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White Lotus Season 3 review
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Date: April 7th, 2025 6:58 PM Author: trip immigrant Tldr it was trash. I hated it. Not that it didn't have a few good moments but it's down so far from the first season. Complete channel drift. It became a mid tier soap opera.
A lot of these characters are a rehash of nearly similar characters from the first season. I'm not going to remember any of this in a year. I thought season 1 was breathtakingly original, season 2 was a slight drop-off but still deserves credit. Season 3 was incredibly boring throughout. Nothing new, no challenging characters, nothing whacky or unpredictable. Just a sort of typical soap opera.
Best character and arc was Gaitok who was likeable and seemed to have a cohesive arc. It was all about him getting over his anxieties so he could get a good paying job so he could fuck Mook which was satisfying.
I was disinterested in most of the characters by the end. Show appeals to lukewarm IQ havers. I doubt it will get back to first two seasons quality again. Mike White has given up on taking any risks, he's burned out of fresh ideas. They will keep churning this crap out but it's cooked. Genuinely appreciate the first two seasons it was fun while it lasted. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 7:41 PM Author: Lascivious Address Fortuitous Meteor The 9 People Who Check In to Every ‘White Lotus’
The exotic settings change from season to season in this HBO hit, but the characters stay the same.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/arts/television/white-lotus-characters.html |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:41 PM Author: trip immigrant Lmao nailed it.
I think if you just looked at seasons 1 and 2 you could go OK there's a little overlap here but they still did a good job at differentiation. But season 3 was retreading everything they had already shown us.
What made the first two cutting and original prestige TV is that at the very least the characters were both a) truly messed up, and b) faced actual conflict. Not to mention all of this was achieved in much fewer episodes. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:43 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy Dumb take - oh wow a hotel worker who wants more (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825966) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:45 PM Author: trip immigrant Yeah we're burned out on the same themes over and over. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825972) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:47 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy For some reason I find morally corrupt rich white people endlessly fascinating. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825981) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:50 PM Author: trip immigrant Me too. Which is why I'm going to re-watch season 1. My issue with season 3 is that the depraved rich white people are not corrupt and despicable enough. Season 1 I think hit a nerve. It was on another level. Mike isn't swinging for the fences anymore. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825995) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:49 PM Author: cream arousing ceo It's one extremely drawn out fulano post that's less funny and set to some catchy music with good cinematography. That's it. That's the "theme". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825988) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 3:42 PM Author: Unholy curious police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48828109) |
Date: April 7th, 2025 8:17 PM Author: turquoise provocative plaza mother Ive tried to watch it and it took me 3 tries to get thru the first episode. I give up. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825895) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:23 PM Author: cream arousing ceo I spent six hours of my life watching the first season thanks to this shithold. Don't listen to their lie$ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825913) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:16 PM Author: Stimulating gold theatre (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826076) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 12:11 AM Author: turquoise provocative plaza mother I enjoyed the first season. It was quirky and moderately entertaining.
The second season was ok. Not great, but not terrible. I binge-watched it one day when I was sick and didn't have anything better to watch.
Jennifer Coolidge really made the first two seasons. I enjoyed the absolute ridiculousness of her character.
I cannot get into the third season. |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 12:34 AM Author: trip immigrant hatp 🤝 jcm
Coolidge leaving the cast created a big vacuum. The showrunners should have thought about how do we get a heavyweight and give them possibly a 2-season arc to anchor this. I think Sam Rockwell could have been an anchor with a more sophisticated character. Or Goggins if they wrote him differently. Really enjoyed Coon too but they underwrote her. Sometimes Mike gets too caught up in the group dynamic when he could just focus on a single character. Coolidge was such a character who didn't need to be part of an integrated ensemble in her arc.
Season 3 failed due to having too many options and making enough tough choices. Could have been a lot tighter. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:24 PM Author: Laughsome Thirsty Gunner Parlor its slow sometimes i just fast forward (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825916) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:46 PM Author: turquoise provocative plaza mother i did not have this issue with seasons 1 or 2.
idk, i just cant get into it. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: trip immigrant You didn't miss anything. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825963) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:46 PM Author: turquoise provocative plaza mother (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826437) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:24 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy This was easily the best written season from start to finish - all the meditations on the nature of self and finding peace. Also some of the most memorable characters - all were fully realized, even Greg got some new depth.
