The trio of blonde friends vacationing at The White Lotus this season may feel a tad familiar to Bravo fans. Jaclyn, Laurie, and Kate\u2014played by Michelle Monaghan, Carrie Coon,<\/strong> and Leslie Bibb,<\/strong> respectively\u2014are longtime pals on a good old-fashioned girls trip to Thailand. Their dynamic is tricky from the start: At every opportunity, two of the women will split off to gossip about the third. Things take an even more dramatic turn in the show\u2019s most recent episode, when Jaclyn\u2014a married television actress who has spent the trip trying to convince Laurie, a recent divorc\u00e9e, to have a fling with handsome, flirty hotel worker Valentin (Arnas Fedaravicius<\/strong>)\u2014winds up hooking up with Valentin herself.<\/p>\n If a group of middle-aged women partying at a resort and causing chaos by bringing men back to their hotel rooms feels a bit like d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, that\u2019s because this very same plot is a hallmark of another TV series: The Real Housewives of New York City<\/em>. And since White Lotus<\/em> creator Mike White<\/strong> is an avowed fan of the Housewives<\/em> franchise\u2014\u201cYou watch stuff like The Real Housewives<\/em> and you start to think, \u2018We\u2019re all so vacuous! Is there any nobility to any of these people?\u2019\u201d he told The New York Times<\/em> in 2011<\/a>\u2014looking back at the most notorious Housewives<\/em> field trips may help us predict where Jaclyn, Laurie, and Kate\u2019s storyline is going.<\/p>\n