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00:28You
00:30It's me
00:32It's me
00:35Mommy
00:36I thought you were one of dad's students
00:38You smell like a
00:40Brewery
00:41I called you like a million times
00:43Where were you?
00:47I was here all night
00:51There is something very unseemly about a woman
00:53Neglecting her only daughter
00:55So she can slobber over a married man
00:57Who was in all probability just being nice
00:59I think I fucked a man
01:01In the train bathroom
01:03You think?
01:04No, I did
01:07Willingly?
01:08Basically
01:11Sweetie, what is going on?
01:23It's fine, I wanted to
01:25Were you safe?
01:29Alexis
01:29Keep me out
01:35Such a buckle
01:47Weren't you staying the night?
01:49I uh
01:50Wasn't feeling up to it
01:53Sid's upstairs
01:55She came home?
01:56She's a mess, John
01:57She thought I was one of your girlfriends
01:59She was blind drunk, she and Alexis have split up
02:02She's having a really hard time with all of this
02:05I'll talk to her
02:09Um
02:12I bumped into Lynn and Steve at the Ramsdale
02:14What?
02:16Steve the president of a college?
02:18Mm-hmm
02:18So the president and his wife saw you with your date
02:22At the most conspicuous bar in town
02:24It's a hotel bar, I mean only tourists go there
02:26It's on Main Street
02:29She wanted a Cosmo
02:30I bent over backwards for you
02:32And you blow it because some 23 year old
02:34Wanted to live out her sex in the city fantasy
02:36She's 28
02:38She's an elementary school teacher
02:40She's kind of a Charlotte, actually
02:42Oh, don't, don't joke with me
02:43I wanted to stay in with you, you told me to go
02:47Now I'm the one who's gonna suffer the most for it
02:49May I be alone?
02:52Please
03:34Maryione
03:35Oh, my God
03:35Oh, my God
03:36Sorry
03:37I wanted to ask
03:38I'm applying to this
03:40The creative writing program at Brown.
03:43Right.
03:44And you need a letter of recommendation.
03:46And yes, of course.
03:48Oh, thank you.
03:50I know you have so much going on right now.
03:52Oh, no.
03:53I'm happy to do it.
03:54Which sample are you submitting?
03:56Either a desk salad or the one about the evil babysitters.
04:00Well, you know how much I love those evil babysitters.
04:03No.
04:04Hi.
04:05Oh, hey.
04:06See you soon.
04:06Okay.
04:09How do you like her class?
04:10Professor Tong's class.
04:11Not a professor.
04:12It's like the highlight of my week.
04:14Like, she's so down to earth but also so brilliant.
04:18You know what?
04:18And, I mean, no one can compare to you.
04:21Although I'm ecstatic to hear that.
04:24Where does it meet?
04:26But this time, no adverbs.
04:28Just try it, she said.
04:31Encouragingly.
04:33I believe the best way to stop coveting your neighbor's husband
04:37is to make your neighbor your friend.
04:43I'm hearing good things.
04:45Oh, all lies, I am sure.
04:48Oh.
04:49Man loves to check in on me.
04:52Um, I wanted to see if we could grab a coffee.
04:57Fuck, I wish I could but I have to go meet a student.
05:00Uh, yeah, these weekdays are such a blur.
05:04Oh, maybe this weekend?
05:07I feel like an idiot but weekends are actually the worst right now.
05:11Vlad needs weekends to write so it's a total childcare blackout for me.
05:17Not in a fun way.
05:19Well, if Vlad needs to write, would you and Fi want to come over and swim in our pool this
05:24weekend?
05:24Oh, uh, wow, yeah, Fi.
05:27Oh, I'm coming to see you.
05:30Fi loves the water.
05:32Well, maybe someday I'll grill.
05:34I could make you a mocktail.
05:38You're so kind to offer.
05:40It's just we have so much to fucking do.
05:42We haven't even fully unpacked so I can't find the towels.
05:47Much less our swimsuits.