You’re completely wrong. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:27 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825924) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:28 PM Author: Laughsome Thirsty Gunner Parlor season 2 was better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825927) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:43 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy S2 was funnier and my favorite due to Aubrey Plaza and Michael Imperioli, but this season was better written (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825964) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:44 PM Author: trip immigrant This is factually inaccurate. The series crested long ago. This is late stage Jenji Kohan channel drift like in Weeds where they end up digging a tunnel to Mexico and other ridiculous nonsense. It's pure channel drift and laziness at this point. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825968) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:46 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy You can’t even be consistent. Is it channel drift or refried slop? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825977) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:48 PM Author: trip immigrant What? Channel drift IS refined slop. It's when you stop innovating and start cashing out with low level fan service and bad writing. That's what this is. Yes it's refined like they spent colossal money on sets and actors and shit. It's very high level boring material we have all seen before already, playing to the established audience with no surprises. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825987) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:10 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy Are you drunk? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826057) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:43 PM Author: trip immigrant What? Lol no. It's a worse rehash of the same exact themes but with some spirituality tacked on. All the prior versions of these same characters were more interesting and had a better arc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825965) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:28 PM Author: Burgundy very tactful native this aint it, dawg (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825933) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:34 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall your take on gaitok arc is hilariously backwards.
he abandons his principles to get the girl and life he wants. this couldn't have been more spoon-fed. gaitok says he wasn't scared during the robbery and mook mentions that buddhism permits violence only in self-defense. he shoots rick in the back after he's no longer a threat. it wasn't about him overcoming his anxieties, it was about the good guy ultimately succumbing to his selfish desires in the ultimate betrayal of his moral code. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:36 PM Author: Burgundy very tactful native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825948) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:42 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825961) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:47 PM Author: trip immigrant He told his boss he felt like a pussy and wanted to quit. Then he shoots the bad guy and gets the promotion he needed to get the girl. Yeah he went back on his views about pacifism or whatever. I don't see how anything you're saying is incompatible with my take. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825979) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:48 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy You’re saying he experienced personal growth, we’re saying he denied his true self (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48825985) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:52 PM Author: trip immigrant Yeah and the dad could have just told his family in episode 1 that he was going to prison for fraud and to expect a lifestyle change. But even I know enough about TV writing not to do that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826004) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:53 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall you don't see how "good guy overcomes adversity and lives happily ever after" and "good guy becomes corrupted by the world to the point of committing murder for selfish reasons" are incompatible? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826012) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 8:56 PM Author: trip immigrant He didn't commit murder though arguably in an active shooter situation a security guard, fog of war, etc, he went self defense, he's getting no-billed. Suspect did a triple homicide even if he was shot in the back while feeling the guy is not getting charged. He just had to overcome his fear of using force which any LEO has to go through at some point and got a promotion and a hot gf. If anything his Buddhist mumbo jumbo was just a front to not deal with his anxiety about using violence as part of his job. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826022) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:07 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall did you notice that he fearlessly ran towards the gunshots without hesitation and only became conflicted when the woman who could give him all his selfish desires was shouting at him to shoot a man in the back who was no longer a threat?
gaitok knows it wasn't self-defense. the audience *really* knows it's not self-defense because we've seen rick's arc. the fact he wouldn't be charged because the cops, who don't know what we know, would not charge gaitok is irrelevant.
this is clearly what the show intended to convey. it's wild you're dismissing it as "lukewarm iq" despite missing the point so badly you thought it conveyed the exact opposite of what it did. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:10 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy Lmao, never go full retard
The Buddhist stuff was just mumbo jumbo, lmao |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:50 PM Author: charismatic dopamine And also a warning about the soul corrupting influence of AZNgirl pussy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826172) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:52 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall i'd kill a dead man walking to fuck mook, that's for sure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826181) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:55 PM Author: trip immigrant So say we all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826190) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:09 PM Author: Crystalline Church Building Community Account Carrie Coon has surprisingly nice cans (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826051) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:11 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy In two episodes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826063) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:34 PM Author: trip immigrant Top tier genetics somehow. Bod looks 20 years younger than her face somehow, and after two kids no less. Plus her husband is much older. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826133) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:51 PM Author: charismatic dopamine I was shocked to find out she’s the youngest of the three IRL (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826176) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:44 PM Author: trip immigrant Reminder, morons, the daughter quitting Buddhism over bad food and leaky pipes was a complete rehash of Alex Daddario in season 1. They lifted the entire character arc. Boring. Even the NYT agrees with me it's stale af. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826153) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 9:49 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall in your season 1 thread you argued passionately that daddario did nothing wrong. now you're criticizing piper's arc as a rehash? it seems like they rehashed it because a lot of people missed it in the first go around.
anyway, daddario was about anxiety over giving up career aspirations, piper was about giving up spiritual ones. it was a rehash, yes, but was a significantly different twist and made more explicit for people that didn't get it the first go-around. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:00 PM Author: trip immigrant I thought that the additional conflict of Daddario coming from nothing and having poor parents and having to work to survive was an important backdrop in what made that character interesting. Also probably Molly Shannon was an 11/10 on the Richter scale of epicly detached rich white excess, cementing that arc as forever memorable.
