After a few months of shivering through Severance's blank white corridors and icy exterior shots, I've appreciated the sultry visual texture of The White Lotus's third season: the vivid prints of high-end resort wear; the ominous blue of the ocean; the verdant setting (as wild and seething as anything manicured into luxury-hotel perfection can be). The show is thrilling as a sensory experience, humming with sinister percussive beats and the occasional muffled animal squawk in the distance. Against this backdrop, it feels only natural that we'd fall in love with the characters who seem the most real, the most alive. I'm talking, of course, about Chelsea, played by Aimee Lou Wood, and Chloe, played by Charlotte Le Bon'two gorgeous women who meet at a bar after Chelsea says, 'I love your outfit,' and Chloe replies, 'Thank you! I love your teeth.' This quick moment set off a good-natured riot of online debate'labeled the 'smile discourse' by Allure'about what it means to see not just...
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