Nikki Baird
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146 appearances
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1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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If you follow me on Instagram, you knew if you follow me on Instagram, you would have seen all the cool pictures from me at the White Lotus Hotel and all the cool things. So make sure to check that out. And also guys, we are like, I think 600 away. from 10K followers on Spotify. So please, please, please, please, Manifest, Manifest, Manifest. Get in there. You have a Spotify account already.
You can just hit the follow button and you can listen to all these episodes on your car ride to work, at the gym, blah, blah, blah. So with that... I think that's it for my intro. Let's dive into this season of The White Lotus.
And there's a few things I really, I think, like, want to hone in on, like, why I like this show as a concept before I go through, like, each of these, you know, like, the rat lifts and, like, the dynamics and the characters in the show specifically. What I think is so fascinating about Mike White as a writer is that he came from reality TV.
He had years of experience watching the way people actually interact with each other in these very personal Petty, awkward, and interesting social dynamics. And I think that has made him an incredible writer of scripted television. And how that made him so brilliant at writing this very simple dialogue. I felt like there was no greater example of that this season with really the three girls.
Like their storyline is really perfect.
primarily dialogue like they don't actually do that much but what they do in the conversations they have carry so much meaning to quote mike white old friends can create suffering for you just by existing because they went one way in life and you went another way so it feels like you have to defend your choices just by being in their presence of someone who you came up with
And I think like this is so fascinating and also very, very much ties into the speech that Laurie, Carrie Coon's character gives at the end, like this incredible monologue. But I just felt like this idea of like old friends make you suffer simply by existing. Not even necessarily because of anything they have done, but because their life makes you reflect on your own choices, right?
It's why you kind of feel sad sometimes like going to a friend's wedding when you haven't gotten married yet, or you see all these amazing things. Maybe they had a family and you didn't have a family. And even if you don't regret those choices, those decisions, it makes you turmoil over them. It makes you feel kind of insecure or anxious or whatever.
And I feel like that was really very intentional with these three women. You know, like they were very meant to be like three people came from the same place that went entirely different ways. Even down to the thing how he's like one lives in L.A., one lives in New York, one lives in Austin, Texas. Right.
He's like very intentional with picking three different sorts of paths in life that they go on. And when even going to, again, like this monologue at the end with Carrie Coon to quote it, she says, I never had any real belief system. Work was my religion, but then I lost my belief there. And then I tried love, and that was just a painful religion that made everything worse.
Being a mother, that didn't save me either. And what's fascinating to me about her dialogue is we always look for things outside of ourselves to feel more like ourselves, right? Like I will feel good about myself when I do this job. I will feel more like a woman when I am a mother. And what's terrifying to me is that something outside of you can never fill this void that is within you.
I think this is also something we see in Rick's character reflected a lot with him constantly trying to go after this feeling of love and this denial from his father and how this person did this bad thing to him while ignoring this person who actually genuinely loves him the entire time. And
At the end of her monologue, she says, I don't need religion or any God to give my life meaning because time gives it meaning. And time is such a fascinating measure of where friendship and relevance comes in. To quote Mike White again, these old relationships, they're not always the deepest friendships, but there is always something deep about reconnecting with those people.
Everyone has their own religion, but there is something inarguable about how time creates meaning. And I think that this was so interesting, too, about how, you know, like, these are three very isolated women. Geographically, they don't talk to each other that often.
They're really just kind of holding on to this friendship of what they were in their youth and, you know, carrying that meaning with them, even if they're not actually that close anymore, even if they have... very deep ideological differences, like we see in this conversation about politics and whatnot, or when, you know, Jacqueline is, you know, going after the guy that Laurie also wants.
Like, they are very different people, yet time has created this meaning for them. The fact that they have been through so much, the fact that so many people have been in and out of their lives, and yeah, they didn't always grow in the same direction, but the fact that there are these moments that they could share and reconnect and
intertwine once again and just feel like this ability to pick up right where you left off even if you don't know everything about each other if you don't spend all this time together the same way you used to it's so beautiful and I felt that way about some friends in my life too where I mean I don't get to see them at all anymore and and we used to God we used to be so close like
they knew everything about me. I would tell them everything. I would go on a date and they were the first FaceTime I called. And it's not that I have anything against these people. It's not that they have anything against me. It's just life took us in different directions. And despite that, this time that we have spent knowing like, hey, we're not talking a lot.
We're not seeing each other, but like that doesn't change the love I have for you. And if you ever needed me or When I'm in your city nine months from now, I will make time to connect with you and see you. Like, that is so beautiful. There is this almost inescapable element to how time really cements things, relationships especially. And that, I think, was a really cool piece of this monologue.
And what's even more fascinating, I think, about these three girls is really when they are fighting. The dialogue of these three women is flawless. And
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