Piper was flat from the first episode. Never thought she was interesting. She never even formally rejects a life of excess, she just read some book and wanted to go on a spiritual journey and probably just spite her parents.
Rachel/Daddario has a genuine life altering choice to make. Just a better character in every way. Piper's biggest antagonist is her mom thought not going back to the research triangle and finding a rich husband right away but deferring that for a year was a big stain on the family? Weird lol. In every sense a rehash and a downgrade. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:06 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall i think that giving up on spiritual and moral aspirations is far more profound than giving up on a career.
rachel gave up on facile career ambitions that she had already abandoned but were superficially reignited. piper gave up on spiritual and moral aspirations that weren't revealed to be superficial until the final episode. rachel's ambitions were less profound and known to be superficial from the beginning. piper's are very profound and not revealed to be facile until the very end. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:08 PM Author: trip immigrant Disagree character was boring as tits I hated every scene she was in (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826216) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:19 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall "it was a rehash"
"well the differences are..."
"yeah whatever it's boring."
well it's obvious why you didn't like this season, but at least you got to enjoy the feel-good story of gaitok not being a pussy and killing the bad guy and living happily ever after with his dream girl. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:21 PM Author: trip immigrant Gaitok is a nice boy he made it to like 2000/yr annual salary and gets to smash Mook. Only likeable arc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826249) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:27 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall cr he learned to become worldly and gave up buddhist mumbo jumbo to do shit expected of him as an LEO to get wealth and pussy. 180!
btw what did you think of saxon whose existence consisted entirely of doing what was expected of him to get wealth and pussy? |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:29 PM Author: trip immigrant Saxon sucked, but in almost the exact same way that S01 and S02 Bro Chads sucked, only slightly different. Nom nom feed me the same reheated ideas nom nom. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826266) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:41 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall yeah haha well at least you understood that gaitok killing for pussy is 180 but saxon doing finance to get pussy is 120 because gaitok is portrayed as a kindly asian and saxon is portrayed is an entitled douche. it's not as if the entire point is that gaitok is adopting the same moral framework that made saxon a douche! and that saxon is more sympathetic because he was raised in it!
he's a douche haha what a douche chadbro lmfao 120 rehash. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:44 PM Author: trip immigrant I don't know what you're smoking dude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826299) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:00 PM Author: fuchsia mood locale *2000k/yr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826338) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:14 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy Daddario was the worst arc in S1 - they did it much better this season because of Parker Posey actively pulling her to the vapid-side (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826230) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:15 PM Author: trip immigrant Posey was one note and had no conflict or arc. It was funny for a few seconds but never went anywhere. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826232) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:17 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy She was hilarious and was for the dad to bounce off. She was amazing once she was off the pills (also a great bit of acting). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826235) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:20 PM Author: trip immigrant Big family dads ranked:
1. Steve Zahn and it's not close 2. Mike Imperioli 3. Jason Isaacs
Got worse with every season |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:11 PM Author: trip immigrant Completely underrated aspect of season 3: Sam Rockwell was woefully underutilized and should have been a main character.
This lends to the theory that the writing is basically the same season to season but the magic of the actors is really what brings it to life. Sam could have had an amazing arc and would have blown the rest of the cast away.
Also I think Goggins character was boring as hell. I hated the Kill Bill arc. It was so flat. Hated the British chick too. Goggins is a genius but the writing wasn't great. They could have done a lot more. I thought he was going to be so good after a couple EPs but no. His arc sucked. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:15 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy He was only in it because his wife was one of the chicks and they travel everywhere together.
