Which ‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Characters Die? We Have Some Ideas | NEWSRUX

Season 2 of HBO’s smash hit The White Lotus started with a useless physique, similar to season 1, earlier than zooming again seven days to disclose how we bought right here. The query hanging over each episode: Who’s the useless physique floating alongside the shore within the prologue? And likewise, how did it get there? What number of different deaths had been there, and the way did they occur? 

Warning: Spoilers forward for The White Lotus seasons 1 and a couple of.

There may be different connective tissue between the 2 seasons — each observe every week within the lifetime of the vacationing wealthy on the fictional White Lotus resort chain (first in Hawaii, now in Italy), and each function Jennifer Coolidge at her most Jennifer Coolidge-y — however aside from that, it is technically an anthology sequence. This implies we will make some inferences about what’s to come back based mostly on what occurred final season, however showrunner Mike White will not essentially retread acquainted territory. 

In season 1, the useless physique ended up belonging to resort supervisor Armond (Murray Bartlett). However what about season 2? We’ll have to attend till the season 2 finale, which airs Sunday, for these solutions. Within the meantime, all we will do is speculate.

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Here is what we all know as of episode 6

Season 2, episode 1, Ciao, opens with Daphne (Meghann Fahey) making use of sunscreen on a seashore chair, alone. She’s taking one final dip within the glowing Ionian sea earlier than getting on a airplane to go dwelling. Whereas she splashes round, she comes throughout — what else? — a useless physique and runs to shore screaming. Crucially, her preliminary response to the physique is a real “What the fuck?” Since she’s alone within the water, there is no cause to interpret her shock and shock as a efficiency. Nevertheless, as of episode 6, Daphne is beginning to appear increasingly like a completely dissociated psychopath. Additionally, as we are going to quickly be taught, this isn’t going to be the one corpse. 

Lodge supervisor Valentina arrives on the scene, and she or he’s promptly knowledgeable by Rocco, one other resort worker, that there is been a dying. “Salvatore says different our bodies have been discovered,” he says. What number of friends are useless? “A number of.” 

So we’ve got three characters who positively survive the week: Daphne, Valentina and Rocco. On the most, everybody else is useless. And at least, one of many different essential characters is useless, together with “a number of” others we’ll by no means know. It is also doable that the physique depend may even enhance after the occasions of the primary scene. Let’s take a more in-depth look.

Which characters are most (and least) more likely to die in The White Lotus season 2?

Probably

Bert (F. Murray Abraham): Bert is “fairly previous” (Valentina’s phrases), and he already took a tumble on the pool, adopted by a run-in with the distant management, which left him “concussed” and conspicuously bandaged. Now’s nearly as good a time as any. Plus, what else is his “there isn’t a homecoming” speech however a self-eulogy?

Didier (Bruno Gouery) and Matteo (Francesco Zecca): If a number of White Lotus friends must die, it is smart that no less than one or two could be minor characters. Quentin’s coterie of males with little hats and mustaches simply screams collateral harm.

Greg (Jon Gries): I do not know if all that dialog about Greg’s poor well being final season was a ruse, however what I do know is that Greg is as much as one thing, and it includes Quentin. Tanya finds an previous picture of a younger Greg and Quentin in episode 6, all however proving a preferred fan concept that Greg is Quentin’s Wyoming cowboy. My guess is one thing goes awry with the plan to rip-off Tanya and, since we’re fairly sure she survives (see under), it is Greg — and perhaps Quentin? — who would not make it dwelling alive. Then once more, The White Lotus loves a purple herring — and it appears to hate a comeuppance.

Quentin (Tom Hollander): It is clear by now that Quentin is non buono. Apart from possible being in cahoots with Greg, Quentin et al. have a excessive chance of death-by-drowning by the mere reality of their impending boat experience. To return to the White Lotus resort, the entire palazzo occasion crew might want to hop aboard. It will be a becoming twist for this present if the dramatic dying reveal ended up being a run-of-the-mill marine accident. Or maybe Quentin will meet the identical destiny because the Isola Bella matriarch and his crumbling villa will ultimately confide in the general public, too.   

Considerably possible

Ethan (Will Sharpe): All three of Daphne’s journey companions are absent from the primary scene. However Daphne tells the newcomers in episode 1 particularly that “we” depart in a number of hours. If somebody from her occasion survives, it is doable it is Ethan. Then once more, episode 3’s jet ski antics appeared to foreshadow some hazard within the water. Maybe the dynamic duo is not fairly carried out operating waves. And maybe these waves will not be as calm the subsequent time round. If the boat wreck concept would not pan out, perhaps it’s going to be a recreation of jet ski rooster as a substitute. Or perhaps Ethan leaves the resort early in a match of despair and leads to a boating accident fully separate from the opposite friends.

