‘The White Lotus’ Recap: Season 2, Episode 5 — ‘That’s Amore’

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It’s becoming that this week’s The White Lotus included a visit to the opera, because it gave us a bunch of positively operatic plot twists alongside the best way.

As the curtain rises on Sunday’s episode, Lucia is having vigorous intercourse on prime of Albie, and Portia wakes up subsequent to a stark-naked Jack. Meanwhile, Ethan wakes as much as discover the condom wrapper Harper neglected. When she confronts him, he crumbles, admitting that Cameron had intercourse with Lucia. Ethan did take molly, however he swears he didn’t do something with the women and apologizes profusely. “You already lied to me,” Harper shoots again, however Ethan claims he was simply attempting to maintain Daphne from discovering out, including, “Don’t make a bigger deal out of this, please.” Oh, and Lucia and Albie have an ungainly second when she asks for 2 thousand euros for her, um, providers. He didn’t understand she was a hooker, however he guarantees to get her the cash… and he nonetheless desires to see her tonight. She desires to see him once more, too: “I do like you.”

At breakfast, Tanya mulls getting her marriage to Greg annulled and even wonders if she ought to’ve opened that spa with Belinda from final season: “Maybe she put a curse on me.” (Ha!) Albie tells Dom he must go to the financial institution, and when Dom provides him 200 euros, Albie says that’s not sufficient — and Dom begins to get the image. He confronts Lucia, telling her to “stay away from my son” and warning her to not say something to him about their very own tryst. Elsewhere, Daphne suggests a visit to an area vineyard to day-drink, and Harper snarks: “Maybe we can find some molly and really rage.” Yep, this can be a pot that’s about able to boil over.

Portia has a quick run-in with Albie within the resort hallway earlier than getting on a yacht to Palermo with Tanya and her new homosexual BFFs, together with Jack, who offers Portia an intimate tour of the yacht’s cabins. At the winery, Harper downs her glass of wine in a single gulp and asks for extra whereas grilling Cameron about his intercourse life in faculty. Ethan gripes that Cameron at all times stole the women he preferred, and when Cameron admits Ethan most likely watched him have intercourse again then, Harper chirps: “So I guess old habits die hard, huh?” Back on the resort, Valentina offers Isabella a heat greeting and sneers at Rocco. In reality, she informs him she’s transferring him from the entrance desk to the seaside membership as a result of he’s at all times “distracting others.” (Mmm-hmmm.)

Dom remains to be sulking when Albie asks to depart so he can have lunch with Lucia and Mia. Dom doesn’t need his son seeing them (and Bert virtually lets it slip why), however Albie insists the women are simply “victims of a f–ked-up system” and heads off to hitch them. He tells Lucia he has her cash, however she tells him, “I don’t want money. I like you.” (Are we shopping for this?) Ethan confesses to a fuming Cameron that he advised Harper what he did with Lucia, Valentina places a outdated man with a croaky voice with Isabella on the entrance desk and Tanya and Portia arrive at Quentin’s impossibly lavish Italian villa. (“These are some high-end gays,” Tanya marvels.) Quentin provides to take her to the opera to see Madame Butterfly whereas Jack and Portia resolve to sneak off and discover the streets of Sicily collectively.

At the opera, Tanya sits in a field with Quentin — and waves to who she thinks is “the Queen of Sicily” — and he or she’s overcome with emotion watching the opera, with a teary Quentin taking her hand. Cameron pulls Lucia apart and tells her to cease making eyes at him in entrance of his spouse, and he or she reminds him he nonetheless owes her 1300 euros from the opposite night time, which he guarantees to get. She complains to Albie that Cameron by no means paid her, including that she’s being threatened to pay up by her pimp, and the poor child desires to assist (after all). Dom gripes to Bert that the outdated man’s infidelities led to his personal damaged marriage. Bert says he and Dom’s mother have been joyful, however Dom remembers his mother crying herself to sleep whereas Bert was out tomcatting round: “You never showed me how to love a woman.” Cameron turns the tables on Harper and asks if she ever had a threesome — and when she begins to inform him about it, he begins rubbing her leg! Plus, Mia bugs Valentina once more to let her sing, mentioning that she is aware of Valentina is homosexual and “you and I can have some fun.” And it really works, as a result of Valentina permits her to sing in Giuseppe’s place.

Portia and Jack have enjoyable roaming the streets of Sicily, eating and dashing at an area arancini spot. (He forgot his pockets, you see, and he wouldn’t let her pay as a result of “you’re a lady.”) Harper tells Daphne she thinks “something happened” whereas they have been gone, however Daphne shrugs it off, advising her to “do what you have to do to make yourself feel better about it.” (She has a cute coach within the metropolis, she admits: “Maybe you should get a trainer.”) While Lucia and Albie are out, she steps apart for a chat with a man named Alessio, who grabs her roughly by the arm. Is he her pimp? Or is that this all only a ruse for poor Albie’s profit? After the opera, Quentin tells Tanya about when he fell in love with a straight American cowboy years in the past, however he’s at all times been extra drawn to magnificence than love. Jack and Portia come again to the villa kissing and laughing, however he leaves her so he can go “do something” for his uncle. And Tanya wakes up within the night time listening to bizarre sounds and opens a door to seek out… Jack having intercourse with Quentin. Mamma mia!