And he was fucking awesome in the role he did have. Made the trip to Bangkok electric, let them put some true nasty Thai shit in it. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:18 PM Author: trip immigrant Not in any way incongruous with my point at all (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826239) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:22 PM Author: charismatic dopamine Sam Rockwell is married to the Trumpmo friend in the girl group (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826251) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:24 PM Author: trip immigrant Holy shit I can't tell these actresses apart (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826256) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:26 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy Leslie Bibb (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826259) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 11:17 AM Author: Frozen area no shit? she looks good IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827355) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 3:06 PM Author: charismatic dopamine According to Wiki they’ve been together since 2007 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827933) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:25 PM Author: Vigorous therapy It had too many characters and as a result most felt more one-note or underdeveloped compared to prior seasons
Belinda probably being the one that should have been cut first |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:28 PM Author: trip immigrant I would bet anything that Mike thought of this one first because he wanted some continuity with the Tanya arc and thought fans cared about resolution. Belinda got paid finally after three seasons, Greg got away for now. I thought Belinda was clunky in S01 so yeah I hoped to never see her.
Jennifer Coolidge put in absolute work to make this show what it was at its height. She was emblematic of the uber rich and out touch culture that was a special feature of this show. Just more channel drift to not have her anymore. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:46 PM Author: trip immigrant Key point alert!
Chelsea aka Goggin's gf sucked as a character. Great tit shot in E01 but that was it. Her whole character just worries about him and sighs and talks about astrology and won't fuck anybody. And she ate up a ton of screen time. 120 overall besides the cans. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:54 PM Author: crimson private investor In other words she played one of the most realistic female characters in TV history (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826320) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:55 PM Author: trip immigrant Yeah I don't like women in real life either (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826322) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:15 PM Author: Burgundy very tactful native (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826367) |
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Date: April 12th, 2025 6:19 AM Author: cocky juggernaut roommate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48839856) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 2:42 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy I think she actually embodied the Buddhist principles the monk talked about, and she was the impetus for Saxon to do some genuine introspection, but I don’t feel like marshaling my argument right now. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827878) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:50 PM Author: Aromatic obsidian crackhouse Zion was a surprisingly good character and stole the finale with his negotiation scene (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826310) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:54 PM Author: trip immigrant I thought he was ridiculous. This is every black zoomers fantasy scenario. I have met so many of these archetypes. They're literally everywhere in major metros. Anyone who has ever had to sit through a 25 year old black guy who went to state school pitch you on ForEx and a sports betting site where he's getting a kickback knows that they are all sitting around dreaming about negotiating some deal but it's really just LeBron's kids who get to do this stuff irl or like the Obama daughters. MAKIN DEM MOVES ljl at this odious nonsense fantasy.
Ooohwee dat tough black woman playin hardball now! It her turn! |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:56 PM Author: Aphrodisiac space (cornball fag who don't tip his sneaker man) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826324) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:58 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall damn almost as if zion bragging about his middling bizschool was on purpose to portray an archetype you've witnessed irl (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826329) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:02 PM Author: trip immigrant The difference is in real life I block these people's numbers. I won't go near an intrapernoor. But this was Hollywood glorifying it like it's a realistic life path and should be looked up to ljl. Yes it was an accurate portrayal especially when he quoted Langston Hughes or w/e lmfao. Realistic as fuck every intrapernoor has a few Toni Morrison quotes tucked away. This is not I Went to Duke behavior! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826339) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:04 PM Author: fuchsia mood locale and that his performance in the actual negotiation was a buffoonish embarrassment that immediately gave the lie to his supposed business savvy. THAT was something i didn’t expect. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826342) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:10 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall wow it's almost like they were obviously lampooning this archetype and doing the exact opposite of the glorication hatp interpreted it as (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826359) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:28 PM Author: trip immigrant It was absolutely a glorification. It was a ringing endorsement. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826390) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:32 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall right that's why they made his pitch buffoonish including bragging about a middling bizschool. to endorse it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826400) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:34 PM Author: trip immigrant They got the money and won. Him not being able to seal it was just a macguffin so the Powerful Black Woman could assert herself on the plot by pulling off the ingenious move of walking away from the negotiation. This is because on paper the audience cares more about her arc than Zions because she's been around for two seasons but frankly I hated this scene and wished I had fast forwarded through it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826408) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:40 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall she literally did the exact same thing to pornchai as tanya did to her season 1 and the fact you didn't realize that despite binging all three seasons in a week is stunning.
dude, the show is criticizing what you interpreted as glorifying. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:44 PM Author: trip immigrant The show didn't really criticize Tanya for using Belinda. It was just kind of a shrug that sucks for you. Same with pornchai. It's realpolitik, not a scathing criticism. The point is that if you came into unfathomable wealth (the general you) you'd start using people too. Tanya waxes poetic about this in season 2 but with much more acting talent. Anyways this is all getting into the weeds. Belindas arc is about rhyming with Tanya's. But it's also about hooray black girl magic *snaps fingers*. It's tha reason fo the season!
