Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Hello, and welcome to the White Lotus official podcast companion to season three. I'm Gia Tolentino.
And later in this episode, we'll be talking to John Grice. My question for you, Josh, is in Sam Rockwell's imaginary film trilogy, which we hear about. It's the, hold on, it's the, help me.
He says it, the executor. But I was confused because I thought he was going to say executioner.
But if it's like a will, aren't you like the executor?
And then the notary has to come and sign it.
Oh.
It's a briefcase thing for me. Like it's like he folds it up in the briefcase and then he's like getting on and someone snatches it.
Exactly. Okay, before we get into the notarized revenge plot near murder we witnessed, we should say we're talking about episode seven. The title is Killer Instincts and it was written and directed by Mike White. So this is a dark episode. It's dark.
Yeah, everyone, almost everyone has kind of like a test, like a gauntlet that they are set. And it's like, what choice will you make? And not all of them have chosen.
Yeah. Everyone's in this really weird flux. It really like I kept watching like throughout the episode, I was like, everyone is trying to see if they're going to pass some sort of test, it feels like. It really all comes to the surface with the ladies the most.
They're at dinner just like furiously looking at the menu. They're kind of being like, I'm fucking sick of Thai food. Like you can feel they're like, when's this bottle of rosé going to get here so we can stop just avoiding eye contact with each other.
It's a victory to our lives.
And they're all correct. Like, they're all accurate. Like, the reads are accurate. They say to Lori, like, the thing that makes you disappointed changes, but you're always disappointed. And it's like, that's right.
And then she says, Kate, you're a fake bitch.
And it's like, yeah, it's all correct.
And Kate's like, I suppressed that. Excuse me.
That's not, we suppressed that together. I did like the line of dialogue where Jacqueline tells Laurie, you always choose the short stick. And then you think you got the short stick.
Yeah. And that was kind of brutal.
But do you think Jacqueline meant it was like you chose the thing that was going to be hard? Like, you know, like you chose the thing that was not going to be easy. You're having to fight your way up at this firm. You know, presumably this relationship with this man was also not easy. And then you're upset about it not being easy. Right, exactly. That's good. That's devastating.
You can't feel self-righteous about choosing the path that's hard work and then feel like a victim for having had to work for your shit.
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