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The White Lotus: who’s dead - and whodunnit? · The Front

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Speaker 1: I want to go out on a limb here and
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Speaker 1: may regret this, but I don't think Fabian can be
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Speaker 1: either the killer or the victim. So this is the fusspot.
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Speaker 1: Resort manager is so annoying. Speaking as a German, you
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Speaker 1: can say that I could never say that The White
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Speaker 1: Lotus is where television is at right now. Show creator
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Speaker 1: Mike White captured international attention in twenty twenty one with
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Speaker 1: season one of The White Lotus, a production which arose
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Speaker 1: out of coronavirus lockdown and the need to shoot something
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Speaker 1: in a contained location. White set the story at the
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Speaker 1: four Seasons resort on Maui in Hawaii, and he locked
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Speaker 1: in a group of actors to depict the mostly saintly
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Speaker 1: staff and disgustingly privileged guests of a five star resort,
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Speaker 1: The White Lotus, during an emotion packed week that begins
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Speaker 1: and ends with a corpse. That delicious idea has now
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Speaker 1: become a form Mila for success, and each new season
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Speaker 1: of The White Lotus takes the same premise, a resort
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Speaker 1: where clashes of wealth, power, ambition, sex, and excess play out.
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Speaker 1: Season two was set in Sicily. Season three, now about
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Speaker 1: to reach its climax, is set on the Thai island
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Speaker 1: of Ko Samui. If you've been watching The White Lotus
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Speaker 1: and you're desperate to find out whose body was seen
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Speaker 1: floating in the ornamental pond in episode one, look no further.
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Speaker 1: We're about to dig into each character to determine who's
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Speaker 1: dead and who done it. I'm joined by The Front's
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Speaker 1: producer Christen Amiot and editor Jasper Leik. Guys, we've got
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Speaker 1: to start by talking about Zion. He's the only character
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Speaker 1: we can categorically rule out as being the victim of
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Speaker 1: the murder in this season three. He's the son of Belinda,
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Speaker 1: and we can rule him out because in the opening
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Speaker 1: scenes of episode one, we saw him beginning a meditation, says,
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Speaker 1: let the sounds of the external world fed away. That
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Speaker 1: was interrupted by a distant gunfire. Ma'am man, that's a
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Speaker 1: gun and then the appearance of that floating corpse. Fuck.
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Speaker 1: Zion's immediate fear is that his mum, Belinda, is the victim. Now,
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Speaker 1: Belinda was the SPA manager from White Lotus Maui. She's
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Speaker 1: here in Thailand, honest, konman, and that's how she got
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Speaker 1: to know the very buff and very charming Paunchai Zion
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Speaker 1: appears to see the corpse floating past him in episode one,
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Speaker 1: and he doesn't react with the horror you might expect
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Speaker 1: if it was his mother. But having said that, Belinda
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Speaker 1: is really the only character who in this season has
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Speaker 1: been expressing fears for her own safety, isn't she?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there is something to be said for the fact
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Speaker 2: that Belinda almost felt too obvious.
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Speaker 1: Would Mike White.
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Speaker 2: Really make it the person who in the opening scenes
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Speaker 2: we thought it would be, and then to build it
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Speaker 2: up with a different threat, which appears to be from Gary,
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Speaker 2: who is also a returning character and in fact the
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Speaker 2: only character to have appeared in all three seasons.
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Speaker 1: But then is it Okham's razor? Did we know the
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Speaker 1: answer from the get go? Okay? So Gary, he's the
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Speaker 1: mysterious rich guy who Belinda is worried about. She recognizes
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Speaker 1: him by another name as Greg. That was the character
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Speaker 1: he played in seasons one and two when he was
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Speaker 1: the husband of Tanya mccaud, the flamboyant heiress played so
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Speaker 1: brilliantly by Jennifer Coolidge, and she died at the end
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Speaker 1: of season two.
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Speaker 3: I know it sounds crazy, but my husband he brought
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Speaker 3: me to Sicily and then he left so he could
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Speaker 3: have an alibi. Then they take me after Palermo, and
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Speaker 3: then they set me up with this guy who's in
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Speaker 3: the mafia, and he's coming here. I think you're trying to.
