Look, It Had to Happen

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Spoilers for The White Lotus season three, episode six, “Denials.”

Mike White had been teasing White Lotus season-three viewers with some brother-on-brother action between Saxon and Lochlan, the Ratliff boys played by nepo-babies-in-arms Patrick Schwarzenegger and Sam Nivola, since the very first episode. The season practically marinates in the queasiness of the prospect, luxuriating in the taboo with Saxon’s whole “so hetero something’s gotta give”...