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The White Lotus S3 finale, according to the Hung Up chat. (spoilers)

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Hunter Harris
Apr 08, 2025
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More from Hung Up this week: Tomorrow at 12 PM I’ll be live on Substack with Big Salad’s Joanna Goddard! And Thursday, there will be a chat for the season finale shift of The Pitt.
Parker Posey in The White Lotus. Photo: Screenshot.

It’s wonderful that your mom is always right, except when it’s terrible. Piper Ratliff (Sarah Catherine Hook) insists that her wealthy North Carolina family travel to Thailand to research a thesis she wasn’t assigned. She wants to give up her many suburban luxuries (an iPhone and Ciao Lucia dresses) for a Buddhist meditation center she thinks will give her life direction. Is she passionate or just pithy? Piper’s main enthusiasm seems to lie in acting opposite of her brothers; she’s zen by way of a big Free People order.

Victoria (Parker Posey, ever-excellent), Piper’s mother, knows this. She scoffs at the suggestion that her daughter is following any type of calling, let alone one to “Taiwan.” “You can be interested in this stuff, but you can never really be it. It’s…

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