Her arc isn't terrible it was just more boring a second time around and it was obvious from the get go that Mike was going to give her a big win. |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 2:42 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy That’s what makes it good (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827880) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:53 PM Author: crimson private investor Disappointed by the finale. Unrealistic that Rick would return to the hotel owned by a man he just threatened at gunpoint. Also unrealistic that the old man didn’t call the Thai police and get Rick arrested. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826316) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 10:58 PM Author: trip immigrant S02 ended with a Tarantino style shootout. Thought this was going to go down like Kill Bill or something. They should have had a samurai fight or something. The way it ended just sucked. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826330) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:29 PM Author: Aromatic obsidian crackhouse Also found it unrealistic that he went to the Indian woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826393) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 6:27 PM Author: contagious kitty cat Wdym what indian woman? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48828767) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 6:31 PM Author: trip immigrant The meditation lady who he worked with earlier who told him he could escape samsara and attain moksha. And she was working with Zion when he started firing. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48828782) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 6:37 PM Author: Infuriating odious hall the point was that who he saw as a spiritual guide was pretty selfish (not only didn't take the meeting but comically ran when the guns were going off).
rick has a breakthrough with her and it was reasonable he'd seek her out. he should have when to his soulmate gf who was genuine in her spirituality and cared for rick. |
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Date: April 13th, 2025 11:16 PM Author: Wang Hernandez But it was fake and gay for Rick to return to the hotel in the first place after his false imprisonment episode.
It was also fake and gay how the dad just “forgot” he left poison seeds in the blender after reversing course on his murder-suicide plan. |
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Date: April 13th, 2025 11:24 PM Author: Gujarat's Next Top Poaster (Society for the People Against Plot Devices Chapter President) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48844152) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 7:35 AM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. The owner didn’t realize Rick was a guest, did he? I can’t remember but I don’t think he disclosed that. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48844641) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:14 AM Author: teeth-falling-out dream not unreasonable to assume that conversation occurred off-screen between the old man and his wife either before or after the meeting at their house. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48844956) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:31 AM Author: richard clock the whole reason he got the meeting with him was by telling sritala at the hotel that he was making a movie. surely she disclosed that he was a guest to her husband. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845199) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 11:50 AM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. So because he came up with an elaborate backstory about making a movie means he would disclose something true? What? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845268) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:01 PM Author: richard clock are you retarded? he was eating breakfast at the hotel he had already spent multiple nights at when he talked to sritala. she knew he was a guest. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845305) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: ,.,.,.,........,....,,,.. How did she know that? I thought she was just in Bangkok or some Shit. Admittedly I am retarded though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845318) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:13 PM Author: richard clock he literally walked up to her at breakfast at the white lotus hotel before he went to bangkok to try and get a meeting at her house (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845345) |
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Date: April 16th, 2025 11:22 PM Author: Wang Hernandez they had breakfast together (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48855789) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:09 AM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) These little gripes seem so autistic and petty, and also assumes that humans always make perfect rational decisions. We know this isn’t true just by being alive and looking around, yet you can’t believe a 60something patriarch tv character with internal turmoil would make a regretful mistake? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48844800) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 1:10 PM Author: Wang Hernandez nah I don’t believe it, you just don’t “forget” there’s poison in the family blender (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845566) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:45 PM Author: Diverse base Finale was great. Good mix of tense, funny and heartwarming. Rick/father plot was terribly written and not logical but willing to overlook. Overall, was the weakest season but still 8/10 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826432) |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:47 PM Author: trip immigrant Mostly agree but it was more of a 5 or a 6 out of 10.
Saxon jerking off his brother was underexplored, Chelsea was a waste of screen time, Frank wasn't in it nearly enough. Piper was ass. The dad was boring. Too much of a repeat. |
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Date: April 7th, 2025 11:59 PM Author: Diverse base I agree the incest thing wasn’t even resolved (“I’m a people pleaser” wtf kind of explanation) and the Dad didn’t do shit for half the season except be zonked out. Wish Chelsea and Saxon hooked up to give her some complexity, her and Rick’s relationship was complete shit, Rick was just a huge asshole if we’re being honest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826471) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 12:08 AM Author: trip immigrant Agreed. I think Goggins is a turbo genius at acting but they didn't write him good enough. Could have been epic. More Frank would have been epic. Almost felt like they were trying to balance portraying Thailand as a really nice normal place with the perception that it's all ladyboys with bad tit jobs. Meh. Wasted opportunity.
