After a wild night, ‘The White Lotus’ serves a breakfast of piping hot tea and ugly truths

After last week’s party-centric episode, Saxon Ratliff has a monster of a hangover, but something tells us this is only the beginning of the icks for him and others.

After last week’s party-centric episode, Saxon Ratliff has a monster of a hangover, but something tells us this is only the beginning of the icks for him and others. Here’s what went down at everyone’s favorite tragic luxury resort this week: To continue the morning-after vibes, Kate sees Valentin doing a rather proud walk of shame outside Jaclyn’s. She tells Laurie about their indiscretion, and Laurie is pissed, outwardly wondering why their famous friend would push the Russian hunk on her if she was interested in him herself. When Laurie confronts Jaclyn about it, Kate begs her to stop, and Laurie responds, “Look, I’m not like you, sometimes I just have to be honest.” What started out as a perfect trifecta of toxic positivity has evolved into something of a hate triangle. Leslie Bibb, who plays Kate, told CNN last week that if the trio had just “walked in in the very beginning and were really honest, which is very scary to do,” they wouldn’t be in this mess. But messes make great TV, so here we are. At the end of the episode, Jaclyn (rather condescendingly) scolds Kate about the gossip she must deal with as a public figure, saying that “it’s really depressing” to be getting it from her friends, too. Kate is about to form a rebuttal, which will probably come out in a big way in the next two episodes. Both Saxon and Lochlan are plagued with fragmented memories of their drug-fueled night of partying, which ended in bed on the yacht. After Chelsea declined Saxon’s advances, the brothers both became intimate with Chloe… and with each other. There’s a painful scene by the pool where the girls revisit the gory details with Saxon, who tries to blame it on the drugs. Chloe politely reminds him that no one forced him to do anything, including getting physical with his little brother. Where else could this possibly be headed? We hope this particular thread arrives at a resolution firmly outside cardinal sin territory.