[Editor’s note: The following interview contains spoilers for “The White Lotus” Season 3, Episode 6, “Denials.”]
Over three unique iterations of Mike White’s “The White Lotus,” fans of the show have come to expect searing critiques of privilege coupled with deadpan humor that gets progressively less laughable as the season goes on. But nothing could have quite prepared audiences for how unfunny Season 3, which follows a group of guests at The White Lotus’ Thai outpost, suddenly became on Sunday night when Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola’s Ratliff brothers consummated their unsettling onscreen flirtation.
In the role of older brother Saxon,…