White Lotus Tag

White Lotus and the Gentle Art of Hating Your Protagonists I come here not to praise the most recent season of “White Lotus,” nor to bury it, but to dig a moment into its characters—specifically, how those characters violate one of the more facile “rules” of screenwriting that have always driven me slightly insane. If you’ve ever sat through any kind of Screenwriting 101 course, you know that instructors often insist you make a character sympathetic, or at least empathetic. Nobody will buy your script if they don’t like yourRead More