Lingering White Lotus Questions: What Exactly Was Niccolo's Plan? Is Dom's Wife Not Laura Dern? And Many More...
Season 2 of HBO's The White Lotus was like a pot on a stove, rolling to a boil. But as satisfying as its recent finale was, we are still hungry for more. More answers.
The season started out well enough. And as will clearly be custom with each changing of casts, it took us a minute to suss out who is who, what each character is about, and who wants what.
And then there was Tanya, played again by Jennifer Coolidge and the lone returning main character. We may have thought early on that Season 2 would merely be a continuation of her and Greg's (Jon Gries) impromptu love (or "love") story. But the closer we got to the end of the season, it was clear that much more was at play. Much foul play, that is.
We still have questions about — spoiler alert! — Quentin and Niccolo and the grand plan to off Tanya (so that Greg/"The Cowboy" (presumably) could dance around the pre-nup and claim a windfall.
And in addition to also have a few questions about the details of that plotted death, we have questions about love. Or at least s-e-x.
Review our lingering White Lotus Season 2 Qs below, then weigh in with your current working theories — plus anything that you yourself are still puzzling over....
10. UM, WHAT EXACTLY WAS NICCOLO'S PLAN...?
In The White Lotus' Season 2 season finale, what exactly was Niccolo's plan to off Tanya, had it not been clumsily-magnificently waylaid?
We saw in his bag a gun, rope, duct tape.... If he and Tanya had embarked for Taormina on the dinghy, as planned, would she have ever made it to shore? Was he going to shoot her and dump the body? If so, why the rope and tape? KO her and then tie her up/heave the body into the sea?
It just seems like if the plan was to kill her at sea, there was a lot of evidence that could link back to Quentin & Co. — especially since Quentin knew that Tanya got a chance to speak to Portia/possibly mention seeing the Greg photo/her husband's possible connection.
Speaking of....
9. WILL GREG STILL INHERIT TANYA'S MONEY?
Presuming that Greg did set this all in motion and then abruptly left Sicily on "work" business, will he reap the awaited payout, as Tanya's widower? Or will Portia care enough to do something with what she knows from her last call with Tanya and the "Greg photo" of it all? Especially since the yacht was a bloody crime scene by the end of the season....
8. IS TANYA ULTIMATELY TO BLAME FOR HER OWN DEATH?
As previously asked in this week's TV Questions column:
We know Tanya was panicked and afraid while trying to get off that boat. But why, why, why did jumping (!) down onto the dinghy — from a considerable height — seem like the best option? Couldn't she at least have taken off her shoes?
(We also wonder why/how the dinghy was no longer docked at the rear of the boat, by the ladder, where Niccolo had left it.... )
7. ALBIE HAD ZERO IDEA IT WAS PORTIA'S BOSS WHO DIED?
Maybe it was departure day and he was busy packing or something.... Plus, Albie wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer either.... But he didn't hear any rumblings about which guest had drowned? Not even "a tall blonde lady," to help Portia connect some dots on her mysteriously MIA boss?
6. DOES CAMERON KNOW...?
Does Cameron know that his son isn't his biological kid, as 95 percent of us speculate? (Remember, Daphne told Harper she has something on the side with her blonde, blue-eyed trainer, before flashing a photo of her blonde, blue-eyed son.) Cameron did seem a bit annoyed to have to respond to calls for "Daddy" on FaceTime in the finale.
5. WAIT, LAURA DERN ISN'T DOM'S WIFE?
It was confirmed as soon as the Season 2 premiere aired that Laura Dern — who headlined White Lotus creator Mike White's Enlightened — secretly provided the voice of Dom's fed-up wife during that first volatile phone check-in. So were you disappointed to see that Abby, seen as Dom was flipping through family photos in the finale, did not have Dern's face as well?
4. DID ETHAN AND DAPHNE HAVE SEX?
What's your current opinion on what did/didn't happen during Daphne and Ethan's impulsive visit to secluded Isola Bella? VOTE!
3. WHY'D CAMERON TAKE SO LONG TO PAY LUCIA?
Did we ever figure out why it took Cameron such a long time to pay Lucia for that torrid night of sex and drugs? Was he just being a dick, or is his cash flow not what he would have us/Ethan believe?
2. DOES TVLINE'S 'SEXIEST SCENES OF 2022' NEED A LATE UPDATE?
Given the overdue Ethan/Harper romp?
1. WHO EATS AT THE HOTEL EVERY NIGHT WHEN IN ITALY?!
Who eats nearly every damn dinner at the hotel you're staying at — as Cameron/Daphne/Ethan/Harper, and the Di Grasso men, did — when vacationing in the likes of Sicily? In Italy?? In one of the countries best known for its cuisine????
Weigh in below with any answers (or additional questions!) that you have coming out of White Lotus Season 2.