'The White Lotus' Season 2 ending explained: Who died? - Mashable

Ethan and Cameron yet quadrate off. Credit: Fabio Lovino/HBO

Major White Lotus spoilers ahead. Proceed astatine your ain risk.

If you had told maine that The White Lotus Season 2 ended with Jennifer Coolidge successful a yacht shootout with the mafia, I would person thought you'd had 1 excessively galore Aperol spritzes. But that is, successful fact, precisely what we got.

Of course, different shenanigans went down arsenic well. Scams succeeded, cheating (may have) occurred, and caller relationships formed. But the infinitesimal everyone volition retrieve astir from this finale is undoubtedly who died — and however they went out. So without further ado, let's interruption down the wildest moments of The White Lotus Season 2 finale.

And the White Lotus Resort victims are...

From the precise opening of the season, we've known multiple White Lotus Resort guests would die. And we present cognize that those guests are Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge), Quentin (Tom Hollander), and Didier (Bruno Gouery). Tanya's one-time person Niccoló (Stefano Gianino), portion ne'er a White Lotus guest, rounds retired the assemblage count.

The chaotic roadworthy to these deaths involves a cowboy, a yacht, and an flight gone terribly wrong. Quentin takes Tanya backmost to Taormina connected his yacht, portion his alleged nephew Jack (Leo Woodall) distracts a acrophobic Portia (Haley Lu Richardson). However, erstwhile Portia is yet capable to telephone Tanya, the 2 recognize thing unsafe is afoot.

It each comes backmost to that photograph of 2 cowboys Portia saw successful Quentin's palazzo. Turns retired the cowboy adjacent to Quentin — and apt the 1 helium told Tanya helium was madly successful emotion with — is her hubby Greg (Jon Gries). It was Greg who insisted they spell to Sicily, yet helium returned location to proceed his matter with an chartless individual, leaving Tanya alone. That's erstwhile Quentin and his chap "high-end gays" befriended Tanya.

As a drunk Jack told Portia, Quentin and his friends person nary money. However, helium besides says they're astir to travel into a immense windfall. Tanya puts 2 and 2 together: Her prenup with Greg says that he'll get fundamentally thing if they divorce. However, if she dies, helium gets her immense wealth. With that, the puzzle pieces autumn into place. Quentin is going to termination Tanya for Greg, who volition wage him with Tanya's wealth truthful helium tin negociate his palazzo.

As if the alarm bells weren't ringing loudly enough, Niccoló — who is either successful the mafia oregon conscionable truly good connected to it — shows up to instrumentality Tanya backmost to the hotel. Tanya grabs his bag, which turns retired to beryllium afloat of your modular kidnapping and execution supplies. Next happening you know, each hellhole breaks loose.

By "hell," I specifically mean "Jennifer Coolidge with a gun." Armed with Niccoló's gun, Tanya takes down Quentin, Didier, and Niccoló himself successful a country that is arsenic wildly unexpected arsenic it is haunting. Turns retired that Tanya "Peppa Pig" McQuoid is really a one-woman service successful a floral people dress. She's besides a sobbing wreck, and understandably so. She could request an mentation from Quention, but each she truly wants to cognize is whether Greg is having an affair. He doesn't reply earlier helium dies, leaving Tanya — and america — successful the dark.

With the contiguous menace retired of the way, each Tanya needs to bash is ascent into Niccoló's smaller vessel and escape. This proves hard to bash successful the acheronian and successful heels, and earlier long, Tanya pitches headlong into the ocean. A devastating thunk arsenic she hits the borderline of the vessel tells america each we request to know: Tanya, the lone holdover from Season 1 of The White Lotus isolated from her unspeakable husband, is dead.

It's a immense stroke to suffer Tanya (and particularly Jennifer Coolidge) successful specified a fashion. The full occurrence builds to this moment, yet aft the shootout, we inactive clasp retired a sliver of anticipation that she tin escape. Tragically, it's a cruel world, and The White Lotus soon confirms that Tanya is the assemblage Daphne (Meghann Fahy) finds successful the h2o successful the precise archetypal episode. The clues were each there, including the references to Madama Butterfly's death, but conscionable due to the fact that we could spot it coming doesn't mean it hurts immoderate less.

So wherever was Portia this full time?

When Portia's not talking to Tanya, she's doing her champion to get Jack to instrumentality her backmost to Taormina. Unfortunately, Jack has gone from bumbling Essex bloke to perfectly terrifying abductor, and the ambiance lone sours erstwhile Portia reveals she knows Jack has enactment with his alleged uncle. (The White Lotus never confirms nor denies the humor narration outright, but it's highly implied that Quentin hired Jack.) Jack drops Portia disconnected astatine the airdrome and tells her to enactment distant from the hotel. She follows his instructions to the letter, nary uncertainty each excessively acceptable to enactment this traumatizing travel down her.

Did Harper cheat connected Ethan with Cameron? And however does Daphne react?

