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The last time I saw my best friend, he was licking someone’s butt, took a poop in a suitcase, and then was murdered.
There was something about Murray Bartlett’s energy as Armond, the person trying—so desperately—to remain grounded, but who never stopped his judgment of everyone’s demands. In the end, he had all the groundedness and stability of a toddler shaking an Etch-a-Sketch. It never worked. Armond may not be with us anymore. (If you haven’t watched the first season of The White Lotus yet… why not? I guess that’s a spoiler.) But his memory lives on in how we watch The White Lotus now.