05:49Well, why don't you think about it and...
05:52God, I am so sorry but would you excuse me?
06:06White and sweet.
06:09Is that how you like it?
06:12I guess you know the hearing is no longer being delayed.
06:16Jesus Christ.
06:18Lynn was upset.
06:19So John can't be seen with anyone who's not his wife?
06:21I mean, think about it, David.
06:22It is a little 1984-y.
06:24Not really.
06:25David's an Orwell scholar.
06:27Lynn found it icky.
06:29Icky?
06:30The hearing is gonna happen this semester.
06:34Thank you for your help.
06:36My help?
06:36In response to your blackmail over our old emails?
06:39Blackmail is a big word.
06:42I did go back and reread them.
06:45You did?
06:47They were...
06:48pretty fun.
06:50I am fun.
06:51But I got rid of them and I would appreciate it if you did the same.
06:57I don't know, mister.
07:00I think it's a good idea to have something to hold over you so you don't misbehave.
07:10I scrubbed my inbox of his emails ten years ago.
07:16John, can you call me?
07:18The hearing is up...
07:20Oh!
07:22Discovered her greatest departmental amenity.
07:26I am not above the pods.
07:31So, what's on the syllabus this week?
07:34Rebecca.
07:36You familiar?
07:37Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.
07:41Nice.
07:42I love a gothic romance.
07:44You know, the fixation, the pining.
07:48My wife always says that...
07:51I have a thing for crazy girls.
08:00I love.
08:02Speaking of Cynthia, could you do me a favor?
08:06I invited her and Fi over to swim on Sunday.
08:09But I think she's worried about imposing.
08:12That's very nice.
08:14Yeah, she finds socializing tricky these days.
08:19She's got to keep it pretty tight.
08:21Mmm, mmm, mmm.
08:22Well, here's the thing.
08:24It'll be the last warm weekend of the year.
08:27And the water's perfect.
08:29And we'll feed them.
08:30And I think it'll be more nourishing than she expects.
08:34Yeah, we'll be there.
08:34No, no, no, sorry.
08:35I just invited her.
08:39Oh.
08:41Devastating.
08:41Oh, no, no, sorry.
08:42It's just she said you needed time to write.
08:45Please, I know when I'm not wanted.
08:47Besides, you cannot get distracted.
08:49The world is waiting for your next novel.
08:51Yeah, I don't know about that.
08:53Well, I am.
08:55Yeah, I'll talk to her.
08:57Wonderful.
08:59Excuse me.
09:00Oh, God.
09:01It's my daughter's partner.
09:03I should take this.
09:05She's a bisexual woman.
09:09Great.
09:11I'm very proud.
09:15Alexis, hi.
09:19Dad, you shouldn't be going in blind.
09:21How am I supposed to prepare if I don't have access to the evidence?
09:24You don't?
09:24I sent you the report.
09:25You should.
09:26Yes, the report, but not the evidence they're using.
09:29Sid, you have to understand, this whole thing is a kangaroo court.
09:33Can you use the salad spinner?
09:35It ruins the structure.
09:36It's a lot of paper towels.
09:39Does this look right?
09:41The report is quite extensive.
09:43Will you afford it to me?
09:44You don't need to be involved, honey.
09:46You have enough going on.
09:46I'm literally a lawyer.
09:48May I ask why you're not at work?
09:50Uh, no.
09:51Because I don't want to talk about that.
09:53Secrets, yay.
09:54I love them.
09:55Literally.
09:56Pop.
09:56Listen, we're having people over this weekend.
09:59Who?
10:00Cynthia and her daughter to swim.
10:02Who is she?
10:03She's a new professor.
10:04No, she's not a professor.
10:05No, be sure to tell her that.
10:06How old's the daughter?
10:07Three.
10:08So cute.
10:09You'll love her.
10:09Oh, no.
10:10I'm not going to be around.
10:12You're going back to the city?
10:13No, I'm staying here indefinitely.
