Every Depraved Character on The White Lotus, Ranked

Zion (Nicholas Duvernay, Season 3)

HBOZion is the first face we see in The White Lotus season 3, and we know he loves his mom, Belinda. He gets into a whole business negotiation thing in the finale of season 3 with Greg/Gary and quoting Langston Hughes to him is quite funny. But outside of being an extension of Belinda, there’s not a whole lot more to him.

Mook (LISA/Lalisa Manobal, Season 3)

HBOMook 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 she’s a source of motivation for him to become the killer everyone wants to be. But shouldn’t characters be more than plot devices/motivation for other characters?

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Fabian (Christian Friedel, Season 3)

HBOFirst 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.

Gaitok (Tayme Thapthimthong, Season 3)

HBOGaitok 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, despite his importance in the way everything ultimately turns out.

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Sritala Hollinger (Lek Patravadi, Season 3)

HBOSritala seems like a nice lady; her highlight 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.

Kitty (Molly Shannon, Season 1)

HBOLet’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.

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Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn, Season 3)

HBOWe 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. In the finale, his dirtbag nature comes to the forefront—and kicks off a fireworks display that leaves a number of people dead. This is a character who doesn’t have a ton of screen time, but has his impact felt in a major way.

Mia (Beatrice Grannò, Season 2)

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

Paula (Brittany O’Grady, Season 1)

HBOPaula 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 (Leo Woodall, Season 2)

HBOJack 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.

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Valentina (Sabrina Impacciatore, Season 2)

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Nicole Mossbacher (Connie Britton, Season 1)

HBOConnie 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.

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Piper Ratliff (Sarah Catherine Hook, Season 3)

HBOPiper 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. Hook’s greatest moment comes in the finale, when she reluctantly, finally admits that she’s more like her mom than she wants to admit. She just wants air conditioning and organic foods, OK?

Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon, Season 3)

HBONow 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.

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Lucia (Simona Tabasco, Season 2)

HBODid 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.

Lochlan Ratliff (Sam Nivola, Season 3)

HBOTroublemaker? Or just a freak? Whatever is going on with Lochlan, Sam Nivola played 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.

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Quentin (Tom Hollander, Season 2)

HBOSinister! 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.

Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs, Season 3)

HBOOne 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 did a great job bringing this character to life, and as season 3 concluded, it clearly built to something very major and almost very upsetting.

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Frank (Sam Rockwell, Season 3)

HBOWe mentioned Quentin, 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.

Bert Di Grasso (F. Murray Abraham, Season 2)

HBOGotta 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.

Evan is the culture editor for Men’s Health, with bylines in The New York Times, MTV News, Brooklyn Magazine, and VICE. He loves weird movies, watches too much TV, and listens to music more often than he doesn’t.