The White Lotus: Why We're Really Worried About Tanya

The December. fourth episode of The White Lotus has us very worried about the fate of Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge). Here's what happened. Spoilers!

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If something seems too appealing to be real, they often aren't.

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It certainly appears to be the case with the heiress Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge)'s situation on The White Lotus season two.

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After being evicted by partner Greg (Jon Gries) for an intimate Sicilian holiday,

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The lavish English Expat Quentin (Tom Hollander) came in to lift her mood by inviting her along with their Assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) to join him at his home in Palermo.

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Harmless, right? We don't think that way.

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In the December. 4. episode Quentin was adamant about getting Tanya to take a lot of cocaine facilitated by a mafia-adjacent gun-owning partner.

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In the present, enticing Tanya to be the most raunchy of her selves does not automatically make Quentin an evil person.

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However, as we saw in Episode 1, we know that dead bodies appear in The White Lotus, so it's definitely an alarm.

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