The White Lotus Season 3‘s newest episode, Full-Moon Party, submerges Jackie (Michelle Monaghan) and her entourage – Kate (Leslie Bibb) and Laurie (Carrie Coon) – in a night of decadence and treachery that graduated into something much darker than just a care-wrecking evening. The group, swayed by the charms of their wellness guide, Valentin (Arnas Fedaravicius), and his accompanying Russians, dives headfirst into an ocean of alcohol, dancing, and reckless fun. What begins as a boozy night gets concluded in the villa pool — followed later by a show in Jackie’s bed. Jackie, in her 30s, married to an unfaithful younger man, crosses the line and sleeps with Valentin. It is a double betrayal: against her marriage and Laurie, her mate, to whom she had practically spent a week egging on to go after Valentin. But Jackie enjoys the thrill anyway. What she does might be driven by something that surpasses mere lust. Jackie’s craving for attention is subliminally present all through the episode: around men, from younger women who covet her, and from anyone who comes close …