‘The White Lotus’ is echoed with the friendship triangle audience

40 -year -old Desri Frederickson began to see the third season of “The White Lotus”, the show quickly became personal for him. “I was immediately triggered,” he said.

The HBO series follows guests and employees around the White Lotus, a fictional resort chain, with this season set in Koh Samui, an island in Thailand. Amidst the interval of rich guests, there are three women in the late 40s who are friends since primary school, but now live different lives. Jacqueline is a Los Angeles -based actress (starred by Mitchell Monaghan); Laurie is a divorced lawyer in New York City (Carrie Con); And Kate is a Texas housewife (Leslie Bib).

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For each other’s face, they are helpful and complimentary. Behind each other’s back, they are petty, gossip and competitive. In separate combinations, two of them added to talk about the third, which is a dynamic echo with audiences across the country.

“I have been in this exact scenario many times during my life,” Ms. Frederickson said, who lives in Fontana, California. “I have been in the groups of threeize, and I think I am sometimes close to a person. Or I have been the person in the middle about whom they talk about, and I came to know later.”

In the previous year, he has had to navigate the complexities of triangles of friendship. Ten months ago, when he had a child, a friend was angry that the other was seen to see the child on the first facetime. She is also trying to amend with a friend, who feels that Ms. Frederickson and her other friends are more.

“Let’s say this show is valid,” he said, laughing.

Lisa Morse, a clinical psychologist at Manhattan, said that in our society, a lot about friendship is very sacred. You look at people’s Instagram, and they are all on these girls’ trips and everyone looks happy, and it is very innocent. ,

However, he said, “‘The White Lotus’ has something about this threesome that presents something real about female friendship. There is tension between her and imbalance, and I think their interaction and dynamics are something that can be related to almost every woman.”

Of course, three-way dynamic reality is a head of television. Bravo show “Southern Charm”, Best Friends (or are they?) Shape Rose, Austain Crol and Craig Conover often talk behind each other’s back. On “Real Housewives of Orange County”, we see close friendship between Tamara Judge, Vicky Gunwelson and Shannon Beedor – who call themselves “trace amigs” – they disintegrate after gossip and talk about each other.

Dr. Morse said that there are benefits of triangles of friendship. “When there are three people, everything is more,” he said. “There is more fun, more energy, more support, more variety, and the advantage of realizing that you are part of a group.”

“If a person is not meeting your needs, you get it from another person,” he continued. “There is a variety of opinions, so it can be more interesting.”

But, he said, three can also be difficult. “There is more drama, there are more power changes, competition,” he said. “This is the idea of ​​being a third wheel.”

A scene of “The White Lotus” that was actually echoed with a 33 -year -old florist in New York City, who asked that his last name was not used for confidentiality, when Laurie forgives himself to go to bed in the first episode and then cried when his friends wandered without him.

“I am someone who can run his social battery at a certain point and then need to retreat in his room,” he said. “But then, eventually, like that one character, you feel – almost irresponsibly. I have cried exaggerated many times.”

Some audiences are use as an inspiration to make the show an alternative to a healthy friendship. “I am cutting fat,” 43 -year -old, an entertainment reporter and material manufacturer who lives in Los Angeles, Stuart Brezel said. He posted a video on Tiktok about his feelings and was overwhelmed by the commentators saying that he too was trying to give up friendship that felt bad him. “This benefits us all to see these types of relationships onscreen,” he said, “because perhaps it benefits us to remove hell out of these relationships.”

Emmeline has also experienced the pain of talking behind her back. She still recalls a weekend journey that she had taken with a friend, where she felt that he had a “full explosion”, only to find out that the friend felt otherwise. “On the journey back from the journey, I was feeling very good, and I am seeing that friend B text friend A, ‘How was the weekend?” And the friend replied, ‘Ok i did not kill her.’ This really hurts my feelings at that time. ,

“It was the beginning of the end of my friendship within the trio anyway,” she said. “Trio is difficult.”