*White Lotus Spoilers ahead*
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Mike White loves a Chekhov’s gun. (The storytelling principle that says: If you put a gun on the mantle in Act I, it has to fire by Act III.)
This season, he also gave us a Chekhov’s blender, sitting menacingly on the counter filled with poison. He gave us multiple handguns, sitting foolishly on Gaitok’s desk and tantalizingly in Rick’s bag. In Season 2, he gave us the gun in the duffel of Jennifer Coolidge’s late-breaking paramour/would-be murderer.
But the best of them all is Chekhov’s knife, from Season 1, Episode 6, minute 15:10. It’s also the most instructive.
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