The
Resort
Came
out; 2022
Episodes:
8
Where
to Watch: Peacock
Rated:
TV-MA
Rating
7.3/10
Rotten
Tomatoes
Tomatometer:
88%
Popcornmeter:
64%
Caution;
Spoiler Alert
Staring:
Cristin
Milioti as Emma
William
Jackson Harper as Noah
Luis
Gerardo Mendez as Baltasar Frias
Skyler
Gisondo as Sam
Nina
Bloomgarden as Violet Thompson
Gabriela
Cartol as Luna
Nick
Offerman as Murray Thompson
Becky
Ann Baker as Jan
Dylan
Baker as Carl
Debby
Ryan as Hanna
Ben
Sinclair as Alex
Premise:
Noah
and Emma are vacationing in the Mayan
Riviera for
their 10th anniversary. Noah has been content with life, whereas Emma
feels like their marriage is in a rut. They are then pulled into an
unsolved mystery of two missing persons from 15 years earlier, which
tests the resolve of their marriage
Overall
Thoughts:
This
was really good! At first, it feels like The White Lotus, but it
quickly changes. There are several stories within one story that all
intertwine.
This
sucks you in and keeps going
The
ending was a little weird but so good
Episode
1:
The Disappointment of Time
Married
couple Emma and Noah arrive at a resort in the Riviera
Maya for
their 10th anniversary, hoping the trip will reignite their
stagnating relationship. On an ATV trip through the jungle, Emma
crashes off course and finds a Motorola
Razr phone
in the jungle. She discovers the phone belonged to Sam Lawford, a
teenager who went missing in 2007 from the nearby Oceania Vista
resort, along with Violet Thompson, another teenager staying at the
resort. However, the Oceania Vista was destroyed by a hurricane the
same night the two went missing, impeding the investigation. Noah
finds the phone in Emma’s bag, and the two decide to investigate
the case themselves rather than submitting the phone to police. In
2007, Sam is shown vacationing at the Oceania Vista, where he
connects with Violet after learning his girlfriend is having an
affair with her professor.
Episode
2:
A Noxious Toothworm
In
2007, Violet helps care for Sam after a skateboard accident and the
two exchange numbers. It is revealed that Violet’s mother died a
year prior and left Violet a novel titled “El
Desilusión del Tiempo,”
with
an inscription instructing Violet to reunite with her at “Pasaje”
— a
mystical place described in the book as being “outside of time.”
In the present day, Emma and Noah read texts between Sam and Violet
referencing the Frías clan, an alleged crime family in the Yucatan
peninsula, and learn that the estranged Baltasar Frías was employed
at the Oceania Vista. Looking through old staff photos from the
Oceania Vista, they recognize Luna, a concierge still working in the
riviera, and question her about Baltasar but are met with elusive
answers. Eventually the two learn that Sam’s skateboard was found
in Baltasar’s room the week of their disappearance, and that he was
a prime suspect in the disappearance. Luna informs Baltasar that Emma
and Noah are investigating the disappearance.
Episode
3:
Tempus Exhaurire
In
2007, Sam and Violet attend a Christmas party at the Oceania Vista,
where they meet Luna and Baltasar. Sam finds and confronts the man
who stole his skateboard, stealing his key card and breaking into his
penthouse room where he and Violet kiss. In the present day, Emma and
Noah break into the ruined Oceania Vista and locate the penthouse
room, matching it with a photo taken on Sam’s phone. The room also
contains mysterious notes about “Pasaje”
and
a mural of the Oceania Vista depicting Baltasar, Luna, Sam, and
Violet. Baltasar follows and ambushes Emma and Noah and tries to take
Sam’s phone, but it drops down an elevator shaft during their
scuffle.
Episode
4:
A History of Forgetting
In
the present day, Baltasar explains to Emma and Noah that the room
belonged to the Oceania Vista’s eccentric owner, Alex Vasilakis.
After successfully running the resort alongside Baltasar and Luna for
five years, Alex became unstable and began complaining that his
memories were “leaking” out of his ears, writing cryptic notes
about Pasaje, and
experiencing prophetic visions of the resort being destroyed. Around
the same time, Baltasar investigated Sam’s disappearance,
recognizing him from the Christmas party, and learned that he and
Violet were last seen with Alex, though he claimed to have no memory
of meeting them. Baltasar later saw Alex commit suicide by walking
naked into the sea before the approaching hurricane destroyed the
resort. Baltasar then reveals that the mural Alex painted in 2007
contains prophetic depictions of Emma and Noah searching the resort
in the present day.