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Speaker 1: Throw me off the boat, please, Liz Geese.
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Speaker 3: They're trying to murder me.
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Speaker 1: So Belinda has worked out that Gary is in fact
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Speaker 1: Greg and is wanted by authorities in Italy for questioning
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Speaker 1: over the death of his wife. But we know, don't
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Speaker 1: we as viewers, and this is something Belinda doesn't know
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Speaker 1: that although Greg was plodding to murder Tenure at the
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Speaker 1: end of season two, ultimately she died by accident.
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Speaker 2: Yes, it did ultimately come down to happenstance and a
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Speaker 2: bit of slippering footing on Jennifer Coulig's part.
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Speaker 4: I think if Gary isn't the shooter, he's almost the
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Speaker 4: greatest red Herring ever. From the very beginning, we're all
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Speaker 4: kind of picking him to be the guy waving the
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Speaker 4: gun around at the end of the season. So in
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Speaker 4: episode six, we're not quite sure how Gary's found out,
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Speaker 4: but he has come to the understanding that his partner
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Speaker 4: Chloe has slept with at least one of the brothers.
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Speaker 1: So Chloe is a French Canadian former model and she
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Speaker 1: was feeling neglected and bored. She described Gary as an
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Speaker 1: old geezer. She said that he didn't want to have
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Speaker 1: sex with her anymore, and that's kind of what drove
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Speaker 1: her into the arms of this sweet, innocent teenager Lachlan
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Speaker 1: who's in Thailand on holiday with his family. But the
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Speaker 1: twist in episode six is that while it looked like
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Speaker 1: she was going to have sex with Lachlan, she seems
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Speaker 1: to have hooked up with both the brothers, doesn't she.
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Speaker 4: That's right, and the brothers seem to have hooked up
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Speaker 4: with each other as well. Episode six is the moment
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Speaker 4: in the series as well where we finally see this
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Speaker 4: sort of happy, go lucky, care free dynamic between Chloe
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Speaker 4: and Chelsea and Lachlan and Saxon that comes to a
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Speaker 4: crashing end.
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Speaker 1: The dynamic between those two brothers, the Ratliffe brothers, Lachlan
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Speaker 1: and Saxon. There's been a hint from the very beginning
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Speaker 1: that there was something sexual about Saxon's interest in his
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Speaker 1: younger brother.
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Speaker 3: Yeah cool, I'm Saxon, by the way. Yeah that's my
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Speaker 3: little brother, Lachlan.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, guys just eighteen in November, so.
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Speaker 2: Just saying he is legal.
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Speaker 1: The ben moments of kind of overt nudity. He's been
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Speaker 1: talking about sex a lot. He's expressed a quite weird
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Speaker 1: interest in their sisters sexual history, So I wondered if
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Speaker 1: that was going to go anywhere, And in episode six
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Speaker 1: it really did go somewhere. Didn't it an accidental sort
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Speaker 1: of sexual encounter between the brothers.
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Speaker 2: I wondered if all of that build up with Saxon
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Speaker 2: and Lachlan, and Saxon's apparent interest in his brother was
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Speaker 2: not so much an interest in actually that coming to fruition,
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Speaker 2: but of just his brother's reactions. If that was enough
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Speaker 2: to make an egomaniac like him feel as though he'd
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Speaker 2: achieved something, and then when it does actually happen, he
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Speaker 2: is in no way prepared for it, And now that
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Speaker 2: it is real, you have to wonder is that enough
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Speaker 2: of a motive for him to go to a dinner
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Speaker 2: or to do something immensely destructive in this already quite
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Speaker 2: fragile family unit.
