HBO: The White Lotus

[tree_]

Fair. I just think “drama” is too broad. Especially if you’re explaining the differences between the two seasons

[epilogue]

But this is also why I hate having to break things down into sub-genres.

[Jorge]

Hiroki Takeuchi went back to Japan!

[tree_]

I liked Aubrey Plaza in season two but I feel like it was a slightly miscast. I think I would’ve preferred her as Cameron’s wife, that would’ve been interesting. She just seems to have too much presence to be so timid. But maybe that’s because I just saw her in that one heist movie that she was so good in

[Jorge]

I didn't read her as timid

[tree_]

Yeah maybe that’s the wrong word. Her character just didn’t seem to have enough power over the other characters or something. It just didn’t seem like a good fit for her

[epilogue]

I didn't read her as timid

Same

[tree_]

Well she is often reluctant to speak her mind and seems to be kind of ambivalent about a lot of things. I guess I just like her so much that I wanted to see her steal the show more

[epilogue]

Ambivalence is nuanced af. Playing ambivalence is difficult. And given her circumstance I fee like ambivalence is pretty fucking appropriate.

[tree_]

The character wasn’t boring. I just feel as Cameron’s wife she would’ve been more interesting. I like when she has a badass, evilish flavor

[Ensign9]

Yeah maybe that’s the wrong word. Her character just didn’t seem to have enough power over the other characters or something. It just didn’t seem like a good fit for her

I’d argue she had the most power out of the entire cast. She knows the score, her place in it, and how to make the most of it to get what she wants. She’s under no illusions.

[Chris_H_2]

The creator literally wrote the part for Aubrey Plaza.

[JuanHamm]

I've got a part for Aubrey Plaza

[Chris_H_2]

Oh Jesus Christ

Anyway, from the AV Club

“Mike White really wrote that part for me, it wasn’t a part that was written and then I went and auditioned for it and said, ‘That’s the part I want,’” Plaza says in a new interview with Backstage. “He wrote it for me, so there’s a lot of me in that part.”

[VinylGuy]

I love Aubrey so much.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

Have you seen Emily the criminal?

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[VinylGuy]

Ingrid goes west? She is amazing there yeah but in Emily and Black Bear she really goes in a very different direction

She was good in Legion too

[Jorge]

Man I really think season 1 is a LOT better than season 2