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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Yes. And, you know, I mean, the reason that we saw Dick is because Timothy has been taking too much lorazepam. Right.
Spicy episode.
And later in this episode, we'll be talking to Jason Isaacs and Sarah Catherine Hook, who play Tim and Piper Ratliff. This episode is called Hide or Seek and written and directed, like all of them, by Mike White.
Well, kind of the second hint, right? Because the ladies were already saying, like, I don't think they even see each other.
And it's kind of an unlikely pairing, which maybe is attributable to the fact that he's 10 years younger. We know he's on set all the time. We know he's super hot. And our minds go where Jacqueline's mind is going, which is he's... He's fucking.
Yes. And then the girlies' age becomes kind of, like, they've come into the White Lotus being like, this is our victory tour, we're hot, we are, you know, we're beautiful, all this stuff. And then they spend a lot of this episode kind of feeling like they're not at the center of anything, like they're not valuable.
Yeah, who can't, you know, who want to go to the White Lotus but can't. And, you know, Jacqueline is looking around at loose skin, which she has not seen in years as a denizen of L.A. Which is her worst fear. Yeah, she's looking around at her worst fear made real. And it's like Jacqueline who, you know, everyone's been telling her for years and years and years, like, you look unbelievable.
You know, you're how old? Like, you look like you're in your 30s still. You know, all of these things. Suddenly she has this thought, like— Did he send us here because he thinks we're old? And she freaks out.
Right. And there's this way in which when the camera starts panning around, the camera is operating as if it's Jacqueline's eyes and it becomes kind of this horror.
Or just like actual life when you're not within this extremely rarefied.
Yeah, and you kind of are implicated as the viewer, you know, in the fact that by your own – I'll just say by my own enjoyment of the show, it is also implicitly my enjoyment of being in a space where I can only look at beautiful, rich – you know, it's like the whiteness part is built into this. It's like the show is a critique of it, but it also is giving us –
this setting that can shut out, you know, anything that resembles real life, right?
They've got to get out of here.
And Jacqueline, like, she's also doing this extremely recognizable girl thing, I got to say, where it's like she's really in search of, like, the perfect party. Right, right. You know, she wants a really specific vibe. And as it eludes her, she just psychologically unravels. You know, like Jacqueline, who's the picture of ease.
And just gracious victory for the first couple of episodes here is in cold sweat the entire time that she's like, but we just need to have fun in this exact specific way that will make me feel young and make me feel like I'm still – And it kind of recurs later and there's a similar thing where they're like, okay, let's do something like authentic.
Like let's go somewhere that's like bustling with, you know, Jacqueline starts the episode by being like, it's quiet here. It's dead. Like we need to be in the mix. We need to really be in the mix. And then we're finding out what being in the mix means.
And there's also a thing where people go to Southeast Asia slash Thailand slash anywhere and they're like, we just want to like be in like among the locals, you know, like do something the locals do. Yeah. You know, like be around like more local color. And they go around local color and they're just around a bunch of Thai kids that start pummeling them with water guns.
Ruining their hair. Ruining their look.
Which is also kind of. of shot like a horror movie. It's kind of like they're in the trenches in World War I, sort of dodging fire.
And they're no longer able to see kind of the entire world as just, you know, an interchangeable backdrop for their victory tour, right? Like it's like actually the world has impulses and people of its own, remember?
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