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While darker than many or all episodes of past seasons, this episode nonetheless sets the tone for what viewers of The White Lotus have come to expect over the past couple of seasons - tension (primarily sexual) and a subtle underlying dread/anxiety throughout the episode that appears to be pointing toward an even more scandalous episode 6 next week.

The plot point between the two Ratfliff bros? We can only surmise there's going to be a lot to unpack in subsequent episodes.

Sam Rockwell truly stole the show, however, with his increasingly bizarre, yet surprisingly deep, monologue to bewildered Walton Goggins, reviewing how his past life has shaped his current life.

Excited for future episodes given what has been revealed out so far.

While I've enjoyed some of the recent intimate character studies in previous episodes, we're getting to the point where such portraits are seriously affecting the pacing of the story.

This episode was particularly slow, causing me to feel more relief than despair that the action at the end resulted in what it did.

I can appreciate a good story with deep character explorations, however I can't help but feel at this point the world of the Last of Us is far more empty than the video game, and zombies are merely an inconvenience than an existential threat. I'll see this series through, but I just hope the writers have a plan to move the plot forward instead of producing filler.