Jia Tolentino
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981 appearances
13 recordings
3 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Apr 2025
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there is this immediate sort of psychosexual thing.
Where, like, there's three bedrooms, and they're trying to decide, like, where they're going to distribute the two kids, and Saxon tells Piper, like, he can't stay with you because you have full-grown genitals now.
And there's clearly like a sort of gendered thing. It's like, are you going to fall in line with the alphas?
Because of the profoundly disturbing end of the episode where you think that Saxon is about to just watch porn, you know, jerk off in front of his little brother to show him like what you're supposed to do with the penis. I honestly thought he was going to do that. And I'm just very glad we didn't have to...
I'm not like a squeamish person, but I'm probably would rather not see, you know, incest, see the incest get. I'd rather see it get paced out teaspoon by teaspoon as it is going to presumably throughout the season rather than get it all at once in episode one.
Oh, yeah. I mean, I could go on this for an hour. There is objectively unequal distribution of power and ability and money, really. I mean, like – and the ability to move in the world where it's kind of – I mean, Carrie Coon is gorgeous, but they're kind of trying to – she is styled and she moves.
She's supposed to be the dowdy one, which is crazy because it's Carrie Coon. But, you know, she's very clearly positioned that way. And the other two – look like the movie stars that they are the entire time, are styled as such, have gotten, as they admit, impeccable work at their prestige, unnamed doctors or whatever.
But the dynamic between women that are trying so hard to not admit that there is tension and competitiveness in any way is one of the funniest things to watch, if not necessarily to experience in the world. Can't wait to see what happens.
The moment that I found most painful about the dynamic between the three women is when they are trying to complain about their lives. And Jacqueline is, you know, saying she can't have a bad day in public anymore. And Kate is saying she doesn't know if someone really likes me. For me, I mean, I think I'm cool, but what if they just want a board seat or whatever?
And they're just reassuring each other back and forth, like, we're so lucky, we're so lucky. And nothing is, you know, if there's anything worse than people, like, being huge assholes, it's people being huge assholes while insisting they are so lucky and so grateful.
Like, that is an echelon of pure sort of madness and cringe that I hope this season pushes into so hard because it makes me want to die. Yeah. Lastly, we've got Chelsea and Rick, who I love immediately. Chelsea's played by Amy Lou Wood. Rick is played by the iconic Walton Goggins, giving so much Walton Goggins. Yeah, you need to sort your shit out. You've got issues.
She's a former yoga teacher just along for the ride, trying to get him to relax, being like, should we get fucked up? Should we try some tantric? Would you like that? And he's just so angry the whole time. And so like they get into, you know, finally he gets sick of her, kicks her to the bar.
Like one of the last scenes of the episode, she befriends another girlfriend, another beautiful girlfriend of an older man. And they decide to get drunk together. And they talk about all the bald white men that are in Thailand. And we sort of pan around to the respective bald white men. And then to this specific one who is?
The employee of Black Lives Matter. Yes, exactly. Bureau of Land Management. He's here. Did we find out exactly what the shady thing going on? Was he trying to kill her for insurance money?
That they had sort of a profit-sharing agreement with the gays?
And he's been living in Thailand for a year. We learned that from Chloe, the girlfriend.
Yeah.
Do you?
So I know you have a theory about the White Lotus.
Yeah. What is your metathesis about White Lotus?
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