‘The White Lotus’ is now streaming on HBO and HBO Max.
‘The White Lotus’ character Armond, played by Murray Bartlett in Season 1’s fourth episode, was found being intimate with his employee, it left viewers’ jaws hanging agape. But Mike White’s HBO series may have surpassed that with the most recent episode of the second season.
Prior to the airing of Episode 5, White explained to Variety that the sequence was a “echo” of Bartlett and Gage’s Season 1 interaction. Both episodes take place two episodes prior to the conclusion and both have a character seeing gay sex behind closed doors.
He says, “There’s a pleasure to me as a guy who is gay-ish to make gay sex transgressive again,” White said. “It’s dirty… men are having sex and you have this ‘Psycho’ music underneath. It just amuses me.”
Furthermore he said, “I just think transgressive sex is sexier. I guess I’m old school. There’s this Gothic vibe of walking through a haunted hotel or haunted house and people are having sex behind closed doors.”
The new characters along with some spicy conflicts are introduced this season.
