Mike White’s globe-trotting anthology sequence “The White Lotus” has been about wealthy folks behaving badly for the reason that 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 occurred 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 Varieties,” Victoria spends many of the episode complaining about her jetlag and turning down the resort’s numerous 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 take a look at” and demurs). Later within the episode, she tells Timothy that she obtained a “second wind” but additionally 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 might it come into play later within the season? Properly, lorazepam is supposed to assist with nervousness issues … 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 if you happen to’re conversant in the idea of lorazepam and different anti-anxiety medicine which might be labeled as benzodiazepines, let me refresh your reminiscence a bit with an official definition from the Mayo Clinic. “Lorazepam is used to deal with nervousness issues,” the official web site reads. “It’s also used for short-term reduction of the signs of hysteria or nervousness attributable to 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 hold her nervous system secure in moments when the nervousness will get to be an excessive amount of. These kinds of medicine are fairly commonplace in the event that they’re used in accordance with your physician’s directions, and as I famous, they do have to be prescribed by a medical skilled. Sadly, if not taken correctly, folks also can develop into depending on them. In case 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 which will trigger hassle down the road, so particularly mentioning the treatment she introduced on their trip definitely appears like Mike White needs us to note that and hold it in thoughts; that lorazepam might be utilized in ill-advised methods earlier than the season attracts to a detailed.
“The White Lotus” airs new episodes each Sunday at 9 P.M. EST on HBO and Max.