Yes, ‘The White Lotus’ Season 3 Premiere Really Was That Creepy – Forbes

The White Lotus
While I am certainly glad to see The White Lotus back for season 3, it feels like the show has moved on from many comedic aspects to turn into…something else entirely. It was of course always a blend of comedy, drama and the occasional crime, but season 3? Less of that first item in the premiere, and now adding instead, “deeply unsettling creepiness.”
No, you are not alone if you picked up on the weirdest vibes the series has ever seen, courtesy of Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Saxon Ratliff, there with his rich family and two siblings, Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola). Saxon has graduated, his sister is in college, his brother is a senior in high school. From here, a content warning for some ickiness follows.
We have seen dysfunctional families in the series before, but there was an overwhelmingly unsettling layer of, I don’t know how else to say it, potential incest in many of the interactions here. This is almost entirely on Saxon’s end:
The White Lotus
None of this is played for laughs in any way, a joke we saw repeatedly in say, Arrested Development between George Michael and his cousin Maeby (it eventually turned out they were not actually related).
I don’t think I’m misreading this and I really do think the show is implying what we think it’s implying. I know that The White Lotus goes to some dark places but this? Are they really doing this? Or are they going to pull back in future episodes and maybe take this some other direction as Saxon pursues the “cougars” or the young, ignored girlfriend from the pool. But for now, ick. Just ick, ick, ick.
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