Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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the most money in the biggest house was not the thing that I've been directed my entire life to want and build. Perhaps that has led me here, and it shouldn't have, to what extent is he thinking about it?
Yeah. Do you understand him as someone, I was like, what is his relationship to pleasure? What is his relationship to, does he have any sense of his own identity aside from?
Can I ask, who is Tim's favorite child?
Yeah, we knew it. We knew it. Of course it's Piper he loves.
And do you think that, right, there's this sense that he respects her because she's chosen also what she wants?
Thank you so much for talking to us.
Well, there was never any doubt in my mind who the favorite was going to be.
Yeah, confirmed.
And now I get to talk to that favorite child, Sarah Catherine Hook or Piper Ratliff. Sarah Catherine, thank you so much for coming on the HBO Companion Podcast.
We are loving the show. Yay. And I have to say, so I'm from Texas. You're from Alabama, right? Yes, yes. And, you know, when the Ratliffs walk off the boat, immediately everything, the clothes, the, you know, the way that Jason Isis is carrying himself, the way that the siblings are – everyone is well-groomed and a little bit repressed and a little bit about to act out.
And, you know, there's so much that felt – and I went to college in Virginia. It just felt very – Oh, cool.
Uh-huh.
Like I flirted with this boy with a solo cup over a cat. Yeah.
It's all too true. I didn't know that you were the middle girl of two boys. Tell me more about that dynamic. Are you quieter than your other two siblings? Tell me about that.
Well, yeah, and presumably the psychosexual dynamic is perhaps particular to the Ratliffs here.
I wondered for you, as you were thinking about Piper, she seems like she's been a good girl her whole life. She's been smart. She's had it together. She's neat. She's held up that sort of obligation of that role in her family. And now she has her sights on something else. And did you think of this as this is the first time that she's perhaps about to rebel? Is this the first time?
I know. You get it. I know. I really know. And I sort of wondered watching Piper, I was like, it's sort of like you get out of that context and maybe you've had some kind of unnamed discontentment or sort of like, why is this the way it is? I don't love this. But you don't really have the language or the framework to understand that discontentment.
And then you, maybe in college, you experience something, an alternate framework that's like, you kind of realize, oh, I was perhaps a little more searching for something new than I thought, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, and I think we can see that she is searching to see who she is outside of the identity of her family and outside. She wants to test it, right? She wants to see what is in me that is not just this talk I'm getting from my mother about who the kind of person we are, what kind of people we are. It's like she wants to know what kind of person she is underneath it, right?
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