Who is the most unnerving guest at the White Lotus luxury resort? Last year, the award went to Olivia, the Nietzsche-reading, boomer-loathing ice queen played by Sydney Sweeney. But this Halloween, she’s been dethroned by Aubrey Plaza’s Harper – a right-on employment lawyer with a deep disdain for Ted Lasso. She’s a stone-cold b**** and I can’t get enough of her.
From the second Harper’s pedicured toes touch down at the hotel’s Sicilian offshoot in The White Lotus season two, we know she will be trouble. Even Mount Etna begins to quake. And that’s never buono. While Harper’s holiday companions – her rich entrepreneur husband Ethan (Will Sharpe), insurance bro Cameron (Theo James) and his irrepressible wife Daphne (Meghann Fahy) – are all sunny smiles, she scowls behind designer sunglasses, turning down the welcome flute of prosecco because she’s been travelling on an empty stomach. And because, reader, she will not tolerate fun. “They wanna do a toast. Just hold it,” urges Ethan, through gritted, expensive teeth.
