Jennifer Coolidge sent us all on projects. It’s easy, but would you expect a project from the White Lotus Queen herself to be easy?Never.
Tanya (Coolidge) and her new husband Greg (Jon Gries) move to Sicily for their first day on the dream Italian island. With steaming pasta dishes, enough champagne to fill the Nile Mediterranean, and a beautiful coastline at your fingertips, Greg asks Tanya what to do the first day together.
Tanya not only has a plan, but also has a total Italian fantasy for them. Offer this woman a planning task. Obviously, she can chain an itinerary in a short time, because at breakfast, Tanya is going all over the tralala.
“My dream day in Italy is this: first, I need to look like Monica Vitti,” she says. “Then this guy in a very tight suit, comes over and lights my cigarette. It’s good. Then take me for a ride on his Vespa.
Good cigarette taste, he noted. I don’t know if they exist, what do cigarettes taste like, but we’re going to do something for our daughter Tanya. Greg is rarely so sure of the total Vespa (driving in Italy, scary stuff), but Tanya is getting back to her plan of what would happen after the trip.
“Then, at sunset, you spend very close to the sea in one of those romantic places,” he continues. “We have a lot of snacks and eat giant plates of pasta with clams. We are elegant and cheerful. We are beautiful.
Vendu. La’s music shines in the background as Tanya tenderly suggests that they will be “chic and cheerful” and also “beautiful. “How adorable. Forget the fact that “aperitifos” is a word (there is aperitivo, the Italian word for an alcoholic drink before the meal, and aperitivo, aperitivos y aperitivos): it is completely a state of mind, as the new year approaches.
No, it’s not summer, and no, most of us don’t stay in a luxury hotel off the coast of Sicily. But we want to turn Jennifer Coolidge’s Italian fantasy into a state of mind. Living in New York? Rent one of those Revel motorcycles and scooters in Little Italy with a guy in a tight suit. He will offer you American liquors and take you to one of the Italian-American restaurants on Mulberry Street or, if you’re lucky, Olive. Garden in Times Square.
The specificity of the day makes her all the more admirable: Tanya knows exactly what she wants. Write off Italian fantasy. We deserve to plan all our days like Tanya. Let’s not limit ourselves to Monica Vitti, ladies! Give us Meg Ryan in a romantic comedy fantasy. Bring Vanessa Hudgens to a tacky Netflix Christmas fantasy movie. And not to the fantasy of Barbie, skating around Los Angeles in neon clothes like Margot Robbie.
But back to Tanya and the White Lotus. Greg is fine for the day, but there are some bumps in the road. As, for example, Tanya is precisely Monica Vitti-Esque; no, Hotel Valentina’s concierge (Sabrina Impacciatore) thinks she looks more like Peppa Pig. Too pink in the cup. Too much! The pair set off on a Vespa for a long time, with Tanya grabbing Greg’s stomach and coughing up an insect on the side of the road. How romantic.
Naturally, however, not everything is what results in The White Lotus. Although Greg gives Tanya the dream day she wanted, anything is with him. He left Sicily early for a “work trick”. This can’t be true! In addition to her annoyances at work, Tanya discovers Greg saying “I love you” to someone else on the phone late at night. “She has no idea, as usual,” he says.
The goosebumps of the slogan “Happy wife, happy life” turns out to be the main theme of this episode. Not only does Greg give in to Tanya’s desires to feed his own private desires, but White Lotus couple Daphne (Meghann Fahy) and Cameron (Theo James) subscribe to the same belief. They never fight.
“Why fight?” Daphne asks her husband Harper (Aubrey Plaza) and Ethan (Will Sharpe). Whenever she and Cameron think about fighting, Daphne admits that he simply allows her to be right. Strange. The force dynamics are getting stranger and bizarre in The White Lotus and will turn into total chaos in the full-length episodes.
The five visitors maximum maximum likely to die
We bet on who will die this season in The White Lotus. After this episode, here are our five most sensible picks of other people who may die in just a few episodes.
1. Greg Hunt: Cheater! Tanya made him push him better off that balcony, where he helps keep making calls. He’s leaving, but if Greg wants to make it out of the season alive, he better be unbreakable with Tanya. But if Jennifer Coolidge becomes a murderous woman. . . That wouldn’t be so bad, would it?
2. Dominic Di Grasso: This episode revealed that Michael Imperioli’s character remains in a room with a hot tub. Isn’t that a bit dangerous? Laura Dern, explicitly showed her wife in the wild phone call of episode 1, would do more to drown her husband in this water.
3. Ethan Spiller: Cheating another way, Harper discovers Ethan masturbating in after his run. They also get into an ugly fight between morning and night sex. Harper is fed up with him and his friends. kill her husband.
4. Tanya McQuoid: I’m sorry, folks, that’s not what we want, however, after this episode, we may see Greg murder his new wife for her money.
5. Cameron Babcock: If Harper doesn’t kill her husband, she may have to kill Cameron, who helps her keep bothering her. Also, in this episode he pretends to be a shark and catches Harper’s foot underwater. The place, in self-defense.