Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
Jia Tolentino’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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She's finally – she's found the party she wanted to get to the whole time. Right.
Exactly. She's found the place where she can look at herself as if someone else is looking at her, which is what this character kind of wants. She wants to be looking hot, to be looking young, to have younger hot men all around her. And watching her. And we literally get her audience. There are these other three hot girls who are looking at her with great animosity.
And the more they look at her with animosity and jealousy, the more she is just... Lusciously loving it.
The three actresses were so good. Like the entire time you can see that Leslie Bibb is uncomfortable. Even when the other girls are dancing, absolutely free of inhibition. She is conscious that she's sweaty. She's conscious that she's a little tired. You can see immediately that she's already hoping the night will be over. She's checking her watch.
She's like, okay, maybe another hour and then we can just go to bed.
Right. Well, and unfortunately, Kate got assigned to Vlad, the guy with the live, laugh, love mural on his chest, the silver ring. He had a tough life. He had such a tough life, but he can't – he simply can't stop talking about it. They're all like, yeah, like, what a fun party. You're so hot. And he's like, my mother died when I was 12. Yeah.
She got the dud.
Yes, in this context. And she's hating to be the dud.
Kate does not consider herself a dud. No. You know, she's like, I'm prettier than Lori. Why do I have that?
So Belinda has her lovely romantic moment. I love that for her. Yeah. I really felt so happy for her.
Yeah, she's like, do you guys have consent in Thailand? Yeah, it's so funny.
Yeah, I thought it was so sweet. The performance is great. She's like, there's room in this bed.
She suggests calling all the police.
Let's call all the police. And then Fabian goes into full Swiss banker mode, whatever. She's like, someone here might be a killer. He's like, that's none of my business.
Parker Posey is really giving us so much. She's really on a lorazepam comedown. She's like, you're going to be a NXIVM. You could return with a completely different set of values. And Piper's like, that's the point. But Piper also says that she feels that she needs to do this because she needs to understand what's going to make her happy. Right.
Yeah, there's a lot in here about, like, virtue structures and ideas of pleasure and an idea of, you know, like, what everyone's personal code of ethics are and how that flings them onto this kind of mad evening.
But I just thought it was really funny that Enlightened Piper, ostensibly the voice of the purest version of the show's thematic searching, is, I think, quite tellingly, she's saying, I want to know what's going to make me happy, not... I mean, maybe the closest that anyone gets to saying it here is Lachlan...
Right. She understands the falsity in her parents' values with a capital V.
She's like, what is pleasure? What is it? Sitting alone in your hotel, you're like, what is it? And then the other, everyone else is just like, well, let's try it on.
Well, yeah, it's like everyone is approaching this episode with like a very clear idea of what will make me happy. And they're either aligning with or totally at odds with the circumstances in which they find themselves. One suspects that if Piper had just gone with her siblings and done some drugs and sat on the edge of the ocean and looked at the fireworks, she...
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