overtherainbow

Season 1's finale had the most satisfying build up and finale between Armond getting his revenge and Shane going full on unhinged, IMO. This season felt draggy but somehow the finale also felt rushed. Like there was too much build up that didn't really have as satisfying of a payout. Chekov's fruit/blender was too obvious. I agree it's a good character study, though not 'high art'. Belinda - getting that money was wayyy too easy. I don't want to see GregGary in another season but I do want her to catch some karma if she ends up a guest at the next resort. Rick/Chelsea - How dumb was it that Rick didn't just lay low after threatening his dad and warn Chelsea? Nope, what really did them in was loading up on the big breakfast spread. Ratliffs - the irony is that just as Piper embraces being a material girl she's about to find out her dad got them so wealthy running a ponzi scheme. I totally agree that seeing the aftermath of finding that out was a missed opportunity. Imagine he revealed it after throwing away the pina coladas and Victoria shacked up with another rich resort guest and Saxon had a bigger breakdown. Mook - I hate the 'young women really don't want a 'nice' guy, they have a deep seated evolutionary need for one who's a killer deep down' trope so much and this isn't even the first time we've seen it play out in this show. 3 women - agreed. I loved the way this ended and it felt the most satisfying.

They only worked because she was too much of an airhead who liked the fact what he gave off dark, mysterious vibes and had convinced herself they were soulmates. Meanwhile he was too in his own head to bother. The three friends ended on a wholesome note. I loved that. Still feel like a lot of their bickering could've been condensed. Zion was so annoying, that uber cocky 'I'm an expert negotiator because I study business trust me bro' young man thing going on.. frankly was surprised they pulled it off at all. I'm definitely ready for a new villain than Greg/Gary.

Wow, so Belinda turns out just as much of a hypocrite as Tanya, stringing someone along. A little money in her pocket and look at how quickly her "dream" went out the window. Poor Pornchai. I'm sure she'll be one of the rich guests. Everyone who clocked Jim being Rick's father was right. What I didn't expect was him to be the one to go on the rampage.. thought for sure it would be Tim. Chelsea was right about their souls being forever intertwined, just not in the way she thought. Dark. At least Lochlan didn't ingest enough of the seed residue to die. I think the Ratliffs grew on me, too. Still, I think Lochlan and Piper would've been better off at the monastery. Bland food and a cramped room beats watching your dad lose everything. And I guess Mook likes Gaitok again now that he's shown he's capable of killing someone.

This season has felt a bit draggy, and I think (so far - sitting on my hands for the finale) the weakest of the three. It's still a high budget soap opera that's entertaining to watch, but lacks the rewatch value and tension of the last season. This was a pretty funny episode between Valentin begging Laurie for money through CashApp or PayPal, then Laurie hanging out of his window while getting smacked by the girlfriend then Victoria praying for Piper to be miserable in the Buddhist temple. Laurie is lucky she got out of there relatively unscathed. Piper only wanted to stay at the temple because it would be an escape from her family and would get to be “her” thing, now that Lochlan wants to stay too, the novelty wore off. Victoria was right, she wasn’t cut out for it. I love how Victoria said the quiet part out loud at the party to one of the women. The Greg/Belinda storyline is the most boring to me. Just taking the money would be the smartest thing to do. But considering he is worth half a bill, she could probably negotiate to $500K. $100,000 doesn't seem like a lot to open a fullservice spa. Rick is not a killer but I don't understand why he wouldn't at least give Chelsea some warning before roughing up Patravadi's husband who owns the hotel they're staying at. Now that the gun is missing, Tim is totally going to blend up the Chekhov's fruit, there have been way too many blender scenes in this show. Not controversial at all, I think it's very much intentional considering she is surrounded by rich guests day in and day out and it's not shocking would want him to have a little more ambition. Poor Gaitok though, he is so into her. He is just too much of a nice guy for her. We'll see if Gaitok ends up being the shooter to "prove" his capabilities to her.