The quartet of Harper (Aubrey Plaza), Ethan (Will Sharpe), Daphne, and Cameron (Theo James) has been an incredibly affluent root of messiness passim this full season, and successful the finale, the messiness escalates to soaring heights. Ethan confronts Harper, believing she cheated connected him with Cameron. She reveals that Cameron kissed her concisely and dismisses it arsenic a "drunk, dumb nothing." Ethan inactive thinks Harper hasn't told the afloat truth, but he's much definite of the information that Cameron made a determination connected his wife. He retaliates by confronting Cameron and astir drowning him successful the ocean. No decease here, though! Just antheral aggression.

Later, Ethan runs into Daphne and tells him astir his suspicions. After a little infinitesimal of hurt, Daphne gives him immoderate proposal akin to what she told Harper earlier this season: "You conscionable bash immoderate you person to bash not to consciousness similar a unfortunate of life." Not agelong after, the 2 are headed to the Isola Bella... presumably to hook up. However, conscionable similar with Harper and Cameron's imaginable affair, we don't cognize the afloat information of what happens. What happens connected Isola Bella, stays connected Isola Bella.

Still, immoderate Daphne and Ethan did indispensable person worked wonders, arsenic Ethan and Harper person enactment for the archetypal clip each abrogation agelong connected their precise past nighttime successful Sicily. It's a joyous infinitesimal and a alleviation for Harper, but there's thing worrying underneath it all. What volition their narration look similar if they some proceed to bash "whatever" they person to? Will it travel to lucifer Daphne and Cameron's? One tin lone anticipation not, for their sakes.

Lucia is the scammer queen of Sicily.

The unusual triangle of Albie (Adam DiMarco), Dominic (Michael Imperioli), and Lucia (Simona Tabasco) comes to a unusual decision successful the Season 2 finale. Lucia asks Albie for 50 1000 euros truthful she tin flight the ever-mysterious Alessio. How is Albie expected to get this overmuch money? Through affectional manipulation, of course!

Albie demands his begetter wage Lucia the money, calling it karmic outgo for each the cheating Dom has done. He sweetens the woody by promising to archer his parent that Dom has genuinely had a alteration of bosom connected the vacation. That's what seals the deal. Dom pays up, and Lucia skips retired connected Albie aft 1 past nighttime together. Turns retired the full Alessio sob communicative was a ploy to entreaty to Albie's naive, "wounded bird"-saving side. I'm not definite if anyone tin "win" The White Lotus, but congratulations to Lucia for coming retired of this play 50 1000 euros richer.

And what astir the elephant successful the room? You know, the information that some Dom and Albie, begetter and son, had enactment with the aforesaid woman? You'd deliberation The White Lotus would find immoderate mode of revealing this supremely awkward fact, but no. This whitethorn conscionable beryllium a concealed Dom has to stew with for the remainder of his life. But tin you ideate the play if Albie had recovered out? Now that would person been genuinely delicious.

Mia and Valentina and the commencement of a beauteous friendship.

While edifice manager Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore) and aspiring vocalist Mia (Beatrice Grannò) won't beryllium starting a full-fledged romance, it looks similar they volition beryllium forming a caller enactment partnership. Valentina fires pianist Giuseppe (Federico Scribani) aft helium returns from the infirmary (ouch), and replaces him with Mia. She besides reunites beforehand table idiosyncratic Isabella (Eleonora Romandini) with fiancé Rocco (Federico Ferrante), adjacent giving Rocco a lukewarm invited back. Character growth!

Perhaps champion of each is Mia's committedness to find Valentina a girlfriend, a process which volition impact Mia, Lucia, and Valentina going to immoderate "crazy clubs." White Lotus spinoff incoming?

Arrivederci, Sicily!

Just similar with Season 1, Season 2 of The White Lotus ends successful the airport, with each the guests flying home. In a relation reversal from their archetypal scenes together, Cameron and Daphne look much distant from each other, portion we've ne'er seen Ethan and Harper much relaxed oregon affectionate. All 3 DiGrasso men instrumentality a 2nd to cheque retired an charismatic young woman, proving that immoderate things genuinely ne'er change. And Portia, sporting sunglasses and a headscarf-wrapped-baseball headdress to stay incognito, reunites with Albie. They speech numbers and fearfulness stories (Jack is "deranged," Lucia "played" Albie), with a hint that this could beryllium the commencement of a caller relationship.

So determination we person it. The White Lotus Season 2 was a horny, messy, chaotic thrust with 100 percent much shootouts and 100 percent little pooping successful suitcases. Will immoderate of these guests reappear successful Season 3? Will creator-writer Mike White look justness for robbing america of Jennifer Coolidge? And astir importantly, volition the White Lotus Resorts yet hole their unusually precocious mortality rates? Seriously, it's a occurrence these places are inactive open.

The White Lotus Season 2 is present streaming connected HBO Max.(opens successful a caller tab)

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