Mike White’s globe-trotting anthology collection “The White Lotus” has been about wealthy individuals behaving badly because the first season dropped in 2021, and now that season 3 is underway, we all know that we’re coping with an entire new group of rich weirdos vacationing in Thailand this time round. (The primary season befell in Hawaii, and the second was set in Sicily.) Included amongst the revelers visiting the fictional White Lotus within the lovely Southeast Asian nation is the Ratliff household, comprised of father and patriarch Timothy (Jason Isaacs), his spouse Victoria (Parker Posey), and their youngsters Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), and Lochlan (Sam Nivola).
Within the season 1 premiere “Similar Spirits, New Kinds,” Victoria spends many of the episode complaining about her jetlag and turning down the resort’s varied wellness alternatives (when Morgana O’Reilly’s resort staffer Pam presents her a biometric scan to evaluate her wants, Victoria panics about not desirous to “take a check” and demurs). Later within the episode, she tells Timothy that she obtained a “second wind” but in addition tells him to not fear as a result of she took a “lorazepam.” So what’s lorazepam, why is Victoria taking it, and the way may it come into play later within the season? Properly, lorazepam is supposed to help with nervousness problems … and it is attention-grabbing that Victoria talked about it so early within the third season’s very first episode.
Victoria is taking anti-anxiety capsules in The White Lotus season 3
Even in the event you’re acquainted with the idea of lorazepam and different anti-anxiety medicine which might be categorized as benzodiazepines, let me refresh your reminiscence a bit with an official definition from the Mayo Clinic. “Lorazepam is used to deal with nervousness problems,” the official website reads. “It is usually used for short-term reduction of the signs of hysteria or nervousness brought on by melancholy.” The outline additionally covers benzodiazepines, which “are central nervous system (CNS) depressants, that are medicines that decelerate the nervous system.”
What this principally means is that Victoria has nervousness and makes use of lorazepam, ostensibly prescribed by her physician, to handle it and preserve her nervous system secure in moments when the nervousness will get to be an excessive amount of. All these medicine are fairly commonplace in the event that they’re used in line with your physician’s directions, and as I famous, they do have to be prescribed by a medical skilled. Sadly, if not taken correctly, individuals also can grow to be depending on them. In the event you’ve ever heard about somebody popping’ “benzos,” they’re speaking about abusing this type of drug. Okay, so now that we have among the medical jargon out of the way in which, why is that this associated to Victoria on “The White Lotus?”
Properly, Victoria introduced her lorazepam to Thailand to handle her nervousness … however due to the character of this present, they really feel a bit like Chekhov’s capsules, so to talk. Throughout the first episode, we additionally be taught that her husband Timothy has some shady enterprise dealings that will trigger hassle down the road, so particularly mentioning the remedy she introduced on their trip actually appears like Mike White needs us to note that and preserve it in thoughts; that lorazepam may very well be utilized in ill-advised methods earlier than the season attracts to an in depth.
“The White Lotus” airs new episodes each Sunday at 9 P.M. EST on HBO and Max.
