{"id":268232,"date":"2022-11-28T22:32:35","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T03:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/25yearslatersite.com\/?p=267592"},"modified":"2023-01-24T16:53:18","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T21:53:18","slug":"the-white-lotus-s2e5-thats-amore-when-you-walk-in-a-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvobsessive.com\/2022\/11\/28\/the-white-lotus-s2e5-thats-amore-when-you-walk-in-a-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Lotus S2E5: “That’s Amore” — When You Walk in a Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"
The following contains spoilers for The White Lotus<\/strong> S2E5, “That’s Amore” (written and directed by Mike White)<\/em><\/p>\n Whennnnnn your spouse starts to cry, \u2018cause you told a huge lie, \u201cThat\u2019s Amore.\u201d When you thought she liked you, but you still pay to screw, \u201cThat\u2019s Amore!\u201d<\/p>\n The fifth episode of Season 2 of The White Lotus<\/em>, S2E5, \u201cThat\u2019s Amore,\u201d did a lot of things, but the most important might be how it positioned our main characters in opposition to other guests or employees of the Sicilian luxury resort. The stage is set for the final showdown between our characters after secrets are revealed, discovered, and unsuccessfully hidden.<\/p>\n If the characters we have come to know over the past five episodes are mere chess pieces where the outcome is that some of them end up knocked over dead in the ocean, we truly are in the end game now.<\/p>\n Harper\u2019s plan to lure Ethan into her Venus fly trap of truth works beautifully as he discovers the condom wrapper Harper left out in plain sight, forcing Ethan to come clean about the night the ladies spent in Noto.<\/p>\n Doing his best Al Pacino Devil\u2019s Advocate<\/em> speech, Ethan admits maybe he looked, but didn\u2019t touch: touched, but didn\u2019t taste; tasted, but didn\u2019t swallow. Harper believes him about as much as she believes Cameron invited the couple to Sicily to rekindle a long-lost friendship, but instead of confronting Cameron about it, she decides to spend the day playing her own sick version of Never Have I Ever with the foursome as they visit vineyards.<\/p>\n Hoping, I guess, to endear herself to her new friend Daphne, all Harper manages to do is isolate herself in her own bubble of despair and worry. Ethan thinks he did nothing wrong because Cameron was the one who actually slept with the Sicilian prostitutes. Cameron wants the secret to stay inside Pandora\u2019s box, but more so it doesn\u2019t ruin an idyllic vacation as opposed to his actions ever causing any long-term marriage problems.<\/p>\n
\nHarper vs. Ethan and the Sullivans<\/h2>\n