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Speaker 4: What you just hit on, I think is a real
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Speaker 4: theme in this show, where you have all these characters
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Speaker 4: that are driven by certain impulses that when those impulses
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Speaker 4: actually collide with the real world, they're absolutely not prepared
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Speaker 4: for the consequences. After the full Moon Party, Chloe has
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Speaker 4: been very flippant up until that point about her relationship
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Speaker 4: with Greg, but when the rubber meets the road and
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Speaker 4: she's cheated on him on the boat that he pays for,
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Speaker 4: she actually, for the first time in the series, becomes
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Speaker 4: defensive about her relationship with Greg to Chelsea, saying, I know,
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Speaker 4: on paper this might not make much sense, but to
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Speaker 4: be honest, I've got a pretty sweet deal here.
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Speaker 1: She does allude to Gary's let's see though shook the
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Speaker 1: four of us just.
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Speaker 3: Now?
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Speaker 1: Or why would he kill you?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: Well, Gary might kill me. I honestly think he's capable
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Speaker 1: of it. Okay, let's talk about young Lachlan. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he is so sweet and innocent. He is really more
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Speaker 1: like a thirteen year old or a twelve year old
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Speaker 1: than the eighteen year old who he is supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: He's you can tell going to be handsome, but he's
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Speaker 1: not really there yet because he's like a poached egg.
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Speaker 1: He's so sort of unformed, and he's this season's kind
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Speaker 1: of version of the innocent Abroad like he's yet to
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Speaker 1: be corrupted like all the other revolting rich people around him.
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Speaker 1: Could Lachlan be the victim?
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Speaker 2: I wonder if when it comes down to it, Lachlan
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Speaker 2: has enough wilds or enough innocence maybe to make himself scarce.
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Speaker 2: I wonder if when his parents inevitably have this blow
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Speaker 2: up that is coming over their financial situation, that he
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Speaker 2: is at the pool or something else.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about Saxons. I've just had a massage.
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Speaker 3: You're setting me back?
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Speaker 1: How can you be so viper?
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Speaker 3: I thought you had one.
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Speaker 1: Too, Yeah, but it kind of suck.
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Speaker 2: Why what was wrong with it?
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Speaker 1: And no happy end?
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Speaker 3: Ah? What aren't they all supposed to be a little
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Speaker 3: specially speci.
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Speaker 1: He is the greatest douche ever played by Patrick Schwarzenegger.
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Speaker 1: I think, absolutely brilliantly and I've kind of come to
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Speaker 1: love Saxon.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's been fantastic, and I think the arc that
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Speaker 2: Mike White has given him has been quite sophisticated.
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Speaker 1: Under that surface.
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Speaker 2: Level debauchery that he seems to be at the center
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Speaker 2: of all over the place.
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Speaker 1: You kind of have been wondering too, if he's all taught.
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Speaker 1: You know, he talks a lot about sex, but we'd
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Speaker 1: never seen him having any until now.
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Speaker 2: Yes, he seems more concerned with getting a blender into
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Speaker 2: the villa so that he can have his protein chacks
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Speaker 2: than it does to actually put in the time and
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Speaker 2: effort of a god for a bit of conversation with
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Speaker 2: one of these women that he's ogling the entire time
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Speaker 2: he's on screen. So I think he's a really interesting
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Speaker 2: manifestation of where the world is at the moment, especially
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Speaker 2: being a character from a southern state. I can imagine
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Speaker 2: him listening to Joe Rogan. There's all of these influences
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Speaker 2: that seem to be comprised in Saxon in this lovably
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Speaker 2: infuriating way.
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Speaker 4: I love this idea too, that you can take somebody
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Speaker 4: like a Saxon, and you can take somebody like a Jacqueline,
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Speaker 4: and all you have to do is put them on
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Speaker 4: a plane, fly them to another country, take their electronic
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Speaker 4: devices away, and you seem to completely knock the screws
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Speaker 4: loose on the way that they behave in the world.
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Speaker 2: I think that harks back to another really interesting part
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Speaker 2: of Mike White's career. Mike White actually came runner up
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Speaker 2: on a series of Survivor called David and Goliath.
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Speaker 1: For me, I'm a survivor obsessive fanatic. Everybody in my
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Speaker 1: business wants the Oscar. It's like, you know, losers like
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Speaker 1: I want to win Survivor.
