- The White Lotus season 3 finale aired on 6 April
- The mysterious body floating in the water was revealed
- Warning: Major season 3 spoilers are featured below
The White Lotus season 3 aired on 6 April, and Greg (Jon Gries) still isn’t dead. The season 3 finale divided fans because of which characters met their final fate.
All we know is the real bad guys are still alive and kicking, and there is still no justice for Tanya (Jennifer Coolidge). Mike White’s HBO show sees rich people holiday at the prestigious White Lotus resort in various countries.
This last season was set in Thailand with another star-studded cast.
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The season 3 flash-forward, where a gunman was shown killing people at the resort, made fans wonder who could be involved. Spoilers: it turns out, no, it wasn’t Greg.
Season 3 featured Jason Isaacs, Aimee Lou Wood, Parker Posey, and Leslie Bibb among others. It also saw a few bizarre storylines: an incest plotline, a man wanting to kill his family and unfortunately, Greg’s return.
Let’s face it, Greg was merely Tanya’s husband. She helped nurse him back to health with expensive doctors, even though he wasn’t sick. In season two, he plotted to kill her. Tanya ended up accidentally drowning before his henchman could do the job.
Read on: The White Lotus finale spoilers are ahead.
Ever since then, fans have wanted justice for Tanya. Here is why Greg should’ve died in the finale, instead of who White chose.
1. It would be karmic justice for The White Lotus season 2
Season three of The White Lotus explores lots of themes. Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), the resort masseuse from season 1, and Tanya’s friend, knows about what Greg did.
Primarily, her season 3 storyline is tied into his. This makes you think Greg will face some kind of comeuppance for Tanya’s death.
Having him die at the end of season 3 might have been predictable, but it would’ve been karmic justice for his lies. All Tanya did was take care of Greg. Although she was emotionally vulnerable, she did not deserve to be treated by him the way she was.
He and his lover Quetin trying to take her out is cringe-inducing. The least she could do is escape them.
Without her, he probably would’ve faced his miserable last days as a poor person.
Ultimately, she dies in vain when she dies trying to escape her murderer. Although a tiny piece of satisfaction is given when she shoots him, her death is still not avenged.
2. Chelsea’s death was pointless
Chelsea’s (Aimee Lou Wood) dying was predictable, to say the least. Having almost died twice this season, you’d think her dying at the end could’ve been avoided. Had her death not been used just to shock the audience, it would’ve made sense. White’s explanation of her death does add up – she is one of the nicer characters this season.
That optimism and kindness to people who don’t deserve it gets her killed in the shootout. Even her boyfriend, Rick (Walt Goggins) gets offed in that crossfire.
Although White’s explanation of a “Greek tragedy” makes some sense, it is a boring and cheap way to end the season. Seasons 1 and 2 both did this by killing the popular and likeable characters. Then letting the rich, evil characters go Scott free.
In season 1, resort manager Armond (Murray Bartlett) is killed by the entitled rich mommy’s boy, Shane (Jake Lacy). In season 2, Tanya dies even after trying to escape a murder-for-hire plot. Season 3, Chelsea dies, caught up by a stray bullet.
What happeed to the idea of bad rich people dying satisfyingly, and not people like Chelsea? Doing it for three seasons now is overdone and unoriginal.
Having Greg die a season after his wife would be poetic justice, especially if Belinda pulled the trigger, and would allow the moral characters to survive.
3. Season 1 Belinda wouldn’t have accepted that money
In the season 3 finale, Belinda and her son Zion (Nicholas Duvernay) unfortunately take the hush money in a deal. But not before asking Greg for more. Zion cunningly convinces his mom to negotiate with Greg for more money than the measly $100,000 they were offered to keep quiet. Belinda agrees to keep quiet about Tanya’s death in exchange for the money and sees the number $5 million in her account the next day.
The trouble is season 1, Belinda would not have taken that money. It would’ve been more satisfying to see her contemplate taking the money all season, only to turn around and kill Greg in an attempt to avenge Tanya.
His coming back otherwise is just pointless because he and Belinda are the only characters to return in this anthology-style show, so what is the point of bringing him back just to have him and his young girlfriend Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) ride off into the sunset together?
4. His death would’ve tied The White Lotus seasons together
If White didn’t want the seasons of The White Lotus to be linked, he shouldn’t have brought back Tanya, Greg, or Belinda in the first place. Season 1 could’ve easily ended with the couple together, there was no need to bring them back. Greg and Tanya coming back was a deliberate decision.
In our opinion, bringing him back was to bring a sense of continuity to the show and to make a commentary on what greed and evil can occur when someone gets their hands on money. Before Tanya Greg didn’t have money, and her prenuptial agreement with him stands in his way of him accessing her money.
His motive to kill her made sense, but the overall aim of his trying to pull an assassination attempt on her is to show that the seasons of The White Lotus are connected.
Even though the deaths are considered standalone tragedies, there are connections through these characters to previous events from past seasons.
Additionally, Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) discovers his plot in season 2, but drops it. That plotline was begging for a resolution, which White could’ve had with Greg dying in season 3, especially if it was at the hands of Belinda.
Narratively, Greg dying would’ve satisfied the audience, and unless White is preparing something bigger for Greg, his arc should’ve finished in season 3.
