Mike White’s globe-trotting anthology collection “The White Lotus” has been about wealthy individuals 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 a complete 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 stunning Southeast Asian nation is the Ratliff household, comprised of father and patriarch Timothy (Jason Isaacs), his spouse Victoria (Parker Posey), and their kids Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook), and Lochlan (Sam Nivola).
Within the season 1 premiere “Similar Spirits, New Types,” Victoria spends a lot of the episode complaining about her jetlag and turning down the resort’s varied wellness alternatives (when Morgana O’Reilly’s resort staffer Pam affords 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 bought 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? Nicely, lorazepam is supposed to help with anxiousness 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 drugs in The White Lotus season 3
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Even for those who’re aware of the idea of lorazepam and different anti-anxiety medication which can 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 anxiousness problems,” the official web site reads. “Additionally it is used for short-term reduction of the signs of hysteria or anxiousness 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 mainly means is that Victoria has anxiousness and makes use of lorazepam, ostensibly prescribed by her physician, to handle it and preserve her nervous system steady in moments when the anxiousness will get to be an excessive amount of. Most of these medication are fairly customary in the event that they’re used based on 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 turn into depending on them. For those who’ve ever heard about somebody popping’ “benzos,” they’re speaking about abusing this type of drug. Okay, so now that we have got among the medical jargon out of the way in which, why is that this associated to Victoria on “The White Lotus?”
Nicely, Victoria introduced her lorazepam to Thailand to handle her anxiousness … however due to the character of this present, they really feel a bit like Chekhov’s drugs, so to talk. Inside the first episode, we additionally be taught that her husband Timothy has some shady enterprise dealings that will trigger bother down the road, so particularly mentioning the treatment she introduced on their trip actually appears like Mike White needs us to note that and preserve 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.
