Marina Hyde

She's kind of maddening and very annoying.

She's also Californian.

But she's sort of like a comic foil, really, in some ways.

She's a costume design major.

Eye roll.

Okay.

But actually, there's a really interesting sidebar on that, which I'm going to get to in a second.

Because there was a costume.

There was only one costume design major at Bennington when Donna Tartt went there.

And she was someone called Michelle Matlin.

I don't think she's... Anyway, she ended up being the costume designer on Succession.

And so many people have said, I'm so sorry, this is barely disguised at all.

Judy Peevey is her, whatever.

Who knows?

But I'd forgotten at the end of The Secret History as an epilogue of what happens to some of these genuinely very minor characters.

And Judy Peevey becomes an aerobics instructor.

Okay, so I'm like, okay, so I was thinking, okay, I've got to create a character here that I want to.

It's the 90s.

She's an aerobics queen in LA.

Hopefully she hasn't given up all her bad habits, i.e.