Shauna went from being a bored housewife plagued by the trauma of the crash to now that we know a whole lot more of what went down, an absolute psychopath and Misty is the sanest one. Predictions: Nat, Travis, Mari, Melissa, the three other side characters who we barely hear from, and Van will look for rescue. Nat and Travis have the gun and bow. Shauna, Lottie, and Taissa group have nothing on them. I do think Kodi will try something, kill off a handful of them, maybe get killed in the scuffle, and they will realize they're really truly lost with no guide to get back. Meanwhile without the whisper of a remaining voice of reason Nat was, they will slip further into their psychoses and build a bunch of traps and hunt down the remaining girls. I too have a feeling Hannah will be pit girl, she'll break off from the group, the others in their desperation to find her will stumble back on the Shauna camp and realize they basically didn't really get anywhere. So the plane crashed May 1996, they've spent over a year in the wilderness by now and it's just turning fall so September 1997. They get rescued in January 1998, so they have a few months left yet. Season 4 will focus on the winter/rescue, and the ramifications of dealing with what they did when they get back.

They couldn’t charge him with anything because he wasn’t living with any of the kids when the abuse was happening and was (supposedly) no contact with Ruby due to their separation so he could play ignorant. Kevin compartmentalized a lot and Ruby brainwashed him into believing he was being tested and would eventually be able to get back with her if he 'did his part' and stayed away. He still can't accept that the wife he was so smitten with nearly starved their youngest two children to death. What was especially despicable was wanting his own daughter arrested for burglary after getting some stuff out of the house. Hadn't been to the house in a year but wanted Shari in jail. I haven't read Shari's book yet but I'm sure there's a lot more in that...no wonder she refers to both parents only by their first name now. I did not and will not watch that, Shari didn't appreciate it being made and I’m sick of Lifetime sensationalizing real people’s lives. Everything Jodi did was very calculated. Watching those Connexions videos it was obvious she was grooming (and I hesitate to use that word but can’t think of one that is more accurate) Ruby. She faked all the possession stuff to get closer with Ruby, to move in with her, ingratiating herself in her life, to literally get in her bed. And both Ruby and Kevin ate it up. I think by the end of it they were in a full blown relationship. Hope Kevin will come to his senses and not be waiting on Ruby to get out.

It could very well be this too, but all the shooting fantasizing seems like a fakeout to me. It seems like if he does end up shooting himself or his wife it will be through some fake accident, and he'll decide at the last minute that he doesn't want to after all. I do have a feeling this season will have lots more murders, though. Saxon had given off rapey vibes from the start of the season, putting telegraphing hypersexuality to his younger brother, but ultimately ends up the victim. Great writing, and fantastic acting by Patrick Schwarzenegger. His masculinity was fragile to begin with, and I think Chelsea saw through that. It's shattered now and his entire identity along with it.

Well snap, it’s really heating up. We have 2 more episodes. This could go a lot of ways. Timothy is debating murder-suicide, not yet realizing the gun is missing. I was holding my breath the whole time Gaitok was sneaking around their villa, flashbacks to S1 when Kai’s attempted robbery went down south. I second the poster who said may very well be Timothy who ends up staying at the monastery, realizing after talking with the monk that there is so much more to life and he has more to learn. That will be his 'out'. Victoria will OD on lorazepam and wine from the shock of it. Even though we kinda saw the brothers storyline from a mile away, ew! Chloe and Chelsea were a little too smug in this episode at Saxon's disgust at the realization that he got more action from his little brother than the two women. Considering Lachlan is also barely 18 and still in high school, letting it go that far felt predatory on their part. Laurie is pulling no punches and the gloves are off. Rick is preparing for his showdown with Sritala's husband. Belinda, again, needs to stay as far away from Greg/Gary as possible. If she makes it out of this, time to shed the White Lotus for good and get serious about opening up her own spa or start looking for a new ritzy resort masseuse job. I hope Mook (Lisa) has a bigger role in the finale than just smiling widely and flirting with Gaitok. For as big of a deal as they've made her debut out to be, they haven’t given her a ton to work with.

I'm watching for Misty right now. "He died of natural causes!" As Ben lay carved up on a literal platter. Then when Van was rushed to the ER, "I'm not family but we have a very intense trauma bond." Shauna couldn't keep the grin off her face when Lottie was bashing Edwin's skull in and Lottie's feral scream when the three walked up shows just how bonded she has with the wilderness and her place in it. She never wanted to leave and go back to being the mentally ill girl with a rich dad. Meanwhile Shauna is high on the power of being the Antler Queen. I love that this episode only further proved there's nothing really supernatural, half of them are just high from cave gas/shrooms, the screams are just from frogs, and they are clearly experiencing shared psychotic disorder led by Lottie à la Lord of the Flies. The psychological stuff is more interesting than the possibility of the supernatural to me.

