*White Lotus Spoilers ahead* Mike White loves a Chekhov’s gun. (The storytelling principle that says: If you put a gun on the mantle in Act I, it has to fire by Act III.)

He's given us Chekhov’s blender and at least three handguns.

But the best of them all is Chekhov’s knife, from Season 1. It’s also the most instructive.

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