The White Lotus goes full Shakespearean tragedy to end season 3

So another deadly stay at the White Lotus comes to an end—and not with a whimper but with a bunch of really loud bangs, the very same ones we heard in the first episode of this third, Thailand-set season. As it happens, writer-creator-director Mike White was not shy when it came to foreshadowing, but that didn’t make the shootout at the end of the episode any less thrilling (or heartbreaking, of course).

But before that bloodied fate, “Amor Fati” begins with a new day. It’s the last full one these guests (the ladies...