In Defense of the White Lotus Girlfriend Trio

glamour.com:

Is this fucking play about us?If you had this thought while watching the girls’ trip in season three of The White Lotus, I’m right there with you.Until now, I’ve never really questioned the concept of a friend trio.

Charlie’s Angels raised me. The Powerpuff Girls? Those are my animated sisters. So when dropped, featuring a semi-toxic group of three blondes played by Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon, and Leslie Bibb, I took a long, hard look at my own friendships.And you know what?

I’m not that concerned.Maybe I should be: In less than a month, I’m going on a long-awaited girls’ trip with two of my besties since elementary school.“Oopsie lol,” one of them DM’d after a warned against three-person girls’ trips, inspired by the show.

I understand the argument: With a group of three, it’s easy to feel lonely or ganged up on in a two-against-one scenario, even when it’s something as simple as deciding where to eat dinner.But I have a more optimistic view on three-person friendships—even after watching the latest White Lotus episode, and not just to convince myself ahead of my own trip (pinky swear).First, it must be said that the guests at the White Lotus are fictional characters.