Piper should have fucked somebody. Chelsea definitely should have fucked somebody, probably Saxon. Saxon should have fucked Chloe in front of Greg.
I thought Season 2 was 10% worse than Season 1 but it looks like the Sistine Chapel compared to season 3 imho. I don't think I will ever rewatch season 3. |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 2:44 PM Author: Mauve azn ladyboy Poast of the Year candidate (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827885) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 2:55 AM Author: trip immigrant More proof that season 3 sucks. All the scenes where the dad kills himself or kills his wife and then it does the jk this didn't happen he was just thinking about it. Weak storytelling. I always hate these types of scenes. I think there was a little of this in prior seasons but it was minimal. The dad scenes were trash. Just more proof of channel drift, Jenji Kohan whacky storytelling long after the initial rush of excitement has faded etc. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826681) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 3:29 AM Author: Bearded Razzle-dazzle Chapel I agree. It had a few good moments but was ultimately hallow, just like everything else in modern tv. The reason for that is obvious. Modern shows are great at identifying a major underlying problem with society but have no solution for it (because actual morality is obsolete). So then they just abruptly end and you feel empty. This is why older shows still have meaning because they still had something resembling morality. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48826717) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 11:10 AM Author: trip immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827329) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 3:43 PM Author: Unholy curious police squad wow! cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48828121) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 3:10 PM Author: Big Library Antidepressant Drug Well all I can say is you are completely wrong. This season took more risks than the others. It was darker and more experimental. Seems you didn't like it, probably because you suck irl imo. I did hate the Zion character though. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48827954) |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 3:27 PM Author: trip immigrant It was a bloated RETREAD
All the best bangs in the series happen in S01 and S02 FACTS
Your problem is that you're a hipster who thinks that Revenge of the Sith is the best Star Wars because it's the "darkest" |
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Date: April 8th, 2025 8:26 PM Author: Big Library Antidepressant Drug I've never even seen Revenge of the Sith. You are just a painfully lame person. Accept it. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48829156) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 9:54 AM Author: Kenneth Play imo s3 was the most autobiographical mike white season. the bit about railing 1000s of thai girls, and then thinking i want to be them, and then getting railed by 1000s of ladboys and men, and then thinking what's the point, and finding buddhism (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48844915) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 10:28 AM Author: Gujarat's Next Top Poaster There's a gay hero's journey in all of us (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845001) |
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Date: April 17th, 2025 10:56 AM Author: Kenneth Play !!! cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48856750) |
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Date: April 19th, 2025 1:48 PM Author: Mainlining the Secret Truth of the Mahchine (You = Privy to The Great Becumming™ & Yet You Recognize Nothing) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48862896) |
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Date: April 14th, 2025 12:04 PM Author: Oh, youre jewish? How do you know he’s not still getting railed by dudes? He’s still a fag iirc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48845317) |
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Date: April 17th, 2025 10:57 AM Author: Kenneth Play yeah but presumably he's Enlightened now, and at peace with it. idk maybe there'll be a season 4 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48856752) |
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Date: April 18th, 2025 7:57 PM Author: Oh, you travel? ( ) there is a season 4 coming, redditors are already making dumb speculations about characters returning even though it isn't that kind of show.
btw Mike White seems to be rich as fuck even before white lotus exploded, owns a house in Hawaii and L.A., idk how he made that money as a working writer/actor unless his family is Rich or something. |
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Date: April 18th, 2025 8:09 PM Author: Kenneth Play i was wondering that also. some of his older Films were critically acclaimed by Roger Ebert (Chuck and Buck; Jennifer Aniston in the Good Girl). he wrote jack black school of rock. but idk if he gets residuals on this stuff or what. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48861613) |
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Date: April 19th, 2025 1:58 AM Author: Gujarat's Next Top Poaster A friend of mine makes 200k a year writing entirely for shows and movies no one has ever heard of. He said if he ever made anything remotely famous it would make him a lot of money. Even writing an episode of a TV show that's popular enough to go on reruns and syndication nets you a lot in residuals. There's just a lot of money in it. White wrote a ton of stuff that's brand name and people know about which is famous enough to get a big check every month in perpetuity. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48862230) |
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Date: April 19th, 2025 9:25 AM Author: Kenneth Play huh, ty (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5707084&forum_id=2).#48862505) |