White Lotus Season 2 - "Bull Elephants" with Michael Imperioli - Still Watching
Still Watching
Vanity Fair
4.2 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Still Watching is watching other people on a Sicilian vacation as Vanity Fair's Richard Lawson and Chris Murphy check-in to the second season of The White Lotus on HBO.
This week, Richard and Chris tune in for the third episode of the second season of White Lotus, titled "Bull Elephants." Harper and Daphne split off from Cameron and Ethan (who run across Mia and Lucia!). Tanya gets some negative news from a tarot card reading. Portia and Alfie cross paths with a cold man in a pool.
This podcast includes an interview with Michael Imperioli who plays Dominic on the show, a character that is trying to actually change.
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| 0:00.0 | No, you can't go. You can't go. You just... |
| 0:05.0 | Please just sit on the couch. I just... |
| 0:10.0 | I did get the new vanity fair. |
| 0:20.0 | You can read it. |
| 0:31.0 | Hello and welcome to Still Watching, a weekly television podcast from Vanity Fair. I'm Richard Lawson. |
| 0:36.0 | And I'm Chris Murphy. We're here to discuss the third episode of the HBO series, The White Lotus, Full Elephants. |
| 0:43.0 | This episode we've got a lot of characters getting up to no good in various pools, a godfather tour, and the arrival of an honest to god fortune teller. |
| 0:51.0 | And we'll also hear Chris has talked with Michael Imperial, the television veteran whose character Dominic seems to be heading towards some positive steps maybe, even if he seems really miserable about it. |
| 1:02.0 | I think sexual politics and sexual dynamics between men and women and masculine and feminine, it's an ancient thing which I think why Sicily makes it the perfect backdrop for it. |
| 1:16.0 | There is also the ongoing and all-important question of who winds up dead at the end of the show. |
| 1:21.0 | Each week at the end of the episode, Richard and I are going to debate who we think is dead. |
| 1:25.0 | And we're going to fold in your theories that you sent to us at Still WatchingPod at gmail.com. |
| 1:29.0 | And to keep ourselves kind of accountable and raise the stakes a little bit, whoever predicts right, you or me, Chris, wins an apparel spritz. |
| 1:37.0 | Yes, even though you don't like them, so if I win, I get an apparel spritz and you have to drink one. |
| 1:43.0 | So Chris, this episode is where things start to go wrong. Do you feel that way? |
| 1:48.0 | Yeah, well, I was going to say this is the episode where things start to pop off. |
| 1:51.0 | Yeah, it gets a little more exciting. |
| 1:53.0 | It's a little sexy. It gets a little more mysterious. |
| 1:56.0 | Yes, a little dangerous, too. |
| 1:58.0 | Yes, yeah, for sure. And I think that this is also the episode where Megan Fahey's already wonderful performance really kicks into gear. |
| 2:06.0 | So let's start with Daphne. |
| 2:08.0 | Fully read my mind. |
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