Well, they did it. Kind of. Anybody thinking that Mike White wouldn’t have the courage to make the Ratliff family dynamics any weirder has been proved spectacularly wrong this episode.
Then again, this is the White Lotus we’re talking about – and if we know anything about this show, it’s that it takes joy in being transgressive. And so: we as viewers are treated to a brief snapshot of Saxon and Lochlan locking lips in the closing seconds of the episode, as part of a drinking game, while Chelsea and Chloe look on.