10:15I just don't want to be around for a play date with a three-year-old.
10:17You used to love being around with kids.
10:19Somehow my wonder dissipated after seeing a buttload of them at Alexis' friend's parties
10:23every single weekend.
10:25Sweetie.
10:27Excuse me.
10:28Do you know what's going on with her?
10:31Yes.
10:32I do.
10:47Who cares?
10:48Who cares?
10:53Me likey.
10:55You make the legs so high cut these days.
10:58You know, it's been reported that Eva Longoria finally embraced the Brazilian wax because it
11:03gave her the ultimate orgasm.
11:05What are you trying to say?
11:06It's just an offering.
11:08What story was said?
11:11She can tell you.
11:12Why can't you?
11:13Because it's her business.
11:15She'll tell you when she's ready.
11:18Maybe I like your little pubes.
11:20I don't want Sid involved in the hearing.
11:22Do you understand?
11:23I understand.
11:24And I agree.
11:26Can you run the filter on the pool?
11:29I feel like we have other things to deal with rather than entertaining.
11:33Cynthia is so interesting.
11:35I want to make a new friend.
11:36Since when?
11:37You haven't made a friend since 1997.
11:39Well, now I want to.
11:41Why?
11:43It's like a mousy-ass woman married to a toxic man.
11:46I can't relate at all.
11:47Hell yeah.
11:48I know this book is misogynist because every book written in 1938 was misogynist,
11:54even when written by a woman, but can't we connect the universality of the story?
12:00Rebecca is about an all-consuming obsession.
12:04It's a young woman fixating on her husband's dead wife who's named...
12:11Rebecca.
12:12It's very relatable.
12:14How?
12:15What?
12:16What?
12:17You've never Googled your lover's ex?
12:19Hmm?
12:20You've never spent time on their Instagram or whatever social media you use.
12:26You've never compared yourself to her style, her body.
12:30You've never fantasized about knowing about their relationship, how they talk together, their private jokes, how they, dare I say
12:40it, made love.
12:41Well, that's what this story is about.
12:44It's about the inescapable pull of your lover's lover.
12:49I don't have a lover.
12:51Well, Lauren, we're gonna have to change that.
12:53Yeah.
12:59Hi.
13:00Hi.
13:01Hi.
13:26Erin.
13:33You know, if Dad loses at the college, there could be a civil suit, and that could affect you.
13:38Oh, my God.
13:40There's 36 pages of forms for me to fill out for this dumb appointment.
13:44I mean, why do they need to know if I have a history of mental illness?
13:47What are you getting done?
13:48I'm just getting waxed.
13:50I thought you couldn't get waxed.
13:51Well, they say it's a new kind, so let's hope for the best.
13:57Oh, sweet pea.
13:59Just a breakup.
14:00I really fucked up.
14:04I cheated.
14:06On Alexis?
14:08With the train man?
14:09No.
14:10Ask Dad what happened.
14:12You tell me.
14:13No, because I don't want you judging me.
14:15I promise I won't judge you.
14:18No.
14:19No.
14:20No.
14:20I cheated on Alexis with an intern from work, and then she got hired and it got messy, so
14:25I left before anything could happen.
14:27And I hated that job anyway, and I can find a new one in two seconds, so I just don't
14:31want
14:31to talk about it any further, okay?
14:32You quit your job?
14:34See?
14:34You're judging me.
14:35No, I'm not.
14:36I'm not.
14:36That is such a lie.
14:37No, okay.
14:38Let's go.
14:38Let's go.
14:42You didn't know any of the people.
14:45That's students, right?
14:47Yes.
14:48Fancy ladies?
14:49Not personally.
14:51By sight at the most.
14:53Okay, are you sure?
14:54Absolutely.
14:55You didn't have any of them in your classes?
14:59Never.
15:25I had one of them in my classes.
15:38Stop biting your nails.
15:48I wanted to apologize for avoiding you.
15:53I shouldn't have got so angry.
