A Truly Macabre ‘White Lotus’ Plot

Sophie Gilbert - The Atlantic - 08/04

What was Tim Ratliff’s arc really about?

This article contains spoilers through the Season 3 finale of The White Lotus.

The guests at White Lotus resorts arrive and leave by boat, a fact I’ve come to believe has some kind of mythological significance. These guests are never simply going on vacation. Rather, they’re entering some kind of magical-realist hinterland where they’re tormented by different iterations of fate, pride, vanity, and greed, a ritualistic evisceration accompanied by pool drinks and a spectacular breakfast buffet. The high-Greekness of it all is offset by absurd humor. Is Tim really going to murder his entire family with piña coladas? I wondered, watching the Season 3 finale. Is this Duke University–loving, pill-popping, intrusive-thoughts-plagued man really capable of familicide?

Kind of! I’ve been hung up on Jason Isaacs’s Timothy Ratliff for several weeks now, because his particular storyline is the darkest the HBO show has ever explored, wallowing in the suicidal fantasies of a man on the brink of ruin week ...
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