‘The White Lotus’ Finale Waves Aloha to the Cycle of Subjugation — Spoilers

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The White Lotus” Episode 6, “Departures” — the season finale.]Despite the wrenching twists and stinging hilarity peppered throughout an exemplary “White Lotus” finale, a moment from Episode 5 hovered over the ending chapter.Sitting at the breakfast table (pre-robbery), Mark Mossbacher (Steve Zahn) tries to improvise a sage, discomforting response to Paula (Brittany O’Grady), who left dinner the night prior when, per Olivia (Sydney Sweeney), she was upset that “[Native] Hawaiians had to dance for a bunch of white people.” Acknowledging her objection while plowing ahead with his own half-assed take on why she’s wrong, Mark admits “imperialism was bad,” before asking, “But it’s humanity.

Welcome to history.

Welcome to America.

I mean, what are we going to do? Nobody cedes their privilege.

That’s absurd.”And yet, just a day later, his son Quinn tries to do just that.

Fed up with his lonely life back home and excited at the prospect of having friends,

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