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* NeverMyFault: Quinn blames Olivia and Paula for the loss of his Nintendo Switch and iPad when he spends the night sleeping on the beach, even though sleeping there it was entirely his own decision.
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** Mark himself starts oversharing to Rachel the sexual history of his marriage, much to her annoyance.
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** A drunken Mark himself starts oversharing to Rachel the sexual history of his marriage, much to her annoyance. annoyance.
** During the abortive scattering of her mother's ashes, Tanya starts telling a bunch of complete strangers all of her issues with her mother.
** During the abortive scattering of her mother's ashes, Tanya starts telling a bunch of complete strangers all of her issues with her mother.
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* TooMuchInformation: After learning her grandfather [[spoiler:died from AIDS]], Olivia starts speculating with Paula quite explicitly about what his sexual tastes were, dismaying Mark (who's still reeling from the revelation).
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* TooMuchInformation: TooMuchInformation:
** After learning her grandfather [[spoiler:died from AIDS]], Olivia starts speculating with Paula quite explicitly about what his sexual tastes were, dismaying Mark (who's still reeling from therevelation).revelation).
** Mark himself starts oversharing to Rachel the sexual history of his marriage, much to her annoyance.
** After learning her grandfather [[spoiler:died from AIDS]], Olivia starts speculating with Paula quite explicitly about what his sexual tastes were, dismaying Mark (who's still reeling from the
** Mark himself starts oversharing to Rachel the sexual history of his marriage, much to her annoyance.
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* ThePeepingTom: Olivia follows her friend Paula out to see who she's meeting, then briefly watches as she's having sex with a young man outside.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: Quinn is often teased about masturbating by Olivia, but tries to deny it. Later we see him do it while on the beach by himself.
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* StraightGay: Armond turns out to be gay, but he shows no stereotypes that would give this away.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: The two people of color in the main cast are both women: Paula and Lani. Their actresses are African-American/Irish-American and of Japanese/Jewish descent respectively.
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** The two people of color in the main cast are both women: Paula and Lani. Their actresses are African-American/Irish-American and of Japanese/Jewish descentrespectively.respectively.
** Armond is a gay Australian in the otherwise straight, American cast.
** The two people of color in the main cast are both women: Paula and Lani. Their actresses are African-American/Irish-American and of Japanese/Jewish descent
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* PoolScene: Most of the main characters have scenes while in or sitting near the pool, since they're at a Hawaii resort.
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* PoolScene: Most of the main characters have scenes while in or sitting near the pool, since they're at a Hawaii resort. The highlight of course being on younger female characters wearing bikinis or other swimwear.
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* PoolScene: Most of the main characters have scenes while in or sitting near the pool, since they're at a Hawaii resort.
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* TooMuchInformation: After learning her grandfather [[spoiler:died from AIDS]], Olivia starts speculating with Paula quite explicitly about what his sexual tastes here, dismaying Mark (who's still reeling from the revelation).
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* TooMuchInformation: After learning her grandfather [[spoiler:died from AIDS]], Olivia starts speculating with Paula quite explicitly about what his sexual tastes here, were, dismaying Mark (who's still reeling from the revelation).
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''The White Lotus'' is notable for its AllStarCast, which includes the likes of Creator/SteveZahn, Creator/ConnieBritton, Creator/JenniferCoolidge, Creator/AlexandraDaddario, Jack Lacy, Murray Bartlett, Natasha Rothwell, Creator/MollyShannon, and others.
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''The White Lotus'' is notable for its AllStarCast, which includes the likes of Creator/SteveZahn, Creator/ConnieBritton, Creator/JenniferCoolidge, Creator/AlexandraDaddario, Jack Lacy, Murray Bartlett, Natasha Rothwell, Creator/MollyShannon, Creator/SydneySweeney, Creator/BrittanyOGrady and others.
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* OhAndXDies: In the opening scene of the first episode, set chronologically at the end of the series, Shane mentions a death having occurred at the White Lotus, but the audience is made not privy to who the victim was.
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* OhAndXDies: In the opening scene of the first episode, set chronologically at the end of the series, Shane mentions a death having occurred at the White Lotus, but the audience is isn't made not privy to who the victim was.
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* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Mark's father, he learns, really died from AIDS, not cancer as he'd always been told. It happened when Mark was just a kid]].
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* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Mark's father, he learns, really died from AIDS, not cancer as he'd always been told. It happened when Mark was just a kid]].teenager]].
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''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy miniseries. Debuting on July 11, 2021 and set in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, it focuses on guests staying at the eponymous location - a hotel. At first, all seems good, but over the course of the week, it becomes evident that much is amiss...
