‘The White Lotus’: The Root of Victoria & Tim’s Marriage Mess Is March Madness

The Ratliff family on The White Lotus is a house divided in so many ways.

Victoria (Parker Posey) and Tim (Jason Isaacs) are players in a marriage in name (and money) only, Saxon (Patrick Schwarzenegger) and Piper (Sarah Catherine Hook) don’t get along at all, and I’m not going to even attempt to dissect the potential incest plot line between Saxon and Lochlan (Sam Nivola). But, the center of this fractured family stems back to Tobacco Road.

Piper and Victoria went to UNC-Chapel Hill, the nation’s first public university and home of the Tar Heels, while Tim and Saxon are Duke University alums and Blue Devils fans. No wonder Lochlan is questioning where he wants to go to college. He’s been thrust in the middle of the greatest rivalry in college basketball — and one of the many reasons this family has likely always been at odds.