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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Yeah, I mean, Rick is having begun the show broken. Like, Rick, the tsunami came for Rick at age 10 or whatever, right? Or age zero. It came for him in the womb. And he has been on this journey where it's like, will he choose to heal himself here with this girl who loves him and wants nothing more than for him to be healed and accept him in all of his brokenness and is not afraid of it?
Or is he going to lean harder into it and murder the co-owner of the hotel?
I found it extremely funny, the scene when Rick and Chelsea are talking at breakfast and he's like, I'm going to Bangkok. And she's like, but you have to be on the boat first. And he's like, I'm not getting on that boat. And that face she makes, I mean, we both have toddlers.
I have seen that face and it is a fake face and it works and it still works plenty of the time. And it worked on Rick. Rick's like, fine, I'll get on the boat, which is a boat that like, If someone's like, come get on my yacht and sail all day, there was a lot of resistance to this in the heart of the characters. I know.
And Parker Posey's like, I don't want to go. And they're like, why? And she's talking about, we hang out at the country club, Mom. And she's like, well, that's different. I know them. They know me. I know they're decent.
I'm truly excited to see her withdrawal spiral. I hate to say on the next episode, which she no longer has access to, you know, Xanax every three to four hours. But how she's on a yacht and she hides her. She's so worried about her purse. It's safe there, right? She hides her purse behind a cushion. And her husband is the one, obviously, that steals the drugs.
Yeah, yeah.
Right. But she should just be hiding it from her husband. And there's something like, you know, wonderfully the show is not going to go hard on this, but, you know, they are an upper class family in the South. It's like, where do you think all this money came from in the first place?
You know, where do you think your beautiful house, this beautiful land, like, where do you, like, you think, oh, like, there's a certain, she's like, well, he's in finance, you know. And as we all know, American contemporary, you know, financialization is completely upstanding, not exploitative, you know. It's like she has this idea that he's making money the clean way.
Exactly, exactly.
Right. Also the sort of recurring identity as a prison thing. Yeah. That's what I was thinking about when the dad was talking about his grandfather, his father. You know, he has been imprisoned by the requirement to have $10 million. Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, but it's also funny. It's like there's lots of ways for a story not to be the point, right? Like, for Rick to escape the past and the future means one thing to, you know, escape the way that he's been living under the curse of his father's murder. You know, which, like, Walton Goggins is pulling off this highly melodramatic storyline, you know?
You're like, I'm locked in.
You're locked in as Goggins.
But it's different for him versus like when they finally get to the boat. So a lot of this episode is they're preparing to get on the boat and they get on the boat. And once they're on the boat, the class of sort of white men from various places in North America or Australia who are just talking about how they've come here to hide money. From their ex-wives, hide money from the government.
Someone says a line about you're either here, you're running from something or looking for something.
Rick has a reason to transcend his past currently, and you see Timothy Ratliff considering this all the time. He has a very particular reason to transcend his past and start over and live in a sort of eternal return of the present.
You know, it's like it's salvific for Walton Goggins and it is undeserved amnesty for Timothy Ratliff.
I continue to love, you know, like having appeared off the boat to have a certain kind of relationship. They actually, you know, the thing that prompts this admission from Rick finally is that she pulls him out and she's like, I'm about to leave. You know, she's like, I'm going to leave you.
And she does it calmly and honestly. Yeah. And I was like, good for you. You guys are communicating. I know. They're actually a great couple.
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