Spoiler Alert: This review contains spoilers for the Season 3 finale of “The White Lotus,” now streaming on Max.

“Stop worrying about the love you didn’t get,” Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) told her partner Rick (Walton Goggins), in one of their final moments together on the just-concluded season of “The White Lotus.” She went on: “Think about the love you have. I love you. I’m right here.”

This was an attempt to pull Rick back from the brink; consumed by his own rage at once again recalling his difficult childhood, Rick went to a place where, sometimes, Chelsea could find and recover him. And it was a statement of purpose for a sometimes-wobbly season of television that mainly stuck the landing: In this iteration of “The White Lotus,” we had to sometimes stop worrying about what we weren’t provided. Because the bright spots, like Wood’s incandescent performance,...