‘SNL’ Spoofs ‘The White Lotus’ With ‘The Black Lotus’
With The White Lotus star Aubrey Plaza because the Saturday Night Live host this week, a spoof of the favored HBO anthology collection appeared inevitable. It got here within the type of The Black Lotus, that includes
“eight rich vacationers, one luxurious lodge and a employees who has no time for this nonsense.”
Chloe Fineman reprised her spot-on Jennifer Coolidge impersonation, which drew reward by the Emmy-winning White Lotus star. Nonetheless, Plaza didn’t reprise her function as Harper; as a substitute, she performed a brand new character, a bartender with a brief fuse.
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The skit largely spoofed the latest Italy-set second season of The White Lotus, together with Michael Imperioli’s character Dominic, his son and the 2 native intercourse employees they bought entangled with in addition to Tanya’s (Coolidge) assistant Portia and her paramour Jack. There was additionally a wink to a thriller surrounding Plaza’s character Harper, whether or not or not she had intercourse with Theo James’ Cameron.
For good measure, the parody included one of the memorable scenes from Season 1, Jake Lacy’s Shane demanding the suite he had booked.
The White Lotus has had one main Black character to date, Natasha Rothwell’s Belinda in Season 1. With The Black Lotus that includes a Black lodge personnel, led by Ego Nwodim because the supervisor, the collection will likely be “coming to HBO and Starz,” the SNL spoof teased, a reference to Starz’s concentrate on programming catering to Black audiences, together with the Energy franchise and BMF.
Watch the skit for The Black Lotus, which guarantees “all of the decadence, all of the intrigue, not one of the foolishness,” above.
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