Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to make sure we had that in this room. Okay, my real question for you was, are you sad that you didn't show up in the Full Moon Party?
I was... For people that maybe missed earlier episodes, Josh was on set bragging, bragging, having been on set for the full moon party.
Yeah, I didn't see you either.
Yeah, we'll watch it again just for you. Yeah, just to see. All right. So this episode is called Full Moon Party. It is written and directed by Mike White. There is sort of two tracks happening on it. There is quieter stuff happening at the hotel with three of the Ratliffs, Belinda, Mook and Guy Talk, et cetera. And then everyone else is lepting loose. Yeah.
And later in this episode, we get to talk to two queens, Carrie Coon and Parker Posey.
Right. You know what? I was saying last time that Saxon needs to confront, you know, the unassimilatable other or whatever. And it's like he goes in the zone at the end of the party, right? Like he's, I was waiting for something like this moment for Saxon when he can't, you know, he says, he's like, I don't do drugs. I am the drug because he can't handle drugs. Right.
Yeah.
Right, and he's also constantly articulating more than anyone his framework of how the world is and how the world works. And it seems like Lachlan was like, you know what, like, don't talk about it, just be about it, you know? Like it's like Saxon is it's as if he's living within this sort of fortress of mantras about strength and domination. Oh, right. Right.
But he is constantly constructing this by like advising other people about how he knows everything. Oh, right. And then the drug renders him nonverbal. Right. And the drug does what these drugs do, which is a layer is removed and you have nothing but your deepest inner resources and instincts because you can't talk and have no idea what's happening.
And Saxon is finding that he he's kind of in awe, you know, like he actually is left with kind of a gentle and profoundly vulnerable. Like like Lachlan is actually like his inner self is much more in command when stripped away than Saxon's is. And I love to see that.
Right.
Oh, no, yeah, he's like a diet beer type. You know what I mean? Like he's doing Miller High Life and alternating, you know. And my girls, Chelsea and Chloe are like, yeah, whatever. I'll do this on a Tuesday, you know. It doesn't matter. Chloe and Chelsea's conversation when they're girl talking on the yacht and Chelsea's like, he's like my child. Yeah.
And she's on a yacht and she's going to a full moon party and she's in this beautiful place and all she can do is think about her 50-year-old boyfriend who might be about to murder someone.
The foursome at the full moon party, they're not aggressive there. You know, they're kind of feeling out what's going to happen later. They're sitting on the beach beholding the fireworks.
Because they're all thinking about existence, kind of, right? It sort of feels like all four of them are in a space of not quite discontentment, but sort of existential transition in a little bit of a way where Chloe is like, I got into this business for like money and constant attention from this man. The relationships run its course. The relationships run its course.
And Chelsea is wondering if hers has too. Like, why am I just on the hook for this guy? And Lachlan is like, what will become of me? What is the form my power will take? And do I have any? And can I exert it over my brother? And is he right about everything or is he not? And, you know, my sister is about to leave me. And like, what does that mean?
And and Saxon is like, I know exactly what the world is. And he takes this drug and he's like, whoa. Yeah.
And what the crowd is sort of like lucid heel backpackers that are on month seven. Yes. Yeah, there's a lot of that. Like white people in Tevas.
And you did it just through the experience rather than through the candies, sweet tarts or whatever Chloe says.
I adored it. Yes. I adored it for so many reasons. I was thinking back to when we talked to Michelle Monaghan and she was saying Jacqueline is very interested in sort of control but also letting loose. And this was the episode. Like Jacqueline is on an unarticulated journey that's nonetheless extremely clear to the viewer. Right? Like we see her at the club.
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