The second season of HBO’s The White Lotus came to an end on Sunday, with the reveal of the identity of the mystery corpse seen in the premiere.
The season opened with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) chatting with some new guests on her last day at The White Lotus in Sicily, before going out for a swim… where she discovered a corpse floating in the sea.
The Season 2 finale – appropriately entitled Arrivederci – the guests all get ready to leave the resort, but not before the mysterious death(s) are uncovered.
Reveal: The season opened with Daphne (Meghann Fahy) chatting with some new guests on her last day at The White Lotus in Sicily, before going out for a swim… where she discovered a corpse floating in the sea
Mystery: The Season 2 finale – appropriately entitled Arrivederci – the guests all get ready to leave the resort, but not before the mysterious death(s) are uncovered
The finale begins with Ethan (Will Sharpe) laying in bed, imagining his wife Harper (Aubrey Plaza) having sex with his friend Cameron (Theo James) before he gets out of bed.
Meanwhile, Daphne (Meghann Fahey) is on a video call with their kids, as she keeps trying to get him to speak with their kids but he keeps hesitating before finally going to talk to them.
Albie (Adam DiMarco) is in bed with Lucia (Simona Tabasco), telling her he wants to help her and take her to Los Angeles.
Dom is looking through old wedding photos, with a twinge of sadness while, back in the villa in Palermo, Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) wakes up and finds Quentin (Tom Hollander) and the other men talking in hushed tones.
Quentin offers her coffee and asks how Niccolo was, as she said the whole night was a dream.
She says she wishes she can take them all with her, and asks if anyone has seen her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson).
Portia wakes up in her hotel with Jack (Leo Woodall) and she can’t find her phone, saying she needs to call Tanya but Jack pulls her back in bed and says it will all be fine.
Jack says maybe she left it at the bar but she says she definitely had it last night because she was trying to find him on Instagram but he says he doesn’t ‘do that s**t,’ which worries Portia.
Meanwhile, back at The White Lotus, Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) wakes up in the empty hotel room when a maid tries to enter the room.
Mia (Beatrice Grannò) asks Valentina if she liked last night, and says she was good, but she doesn’t answer and rushes off.
Cameron and Daphne are at breakfast with Will and Harper as Cameron and Daphne make small talk about some friends back home.
Cameron says that people can’t even succeed anymore because they might harm someone, but Harper just calls him an ‘idiot,’ which he takes with a smile.
Albie meets his father Dom for breakfast, immediately asking his father for 50,000 Euros.
Dom realizes he wants it for ‘that girl’ but Dom won’t do it, adding, ‘Albie, get real. A lot of people need help.’
‘You’re just gonna go through life trying to rescue every desperate girl you come across?’ Dom asks. and says, ‘Well, good luck with that. Don’t expect me to subsidize.’
‘Think of it as a karmic payment,’ Albie says, adding, ‘For all the s**t you’ve done,’ as Dom offers 10K Euros.
Albie says he wants her to visit Los Angeles and an amused Dom says, ‘How are you going to make it in life if you’re this big a mark?’
‘I’ll help you with mom. Give me 50 and I’ll help you with mom. I’ll tell her how sorry you are and how this whole trip, all you could think about was her, and how it seems like you’ve really changed. Yadda, yadda,’ Albie says.
‘You would do that?’ Dom says, when Bert (F. Murray Abraham) arrives, asking what they’re talking about but they don’t say.
Meanwhile, Valentina arrives at the front desk, as Isabella comes up and asks if she’s thought about bringing Rocco back to the front desk.
Valentina appears lost at first, but then remembers and agrees to bring him back, which overjoys Isabella.
Valentina orders Salvatore to go back to the beach club and bring Rocco back, which clearly angers him, asking where he’ll be the next day and she says, ‘Washing dishes’ before he takes off.
Back in Palermo, Tanya is sitting with all her luggage as she walks through the villa again, trying to find anyone.
She goes back to the photo of Quentin and her husband Greg when they were younger, when Quentin finds her.
She asks who the other man in the photo was and she says he was Steve, who worked at a dude ranch, adding, ‘we used to go fly-fishing and drop acid together.’
Tanya says he looks just like her husband Greg and the resemblance is ‘uncanny.’
Mateo comes and wants to say goodbye to Tanya since he is staying behind in Palermo, as Tanya and Quentin leave.
The new episode comes after the Season 2 premiere set an impressive viewership standard for the seven-episode season.
The premiere was viewed by 1.5 million viewers last Sunday night, a huge increase of 63% from the Season 1 premiere on HBO Max and linear broadcasts on HBO.
Season 1 went on to average 9.3M viewers per episode across platforms in the U.S.
Viewership: The new episode comes after the Season 2 premiere set an impressive viewership standard for the seven-episode season
The series saw a resurgence of viewing in the weeks leading up to the season 2 premiere, ranking among the top 5 series on HBO Max last week.
The first season, which premiered July 2021, received 20 Emmy(R) nominations across 13 categories and 10 wins, the most wins of any program this year, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.
The series was created, written and directed by Mike White and executive produced by White, David Bernad and Mark Kamine.
Resurgence: The series saw a resurgence of viewing in the weeks leading up to the season 2 premiere, ranking among the top 5 series on HBO Max last week
The Season 2 cast includes F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, Beatrice Grannò, Meghann Fahy, Jon Gries, Tom Hollander, Sabrina Impacciatore, Michael Imperioli, Theo James, Aubrey Plaza, Haley Lu Richardson, Will Sharpe, Simona Tabasco, and Leo Woodall.
Much like last season, Season 2 introduces a bit of a death mystery in the premiere, which will presumably be solved at the end of the season.
The premiere opened with Meghann Fahy’s Daphne heading out into the ocean on her last day at The White Lotus in Sicily, where she discovers a dead body floating in the water.
Cast: The Season 2 cast includes F. Murray Abraham, Jennifer Coolidge, Adam DiMarco, Beatrice Grannò, Meghann Fahy, Jon Gries, Tom Hollander, Sabrina Impacciatore, Michael Imperioli, Theo James, Aubrey Plaza, Haley Lu Richardson, Will Sharpe, Simona Tabasco, and Leo Woodall
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