Why old age is the villain of Lotus White Season 3

There is an evil thing that is lying behind the quiet mountains in KoH Samui, hidden in the sight of Koi and palm trees surrounding the resort “The White Lotus” for the third season. It is not the death of an imminent person (very clear), nor the monkeys of pigs that look at the trees (very nice). No, it seems that the true villain that appears this season is something more universal: aging.

There are veiled references to the society’s obsession with young people in every episode so far, although you see it starkly between the trio of “Friends” Jacqueline, Kate, and Lori (Michel Monaghan, Leslie Pep, and Carrie Kun, respectively).

Initially, the gestures were hidden: “You look amazing”, “No, you look amazing!” Between Kate and Jacqueline in the first episode, which felt watching the spider Mim in real time in real time than anything especially harmful-at least not until Lori added, “You seem just got out of the birth canal.” Then Kate was “Was her face sand or something like that?” About Jacqueline yet did not refuse to disclose the work they did in the second episode. When Lori announced that the results of the vital signs test showed numbers of “half -life women”, Jacqueline’s side sworn was one of the blowing of the shock.

However, the most striking screen came in the fourth episode, when the Wellness Valentin resort sent the three women to a comprehensive place. Jacqueline, who felt rejected by her younger husband and seeking to spend a fun time, settled happily on her hall chair. . . Then I looked around. It took everything from it except 39 seconds to try the dreaded panic in all the fine lines and the wrinkles that you look at.

Of course, no Mike White exit is an accident. Obviously, he wanted to send Jacqueline to a place that would turn the proverb mark that, too, is growing up. This fear – of aging, being less desirable, no longer looks like you just came out of the birth channel – embodies the reality of the culture of youth in which we all live.

It will be difficult to link: Every day, cosmetic brands offer products that are “firm”, “restoring” and “the features of the smooth face”, and waited, as it is “separated”, “lifting” and “full” with the skin for a “younger and brighter appearance” that seems to be “well stable”, “virgin” and “dilapidated”. “Part of it is generations, certainly-everyone knows a person who considers it” ancient “an insult-but society has stigmatized to the extent that even children between the ages of 10 years are lined up to buy the eye cream. If you are no Sand your face, you are definitely wandering, cutting or cutting. right? Anything else is simply not present.

If you look around the larger men on a yacht with their young friends without limits, you will remember that the “The White Lotus” revolves around perception and exposes our deeper concerns. When you realize that we grew up, we must tell us that our value is related to youth and beauty, that the body that displays half of its biological age should mean a more healthy or better body, as it tends to forget an alternative to age: death.

You can drown that fact in the sensory deprivation tank, or you can accept that aging is inevitable. It is not scary, evil or out. This will be whatever it was on the other side of the koy pool.