Killer Instincts

Another excellent episode with fantastic pacing between each character. It had visually stunning shots throughout the show, with short scenes portraying the Muay Thai fighting that would later become a focal point of the episode. Both the settings for the main story were intense, and I didn't know what direction characters like Rick or Gary at their respective houses would go. Even the ladies who have the most catty and boring story developing from the last couple of episodes were in tense fights with each other. I think this is setting up to be an epic finale, and I can't wait to watch it. 4/5 stars.

After 6 exciting episodes for retirees, we get 'Killer Instincts' with almost the vibe and taste that we like and love in The White Lotus. The flow is much better, the intense situations more lovely with embalming mysterious intriguing score mostly on point.

It still feels disjointed though with islands of plots and people like Piper, Lochlan, Saxon (by not accepting that proposal !) and revolute Rick among others destroying the intense picture that other more 'White Lotus' one like Greg, Laurie, Frank-Timothy, Chelsea and Chloe and to some extent Jim are so trying to create.

Overall a better and more intense episode that I would have liked it to be way more intense and dramatic as it's the penultimate one.

Mike White needed to start that brightness with the first episode. What is done is done, just please, don't show Belinda in the next episode as she tends to dilute all the scenes she's in and subsequently badly impacts on the overall product. The sad and stressed out Belinda of this season is like melted butter dripping off.

• Screenplay/storyline/plots: 7
• Production value/impact: 7.5
• Development: 7.5
• Realism: 7.5
• Entertainment: 7
• Acting: 7.5
• Filming/photography/cinematography: 8
• VFX: 7.5
• Music/score/sound: 7.5
• Depth: 7
• Logic: 6.5
• Flow: 7
• Dark comedy/adventure/satirical drama/slight mystery: 7
• Ending: 6.5.

I'd say this is the most accurate review of this episode. Definitely wasn't a 10 and if u straight up don't like this show I can see why you'd give it a 1, but also why would you watch up to episode 7. Anyways, pretty much the same thing is going on in this episode, every story prolongs and as soon as you think they'll close a story, it elongates. I think I finally found the theme of this show after three seasons: they're edging death. Pretty boring when 7/8 episodes are build up just for a more than likely mediocre ending. Also the walton goggins storyline was so disappointing. We get seven episodes to discover who killed his father and once we get there nothing happens. I'm all for zen and realistic interactions but there is nothing monumental about this show anymore.

This episode is a tug-o-war between a killer instinct and enlightenment. This is established in the first 10 min with the muay thai fight montage which is later juxtaposed with the Buddha's speech.

This theme is later underlined by the Thai couple's date night conversation where ambition also comes into question.

We see characters come to this fork in the road-whether it's killing another person or bedding another man's woman-and having to make a quick decision.

While it may lack the spectacle fans anticipated, it was the best structured, thought-provoking episode of the season-setting up for a perfect finale.

Many different boring plots, all disconnected and developing in random directions, make the show feel like a complete boring mess. Thailand looks like it's straight out of the One Night in Bangkok 1980s-sex tourist kind of disgusting Thailand. The characters are mostly extremely unappealing and uninteresting; some are just outright disgusting and redundant, with no emotional connection whatsoever. It's a painfully boring season, filled with meaningless small talk and random things happening between people-and in their personal lives-we couldn't care less about. The scenery, drama, and everyone's emotions all seem so exaggerated and forced.