“We carry a desire to inhabit images we’ve seen, reified symbols of love, glamour, happiness, success. The “White Lotus” scene in Noto is a perfect representation of this recursive fakery and its nightmarish endpoint.”

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In ‘White Lotus,’ Beauty and Truth Are All Mixed Up

This season focuses on the willful delusion of the wealthy — and how easily preyed upon people who evade reality can be.