Mysterious Monkeys

The tone of this episode was lots of fun. The different stories are starting to intertwine and you can sense a mystery waiting to be happen. Not sure what direction we're headed, but I'm enjoying the ride.

To anyone especially the ones that had negative thoughts on the White Lotus give this show a chance still I'm begging you! Ok so I already have been in a good mood today which probably helped so I laughed my ass off multiple times during Mysterious Monkeys, the laughter felt so wonderful! I was captivated throughout I can't believe how much I'm enjoying the series more than I thought was cause it started off pretty weak but damn it's improved a lot. Fred Hechinger (Quin) is the funniest character/actor among a few other people mostly him though. Jennifer Coolidge did a wonderful job as well.

The best of the series so far with lots of dark humour and cringe worthy moments.

Mark Mossbacher (Steve Zahn) discovers something rather emasculating which sends him on a daytime drinking spree alongside chatting to women half his age. He has a few standout scenes in this particular episode. The first with his son Quinn Mossbacher (Fred Hechinger) in the pool where he is rather eccentric flabbergasted on how a secret has been kept from him for so long. Fred Hechinger has performed splendidly with little dialogue conveying lots of emotion through his facial expressions. At times he seems more level headed than his father except when it comes to his addiction to screen time, a true representation of today's youth. The second memorable scene is when Mark interacts with Armond confronting him about his sexuality.

Another flat out comedic moment comes when Shane Patton (Jake Lacy) wishes for a romantic boat trip with Rachel Patton (Alexandra Daddario) except has a rather peculiar experience. (Jennifer Coolidge) Tanya McQuoid is all abroad the boat for an emotion experience alongside her massage therapist.

Olivia slowly discover she has less in common with Paula than she thought as Paula refuses to tell her what she is up to.

Overall we see that every involvement a character has with another has an impact as they all start to interwene with each other.

This is the funniest episode so far but the most explicit with nudity and similar themes. Only half this show is worth watching and the other half is rubbish. I wouldn't recommend the series. It is bloated with stories I don't want to watch and just as you beginning to enjoy a particular part it just fades into the background.

I guess sexual harassment in the workplace is funny when the soundtrack says so?

Also, was the ashes scene supposed to be funny?? The Tanya character seems to rely solely on Coolidge being a known comedic figure. Her character is not written comedically. She is written like a depressed, overmedicated, sad woman, for whom there is no love shown (by the writers.)

It is more and more as though this character has no love or sympathy for any of its characters. And it seems like more and more, the consequences for terrible behavior are minor, existential slight embarrassments.

The dialogue was also particularly imbecilic.

I wasn't planning on writing a review for each episode, but this one was particularly unfunny.