White Lotus Finale Divides Internet: Who Is THE Breakout Star of Season 3?
Opinions have been expressed and Emmy nominations have been handed out by the show's most dedicated fans, so let's hear the arguments in favor of every star of the discussion.
The White Lotus season 3 made sure that no one remained indifferent to the fate of the characters. We were literally glued to the screen when the final episode aired, so eager were we to see if our million theories were right or wrong.
Spoiler alert for The White Lotus season 3 finale: if you haven’t seen season 3 episode 8 yet, consider stopping right here.
And frankly, when we saw who Mike White was going to kill at the end of the series, we were a little shocked, but I can't say that nobody thought about it.
It was the worst-case scenario from our minds becoming reality, because Aimee Lou Wood's Chelsea was really the one character that all the fans were rooting for from the beginning to the last moment we saw her.
Chelsea
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Chelsea was the wisdom of the show, and that makes her death all the more devastating. The last two conversations she had with Rick were so inspiring and could have actually healed Rick if he wasn't so selfish and could have seen the true value of his life.
Aimee Lou Wood's performance on the show was amazing and definitely made her one of the show's biggest stars and a breakout actress. The little sparks in her eyes that seemed to be both a cry for help and endless hope every time she tried to talk some sense into her damn boyfriend made it clear that she is a pure soul in the wrong place.
Saxon
Another character who made sure his eyes will haunt the viewers for a long time is actually Saxon Ratliff, portrayed by Patrick Schwarzenegger. Talks about him being a nepo baby and therefore not quite deserving of the role flooded the Internet at first. However, the man put his heart and soul into the character and owned it like his own, creating a huge fandom for him afterwards.
Everyone is talking about the face acting Patrick pulled off in the last episode, but he did it before that, too. He was a jerk with a smirk on his face in the beginning, a confused boy caught in the middle of something sinister later, only to become a new version of himself he never knew he had inside of him.
We know that Saxon's journey in White Lotus season 3 is transformative, but we don't see him as a changed man, we see a hint of him being able to. And the fact that it was Chelsea who pushed him to stand on the right side is probably another hint from Mike White that everything is intertwined and amor fati is actually a thing worth living by.
