Rick finally confronts the man he says killed his father, the ladies erupt at dinner and Belinda gets an interesting offer.

There are slow burns and then there are slow burns. The third season of The White Lotus is testing my patience. I’m typically pretty comfortable with slower shows. Severance and Andor are two of my favorites in recent years and both can easily be described as slow burns.

The penultimate episode of the HBO drama kicks off with Sam Rockwell’s Frank accompanying Goggins’ Rick to Lek Patravadi’s Sritala Hollinger’s home, pretending to be a director looking to cast her, so Rick can confront the source of his childhood trauma.