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Speaker 2: Wow, And what is survivor? You take a bunch of strangers,
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Speaker 2: particularly in a David and Goliath setting. Some people, I
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Speaker 2: imagine are quite physically capable, others are more psychologically.
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Speaker 4: Observantwn cur season.
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Speaker 2: Exactly, and you drop them onto an island in the
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Speaker 2: middle of nowhere with no devices, and you tell them
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Speaker 2: to survive. And with the greatest of respect to Mike White,
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Speaker 2: I don't think.
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Speaker 1: He was there as a goliath.
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Speaker 2: He was there as an observer of people, and he
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Speaker 2: almost won it for that reason. So I think when
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Speaker 2: you take that mindset and you apply it to what
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Speaker 2: he does creatively with the White Lotus, and particularly in
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Speaker 2: this season, where we are depriving people of their technology
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Speaker 2: and of their connection to the world that they've left
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Speaker 2: at home, it casts a really different light over the
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Speaker 2: way that these people are unraveling so quickly. We're not
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Speaker 2: even through the week yet in the scheme of this season.
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Speaker 4: I didn't know that, Yeah, that's amazing it.
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Speaker 1: Came on up. Let's talk about where Saxon and Lachlan
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Speaker 1: come from. Mum and Dad Ratliffe are Victoria and Tim.
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Speaker 1: She's a hyper anxious Southern bell played by Parker Posey.
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Speaker 1: Why would you encourage her to move to a monastery?
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Speaker 3: What's next? You want to shave her head and start
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Speaker 3: being a bongo in Times Square.
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Speaker 1: Her main concern in life seems to be the location
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Speaker 1: of her larazepam, a little orange bottle of tranquilizers that
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Speaker 1: have disappeared from her handbag. Only will the audience know
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Speaker 1: that they've actually been stolen by her husband, Tim.
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Speaker 3: Maybe they just focus on the money and you just
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Speaker 3: serve a few months, oh just a few months in prison,
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Speaker 3: you fucking retord Federal present. Most of them are too bad.
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Speaker 3: I know if you do come out, fine, I can
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Speaker 3: put you in touch.
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Speaker 1: With the road or die. Understand me, I would rather
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Speaker 1: fucking die. Every time he manages to get his mobile
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Speaker 1: phone back from the very controlling sort of wellness you know,
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Speaker 1: Camp Commandant Pam, he finds out more about the fact
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Speaker 1: that his life is unraveling back at home, a corporate nightmare.
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Speaker 1: So Tim is suicidal at the prospect of losing his
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Speaker 1: status as a pillar of society, and he's stolen a gun.
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Speaker 4: That's such an incredibly written moment when we see Tim
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Speaker 4: steel Gaytok's gun, but the clock is winding down for
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Speaker 4: Gaytok to find that gun, and as we see in
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Speaker 4: episode six, he does reclaim that gun, which is perfect
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Speaker 4: timing for Gaytok because he is then able to show
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Speaker 4: up to target practice with his superior later that afternoon.
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Speaker 4: But it also plays into Tim's hand quite well, or
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Speaker 4: his wife's hand probably even better, because by the end
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Speaker 4: of that episode we see that his ideas of suicide
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Speaker 4: have escalated not just from his own suicide but to
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Speaker 4: murder suicide for him and his wife.
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Speaker 1: She depicts herself or frames herself, as someone who couldn't
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Speaker 1: possibly live without handbags and money and the status that
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Speaker 1: they have, because she, out of all of them, is
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Speaker 1: the most miserable. She's addicted to tranquilizers, she's complaining about everything.
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Speaker 1: You know, she doesn't seem to actually be enjoying her wealth.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, she doesn't appear to be enjoying it. And you
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Speaker 2: have to wonder if this flip from Tim to suddenly
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Speaker 2: understanding not only his own position and predicament, But to
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Speaker 2: understanding his daughter's motivation for wanting distance from the life
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Speaker 2: at home. If that is motivation enough, knowing that there
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Speaker 2: is a weapon out there to go and get it back.
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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk about Gaytok. He's the sweet natured security guard.
