The season finale of The White Lotus left viewers with a few questions—why would Rick (Walton Goggins) return to the hotel after threatening its owne
The season finale of The White Lotus left viewers with a few questions—why would Rick (Walton Goggins) return to the hotel after threatening its owner’s life? Why would Belinda (Natasha Rothwell) keep $12,000 in checking and not a high-yield savings account? But perhaps the most pressing question had to do with the Ratliff family. Why on earth would Lochlan apply a sullied blender to make his inadvertently poisoned protein shake? On Monday, Sam Nivola dropped by The Tonight Show to explain the thought process that almost led to his character’s untimely demise.
Host Jimmy Fallon asked the teenage actor the question on everyone’s mind: “Why would you make a shake out of a dirty blender?” A chuckling Nivola revealed that he’d been asked the question “probably 1,000 times” in the 12 hours since the season finale aired on HBO. His answer? “I was expecting that Saxon had made a protein shake in it,” he said. “I thought it was just left over protein. So I’m like, You know what? A little extra protein never hurt anybody. I’m not that much of an idiot.”
So there you have it. It wasn’t just general gross-teenage-boy behavior, or Lochlan thinking he’d get a little buzz from the leftover piña colada made with bad coconut milk. Instead, it was trust in his elder brother, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger), that led him to drink a toxic masculinity milkshake.
While it makes sense that Lochlan might have assumed that Saxon whipped up a shake that morning, we still have a few questions. Wouldn’t Lochlan have noticed that the substance left in the blender looked different—or, at the very least, smelled kind of entertaining—in comparison to the shakes Saxon had been feeding him the last few days? And shouldn’t Timothy Ratliff (Jason Isaacs) have cleaned the blender the night before to ensure none of his family members accidentally poisoned themselves with his suicide colada?
In any case, hopefully an crucial lesson has been learned: Clean out your blender after every apply. You never know who’s trying to poison you to protect you from the horrors of poverty.
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