Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Like a party or something?
It's very unhappy.
Right.
He slept over with Jacqueline. I thought this was played really well and funnily. So Kate tells Laurie, you know what happened last night? Like, you know, I think I had a sleepover, you know, and breaks the snooze. Obviously, Kate at some level knows that this will be devastating to Laurie, right? She has been talking shit with Jacqueline about how...
You know, how hard the divorce has been for Laurie and how unbelievably single she is. And they treat her as if she is someone that is, you know, the third wheel, the friend that's not chosen first. And she knows how much it would mean. And kind of the charity case. The charity case. And they've both been sort of talking up this Laurie possibility, although Jacqueline more so than Kate.
Like, she knows when she says, actually, Jacqueline... Fucked Valentin. Like, she knows it's not going to be received neutrally. But when Laurie also tries ostensibly to play it cool, Kate's like, I thought you would think this was funny. Like, you're getting mad. Why are you getting mad?
Well, I think that Kate is having it both ways where she truly believes that she's just engaging in little girl talk. But deep down underneath, she knows that she has an upper hand because she has this information that one person desperately wants but doesn't know and the other person desperately doesn't want her to share.
But she doesn't want to believe herself to be a person that would do this kind of thing. Like she's just like, I thought we were having fun. And I also thought that the way that Carrie Coon plays –
her own response which is like oh i just think it's interesting i just think it's really interesting jacklyn you know like she um like she now has the opportunity which is i think the character is experiencing as unpleasant because it is coming out of a place of being like profoundly slighted and put back on the bottom but the way she handles that information gives her the ability to kind of be on the top here like she gets to speak to jacklyn as if she is superior to her
And I was thinking, you know, when they were having this discussion at breakfast, it was like, okay, now we're going to see which is worse in their eyes, being a Trump voter or a cheater. Right, right. Or even not really just a cheater. It's like a cheater who fucks over your best friend.
If Jacqueline had just hooked up with a rando at the club, this would not be... It would not be the same as... Not even close.
Well, at what point in the night you think she got his number, his personal cell?
You never saw her texting him before.
Oh, yes. Yeah.
Yeah, I think that Jacqueline, I read her as the type of person that does a lot of this hierarchical assertion of dominance just purely on instinct. You know, I don't think she I don't think she knew she was going to do it until she was doing it. And then she was doing it. Laurie says at some point, it's like nobody ever changes.
And the thing is, you know, a walk of shame is a walk of shame. You know, the concept itself feels very sort of Bush-era American pie. You know, it's like we're past that as a culture. And yet, if it's your own brother... I can't remember last night at all.
I don't remember that. You know, we're laughing at it because it's extremely funny, but it is it is a really sort of dark like Saxon is acting as if he were assaulted. You know what I mean? Like they're in this strange position where like Saxon is having the morning after trauma, like genuinely, you know, like he did not offer consent.
Yeah, like of someone that did not consent to something and the look that he gives Lachlan, the posture that he has, the way he holds himself when Lachlan is around and the ease that Lachlan has in his body. You know, maybe I'm projecting here, but it feels very recognizable. When he thinks about this, he gets nauseated.
You know, like he's giving like there has been a power reversal this entire time. He's had the upper hand. He's been telling Lachlan what to do. And didn't you think there was a palpable shift? Like Lachlan comes up, he's more or less at ease. He's giving hungover, but he's more or less at ease and he's like, I blacked out. And I'm not saying that I think Lachlan did.
I mean, like, I don't think that Lachlan assaulted Saxon. I don't think that he took advantage. But there is, you know, I don't think what he did was something I would ever want to participate in personally. But I don't think he was deliberately exploiting his brother sexually, whatever. Right. But they have that dynamic. Like Lachlan is at ease.
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