White Lotus fans fume over preposterous plot hole in Season 3 finale: Dumb as hell

There’s not all praise for “The White Lotus” Season 3 finale.Fans of the HBO show called out a plot hole involving Rick (Walton Goggins) on social media after the shocking episode aired Sunday night.Viewers complained about Rick’s decision to return to the hotel after assaulting resort manager Jim Hollinger (Scott Glenn) in Bangkok.Later in the episode, Rick murders Jim who turns out to be his father.

That leads to a shootout that ends in Rick and Chelsea’s (Aimee Lou Wood) deaths.“Why the f–k would Rick have gone back to the hotel owned by the guy he just assaulted (and not even try to leave in any hurry)?” one fan wrote on X (formerly Twitter).“Why is Rick still at the hotel?!? He tried to murder the owners husband! Get out of the country! Did that ‘enlightenment’ give him brain damage?” another viewer said.A third person tweeted, “Rick and his daddy issues was the worst thing this season.

He was so dumb as hell to go back to the hotel in the first place.This is all his fault!” A different viewer said that “Rick returning the hotel, and chilling there, after what he did at the owners’ house” was “nonsense” and “preposterous.”“It really makes no sense that rick and chelsea were even still at the hotel tbh,” another fan tweeted.“I think it was pretty stupid of rick to go back to that hotel in first place,” someone else wrote.In a Reddit thread about the episode, fans similarly bashed the Rick plotline.“Really the only thing I can’t look past is how impractical it is for Rick to return to the hotel after conning and assaulting its owners,” one viewer wrote.“I’m sorry but the fact that Rick went back to the hotel instead of just telling Chelsea to check out and meet him in Bangkok was INCREDIBLY stupid to me,” another critic wrote.There were other plot points that audiences complained about on social media following the finale.In regards to the moment where Kate (Leslie Bibb) recognizes Victoria (Parker ...