15:55Hmm.
15:57You kick my car and call me a bitch.
16:01Sorry.
16:03I was feeling desperate.
16:05It's okay.
16:06What did you want to say?
16:10Oh.
16:11Um.
16:13Well, yeah.
16:13I'm back, obviously.
16:15Mm-hmm.
16:15Uh.
16:17Now that everything has come out about John, I was just hoping you and I could
16:21like repair our relationship.
16:29Fascinating.
16:32Didn't you join the case?
16:35Yeah.
16:37But that's what I wanted to tell you.
16:39That has nothing to do with you.
16:41Lila, that is exactly what I have been saying all along.
16:46Are you still writing?
16:48Not really.
16:50You should.
16:51I'm sorry things have been so hard.
16:54Never feels good to be 29 and moving back in with your mom.
16:57Mm.
16:57I bet.
16:59And it's like, how many times can I take her to get the edema fluid drained before she realizes it's
17:04her responsibility?
17:05Yeah.
17:05She thinks that she's doing me some big favor by asking Trevor to move his bogus evasion in my bedroom.
17:11Myla, I hate to do this, but I have to run.
17:13Oh.
17:13I wish we could talk all day.
17:15I am so glad we connected and I am so glad we're on the same page.
17:20Yeah.
17:22I wanted to say I'm sorry about what happened with John.
17:26Thank you for saying that.
17:28I...
17:31I appreciate you taking some responsibility for your actions.
17:39I have to go.
17:40Oh.
17:47Beautiful.
17:53Oh, stunning.
17:55Huh.
18:12You reach an age when, if you come across a good towel, you don't let it slip away.
18:18Do you sell these?
18:33There is great power in a hand-delivered gift.
18:38Hi.
18:39I just wanted to drop off a little housewarming present.
18:42Hi.
18:43You don't have to talk to me.
18:44I can just hand it over and get on out of here.
18:46Uh, I...
18:48Oh, um, this...
18:49This honey...
18:50Is from my bees.
18:52Uh, did you know that honey is as effective as cough syrup for young children?
18:57It's for fee.
18:58Oh.
19:00Oh my God.
19:02That is so nice of you.
19:03These are...
19:03These are gorgeous.
19:05Sorry.
19:07Um...
19:07Did Vlad give you our address?
19:10I got it from the contact sheet.
19:12This is...
19:13This is temporary.
19:14It's, um...
19:15It's kind of a shithole.
19:16Oh, no, no.
19:17It's not.
19:18Oh, don't come inside.
19:20Uh, fee is fine.
19:21I just...
19:22I got...
19:24Paranoid.
19:25Because...
19:25People are weird about colds.
19:27And then I was like, what if they're offended?
19:28I'm very difficult to offend.
19:30Me too.
19:31No, um...
19:33God, I'm...
19:34I'm aware I'm being an asshole.
19:36No, no.
19:37Anyone who'd been through half of what you did would be twice the asshole.
19:43What do you mean?
19:45I...
19:46Just...
19:47Moving...
19:48A young child...
19:52Um...
19:52I'll, uh...
19:54I'll, uh...
19:55I'll leave you alone.
19:59Um...
20:00This may sound crazy, but I think we'd get along.
20:04I...
20:05I do too.
20:07Thank you so much for these.
20:09Okay.
20:11Bye.
20:12Bye.
20:33I wonder what domestic politics went into that text message.
20:37So what's this about?
20:40It's about growing up in Florida with Russian immigrant parents.
20:44So he's a naval gazer.
20:46No, it's excellent.
20:48I'm out.
20:49Where are you going?
20:50I'm going to see my friend at Cornell.
20:52I think I'm gonna stay tonight.
20:53Oh.
20:54What kind of friend?
20:55She's an expert in Title IX.
20:57Sid, I'm serious.
20:58I don't want you involved.
20:59I'm gonna take the Volvo.
21:01Be careful.
21:02Why'd you buy lettuce?
