In a show full of unlikable people, it takes a special character to be the absolute, no-contest worst of the bunch. On White Lotus’s season three, it’s without a doubt Greg (Jon Gries) a.k.a. Gary a.k.a. the not-so-grieving widower of season one and two’s Tanya McQuoid (Jennifer Coolidge).

In a bit of a twist, Greg is the only character to appear on all three seasons of White Lotus, as he was reintroduced to viewers in the first episode of season three. Technically, he’s not a guest at the resort. Having inherited Tanya’s giant fortune, Greg now owns a luxurious house steps away from the White Lotus in Thailand. He’s also dating a model named Chloe (Charlotte Le Bon) who slightly resents him, and is dating him for his wealth — not unlike his own relationship to Tanya. He’s also going by the alias Gary, presumably because law enforcement is looking at Greg as a suspicious person in Tanya’s death.

White Lotus is an anthology series, following a different group of appalling rich people around a different lavish resort each season for a vacation that inevitably ends in someone’s death. Although the show has seen some characters return — namely Tanya and Belinda (Natasha Rothwell), the saintly White Lotus Hawaii staffer who Tanya plied with promises of her own spa in season one — it hasn’t seemed to have (or been billed as having) a throughline narrative, until now.

The problem for “Gary” is that Belinda just so happens to be at the Thai resort as part of an exchange program. She finally recognized Greg in episode three, but while she knew that he distracted their mutual patron from funding Belinda’s dream of owning her own business, she didn’t yet know about Tanya’s untimely demise — or Greg’s role in it. (Quick refresh: Greg employed a coterie of scamming homosexuals to have his wife killed, but ultimately she smacked her own head on the side of a boat while trying to jump to safety.) He denied they’d ever met (he’s Gary after all), but in the season’s fourth episode, Belinda is up to speed thanks to a quick Google, and terrified. So is Greg. If Belinda exchanges enough information with authorities, she could shatter everything he worked to hide!

Episode four picks up after Greg and Belinda’s face-to-face. He........

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