Notable for its high-profile cast including Creator/SteveZahn (Mark Mossbacher), Creator/JenniferCoolidge as Tanya [=McQuoid=] and Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel, among others.
Notable for its high-profile cast including Creator/SteveZahn (Mark Mossbacher), Creator/JenniferCoolidge as Tanya [=McQuoid=] and Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel, among others.
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''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedyminiseries. Debuting on July 11, 2021 miniseries created by Mike White (''Film/SchoolOfRock'', ''Series/{{Enlightened}}''), who wrote and set directed all six episodes.
The series follows a week inUsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, it focuses on the lives of the staff and guests staying at the eponymous location - a hotel. At first, all seems good, but over the course of the week, White Lotus, an idyllic beach resort in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}. Amid the beautiful surroundings of the White Lotus, however, its various personalities come to clash and it becomes evident that much is amiss...
Notable ''The White Lotus'' is notable for its high-profile cast including Creator/SteveZahn (Mark Mossbacher), Creator/JenniferCoolidge as Tanya [=McQuoid=] AllStarCast, which includes the likes of Creator/SteveZahn, Creator/ConnieBritton, Creator/JenniferCoolidge, Creator/AlexandraDaddario, Jack Lacy, Murray Bartlett, Natasha Rothwell, Creator/MollyShannon, and Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel, among others.
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''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy
The series follows a week in
* FirstDayFromHell: Lani's first day at the White Lotus is filled with inconveniences and humiliation — and ''then'' she's forced to give birth in her boss' office.
* HenpeckedHusband / HouseHusband: Mark feels emasculated by Nicole's success over his, which he expresses to Quinn.
* HenpeckedHusband / HouseHusband: Mark feels emasculated by Nicole's success over his, which he expresses to Quinn.
* MySecretPregnancy: Lani goes her entire first day on the job without telling anybody she's pregnant — and then she gives birth in her boss' office that very night.
* OhAndXDies: In the opening scene of the first episode, set chronologically at the end of the series, Shane mentions a death having occurred at the White Lotus, but the audience is made not privy to who the victim was.
* OhAndXDies: In the opening scene of the first episode, set chronologically at the end of the series, Shane mentions a death having occurred at the White Lotus, but the audience is made not privy to who the victim was.
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* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Mark's father, he learns, really died from AIDS, not cancer as he'd always been told. It happened when Mark was just a kid.]]
* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer, that killed his father.]]
* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer, that killed his father.]]
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* TheTopicOfCancer: Mark begins his vacation convinced he's going to die of testicular cancer when he notices abnormal growth in his scrotum. [[spoiler:He soon learns that he's in the clear, but when he calls to inquire about his father's death from cancer as it could still be hereditary, he learns his father actually died from AIDS]].
* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Mark's father, he learns, really died from AIDS, not cancer as he'd always been told. It happened when Mark was just akid.]]
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* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer, that killed hisfather.]]father]].
* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Mark's father, he learns, really died from AIDS, not cancer as he'd always been told. It happened when Mark was just a
* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer, that killed his
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* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died when he was a kid.
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* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died when he was a kid.teenager.
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* MsFanservice: Creator/AlexandraDaddario, who's very beautiful, serves as this once again, with her character Rachel wearing many cleavage-bearing tops, the camera focuses on her while she's in a bikini and being shown topless in bed with her husband.
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* MsFanservice: Creator/AlexandraDaddario, who's very beautiful, serves as this once again, with her character Rachel wearing many cleavage-bearing cleavage-showing tops, the camera focuses on her while she's in a bikini and being shown topless in bed with her husband.
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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Both Shane and Rachel have a valid outlook in the room situation. Shane is right that they aren't getting the more expensive room they paid for and the hotel staff is trying to gaslight him into thinking they booked the wrong room. Rachel is also right that the way Shane is going about his grievance is disrupting their honeymoon an that he is more concerned with the room than with her.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Shane may be an insufferable asshole, but the second he is out of sight, Armond admits to Loni that he is right and Armond double booked the suite Shane is asking for.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Shane may be an insufferable asshole, but the second he is out of sight, Armond admits to Loni that he is right and Armond that he double booked the suite Shane is asking for.
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* MommasBoy: Despite his age Shane appears to still be firmly attached to his mother's hip.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Shane may be an insufferable asshole, but the second he is out of sight, Armond admits to Loni that he is right and Armond double booked the suite Shane is asking for.
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* MsFanservice: Creator/AlexandraDaddario, who's very beautiful, serves as this once again, with her character Rachel wearing many cleavage-bearing tops, the camera focuses on her while she's in a bikini and being shown topless in bed with her husband.