Episode
5: El Espejo
Baltasar,
Emma, Noah and Luna return to the area where Sam’s phone was found
to search for more evidence. Noah tells Luna that he and Emma lost a
daughter during childbirth. Baltasar tries to convince Emma that she
is connected to Sam and Violet over a shared loss and that she found
the phone for a reason. Noah accidentally finds Violet’s phone,
containing a video of Alex confessing that he encountered Sam and
Violet in his room on the night of their disappearance and found “El
Desilusión del Tiempo”
among
Violet’s things. Believing the book to be about himself, he warned
Sam and Violet not to look for pasaje,
then
stole their phones and hid them in the jungle at a spot where he
envisioned Emma crashing her ATV.
Episode
6:
Hünch
fò Llub Sēēth
Baltasar
recognizes the author of “El
Desilusión del Tiempo,”
Illan
Iberra, as the same author who wrote a crime novel he read as a
child, and who the Frias family later targeted because Baltasar did
not like the ending of the book. Emma, Noah, and Baltasar visit the
now sick and elderly Iberra, who confirms that Sam and Violet came to
him in 2007 to ask about “El
Desilusión del Tiempo.”
Violet
believed her mother’s investigations into the book would have
created a map with Pasaje
at
the center, but her mother died before decoding the final location:
“Hünch
fò Llub Sēēth,”
written
in Iberra’s made
up language.
Iberra told Sam and Violet he was unaware of the exact location and
dissuaded them from searching, but they ventured into the jungle
regardless. In the present day, before Iberra can reveal the
location’s translation, he notices the Frías insignia on
Baltasar’s pen and attempts to kill him, but his anger overwhelms
him and causes him to have a heart attack. Undeterred, Emma uses
Iberra’s partial translation to determine the location of Pasaje
herself.
Episode
7:
La
Pubertad del Matrimonio
In
2007, Sam and Violet begin their search for Pasaje
and
share an intimate moment while camping together in the jungle. In the
present day, Emma contacts Violet’s father Murray and shares with
him the location of Pasaje
before
leaving to find it herself. She is followed by Noah, and later
Baltasar, Luna and Murray. Camping in the jungle, Emma and Noah argue
about their marriage, Baltasar states his desire to meet Alex again
in Pasaje,
and Murray shares his grief over Violet and his deceased wife. When
Emma experiences a severe tooth infection, she asks Noah to pull it
out with a pair of pliers. While relieving himself in the grass,
Murray spots the entrance to Pasaje
as
described in the book.
Episode 8:
The Disillusionment of Time
Entering
the cave found by Murray, the group discover a boat leading to a
strange underground forest. Finding themselves at two branching
tunnels, Baltasar and Murray explore one while Noah and Emma enter
the other. In 2007, Sam and Violet locate and enter the cave as the
approaching hurricane rages. With rain flooding the cave, the pair
get lost and are unable to find their way out as the water level
rises. As they resign to their fate and embrace each other, Violet
sees a mysterious light. In the present day, Noah and Emma find
Violet’s flashlight and spot a narrow tunnel in the cave wall,
which Emma enters. At the end of the tunnel she finds Sam and Violet
floating in Pasaje,
a circular pool of light, where they have been suspended in time for
fifteen years. She pulls them from the water and leads them out of
the cave where Violet emotionally reunites with her father. Sam
explains that the fifteen years in Pasaje felt
like “five minutes” and liquid begins leaking from his ear;
Violet shares with Emma that she reunited with her mother in Pasaje.
Emma tells Noah that she saw their deceased daughter in the water but
chose not to enter, instead choosing to stay in the real world with
Noah. Violet and Murray leave to have dinner together while Sam goes
to reunite with his parents. Later, back at the resort, while
reminiscing on the journey, Baltasar and Luna debate whether Violet
got a happy ending, reuniting with her mother but losing fifteen
years with her father. Baltasar leaves, implicitly to reunite with
Alex in Pasaje,
as Luna cryptically smiles at the audience before following.
