Extremely Strained and Incredibly Forced: The White Lotus, Season 2 (2022)

02/02/23 • 53 min

Movies We Dig | Film, Antiquity and Everything in Between

We're back with a special, in-person episode recorded at the annual SCS/AIA meeting in New Orleans, LA. Christie pitches us on looking at the second season of HBO's The White Lotus through the lens of Hesiod and the idea of kalon kakon, the beautiful and the bad. We talk sex, relationships, betrayal, murder, tragedy, didactic poetry and the dangers women pose to your grain storage.

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