Jia Tolentino
speaker
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.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsNo recordings in the last 12 months.Older appearances are listed below; set an alert to hear about the next one.
Appearances
She would feel the feeling that she seeks when she prays and feels that presence. You know what I mean? Like, it's sort of like you... I kind of, I want that for her. I was so happy for Lori in a lot of this episode, you know, until the very end, where she is getting, you know, to hear from Valentin that she's a sexy dancer. She's whipping her hair around. She's taking the shot.
She's like, I'm the girl that takes the shots. She's getting to feel... cool and reckless and desired.
Like, she gets one of my favorite situations in the world, which is when you're in a pool and someone outside the pool gives you a new drink. I'm like, wow, that's just, that's living. When that happens, you're living. And, you know, it's four in the morning or whatever.
You're doing it right. And, yeah, Leslie Bibb is in her full, like, button-up PJs, like, ha, ha, ha, ha.
Right. Well, as the party breaks up, Laurie has a moment with Valentin, right? Like she's kind of cuddling and like they have this sort of close goodbye. And Laurie, it's coherent with her character that she's not making a move. And instead, she's just in this glow of having felt desirable and she's doing her little moves.
Second only to when Saxon totally out of his depth is doing like Saturday Night Fever hands at the full moon party. And I was like, not Saturday Night Fever hands at the full moon party. But then Jacqueline is back in her room. She gets a text. I actually thought, you know, my dumb ass, I was like, oh, my God, Harrison finally texts back and they're going to like have FaceTime sex or something.
But it's Valentin, and she has been plotting behind Laurie's back the whole time, and the alliances are about to switch again. But maybe we have been saving the most shocking sexual revelation of all for last, which is that Lachlan asserts dominance over Saxon by making out with him, by giving him...
But it arrived in the... It was not what you were expecting. I never expected it to be lock-lit. I mean, we knew there was going to be incest from... Something's happening. Something, you know, the psychosexual dynamics are too. But I loved...
You know, despite, you know, the impulse perhaps being toxic, asserting dominance of your sibling by sexually aggressing upon them, like they got the guy that Chelsea in particular has been feeling antagonistic to do something that will kind of horrify himself the next day. And when he takes the drug, he's like, now no one take advantage of me. Oh, right. Right.
What did you think when that happened?
You thought it wasn't?
Yeah, Lachlan has, Lachlan is, to me, he's the winner of this episode. Yeah. Hugely.
We should talk, though, about the reason why I asked you, Josh, a white man, if actually you felt that you were an Asian girl on the inside is because of Sam Rockwell's, as Frank, his monologue in the bar to Wilton Goggins. I mean, Walton Goggins is giving his face as it shifts between like, you're kidding me. And then it goes to like, whoa, you're not kidding me.
And then by the end, in his mind, he's like, damn, everyone's got problems. You know, he's like, damn, I'm not the only one that's like, actually, you might be more fucked up than me.
Well, the first line is quite a lot. And it's like he's drinking chamomile tea. Yes.
I don't know what that story is. And Frank is still enough in the life or whatever it is that he can be a fixer. He can be a purveyor of, you know, some whatever. We don't know what he gives Rick exactly. Right. Right.
We can assume, but we don't know at all. And I was wondering if and when, and probably when, this show was going to deal— because it's kind of obliquely dealt with this, you know, the subtext of setting the show in Thailand, which, I mean, it is like a place of profound sexual exploitation by Westerners, you know, whatever.
And it was like, how are we going to get that square in the face at some point? Because it feels like we have to and we will. And we did in the wildest— The Wildest Way where Sam Rockwell starts talking in the mode of all of the other guys that we've met in the show, which is just like, yeah, I like Asian girls. So I came here and I'm here to fuck Asian girls. And then this crew turns about.
Seven more times all the way around. The delivery of it is amazing. Like, how would we even describe the way he delivers it? It's not deadpan. It's almost like there is definitely some connection to the way that people who are sober and Al-Anon or whatever it is are accustomed to delivering.
He's sharing. He's accustomed to, you know— He absolutely bonkers years-long periods of people's life being boiled down to 45 seconds and delivered with a completely straight-facing, unblinking eye contact. And he's doing it here.
Showing 461–480 of 981 · page 24 of 50
← Previous
Next →