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Speaker 1: He was supposed to be in charge of that weapon.
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Speaker 1: He was distracted by his infatuation with the beautiful young
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Speaker 1: resort worker Mook, and the gun was a new addition
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Speaker 1: to the resort. It was acquired by the security team
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Speaker 1: after robbers invaded the hotel and ransacked the gift shop,
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Speaker 1: apparently with the assistance of Russian wellness coach Valentine, who
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Speaker 1: we see distracting Gaytok at the boongate when the robbers
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Speaker 1: are driving into the resort. So Gaytalk for me, is
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Speaker 1: a suspect because he's just so sweet, you know. I
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Speaker 1: can imagine him not turning evil or being secretly evil,
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Speaker 1: but killing someone in an active kind of righteous vengeance.
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Speaker 4: I see him on a sort of hero trajectory. I
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Speaker 4: think he could be the cape wearing guy who saves
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Speaker 4: the day, or at least maybe he saves Milk's life.
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Speaker 4: But as we saw at the end, of episode six,
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Speaker 4: it was Gayetok who did finally go to the range
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Speaker 4: and seem to have a pretty steady hand, which makes
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Speaker 4: you think that maybe he's a little more experienced than
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Speaker 4: he lets on.
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Speaker 2: I think I'm somewhere in the middle with Gaytok in
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Speaker 2: that to me, he is a guy who appears lovely
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Speaker 2: on the surface, and then it kind of occurred to
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Speaker 2: me that this is a guy who cannot handle rejection.
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Speaker 2: And again, just thinking about it from Mike White's perspective,
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Speaker 2: He's probably watching what is going on in the world
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Speaker 2: today and in the manisphere online, and there is just
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Speaker 2: some element of that that jumps out at me that
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Speaker 2: he could be alluding to there being something a little
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Speaker 2: bit more sinister going on under the surface there with Guytok.
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Speaker 1: Well, Mook never agrees to go on a date with him,
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Speaker 1: and I've found it really intriguing. She's played, incidentally by
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Speaker 1: lo Lisa Mannibal, who is probably the most famous person
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Speaker 1: in this entire show. She's a member of the K
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Speaker 1: pop supergroup Black Pink and as a rapper of massive
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Speaker 1: renown in Asia in her own right. So her character
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Speaker 1: Mook really keeps going talk dangling. She never says yes,
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Speaker 1: she never says no. She does go looking for his
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Speaker 1: attention all the time. She invites him to come and
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Speaker 1: watch her dance. She's interested in some way. I feel
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Speaker 1: like Muka has hidden depths. Is she potentially in league
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Speaker 1: with Valentine and the dodgy Russians It's possible.
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Speaker 2: Or is she a woman who knows she can't say
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Speaker 2: no to this man if he is a guy with
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Speaker 2: a steady end.
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Speaker 1: I think you're being very unfair to I like the.
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Speaker 4: Hero trajectory, but you've definitely got me questioning my thoughts
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Speaker 4: on that.
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Speaker 2: We'll just replay the tape.
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Speaker 1: Coming up. Is this a murder or a blood bath?
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Speaker 1: And who's the prime suspect? That's after the break. I'm
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Speaker 1: dying to talk about Valentine. We knew he was going
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Speaker 1: to have sex with one of the Golden Girls. Eventually
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Speaker 1: it ends up being Jacqueline, even though he seemed to
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Speaker 1: have a more genuine connection with Laurie and his mates
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Speaker 1: from back home in Flat of Austok. I seriously sketchy,
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Speaker 1: aren't they?
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Speaker 4: I love them?
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Speaker 3: Hey, how are you doing? My friends Alexey and ladd.
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Speaker 1: Hi, who also have some wildly jealous Russian girlfriends, in Toe.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a really interesting moment with Jacqueline and
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Speaker 2: the angry Russian girlfriends at the nightclub where she was
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Speaker 2: dancing very close to all the guys in this group
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Speaker 2: while kind of having this unbroken eye contact with the girlfriends,
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Speaker 2: knowing that they would be hating this, but yet nobody's intervening,
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Speaker 2: nobody's doing anything to stop it.
