‘White Lotus’ Season 3 did not work for two important reasons

Every season Max’s popular series White lotus He gives him the ambitious task of telling the same story about greed and lust, but offers different rich characters who enjoy a new exotic local setting. . Newly released third season The concept brought a dream to a luxurious white Lotus hotel in Thailand.

Despite their requests, the last installment of the show The weight of a sluggish plan– Excessive familiar character typesTired narrative springs and surprising bends – and at least one amazing attacker monologue.

If you’ve watched the show, you’ve probably catalogs these shortcomings and maybe a few more. However, these predictable creative problems, the season is not a disaster.

Instead, the sensational processing of two parcels with suicide and incest sexual assault White lotus To damage the new region – to exploit some of the most painful common human experiences for the shock value in ways that can be harmful to the audience.

How can you look ridiculously White lotus The ugly scandal embraces as a matter of practice.

The second season threw the beloved Tanya Mcquoid (Jennifer Coolidge) twisted plot On this basis, it ended shortly after defending the help of an audience and said, “These homosexuals are trying to kill me!” Ended.

The death of the first season passed after the sacrifice, a hotel manager, and defeated the belongings of a guest he sued and hid in his closet, he was discovered and stabbed by his enemy with only a pineapple carving knife. Obviously, the serial creative and only writer Mike White is nothing ridiculous or nothing but the table.

Nevertheless, weird murders are something that almost no one can be associated. Considering suicide, incest and sexual assault, prevalence, they are probably common experiences that affect a series. White lotus audience. They or someone they knew struggled with their suicide thoughts or behaviors, or became a victim of incest or sexual assault.

Dread’s Dilemma

This season, wealthy businessman Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) comes to Thailand with three children and his wife to discover that he is under federal investigation for financial crimes. Tim, who is uncomfortable with what this means for his livelihood and his family, spends most of the season in the throat of graphic suicide thought.

Considering how the financial crisis can contribute to the idea of ​​suicide, how money problems are a key risk factor to try suicide.

But White draws Tim’s suicide idea as a cheap maneuver. In each episode, the audience is wondering if Tim, who descends deeper and deeper into despair, or whether he will be guilty of entering another character. This means that the death and family destruction fantasies of the death and family destruction mean regular, live views, but for what purpose?

Even if the white noble aims to shed light on suicide, Scientific research tells us Focusing on despair and a certain method of death, this detail -oriented media scope and storytelling can increase the risk for people who are already vulnerable to suicide thought or behavior. Both items are on full screen in several sections.

At least, White lotus He could have adopted the recommended tactic of adding pre -credit sharing before Suicide Crisis Sources Considering the violence and intensity of Tim’s suicide behavior and thought with the audience.

Realizing what the audience at some risk is and they chose White lotus‘The third season is aware that continuing to watch the show will not be worth filling your minds with suicide thoughts or images. Others still know the risk and may have accepted as the right of every viewer.

However, it would be a mistake to assume that graphics depictions of suicide and murder-inspiration somehow strengthen the season.

While Tim’s journey through suicide impulses could reflect many people folded, he did very little, except for repetitive death scenes, character and the audience to keep the audience in a dead end. This is the most boring place for an undisputed audience – and has the potential to harm.

This is not a new debate on movies and television. Netflix Series in 2017 Why why It made a great concern – and backfire – When a young character released the graphic suicide death. SOME RESEARCH Proposed a relationship between the demonstration and an increase in youth suicide.

Since then, Hollywood has made a significant progress towards the depictions of suicide, which is responsible but narrated (see. Bear And TED LASSO as the main examples).

In the end, the Tim decides to kill his family and himself, but after this election he accidentally poisons his youngest son. Season-Final Twist seems to support Tim’s belief that his family can ventilate the investigation to solve their lives.

It would be strong to show how Tim came to fully embrace his changing delegations. However, this last -minute development emerges after real killers emerged, in the diminishing moments of the season, in the unscrupulous comfort of the land.

“Satirical without matter”

While Tim is stuck with the fear and loyalty of his family for fear of losing his reserve, his two sons are trapped in a separate hell of the construction of white.

In a very important episode, Tim’s sons Lochlan (Sam Nivola) and Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), a luxurious yacht with two women, Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) and Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood), a sexual adventure, waiting for a drunk, drug -added night. Instead, what will happen is an incest sexual assault, Lochlan makes his physically unaware brother at the same time when he sex with Chloe.

Not including White lotus He never fully accepts that Lochlan has sexually harassed Saxon, who is consistent or not sober enough to allow, not Lochlan does not allow him.

Rape, abuse and incest National Network (Rainn) Consultancy Director Tanya Rawal said Mashable in an e -mail.

“It is very important to mean what to mean to this scene: sexual assault.”

When Saxon meets both women the next day, Chloe sees her sexual encounter with both brothers as a “triple”. Sun of this statement, Saxon confesses that he was darkened and does not remember what happened. Brushes as peccadillo. “Everyone has their jobs,” says Chloe.

White talked about his interest in depicting sexual devianceEspecially among gay men. However, non -consent is not transgressive – sexual assault. If Saxon had been carried out by his younger sister Piper, no angry justification would have justified a similar action.

“There is a harmful cliché that men are always willing, they will not be a victim,” Rawal says. Although Saxon sees himself as a victim towards the end of the season, he does not express this feeling and does not express any other character.

Rawal says that prejudice against victims of male sexual assault can affect the media, critics and viewers about what they are talking about. Instead of traumatic recognition, they can see the framing as a provocative as default.

Indeed, some of the public comments on the scope of the media and the attack are not as a fundamental violation of Saxon’s body and familial confidence. “Sister brother action“And”wild incest connection. “

Such interpretations and characterization are important. Rawal says that the attack presented as uncertain or even normalized can damage the survivors and at the same time “strengthen the wider social dynamics that allow such violations not to control”.

Some ads believe that the struggle of the taboos that White explained to the public means moving the story into extreme. This approach is excited to exhibit our collective discomfort, as if both a brightness and a revelation.

But even in a reserve and privilege satirical White lotusThis strategy has limits of cautious or conservatism.

If something felt deeply wrong in this season White lotusBeyond the wrong steps and troubles, the narrative may be the gap of the taboo mine for the shock value that has little to offer.

Or, as Rawal said, “satire without matter, strengthens the damage it tries to criticize.”

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