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variety.comMatt Donnelly Senior Film Writer SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.
If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother, as Freud would say. The Austrian shrink would’ve loved this week’s episode of “The White Lotus,” the penultimate of a third season filled with existential dread, taboo sex and, unfortunately for the hotel’s guests, not enough drunken pool days in Thailand.
We’ve finally arrived at one of the confrontations the season has been barreling toward: Rick (Walton Goggins) has weaseled his way into an audience with the man who murdered his father — or so he was told by his mom when he was a child.
Rick has abandoned his plus one Chelsea (the divine AImee Lou Wood) for Bangkok, recruited a black market 9mm pistol from a sketchy old buddy (Sam Rockwell) and conned Sritala (Lek Patravadi), the spouse of his father’s killer, to exact fatal revenge.
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