Spoilers

“Mysterious Monkeys”

The third episode of The White Lotus was centered around sex.

At least for most of the cast, outside of Jennifer Coolidge, who made an attempt to scatter her mother’s ashes at sea. Because of Armond’s machinations and attempt to gaslight Shane, Shane and Rachel wind up on the boat as well. Shane had approached Armond to schedule a romantic dinner with Rachel, and Armond took the opportunity to book them on the same boat as Jennifer Coolidge.

Mark is in a state of depression after finding out that his father died of AIDS. The idea that he did not know this aspect of his father’s life sent Mark on an existential crisis, and ended with him asking Armond about anal sex. Armond made an offer for Mark to find out for himself, which Mark declined. He ended up drunk and doing some monkey action in his bed that night. Nicole was not interested.

This has been an interesting show so far, but I have to say that I was hooked in the first episode after the whole dead body on the plane thing that made it look as if Shane was sad. That felt as if it would be a major mystery/storyline of the show, but it has not given us much of anything so far. I would like to know more about that as the show progresses.