This article contains a suicide discussion.

Over the course of Season 3 of the "White Lotos", a installment based in Thailand From Mike White's Anthology series, Timothy Ratliff (Asoneyson Isax) was passing through it. After talking to His former Kenny Business Partner (Keni Kuan) In the first two episodes of the season, a North Carolina-based businessman reveals that a large number of professional crimes he has committed-which includes money laundering and bribes in light and that, back home, the FBI is gladly attacking his office and occupying his assets. So what has something of this has to do with Duke University and why is the school So crazy For the "White Lotus" right now?

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In an article in Theujork TimesThe vice president of the Communications School, Frank Trabble, told the exit through E -So that the school did not authorize any references to the "White Lotos" and head greetings Definitely They are not thrilled that Timothy continues to wear a shirt with the school logo, as it fantasizes that you have taken your life with a gun that Pilled by the hotel's security team. "The Duke appreciates artistic expression and creative storytelling," noticed a tram, "but significantly wearing clothes wearing clothing with federal registered trademarks of Duke, creates confusion and wrongly suggests approval or affiliation where no one exists." He also said that White's series "not only uses our brand without permission, but in our opinion uses it in pictures that is disturbing, it does not reflect our values ​​or who we are, and just go too far."

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Another statement by a trampbell, obtained from Bloombergaddressed How Pictures are used. "" White Lotos "not only uses our brand without permission, but in our opinion uses it in pictures that is disturbing, it does not reflect our values ​​or who we are, and simply goes too far," the suicide is the second leading cause of the deaths of our college campuses. Recall people that help is available. "

The "White Lotos" Ratlips are a family divided - not only by the fact that they all keep more bizarre secrets, but frankly, even from the universities they have been so proud of. Thanks to Timothy's wife, Victoria (Parker Posty), who (inadvertently) appears pills like candy, we know immediately from the bat that Timothy and the eldest son of the Saxon family (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and both attended Duk, but Victoria). We Also Find out that the family of the family, Lochlan (Sam Level), is in the process of deciding between these accurate two schools. (For the context for non-American readers: Duke is in Durham, from where the Ratlips are canonical, and UNC Capel Hill is, well, in Capel Hill.)

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There is a huge fraction of people - especially in American culture - which Really Tie their identity to colleges or universities attending, supporting their athletic teams for years after graduating in the form of a person who says they went to Cambridge School just to ask if they actually go to Harvard. Honestly, I think it's Brilliant From the part of Mike White to make the already obsessed status, narrow Ratlifi, obsessed with where they went to school, as it proved a positive thing about their character. (This should pass without saying but Where did you go to school has nothing to do with your character.) Add this to the fact that Victoria spends many of the season, who are preparing for people to be "decent", without realizing that her husband is a literal criminal, and painting a perfect image of a family that is obsessed with shallow labels, but never takes time to look inward. Based on everything Ratliffs experienced and made during the 3rd Lotus season, I would say he describes them pretty good.

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Obviously, Duke University is not crazy because the "white lotus" uses its iconography. Duke University is crazy because the show continues to put Timothy Ratliff in a Duke's logo that is visibly shown while thinking about taking his life with a gun, something that makes Pretty often on a holiday in Thailand. Timothy loses his control over reality in general; After receiving news from his associates at home that he is fully under investigation and is likely to end up in prison for the second to return to the United States, he begins to steal quietly with Victoria pills, What happened to be a drug called Lorazepamand taking them all the time (and mixing them with numerous amounts of alcohol, which is not recommended). Hence, he just gets StrangeWhether he flashes his children by accident or looking at the pills and arguing while on a stranger's yacht. So, againI understand why Duke is not thrilled that it continues to be dragged into the full breakdown of this fictional character.

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In any case, the university has not undertaken any legal activities from this writing and the season has already been recorded, so Mike White and FBO cannot accurately force the horse to return to the barn here and pause Timothy's duke for now. "White Lotos" broadcasts new episodes on Sunday at 9pm Max and HBO.

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