RE Milchick - I guess his whole job was just to make sure Mark finished Cold Harbor. He was done with dealing with Drummond’s condescension but it’s not a big surprise he would still be a Lumon loyalist when so much of his career rode on Mark completing the final file so Gemma would be fully detached. The question remains as to why Lumon wants to sever Gemma 25 different ways. Is it easier to create mind controlled slaves this way so they can have the same person do 25 different jobs or something more sinister? The revelation that there are severed employees whose whole job is to play in a marching band is somehow more depressing than the revelation that Lumon is grooming bright middle schoolers into positions in the company. I doubt a rebellion will work if they have Glasgow Protocol and one of the higher ups can basically say a word and disorient them to shift them to their outie who is a totally different person, unless it only works individually and not en masse. As far as why Ms. Casey was a wellness counselor, my guess would maybe be that innie Mark still needed some level of connection with his wife on the subconscious level for him to refine her, or having that connection made the process faster. But a lot about this show is still a mystery. Hopefully we won't have to wait another 3 years for season 3.

I know. I meant more along the lines of how his outie knows the exact location of the testing floor. That has still never been addressed. It was alluded to in Woe's Hollow that outie Irv knows more than was let on all along but that never went anywhere.

9 episodes in and still nothing about mammalians nurturable/the creepy goat people, why Irving was spending so much of his time painting those creepy dark corridors, what Helena’s motive was for talking to outie Mark at the Chinese restaurant, anything really about Jame Eagan, etc etc. Just a lot of cinematic shots and cliffhangers. And Cobel with her smug smirk, cold stare, and cryptic way of speaking is driving me crazy. Now both Dylan and Irving's stories seem to be finished (for now at least).. I hope the finale will tie up some of these loose ends and be satisfying enough to not just leave us with more questions.

The proposal was actually really cute and not nearly as over the top as I thought it would be. It was nice to hear how Baylen was as much there for Colin as he has been for her so their relationship hasn't just been as codependent as they've implied. Sammi comes off really strong. She's like a mini version of their dad. Very opinionated on her sister's life. She did soften a little during the actual engagement event though, which was nice. I'm sensing the glass child syndrome is strong there. Without this big family and some role playing as the villain I don't think there would be much content to work with other than the comedic timing of some of Baylen's tics.

Gaitok definitely should’ve already been trained to carry since he is guarding the entry and exits to an ultra ritzy resort with wealthy high profile guests and seems to be by himself most of the time. I am somewhat relieved it was Timothy who ended up with the gun and not Greg, but that’s not saying a lot. He’s going to do something to keep Belinda quiet regardless and she’s not exactly making it subtle that she knows his identity. Hopefully her son Zion will protect her. Rick has become surprisingly sympathetic. I love Walton Goggins, so it wasn't hard, but his gruffness is charming and now we know more of his backstory and why he wants to hunt down the husband. I wonder if Timothy is going to stay in Thailand and go into business with one of the shady boat dudes. He's pretty much out of options. Piper is already planning to become a monk, she just needs to break the news to her parents. The yacht scene was fun. I have to say Parker Posey is nailing the elitist southern attitude of if you’re not in my immediate social circle you don’t matter despite being surrounded by rich people. Lol. She was almost normal for a second there. Have to say I love Aimee Lou Wood (Chelsea)'s teeth. They're endearing and make her unique in a world of fake veneers. Also lots of Brits have buck teeth, they're more common than you'd think.

Ruby was always batty(imagine forcing your kid to sleep on a bean bag for 7 months) but Jodi was definitely the spark that lit the match. So when Jodi pretended to be possessed she was comforted but when Ruby was convinced her youngest kids were, they were starved and tied up with duct tape? Despicable woman. Hopefully she will stay in prison at least until they're all 18. The middle girls at least seem to be spared the worst of the abuse, though neglecting them and sending them to friends houses to be live in maids isn't much better. Does anyone know the status of the minor kids now? I assume if they're not with Kevin, who didn't want anything to do with them before, they'd be with one of their aunts since social services priorizes family placements. I hope they're with a supportive family member and getting therapy. Shari is a mature young woman and a good advocate. Chad has a way to go I think but he's very young still. Child vlogging is notoriously difficult to legislate since it doesn't fall under the same set of laws governing child acting, though youtube demonetizing a lot of kids channels and removing comments on videos with kids a few years ago did make it a little less hyper profitable. I think that was when the shaytards who were the OG mormon family vloggers before the frankes stopped vlogging as frequently.