‘White Lotus’ Star Walton Goggins on Rick’s Catharsis in Episode 7: ‘I Had Goddamn Rainbows Shooting Out of My Heart’
variety.comDaniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers for Season 3, Episode 7 of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.
One of the key conflicts on this season of “The White Lotus” — a conflict that one party didn’t even know was happening — has finally come to a head.
Rick Hatchett (Walton Goggins) came to the White Lotus in Thailand to confront and kill Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn), who owns the hotel with his wife, Sritala (Lek Patravadi); upon learning Jim had been hospitalized in Bangkok after a stroke, Rick left his girlfriend (Aimee Lou Wood) behind at the hotel in order to finally get revenge.
Rick believes that his father was murdered by Jim, based on something his mother said to him before she died. He never met his father, and that absence, as well as the looming, imagined presence of Jim, has hung over his entire life.
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