The White Lotus Season 3’s suicide tree fruit is real but the finale made it pointless

The villain in The White Lotus Season 3 finale should have been the suicide tree and its poisonous fruit, but that was far from the truth.

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We’ve seen Timothy eyeing up the poisonous fruit on the “suicide tree” all the way through The White Lotus Season 3. But just as its seeds could have come into play, the finale bottled it.

Remember when Pam warned the Ratliffs about the poisonous fruit coming from the so-called suicide tree when they first checked in? Well, let’s tell you some horrifying facts. Both the tree and the fruit are real, able to cause complete heart failure within an hour of ingesting them.

Actually called the Pong Pong tree, our fatal fruit contains something called cerberin, which is able to stop the heart in roughly 30 minutes. Before then, you’ve got nausea, dizziness, and diarrhea to contend with when it enters the bloodstream – oh, and there’s no known antidote.

In short, the suicide tree should have provided some pretty explosive deaths in The White Lotus Season 3 finale, yet it stopped short. Instead, all of the months of set-up essentially acted as a red herring in the binge-worthy TV show, with Timothy more conflicted about what to do with his family than ever. Warning: finale spoilers ahead!

The White Lotus Season 3’s suicide tree doesn’t properly use its poisonous fruit

We’ve all seen the ominous shots of Timothy holding the fruit, finding Pam to clarify what the poisonous seeds are actually capable of. He enters the Season 3 finale with the intention to kill his entire family, yet they all emerge unscathed at the end. Thanks to a bunch of “almost,” we never get to see the suicide tree do what it’s threatened to all season long.

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Between waving a gun about and holding said poisonous fruit, Timothy has spent a great deal of time thinking things over. It seemed as though Episode 8 was finally when he’d decide to do something about it, blending the seeds with good reason to bin them all off. Piper is actually the spoiled, privileged brat she’s always claimed not to be, Saxon is too in Timothy’s shadow, and Victoria’s just not meant to live an uncomfortable life at this age.

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So surely a cheeky little poisonous smoothie wouldn’t make anyone too suspicious – if it actually happened. Instead, the one person actually almost poisoned was Lochlan, not rinsing the blender out before making himself a drink. Father and son have a tense moment by the pool, but Lochlan comes round and nobody even seems interested in getting to the bottom of what happened.

The actual ending the Ratliff family gets is a somber speech from a crumbling Timothy, hinting that “big changes” are waiting for them back at home. We don’t really get a reaction to this from his clan, with Victoria annoyingly non-plussed (come on Mike White, where were the scathing putdowns to close Season 3 out?)

So what was the point of our suicide tree and its poisonous fruits in the first place? Do they serve as a metaphorical near-miss? The complexities of humankind and the psyche? Or was it merely a neat way to distract us from being able to guess the Season 3 finale?

We don’t have answers yet, but we do know this side-plot became completely pointless, and that’s frustrating.

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