(This article contains Massive spoilers For the "White Lotus" finale 3.)

By season 3, most fans agreed that Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) is the only main character in the show that is actually a good person. It turns out that everyone else has some dark side in full to their respective seasons, but during the season 1, Belinda does not harm anyone. Her only crime is too confidence in Tanya (McCuid Ennenifer Culidge), a mega -rich woman who offers to give Belinda money to start a wellness business and then do not follow them.

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The story was a shocking story about the way rich people can cause so much anxiety in people of a lower class around them, even realizing it. Tanya seems to have barely understood that she haunted Belinda with a gold lottery ticket all season. She does not notice that Belinda performs excessive amount of emotional work to keep Tanya happy, all looking for what audiences know is a dead end. When Tanya leaves Belinda to run away with a man who just met (The boy is Greg, who will end up killing her), she is not cruel or spite - she is unwise, because many of the rich people of the "white lotus" tend to be.

It is therefore fascinating for Belinda to end season 3 of almost the same note. Suddenly he got $ 5 million (with essentially strong Greg), Belinda says he says goodbye to Pernchai (Dom Hetrakul), a man who recently approached Tanya with his own idea to start a Business with wellness. She tells Pernchai that "the circumstances have changed" and she must abruptly leave Thailand and that the wellness business they discussed will not happen.

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It even seems that Belinda channels a little Tanya, talking to Pernchai in a way that feels subtle rejection and careless. Belinda sympathizes with Pernchai, it seems, but it is overcome by how clearly psychologically for money and is happy to get out of the city.

In defense of Belinda, this is not as important as Tanya did. In Season 1, Tanya is the one who proposes to give Belinda tone money to start a business, and she certainly seems to mean it in their initial conversation. Season 1 also devotes more time to show that Belinda has put the job to happen; She writes a large binder full of ideas for Tanya and remains a few hours after work to make the deal.

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Meanwhile, in Season 3, Pernchai is the one to bring the idea, and Belinda does not look so comfortable. Tanja was actively led by Belinda, while Belinda only passively increases Portchai's hopes. The end result, unfortunately, is still the same. Season 3 does not show us much of Portchai's view, but it is safe to say that he is probably just as broken by the heart as he once was Belinda.

To make the story darker is the way Belinda, like an American, is in a more privileged financial position than Pernchai, even before he comes to those $ 5 million. The US dollar goes beyond Thailand than in Hawaii; Belinda may not be relatively rich in Pernchai, as Tania was Tanya, but she is still in a position of power over him. All season, she's the power to help Pernchai make her dreams come true, and he was trying to make the situation hard while she was distracted with other things. If this story was told from Portchai's point of view, Belinda would probably go more like Tanya than we would like to admit.

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Although Belinda's further defense, at least a gesture of the idea that this outcome is what Tanya would want. Greg apparently told Belinda outside the screen that Tanja had always felt bad about it and on it, and Those who remember the season 2 We can recall that Tanya really talked about regretting the situation. Not to mention that the "white lotus" has always made it clear how untouchable they are; We know that Greg is likely to never be brought to justice, no matter what Belinda does, so hey, maybe Belinda should At least remove something from the situation.

The biggest moment to surprise Belinda is how she gets $ 5 million from Greg. At first, Greg offers 100,000 USD to keep silent about where he lives. Belinda seems to be unprepared, but her son Zion (Nicholas Dovernier) persuades her to meet Greg again. During this meeting, Belinda seems to be unresolved by how relentlessly her son is relentless, it almost realizes that money is already spoiling his soul. When storms out of the meeting and says she can't get Greg's blood money, it almost seems like a rare case of someone on the "white lotus" that does the right thing. But then she reveals that it's all a trick to get as much as possible from Greg. It's a trick that works.

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That scene is the moment when Belinda reveals its devil's side, and is swinging. It's also a moment that throws several previous scenes from her in a different light; For example, earlier, during breakfast, she talks about money and acts upset when Zion jumps able to talk again about Greg's offer. In retrospect, Belinda seems to know exactly what she was doing there.

In a Newujorer Profile of Show -Shower Mike White Posted before the season premiere, author Kelefa Saneh mentioned a conversation with Natasha Rothwell about her character Belinda. Only now, after the final of the season 3, we can understand exactly what Rothwell talked about. As Sane wrote:

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"On set in Thailand, I have to roth that mans perceived as an oasis of decency, and i asked whether she has ever wred that. Thought carefully about giving belinda agency, and for a spa manager with a heart of Gold as a Strategic Operator When Big Idea - That Tanya Will Invest Invest Inn. Business - Suggests a degree of "narcissism" and "Hubris". "

Belinda's last moments in the season show her and her son celebrate the boat back to the airport. She does not look guilty of what she did, nor does Zion seem to be shaken the massacre on which he was a witness Earlier that day. They may be surrounded by suffering, but now they are rich, and that's all that matters.