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Welp, The White Lotus season 3 has come to an end and while the finale was jam-packed with action it also left my brain jam-packed with unanswered questions.

While I anticipated some things going into Sunday’s episode, I wasn’t ready to be quite as anxious for the entire 90 minutes as we saw everything from a family murder plot to a Luke Skywalker/Darth Vader moment unfold.

And though the episode certainly kept me on the edge of my seat, I’m finding myself continuing to scratch my head the following day as a few burning questions still linger.

Early on this season, we saw Leslie Bibb’s character Kate approach the Ratliffs’ table after realizing she recognized Victoria (Parker Posey). The Ratliff matriarch could not have been less interested in reminiscing about the apparent baby shower they both attended for a mutual friend. The interaction was just one of the many awkward moments throughout this season but it was seemingly for nothing because we never got any follow up! I was hoping for some kind of bombshell about who the mutual friend was, or some bigger reason as to why Victoria was so rude to Kate when she attempted to make the connection. 

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I was clenching my entire body watching this whole scenario unravel from the moment Mr. Ratliff spotted the poisonous pong pong tree fruit outside of his window. 

And while yes, he does eventually decide not to follow through with that whole murder my whole family to shield them from my crimes plan, he had taken a larger gulp from the lethal piña colada than the rest of his family and still woke up — albeit after sleeping in — with no issue.

His son on the other hand, did not get off so easy after making his protein shake the following morning in the contaminated blender. First of all, why on earth didn’t Lochlan wash that gross-looking blender filled with the remnants of (what he thought was) old coconut milk before using it. And second, how did he survive that so-called “suicide” fruit despite how dangerous they were supposed to be?

(As it turns out, the pong pong tree is very much real and even a small amount of the fruit can be fatal, though the magnitude of its impact varies from person to person.)

Jason Isaacs and Parker Posey. Fabio Lovino/HBO

Which brings me to my next question: Why was the resort teeming with killer trees anyway? You’d think a place like the White Lotus wouldn’t just rely on telling their guests “Hey, don’t eat that” and would make more of an effort to clear the land of these poisonous fruits. 

All of the violence in the finale could have been quickly avoided if Rick (Walton Goggins)’s dad had his Luke Skywalker moment before he died. This left me with so many unanswered questions about what really went down with Rick’s mom and dad, why his mom would have lied to him for all these years and then yes, why — especially when he saw how enraged Rick was getting — why Jim wouldn’t just tell him who he was. 

But alas, if all of that happened, I suppose we wouldn’t have had that season finale now would we. 

Walton Goggins. Fabio Lovino/HBO

Following the continued violence that unraveled after Rick shoots his (oops) father, we don’t see any of the emotional aftermath of what many of the hotel guests witnessed or presumably later found out. We never see Saxon, who had an infatuation of sorts with Chelsea, have a reaction to her gruesome death. Instead we see him sailing away with his family, breezily reading a book. We don’t see any kind of reaction from Chloe while she’s up at her house hosting a big party with Greg/Gary. And for Jaclyn, Laurie and Kate, who witnessed the initial shooting — did they not need to stick around for questioning at all? 

And look that’s not to say that none of these things happened. Maybe Saxon and Chloe did break down, maybe there were police interviews, but they were not shown or even hinted at which made me feel like we were missing something. 

Natasha Rothwell, Nicholas Duvernay, Jon Grie. Fabio Lovino/HBO

Belinda (Natasha Rothwell)’s moral back and forth all came to a head when her son convinced her that the best path forward was to accept Gary/Greg’s money in order to finally start her own business and disentangle herself from him — even though she’s pretty sure he’s responsible for the death of her former friend. 

After she succeeded in negotiating his initial offer of $100,000 to $5 million, the plan was for the money to be wired into her account. I admittedly have no experience A. wiring money and B. uh, wiring FIVE MILLION dollars, but wouldn’t transferring that amount of money raise some kind of red flag to the bank? Not to mention … isn’t he supposed to be somewhat anonymous and on the lam? Is that a typical move for a guy living under a pseudonym.

Okay, yes, I understand that this needed to happen in order to create the spectacle of the finale. But in the real world, why would Rick go back to the hotel after his confrontation with his father in Bangkok? He was spooked enough to book it out of there — and leave Bangkok altogether — after throwing Jim Hollinger to the ground, so why would he return to the hotel that that very rich and very powerful man owned. Yes, he told Chelsea he would be back but it’s not like he showed much care for her at any other point during their trip — why start now? Call her and tell her to meet you at home! Now you’re both sleeping in the lily pads.

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