Jia Tolentino

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 –

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?

this setting that can shut out, you know, anything that resembles real life, right?

They've got to get out of here.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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?