Here's What 'The White Lotus' Gets Right About 'Concerned' Friends
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This scene is a masterclass in something that’s far too common in women’s friendships: mean-girl gossip masked as concern.
The third season of HBO’s “The White Lotus” includes a plot line centered on a real pressure cooker of a situation: the costly, weeklong girls’ trip that could very easily make or break a friendship.
Three of the characters who’ve checked into the 5-star Thai resort on Mike White’s soapy vacation drama are Laurie (Carrie Coon), Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Kate (Leslie Bibb), childhood best friends looking to get close again.
In the first aired episodes ― there have been two so far ― Jaclyn, a well-known television actress, and Kate, a socialite housewife from Austin, spend most of the time engaged in a game of one-upmanship and beauty treatment comparisons: “You look so great.” “No, you look so great!” they tell each other, leaving poor Laurie, a recently divorced lawyer, awkwardly out of the conversation.
When Jaclyn and Kate do focus on Laurie, it’s to talk behind her back. In Episode 2, Laurie goes to bed and the other two women stay up and discuss everything that’s gone wrong in Laurie’s life as of late: the palimony she has to pay her ex, her increasingly troubled teen daughter, her stalled-out job at a New York City law firm she’s been working at forever.
“The world’s brutal,” Jaclyn says of Laurie’s fate at midlife, swishing her glass of wine around for effect, just like a good “Real Housewives” cast member would do.
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