Lingering White Lotus Questions: Did Saxon Hear About Chelsea? Who Uses A Dirty Blender? And 10 More!
The following contains spoilers from the April 6 season finale of HBO's The White Lotus, now streaming on Max.
Another White Lotus murder mystery has come to an end, revealing to viewers who all wound up dead as the result of a shootout teased in the Season 3 premiere's cold open.
Yet while Sunday's finale was a supersized 87 minutes long, we are left with questions — about the fallout of the many deaths and near-deaths, but also some choices made by this season's guests.
Ahead of our next weekly TV Questions column, we present this round-up of what's still on our mind, nearly 36 hours after White Lotus Season 3 drew to a close. Hit the comments to share your thoughts, and add any lingering Qs of your own!
1 | Would the local authorities have let Jaclyn, Kate and Laurie — who were in the midst of taking photos with Jim, and thus were key witnesses to the shooting — leave on their scheduled boat so soon after it happened?
2 | So, what does Rick do for a living? Is he a hitman, judging by how good a shot he was during the shootout?
3 | Why would a luxury resort have a plethora of potentially deadly fruit trees growing right next to guest villas? Speaking of....
4 | So, the poison fruit wasn't as poisonous as we thought? The Ratliffs can have a few sips and they're A-OK (not so much as a burp), and Lochlan can chug a whole smoothie and still survive? Speaking of....
5 | Who doesn't at least rinse out a clearly dirty blender before using it? Especially if you knew some of the residue to (allegedly) be curdled milk?
6 | Hey, did the Ratliffs come to realize that Tim planned to kill almost all of them the night before? Or did he somehow keep Lochy's near-poisoning on the down low?
7 | Why didn't we get to see even one member of Tim's family react to the news that he's under investigation and all their money is gone? (All we needed was one shot of Victoria looking up from her phone horrified or concerned. "Tim, nooooo!")
8 | Why didn't we get to see Saxon react to the fact that Chelsea — the girl who changed his entire outlook on life — just died, tragically?
9 | How could Belinda give kindly Pornchai a version of the same speech Tanya coldly gave her in the Season 1 finale? (We "get" that it was intended as ironic, but... also not true to the character?)
10 | Whose dead body floated by Zion in the season premiere's cold open? (We're assuming one of Jim's bodyguards, but we never got confirmation.)
11 | What was the point of Kate recognizing Victoria early in the season...?
12 | Lastly but most importantly: Is Lochlan going to Duke or North Carolina???
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