Harper (Audrey Plaza): Daphne could also be cool together with her husband’s infidelity, however most likely not if Harper’s concerned. In Noto, Daphne explicitly invoked woman code and requested Harper if she was reliable. Now that Harper might have carried out the deed with Cameron (or no less than made it seem like she did), I would not be shocked if Daphne had been to orchestrate Harper’s demise, within the spirit of “do what you must do to make your self really feel higher about it.”  

Portia (Haley Lu Richardson): As of episode 6’s final scene, Portia is on to Jack, which suggests she may have time to save lots of herself from no matter nefarious plot Quentin has deliberate. Nevertheless, she’s one other straightforward candidate for collateral harm, and she or he’ll possible spend a while on a ship subsequent week. Nonetheless, Portia has atoned for her earlier sartorial sins and thus will most likely survive the journey and depart Sicily with a suitcase of Restricted Too knockoffs and crocheted Gilligan hats. 

Jack (Leo Woodall): I may go both means on Jack, and I feel the arc of justice throughout the White Lotus universe might be equally ambivalent. (Is he a sufferer or a villain right here?) In favor of his dying: I see a ship in his future. In favor of his survival: He is too younger to die!

Dominic (Michael Imperioli): Dominic’s unhappy, lonely stroll on the seashore in episode 5 appeared a possible swan tune for the “feminist” lech. His character arc can go one in all two methods — he both turns his life round, or he would not. By this level, he appears to have made inroads on the previous, releasing Lucia from his payroll and even turning from porn. And this can be the place his character ends. We all know that Dom’s spouse was voiced by the inimitable Laura Dern in episode 1. What we do not know is whether or not Laura Dern will make one other look this season. In line with IMDb, we must always not count on additional Dern-age, which suggests to me that this trip could also be Dominic’s final.    

Least possible

Albie (Adam DiMarco): The present’s aversion to comeuppance suggests to me that the privileged Stanford grad “good man” might be not going to be proven the door. 

Giuseppe (Federico Scribani): After overdosing on one thing that was positively not Viagra, Giuseppe has left his put up on the piano bench open. For all we all know, this man’s already kicked the bucket. Both means, he isn’t technically a visitor, so I doubt he provides to the physique depend.

Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mia (Beatrice Grannò): The useless intercourse employee trope has an extended and disappointing precedent, and Lucia is aware of this: “All whores are punished ultimately,” she lamented to Mia throughout a drug comedown disgrace spiral. However that appears too apparent and, truthfully, too cliché. I might quite see the 2 native women rip-off Albie all the way in which to Los Angeles and reinvent themselves distant from creepy Alessio, by no means to be seen in Sicily once more.

Cameron (Theo James): Between the “Testa di Moro” motif, Daphne’s affinity for dead-husband true crime reveals, Ethan’s “mimetic want” concept and Cameron’s debt to intercourse employee Lucia, Cameron is basically beginning to seem like a goner. When Daphne comes operating and screaming out of the ocean within the season’s first scene, simply after her brush with the drowned corpse, a tanned, shirtless man in squid-print swim trunks catches her on the seashore. It isn’t clear whether or not she is aware of the person, nor will we see his face. It may’ve been Cameron, however then why wasn’t he sipping an Aperol Spritz together with her earlier than she took a dip? All I do know is the squid-print trunks have but to make a second look, although they do seem to be Cameron’s fashion. Nevertheless, there’s completely no means, given Daphne’s response, that the useless physique we see in episode 1 was Cameron’s. There’s additionally no means she’d be so chipper previous to discovering it, if her husband had already been discovered floating earlier.

Impossible

Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge): Although Tanya actually looks like she’s getting arrange for a spooky demise by becoming a member of Quentin’s ragtag group of vacationing gays for a mafia-sponsored cocaine palazzo occasion, a little bit of extratextual proof suggests in any other case: Tanya may very well find yourself being the connective tissue throughout all future seasons of The White Lotus. Mike White hinted to Deadline on the season 2 premiere that he is toying with the thought of bringing Coolidge alongside for season 3. Until it is a prequel season, I am guessing she survives Italy.

Isabella (Eleonora Romandini): If Isabella does succumb to the crashing waves, it’d possible be Valentina’s doing. However this looks like a stretch, since, as an worker, she would not add to the useless visitor depend anyway. I additionally doubt Rocco would recount her dying as calmly as he does in episode 1, now that we all know they don’t seem to be solely concerned, however engaged to one another.

Daphne (Meghann Fahey): Within the season’s first scene, Daphne says she has “a number of hours” earlier than leaving the White Lotus resort. So she positively has time to additionally fall prey to no matter mysterious presence killed the opposite friends, I suppose…

The identical goes for Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) and Rocco (Federico Ferrante): They’re each very a lot alive within the first moments of the season, however who is aware of what’s in retailer for the finale. We’ll have to attend and see.