Jodi Walker

And she's doing things in the meantime that fill the void.

And she's waiting until she's proven to her mom that she's undeniable to then start her life.

But what she may not know is that she's not really building a great foundation from which to start that life at whatever magical point she feels fulfilled.

Eric has a line in this episode where, again, they're talking about, so like, what if we prove this?

What happens?

And he says, so we prove Tinder is what it says it is.

We get the surrogate joy.

I was like, wow, what an industry phrase.

We get the surrogate joy of saying your identity is bullshit.

You're a fake.

We get to temporarily live in the illusion that we ourselves are built on firmer ground.

And that's just, that is Harper.

It's Eric too, but he's a little bit older, a little bit wiser to know.

So I don't like, yeah, like sometimes they're bars, you know, sometimes they mean something to me when she tells Eric that you have no idea how lucky you are, that you have people who expect your love, demand your love, but you don't feel worthy of it.

So you can't give it.

Nothing between us is going to fix that.

Like, yes, correct.

Yeah, that's tough having that reflected back through your vision.

I'm now, I guess, catching a few pivot points that I did find him frustrating.

I also find him very charming.