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Speaker 1: Jacqueline's a monster. I mean, she is as narcissistic as
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Speaker 1: Saxon and is kind of driven by sex, but it
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Speaker 1: seems that she does actually want the sex that comes
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Speaker 1: from her outrageous behavior and what happens in Thailand case
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Speaker 1: and Thailand.
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Speaker 3: Oh what does that mean?
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Speaker 1: It means what I dead?
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Speaker 3: Yet all right, we would still be young and hot and.
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Speaker 1: Fun, okay.
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Speaker 4: Valentine is such a great character. I love the way
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Speaker 4: that the writers of the show use him as a
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Speaker 4: tool to expose Jacqueline as this total monster and as
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Speaker 4: this sort of chaos agent in the Golden Girls group.
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Speaker 4: She's the one who is sort of encouraging Laurie to
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Speaker 4: pursue Valentine. She's the one that seems to be trying
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Speaker 4: to make that romance happen. But then when push comes
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Speaker 4: to shove as soon as she has a moment, she's
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Speaker 4: the one who's seducing him and bringing him into her bed,
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Speaker 4: despite the fact that she's obviously in a relationship with
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Speaker 4: an actor back in America. I think she uses him
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Speaker 4: as a tool to get one over on her friends,
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Speaker 4: to sort of cement her position in the hierarchy within
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Speaker 4: that friend's group.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Sri Taala is the resort owner and a former
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Speaker 1: tie diva. She's like the ty Jacqueline you know, plus
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Speaker 1: thirty years married to an enigmatic American Jim Hollings who's
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Speaker 1: played by Scott Glenn. He is kept sort of secret
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Speaker 1: right until the end, isn't he But he's the one
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Speaker 1: who Rick believes to have murdered his father.
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Speaker 4: So my theory on this is there's three parts to destruction.
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Speaker 4: Rick has had the motive to murder from very early
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Speaker 4: on in the series, when it is established that he
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Speaker 4: at least believes that this man in Bangkok is the
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Speaker 4: killer of his father. At the end of episode six,
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Speaker 4: Rick is on Jim's doorstep. He's armed. It doesn't look
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Speaker 4: good for Jim at that point. I'd say Rick's probably
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Speaker 4: my favorite character in this series, and I love his
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Speaker 4: completely lopsided relationship with Chelsea. She's understanding and she's nurturing,
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Speaker 4: and she's caring in a way that he seems so
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Speaker 4: undeserving of. Like their romance is such a mystery to
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Speaker 4: the viewer, which may her devotion to him confusing, but
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Speaker 4: somehow even more romantic.
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Speaker 1: You guys go out and don't do anything. My buddy
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Speaker 1: is sober, so fucking annoying. Oh yeah, it must be
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Speaker 1: so annoying me caring about you. How do you stand it?
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Speaker 3: Please come back.
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Speaker 4: I mean, she's always very affectionate towards him, but I
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Speaker 4: think she sensors that something really bad is afoot and
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Speaker 4: she is essentially trying to rescue him from himself on
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Speaker 4: his path to destruction. In this series, then, I think
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Speaker 4: we have this path to destruction, which is the Ratliffe family.
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Speaker 4: You've got Tim and by the end of episode six
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Speaker 4: it's established that he's had thoughts of motor suicide. The
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Speaker 4: third part to destruction is the dinner party at Gregg's house. Interestingly,
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Speaker 4: we have the Ratlifts going to that party. So you
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Speaker 4: have these three violent paths that are all running on
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Speaker 4: parallel track, with the possibility that tracks two and three
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Speaker 4: will actually come together in episode one where we get
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Speaker 4: that foreshadowing of what is to come.
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Speaker 1: I remember a.
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Speaker 4: Lot of gunshots. I was always under the assumption that
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Speaker 4: this isn't just going to be one murder. My sense
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Speaker 4: is that we're in for a blood bath.
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Speaker 1: Can't wait, guys, I think we need a watch party
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Speaker 1: for the final episode.
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Speaker 4: Great idea.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we might see if the boat's available.
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