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* ClosetGay: [[spoiler:Mark's father, as he learns, was a closeted gay or bi man who lived a double life having sex with men on the side. He died of AIDS, not cancer, as Mark had been told]].
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* TragicAIDSStory: [[spoiler:Mark's father, he learns, really died from AIDS, not cancer as he'd always been told. It happened when Mark was just a kid.]]
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''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy series.miniseries. Debuting on July 11, 2021 and set in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, it focuses on guests staying at the eponymous location - a hotel. At first, all seems good, but over the course of the week, it becomes evident that much is amiss...
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* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died from cancer when he was a kid. [[spoiler:Or so he was told.]]
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* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died from cancer when he was a kid. [[spoiler:Or so he was told.]] kid.
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* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died when he was a kid.
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* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died from cancer when he was a kid. [[spoiler:Or so he was told.]]
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* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer as he thought, that killed his father.]]
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* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer as he thought, cancer, that killed his father.]]
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* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much ''every single character'' is this in one way or another, from Mark's bitchy daughter Sydney to Rachel's surly husband Shane.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much ''every single character'' is this in one way or another, from Mark's bitchy daughter Sydney Olivia to Rachel's surly husband Shane.
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* {{Jerkass}}: Pretty much ''every single character'' is this in one way or another, from Mark's bitchy daughter Sydney to Rachel's surly husband Shane.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Mark and his son Quinn, the latter of whom would rather focus on his Nintendo Switch than his surroundings, to Mark's dismay.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon: Mark and his son Quinn, the latter of whom would rather focus on his Nintendo Switch than his surroundings, to Mark's dismay.
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* RunningGag: Shane trying to get the room he and Rachel were originally supposed to get.
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* RunningGag: Shane trying to get the room he and Rachel were originally supposed booked for.
* SkewedPriorities: Shane keeps trying toget. get the room booked for him and Rachel. She tells him to be happy with what they've got and enjoy the fact that they're in ''Hawaii''.
* SkewedPriorities: Shane keeps trying to
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''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy series. Debuting on July 11, 2021 and set in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, it focuses on guests staying at the eponymous location - a hotel. At first, all seems good, but over the course of the week, it becomes evident that not all much is what it seems...
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not a villain so much as a {{jerkass}}, but Shane; he pressures Rachel into not taking a job because they're on their honeymoon.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not a villain so much as a {{jerkass}}, but Shane; he pressures Rachel into not taking a job because they're on their honeymoon.honeymoon and he believes work isn't for women.
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Notable for its high-profile cast including Creator/SteveZahn (Mark Mossbacher), Creator/JenniferCoolidge as Tanya McQuoid and Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel, among others.
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* AwfullyWeddedLife: Shane and Rachel are constantly bickering. It soon becomes clear that Rachel married him for the money aspect.
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''The White Lotus'' is an Creator/{{HBO}} dark comedy series. Debuting on July 11, 2021 and set in UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}, it focuses on guests staying at the eponymous location - a hotel. At first, all seems good, but over the course of the week, it becomes evident that not all is what it seems...
Notable for its high-profile cast including Creator/SteveZahn (Mark Mossbacher), Creator/JenniferCoolidge as Tanya McQuoid and Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel, among others.
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* AdultFear: Mark worries he has testicular cancer in the first episode. [[spoiler:Episode 2 reveals that he doesn't.]]
* AwfullyWeddedLife: Shane and Rachel are constantly bickering. It soon becomes clear that Rachel married him for the money aspect.
* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died when he was a kid.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not a villain so much as a {{jerkass}}, but Shane; he pressures Rachel into not taking a job because they're on their honeymoon.
* RunningGag: Shane trying to get the room he and Rachel were originally supposed to get.
* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer as he thought, that killed his father.]]
Notable for its high-profile cast including Creator/SteveZahn (Mark Mossbacher), Creator/JenniferCoolidge as Tanya McQuoid and Creator/AlexandraDaddario as Rachel, among others.
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* AdultFear: Mark worries he has testicular cancer in the first episode. [[spoiler:Episode 2 reveals that he doesn't.]]
* AwfullyWeddedLife: Shane and Rachel are constantly bickering. It soon becomes clear that Rachel married him for the money aspect.
* DisappearedDad: Mark's father died when he was a kid.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Not a villain so much as a {{jerkass}}, but Shane; he pressures Rachel into not taking a job because they're on their honeymoon.
* RunningGag: Shane trying to get the room he and Rachel were originally supposed to get.
* WhamLine: Towards the end of episode 2, when talking with his uncle on the phone, Mark finds out that [[spoiler:it was AIDS, not cancer as he thought, that killed his father.]]
