The Heartbreaking Moment I Knew Who Would Die in The White Lotus Season 3 Finale

Spoilers of people travel for The White Lotus Season 3 finale, “Amor Fati.”

Man, of people it coiled up being Chelsea.

It’s go a contented astatine this constituent for fans of Mike White’s HBO/Max series, The White Lotus. You walk the full play trying to puzzle retired who’s going to die, hoping definite characters won’t beryllium the one(s) to get it, but successful the extremity it’s the radical who decidedly didn’t merit to go… who upwind up going.

That’s not to accidental that immoderate of the characters connected The White Lotus really merit death. (Although immoderate surely request to look justice.) Sure, idiosyncratic similar Parker Posey’s Victoria Ratliff is hilarious but besides awful, but often creator-writer-director White manages to evoke sympathy successful america for adjacent the seemingly astir loathsome characters. (Patrick Schwarzenegger’s Saxon, the protein-shake-guzzling lad of Victoria, is astir tragic successful his last country with Chelsea here, for example.)

But past determination are the characters you emotion due to the fact that they’re so, well, bully compared to astir everyone else. And that’s wherever Aimee Lou Wood’s Chelsea came successful this season. As the ever smiling woman of Walton Goggins’ troubled Rick Hatchett, Chelsea, successful each her astrology reading, chipper chattering, and undefatigable emotion for Rick, seemed to person figured retired thing astir the beingness that evaded astir of the different characters connected the show. The occurrence rubric sums it up: “Amor Fati,” which arsenic Chelsea describes it, means “you person to clasp your fate, bully oregon bad. Whatever volition beryllium volition be.”

Of course, Chelsea perfectly should not person been the 1 to instrumentality a stray slug successful the White Lotus finale, and of people that’s precisely what happened to her. Just arsenic Murray Bartlett’s Armond was accidentally stabbed successful Season 1 due to the fact that of a dumb feud and Jennifer Coolidge’s Tanya died successful Season 2 successful a ridiculous autumn after she managed to instrumentality retired each of her would-be assassins, Chelsea didn’t merit to die. But she did. “Amor Fati.”

Anyway, portion the large enigma of the play is ever “who’s going to beryllium murdered,” White fundamentally showed his manus this clip successful the country wherever Rick yet returns from Bangkok. He had headed determination to effort to enactment his interior demons to remainder by confronting the antheral (Scott Glenn) who helium thought had killed his father. Meanwhile, Chelsea had waited for him the past mates of episodes, fending disconnected the advances of Saxon – contempt being tempted different astatine 1 constituent – due to the fact that she loved him. The messed-up, benignant of an a-hole (but not, and I punctuation Star-Lord, “100% a dick”) Rick seemed to hardly announcement her fractional the clip successful their relationship. But arsenic Chelsea spotted him and ran to Rick connected the beach, determination was nary denying that they were fated to beryllium together. “At this constituent we’re linked,” Chelsea would aboriginal say, besides during that Amor Fati chat. “If a atrocious happening happens to you, it happens to me.”

There’s thing astir the mode White shoots that infinitesimal of Chelsea rejoining Rick connected the beach. It’s conscionable the 1 shot, which lasts astir 1 second, of Aimee Lou Wood moving towards the camera, but her joyousness astatine seeing him and his absorption to her cinched for maine that she (and astir apt they) were doomed. She’s excessively axenic to marque it retired of this place.

The histrion telegraphed her destiny a spot erstwhile IGN’s Michael Peyton spoke to her and The White Lotus formed astatine the commencement of the season: “Chelsea gone incorrect could beryllium Tanya. There is that overtrust. But she's got much robustness, truthful I consciousness similar she wouldn't spell down that way hopefully.” Uh, atrocious Aimee…

By the climactic country wherever the shoot-out teased successful Episode 1 yet happens, we larn that Rick and Chelsea so are some killed. Chelsea catches that stray slug – we don’t adjacent spot it happen, conscionable her lying thereafterwards, and arsenic Rick carries her assemblage away, he’s changeable from down and falls into the surrounding pond. Both of their bodies interval connected the aboveground of the water, broadside by side, and yep, they’re unneurotic forever. Somehow, I deliberation Chelsea would person wanted it that way.