Every Depraved Character on The White Lotus, Ranked

Zion is the first face we see in The White Lotus season 3, and we know he loves his mom, Belinda. But we don’t know a whole lot more about him beyond that. There aren’t really any bad characters in The White Lotus, but there are some that we don’t get to know super well.

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Mook is kind of just an placeholder character in The White Lotus season 3. We know that she’s an object of affection for Gaitok in between his bumbling errors and mishaps, and beyond that there’s not much more to her—at least not to date.

Gaitok is interesting because he represents something that’s kind of dormant in all of us: Doing a half-assed job at work because you’re thinking about something else. But unfortunately he’s just not one of the more compelling characters in the show.

First of all, we just need to acknowledge how absurd it is that Fabian, the awkward, annoying, and strange manager from The White Lotus season 3 is played by Christian Friedel—the same Christian Friedel who played the horrific Nazi commandant Rudolf Höss in the Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest. Now that’s acting, folks! That being said, we don’t get a ton out of Fabian, although his little subplots—being annoyed with Gaitok, his awkward desire to sing/perform, etc—are quite funny.

We haven’t gotten a ton out of Jim Hollinger—played by the legendary Scott Glenn—just yet. But his mere presence, punctuated with some pretty strong Rorschach test-style reactions is strong enough; Rick’s (Walton Goggins) entire story also revolves around him. We have to assume that his best is still be to come.

Mia is the weaker of the two friends (along with Lucia) who hustle people in Sicily in Season 2. She does love to sing, though!

Sritala seems like a nice lady; her highlight so far is watching clips of her old movies with Frank (Sam Rockwell) as both have an absolute ball, while Rick and Jim are off having the most intense confrontation you’ve ever seen.

Let’s be clear: Molly Shannon is incredible and always funny. She is very, very, very, very good at what she does (and she gives an unbelievable performance in The Other Two, if you’re looking for a very funny television comedy). But there’s not a ton to her The White Lotus character, Kitty, outside of being a very obnoxious, imposing, and out-of-touch mother/mother-in-law. And that counts for something! But falls below some of these other creations of Mr. Mike White.

Paula is an interesting case; she thinks she’s doing something noble, but is actually undercutting the people doing something personally nice for her. Not the most interesting character in and of herself, but an early example of White doing something interesting with the nuance in his characters.

Jack is part of one of the most shocking moments on TV in the last decade, and Leo Woodall plays him like a total idiot Love Island fuckboy. But he’s still more of a plot device (and, well, accessory to a crime) than an incredible White Lotus character.

Connie Britton is an absolute television icon—Tami Taylor in Friday Night Lights forever—and she gives it her all as the wealthy Nicol Mossbacher in the first season of The White Lotus. She’s great! The character just doesn’t ultimately elevate to one of the show’s best, but she does her job well in the time she has.

Piper no! Sarah Catherine Hook plays Piper as the most sane, normal person in season 3’s out-of-control Ratliff family. She just wants to stay in Thailand to meditate. But does she really? Hook does a great job of playing a character who’s totally sure of what she wants. Right? There’s just that tiniest bit of doubt she’s got that’s being conveyed super well.

Now we’re getting to the troublemakers. Charlotte Le Bon wasn’t actually the original choice to play Chloe—she joined in a recasting part way into the shoot—but we can’t imagine her any other way. Chloe is the unknowing girlfriend of the very dangerous “Gary,” but she’s no angel either; some of the most entertaining moments of the show have come from her instigating trouble with just about anyone she’s come into contact with.

Did someone say troublemakers? If there’s anyone who “won” season 2 of The White Lotus, it was Lucia, who managed to play with the hearts of silly rich guys Dominic (Michael Imperioli) and Albie. And, quite frankly, to quote Lucille Bluth in Arrested Development: Good for her.

Troublemaker? Or just a freak? Whatever is going on with Lochlan, Sam Nivola has been playing him to quiet perfection. While he’s the youngest of the Ratliff children, he kind of has a great middle child vibe to him, stuck between the worlds of his two older siblings but with an entire third world clearly existing in his twisted little head.

One of season 3’s most polarizing stories is that of Timothy Ratliff, who is facing financial ruin and legal consequences, and thus spends much of his time fantasizing about death, zonking himself out on pills, and on the phone looking both incredibly mad and incredibly worried. Jason Isaacs is doing a great job bringing this character to life, and clearly, as season 3 comes to an end, it’s going to build to something major.

Sinister! This guy is friendly and fun, but also sleek and evil. And man does he know how to deliver a monologue. A great, great job by Tom Hollander.

But we cannot talk about monologues without talking about Sam Rockwell’s surprise appearance as Frank in The White Lotus season 3; Quite frankly, he delivers one of the most unhinged, watchable monologues in television history. When he starts drinking again by the season’s seventh episode, everyone watching at home left out a collective “uh oh”—because we all know very well the kind of debauchery that probably comes next.

Gotta love a lewd grandpa, right? Well, maybe you don’t. But F. Murray Abraham brings his Oscar-winning prowess to a show that knows exactly how to use him; In watching Bert, you can see exactly why Albie and Dom turned out the way they did.