‘The White Lotus’ Gone Wild! Carrie Coon and Michelle Monaghan Dish on Dancing and Jaclyn’s Betrayal: She ‘Hits the F– It Button’

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Matt Minton mminton@variety.com SPOILER ALERT: This article contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 5 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.

Things get just a little wild for Laurie (Carrie Coon), Jaclyn (Michelle Monaghan) and Kate (Leslie Bibb) in the latest episode of “The White Lotus.” After leaving the resort in Thailand and going out for a night of drinking and dancing at a club with a group of Russian guys — their dedicated wellness instructor, Valentin (Arnas Fedaravičius), and accompanied by his two friends — Laurie unexpectedly finds herself having a blast.

She goes all out with the trio of Russians, at one point even taking her top off in a pool back at the hotel. There’s notably a different energy to Laurie after being the odd-woman-out throughout the season. “It was important that she be uninhibited when dancing,” Coon tells Variety. “She’s drunk, and that leads to inhibition, which informs her choices later on.” Up until this point, the show has been slowly building steam and stewing in ambiguity, as viewers have waited to see how the storylines will eventually converge.

But this episode is when everything begins to explode for “The White Lotus,” with the three women — and separately, partying siblings Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Lochlan (Sam Nivola) — going all out.