In her final appearance in season one of The White Lotus, Tanya, the eccentric heiress played by Jennifer Coolidge, judged, “I’ve had many treatments over the years, but death is the only immersive experience I haven’t tried.” The only trip you can’t rate on Tripadvisor. “Death doesn’t have to screw everything up, does it?” Greg, her new lover, had told her after admitting to her that he had health problems and could get stiff at any moment. “Enjoy life until the curtain falls.” Or until they lower it, as Greg did himself through a proxy, now her husband, with Tanya in the show’s second season finale.
Coolidge and series creator Mike White watched the final episode together in its television premiere. While he was laughing – how could he not when Tanya said things like, “Those gay guys are trying to kill me” – she was emotional, she didn’t want to leave the show. Tanya does the difficult thing and takes on a group of lords trying to kill her, but she can’t do the easy thing and jump over the side of the yacht into a small boat to reach the shore. Something similar happened with the series: it culminated in the feat of an impossible and rounded ending and lost itself in the simplicity of ordering the way there. We’re going to have a third season of The White Lotus, but it won’t be the same without Tanya. How not to sympathize with someone who wants to look like Monica Vitti and says goodbye to Peppa Pig. Mike White jokingly commented that he could do with her like Kenny did in South Park: take her back and kill her every season. A resurrection is child’s play for them. Then he could die anyway.
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