‘The White Lotus 2’: The theory that connects with ‘The Godfather’ and says who dies

How does season 2 of The White Lotus with The Godfather? Through a fan theory. season 2 of The White Lotus has a great virtue. He gives us not one, but several deaths, which opens up the possibility of raising all kinds of theories: from the fact that all the dead are related to each other through a character (let’s see, this season is about sex, not just about lotus eaters, and with sex, passion and love always come hand in hand with madness) until each death has its own justification (it is a series about adultery, relationships, and everything sold in an operatic plan). There is great pleasure in trying to piece together all the potential napkin fold candidates in the series, as there is in trying to justify every single death. It makes theories can be multiplied, more complex, and above all more original. And that is where we arrive at the theory that relates The Godfather with The White Lotus. Have you noticed how the color orange predominates in many scenes? Some espadrilles here, a motorcycle helmet there, some spirits there. Orange, orange, orange. And, yes, then there are the orange trees, since we are in Sicily. If you are a movie fan, you already know that there is a whole genre linked to the Francis Ford Coppola saga: oranges as a symbol of death. The oranges that spill on the street insist for the viewer on how life is being taken from Vito when he is shot in the street: the oranges are the blood that flows from his body to the sidewalk. But, wow, oranges also represent family, or rather, chaos in the Corleone family. From there the colors of the film change, they become cold. And there are no more oranges. And then there is Apollonia, her death also among orange trees. Well, that’s too obvious.

Circulate now through Internet forums a theory which suggests that all those characters in which orange is most present are those who are destined to leave the White Lotus (read, the Four Seasons in Taormina, Sicily, located in the San Domenico Palace). So far that clearly points to six characters: Dominic (Michael Imperioli), Cameron (Theo James), Greg (Jon Gries), Harper (Aubrey Plaza), Lucia (Simona Tabasco) and Mira (Beatrice Grannó). In the first two episodes, Michael Imperioli’s character has had breakfast with a beautiful and leafy (in addition to being solitary, which makes it more suspicious) orange tree as a forum. Greg dons a helmet with an ax-like orange stripe across the coconut tree. Cameron and Harper wear, respectively, a Naranjito 82 polo shirt and a black dress with lots of fruit details in, that’s right, orange. If you add to that some orange sneakers from Mia and Lucia’s drinks, case closed. The theory does not develop why these characters are going to die, but it does bring to mind other television series that resorted to orange metaphors:

Given Imperioli’s link to the mafia genre and the use of oranges from The Godfather to symbolize death or tragedy, it seems something worth mentioning. the sopranos they even used similar symbolism when Tony was attacked while buying orange juice at a kiosk in season 1. More recently, in season four of FargoChris Rock’s mob boss Loy Cannon was murdered on his front steps while holding a bag of oranges.

The theory, which has its charm (in the Esquire newsroom it makes us ding, ton, because except for Harper and Cameron, the rest are great candidates to die irretrievably), has a big problem: everyone in the series, for the moment, in some time or another ends up being related to the color orange. Most via cocktails (Aperol Spritz is Holland’s orange selection) and some of them wear something orange. We mean you, Daphne (Meghan Fahy)! And, of course, since she is the only one we have seen alive in episode 1, we doubt. And then there’s Albie DiGrasso (Adam DiMarco), wearing a striped, brown and…orange polo shirt! that he has been left out of the theory.