Following the evolution of The White Lotus from its initial proposal of being a single season to its success being so great that it was asked for – and rewarded – a second season until it became a craze and “gained” two more, has been intense. Today, on the day of the conclusion of the third season, the series has gained the status of a phenomenon: one of the rare pieces of content that monopolizes the world’s attention. Yes, it has been an interesting four years.

The betting pool is far from unanimous, thanks to the intelligence of its creator, Mike White. For him, The White Lotus would be a kind of “study” about problematic and emblematic people in today’s world, full of flaws and, within their imperfection, curious characters. There is also the critical aspect of Americans in exotic resorts with an inability to connect with other cultures, with other realities, but of course, to White’s surprise and amusement, the universe of frustrated screenwriters on social networks have become “detectives”, investigating theories, creating complex plots that are much stranger than the one the author is presenting.

What The White Lotus, even as a phenomenon, has not yet overcome is the loss of White’s control over the universe of the hotel chain he created. Fans can invent, deduce and bet as much as they want: Mike White is the one in charge and the Internet has not stolen his authorship from him, as happens with series like House of the Dragon, whose “zealous” fans (and supported by the disappointment of author George R. R. Martin) are divided between “purists” and “fans of the series”, slaughtering Ryan Condal as showrunner, only slightly less than the Game of Thrones duo, Dan Weiss and David Benioff. Here the story is 100% White’s curious mind and even if some fans’ delusions are curious, the story is “his”. Of course, actors were also taken by surprise by the astronomical success of The White Lotus. Jennifer Coolidge, a personal friend of the series creator, was given a legendary and central role in The White Lotus, winning two Emmys for Best Actress and only missing out on a third because she was “killed” by surprise in the second season.

But perhaps the actor who was the most surprised was Jon Gries, who as Greg Hunt (now Gary) entered as a supporting character in the final phase of the first season, appeared in only three episodes of the second, and is now the main villain of the story, without needing to be on screen for us to be speculating about him. Because Mike White provokes us, and because he is firm in his authorship, we have to prepare ourselves for the season finale today, with a great 1h30 episode. That’s right, The White Lotus is officially on the level of the greatest series, which gets a movie to conclude.

And who dies in the third season of The White Lotus? (remembering that we will have a fourth and final one in 2027)

The great mystery is kept under lock and key by the cast and platform. Apparently, after having gone through leaks with GOT and HOTD, MAX is almost paranoid in control: there are six different endings written (but let’s face it, only one was recorded) and the actors went through torturous and torturous interviews, wriggling to avoid SPOILERS. Considering that we heard a shooting and saw hotel employees and guests running in the first scene, there could be more than just one victim (in the second season there were at least five dead on the yacht, including Tanya). And even if everyone insists on gathering “clues”, the truth is that anything is possible.

As mentioned, it is already a “tradition” in the series, the season opens with the death of a character, but nothing prevents us from having “more”. In the first one, it was Armond, the manager of the Hawaiian branch. In the second, what interested the hotel chain was that guest Tanya McQuoid drowned outside the official area of ​​the White Lotus: she was on a yacht where other passengers were shot.

We know what happened: Greg, now Gary, and to Quentin he was “Steve”, arranged with his ex-lover to hire the local mafia to kill his wife. Alerted by Portia, Tanya only realized the plot too late and managed to grab the gun and kill her captors, but slipped when jumping into the boat and died anyway, even if by accident. At first, it looked to the police like someone hired had gotten in and killed everyone on board, with Tanya trying to escape and drowning in the process. Suspicious, but until Portia – if she ever came forward – testified, no one would know about Greg’s (now Gary) involvement.

We keep coming back to these details because they weigh on the possibility that today, Belinda, another witness that Greg (now Gary), was involved in Tanya’s death, and the psychopath tried to bribe her before immediately attempting to kill her. Belinda leads the “natural order” of potential victims if Mike White continues to invest in this plot. But will he really? Greg himself (now Gary) could die and avenge Tanya’s fans for so much evil.

If he is to avoid this trap of reducing The White Lotus to a mystery series, the showrunner will choose another victim to leave us, as the actors warn, angry at him and open-mouthed. A provocation that is equally childish and dangerous because it raises expectations more than it maintains the mystery. The ideal would be to keep the question of “who died” in the realm of irrelevance.

Given White’s ability to deceive us (it was hard to imagine who would die in the 1st season and even if we had considered Armond, no one would bet that he would be accidentally killed with a knife, but it was possible that he would die of an overdose, nor did we start the 2nd season anticipating that the most popular character would die), anyone could be the victim today.

We have a businessman who has been contemplating suicide for a week and who is now determined to take his wife and firstborn with him; We have three friends in crisis and inadvertently involved with Russian bandits, and we have a couple whose boyfriend with a dark past came to the White Lotus to kill the owner of the hotel chain (in revenge for killing his father), but who only attacks the man and – instead of running away – returns to the resort as if nothing had happened. We don’t even need to mention the incompetent security guard who allowed an armed robbery to put guests at risk, had his gun stolen, and had his girlfriend inexplicably demanding that he become aggressive to “get ahead in life”. Never before in The White Lotus have so many characters been at such risk as they are today.

With no promotional photos released with the usual advance notice, everything is speculation. And if Mike White is confirmed as a sadistic showrunner, three characters who aroused the most empathy lead to the possibility of death: Belinda, Rick, and Chelsea. With all of them potentially dying.

I don’t want to bet because I haven’t guessed White yet. But let’s practice:

Scenario 1: Greg manages to kill Belinda. The shootout is between the Russians and Gaitok, but if one of them dies no one really cares.

Scenario 2: Greg dies trying to kill Belinda. The shootout is still between the Russians and Gaitok.

Scenario 3: Tim dies drinking the poisonous fruit smoothie. The shootout is between the Russians and Gaitok, as well as between Rick and Jim’s (the hotel owner’s) security guards. Everyone but the hotel owner escapes.

Scenario 4: Instead of Tim, Saxon dies from the smoothie.

Scenario 5: Instead of Tim or Saxon, Victoria dies.

Scenario 6: Instead of the father, brother, or mother, Lachlan dies.

Scenario 7: Laurie is killed by the Russians so she won’t reveal the hotel robbery. The shootout is between Jim’s security guards and the fleeing Russians (with Gaitok’s help).

Scenario 8: Greg/Gary kills Chloe and escapes. The shootout has nothing to do with him.

Scenario 9: Kate or Jaclyn becomes a victim of the Russians. Accidentally.

Scenario 10: Belinda is killed by Greg/Gary, and Rick or Chelsea ends up as a target of the hotel security guards.

With 10 possibilities, do you think I can get one right? lol

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