Armond - spoiler alert, if a spoiler alert is needed on an article with the headline “Let’s Talk About That White Lotus Ending” - is the person who winds up dead, his corpse loaded onto a plane to Honolulu as extra cargo.Īrmond is killed by his nemesis Shane ( Jake Lacy), who accidentally stabs him with the pineapple carving knife he had meant to use on the jewelry thief he assumes is roaming the resort. That reveal - which involved human feces, a confrontation between two enemies, and an accidental stabbing with a pineapple-carving knife - fulfilled its obligation to shock, awe, and make viewers go eOne person who definitely does not win in The White Lotus is Armond (Murray Bartlett), the frazzled manager of the White Lotus resort who serves as the show’s Basil Fawlty equivalent, if Basil Fawlty had been Australian and handled extreme stress by snorting blow and engaging in sexual acts with Manuel. Many viewers may have tuned in primarily to find out which character wound up dead, a fate hinted at for one of the White Lotus staff or guests from the very first episode. Sunday night’s finale of this much-discussed series - a season-one finale as opposed to a series finale, now that HBO has green-lit a second White Lotus season - was, at its core, an exploration of how the status quo is upheld, both by those who benefit from it and those who become too exhausted to fight it. That film and those words were written by Mike White, the creator, writer, and director of The White Lotus, the HBO series about a bunch of rich people on vacation that, like many of White’s films and shows (in addition to School of Rock and The White Lotus, see Enlightened and Brad’s Status), reckons with the intractability of the Establishment. That’s a snippet from a monologue spoken by Jack Black as fake substitute teacher Dewey Finn in the movie School of Rock. But in the end, you’re just going to lose, big time. Because in this life you can’t win. Yeah, you can try. It feels completely divorced from the tone of the rest of The White Lotus to have such a happy ending for just one character.
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