Piper, no! Parker Posey’s viral White Lotus accent is a gift to us all

The actor’s lorazepam-fueled North Carolinian line delivery in the comedy drama series has taken the internet by storm

Every season of The White Lotus has its thing: a moment that takes off and becomes its own monster until long after the end credits roll on the finale. Season one was the suitcase poop scene, an effect so bizarrely groundbreaking that other showrunners wound up publicly musing on how much it must have cost. Season two’s thing was Jennifer Coolidge saying, “These gays, they’re trying to murder me,” which you will see replayed three times a minute whenever you look at anyone’s Instagram stories.

It might be too early to definitively state what season three’s thing is – The White Lotus always goes from a standing start to a nutso finale, and we still have three episodes left for things to really ramp up – but there are already a couple of contenders. For a while, it looked like it might have been Jason Isaacs’ penis, until he forcefully shut down the conversation last week. And that leaves the single most spectacular thing about the season so far: Parker Posey’s accent.

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