paralyzed,” Norris said.
Perhaps that explains why the third season of “White Lotus” ends as it is. life goes on. The holidays continue.
In the finale, a brooding guest named Rick (Walton Goggins) travels around the world to confront the resort's owner (Scott Glenn) for killing his father, impulsively approaching him, stealing a gun and fatally shooting him.
When he attempts to escape, Rick kills the resort's owner's bodyguard, and is then shot in the back by security guards.
Gunshots run away from staff and guests, including a trio of often exposed friends (Carrie Coon, Leslie Bibb, and Michelle Monaghan). Kuhn's character is so urgency that it has become a meme.
(“Look, I'm an American, I'm a New Yorker. If you don't think you know where the exit is, you're not paying attention to the news,” Kuhn told Variety.
However, a few minutes later, guests and resort employees generally appear uninterrupted by what they witnessed.
When guests leave the island by boat, only Monaghan character Jaclin looks melancholic, but the audience doesn't learn whether it's a shooting, her mandatory marriage, or something else. The employee stands on the shore and gives a traditional smile, waving to the now rich Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) and her illustrious son, Zion (Nicolas Duvernei). The season began with Zion hearing the gunshot and hoping that his mother was not the victim. Within hours, the concerns completely disappeared. (You'd think Belinda is in a hurry to get out of there with her new wealth – a $5 million payment to buy her silence about the murders from the previous “White Lotus” season.)
It could be that Hollywood wants a happy ending. Mike White, the creator of the show, thinks armchair critics are literally past, calling it “logical police” in an interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
“This is not a police procedure, it's an anti-mination type show,” he said. “I want to pull my hair out. Is this a way to watch movies or TV shows?”
(The logic police appeared when the “White Lotus” police did not reveal it.
Experts said they expect to see more variation in response to trauma.
“It was rare for the three of us to have the same experience, saying, 'Yeah, OK, okay, nothing happened.'
After the filming, the party continues around the resort as guests slowly come out. Gatek (Taim Tapchinton), a meek guard who avoided violence by avoiding the entire season before shooting Rick in the back, appears to be promoted as Lilatara (Patravadi Mejudong). Like a trio, she was shaking at the moment of Rick's attack. But if she gets upset in the aftermath, the audience won't see it.
Shooting was not the only near-death experience. Lochlan Ratliff (Sam Nivola), a teenage descendant of a wealthy North Carolina family, survives narrowly after his father, Tim (Jason Isaac) ingests toxic fruits that he had unintentionally ruled out. Certainly, Tim nearly killed the whole family the night before, but that's next to the point. When I boarded the boat from the resort, no one in the family seemed worried. The only tension point is Tim's oblique reference to the imminent business scandal. It's as if the addiction hadn't happened.
This is a small departure from the previous season. At the end of season 1, the hotel manager is stabbed after defecation into the guest's luggage (a different kind of spoiler). However, the audience can get a glimpse into the police investigation and the response of staff. In season 2, events relating to the death of Tanya McCoid Hunt (Jennifer Coolidge) happen away from the resort, but concerning guests and staff see them temporarily reacting to her body discovery.
In most cases, Thai “white lotus” is not related to the prolonged effect of trauma. Just an atmosphere. Or, a lack of response is a creative choice. Anyone visiting the White Lotus Resort needs to know how to control their emotions.
“People have different ways of understanding their reality,” Dr. Norris said.
