(Warning: This text options spoilers for The White Lotus season two.)
When issues appear too good to be true, they normally are.
This actually appears to be the case for heiress Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge)’s state of affairs on The White Lotus season two. After being ditched by her husband Greg (Jon Gries) on a romantic Sicilian getaway, luxurious English expat Quentin (Tom Hollander) swooped in to cheer her spirits by inviting her and her assistant Portia (Haley Lu Richardson) to get together with him at his villa in Palermo.
Innocent, proper? Eh, we do not assume so.
Through the Dec. 4 episode, Quentin inspired Tanya to do a considerable amount of cocaine supplied by a mafia-adjacent, gun-owning suitor. Now, motivating Tanya to be her most debaucherous self does not mechanically make Quentin a villain. However, thanks to episode one, we do know that a number of lifeless our bodies pop up on the White Lotus, so it is actually a pink flag.
One other pink flag? Tanya’s assistant Portia being suspiciously whisked out of city by Quentin’s fake nephew Jack (Leo Woodall). To not point out, Jack drunkenly confessed to Portia that Quentin does not need to promote his villa anymore as he is “coming into cash.”