What happened in the season two finale of The White Lotus? Digital Trends explains that shocking ending and more.
The second season of Mike White’s delicious satire The White Lotus began the same way as the first: a dead body (this time: more than one) turns up at a luxurious resort. Both seasons use the backgrounded murder mystery as a gateway into the comic, tragic, and infuriating lives of the 1%, who do everything but enjoy themselves while vacationing in the world’s most beautiful places.
Once again, the HBO show ratcheted up the tension with each new episode, leading to tons of fan theories about whose bodies wash ashore in the finale, and now we finally have the answers.
It was becoming obvious that Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge) and Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) were headed towards danger on their trip to Palermo. Jack (Leo Woodall) had trapped Portia in a hotel far away from the yacht they had been staying on in order to get Quentin (Tom Hollander) and his cohort of “high-end gays” alone with Tanya. When Portia wakes up, she realizes that Jack has most likely stolen her phone and seizes an opportunity to use Jack’s to warn Tanya that they are in danger. Tanya, who remembers the picture she saw the night before of Quentin and her husband, Greg (John Gries), finally realizes that the two men are conspiring to take her money, possibly dead or alive.
As the yacht approaches the shores of Terramina, Quentin tells Tanya they will stay afloat a little longer and that Niccolo (Stefano Gianino), the handsome young cocaine dealer she partied with the night before will boat her back alone under the moonlight– a “romantic” gesture.
