Hello, everyone, and welcome to a decoding TV bonus episode.

On the last episode of Decoding TV, I hinted I was going to try to figure out a way to cover the White Lotus here on the podcast.

And boy, did a miracle from heaven descend, the deputy editor and senior film critic at Laney Gossip.com,

Sarah Marr's previous co-host of DecodingTV.

com reached out and offered to talk about the show with me. Sarah Mars, welcome back to Decoding TV.

Hi, Dave. It's so great to have you here. You emailed me and you said, I need to talk about the show with someone. Why was that,

Sarah? What was it about White Lotus season three that hooked you? It was honestly Patrick Schwarzenegger.

Absolutely. And I'm not joking. But within 30 seconds of him showing up on screen, I was completely

obsessed with the venal venomous vibes that Saxon Ratliff was giving off.

And I just knew that this was something that I was going to be thinking about a lot and would want to talk about and no one I know is watching the show.

Oh, that is a shame.

But fortunately, that's what Decoding TV is here for.

So here's how this is going to work.

We're so grateful that Sarah's agreed to join us.

We're going to have, I believe, at least three, if not four conversations about this season

of the show.

Probably we're covering episodes one and two of the White Lotus season three today.

We're going to do another episode covering episodes three and four. And then either we're going to do five and six and a seven and

eight or just do like one final episode summarizing everything. So you should expect to see

these hit your feeds in the near future. If you're a paid subscriber at decodingTV.com,

you get these ad free and a little bit earlier than everyone else. So thanks to everyone who's a paid subscriber at decoding TV for making this podcast possible.

But today, we're discussing the White Lotus, season three, episodes one and two.

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