21:03I have a bumper crop.
21:04Because I need it as a wrap.
21:06I thought we were grilling.
21:08The steak is grilled.
21:09What are these for?
21:10A mocktail.
21:12A mocktail?
21:15What's happening here?
21:17It's my stupid wax.
21:19I'm inflamed.
21:20It's fine.
21:21It's what I deserve.
21:24Why do you have this?
21:26You got mixed up in my mail.
21:29Looks like a paycheck.
21:30Yes, I will give it to her when she arrives.
21:33Did you get rid of the deer netting?
21:35We're not hosting a wedding.
21:36It's suburban.
21:45Hey-ho.
21:47Hi.
21:48Hi.
21:50It's you.
21:51We don't go near the water unless Daddy's there, right?
21:54And stay away from the bees.
21:56What bees?
21:57What?
21:58You don't keep bees?
21:59No.
21:59Oh.
22:01Is Cynthia not coming?
22:03She has a migraine.
22:05So you'll have to make do with me.
22:07Fee!
22:08Fee!
22:08I told you, no running by the pool!
22:10I told you, no running by the pool!
22:10Oh.
22:10I told you, no running by the pool!
22:22I told you, no running by the pool!
22:25I told you, no running by the pool!
22:26Well, I tried.
22:43I need you.
22:48I need you.
22:51I need you.
22:52I need you.
22:54I need you.
22:55I need you.
23:00I need you.
23:04I need you.
23:05Come on, come on.
23:06I never said I wasn't gonna tell nobody.
23:11No, baby.
23:14You're very sexy, Vladimir.
23:17God.
23:18I know.
23:20How do you come by this physique?
23:22Oh, that's invasive.
23:23It's a nice question.
23:24It's a lovely question.
23:26I don't know.
23:28Grappling wild beasts?
23:29As you do.
23:30Like wrestling bears.
23:32Exactly.
23:33I go to the gym.
23:35It's like the only thing that I do.
23:38I need the outlet.
23:40Well, it's a healthy outlet.
23:41It sure is.
23:43I'm a simple fellow.
23:44I lift, write, work, eat, fuck.
23:50You wasn't saying that, John.
23:52It's just a natural progression.
23:54No, but, you know, who are all those writers
23:57who had all that time for hobbies?
24:00Like Hemingway and his bullfights.
24:02Oh, well, Hemingway didn't do bedtime.
24:04That is true.
24:05He did miss out on that.
24:07Oh.
24:12I like your smile.
24:18He's just being nice.
24:24Here you are.
24:26And...
24:27Cheers.
24:28Cheers.
24:31I have a confession.
24:33You do?
24:35Yeah.
24:37I haven't started reading your book yet.
24:40Oh.
24:44No problem.
24:49Hey.
24:51My wife seems to have come across a piece of Cynthia's mail.
24:56Oh.
24:57I meant to give it to you.
24:57I think it landed in my box by mistake.
24:59Oh.
25:00Yeah, it's probably the only way she'll get it.
25:03Never known that woman to check a mailbox.
25:10Huh.
25:12I worry about her.
25:15You do?
25:17No, Cynthia was, uh...
25:20She was hospitalized after the suicide attempt.
25:23Oh.
25:23Yeah, for six months, she didn't have a mother, just a nanny and me.
25:32But you're together now.
25:35Yeah.
25:36And she's doing all right.
25:38Yeah, much better.
25:39Thank God.
25:41Yeah.
25:45Cynthia doesn't have a migraine.
25:48Oh.
25:49Yeah, we had a fight.
25:50About me?
25:51Uh, no.
25:53No, I, uh, I did something bad.
25:58I'm being a jerk.
25:59Just forget I said anything.
26:00No, don't.
26:01No, no, no.
26:02What's that thing that people say?
26:04Um, marriage is hard.
26:08Divorce is hard.
26:10Choose your heart.
26:20Choose your heart.
26:28Can I get rid of you?
26:30Of course.
26:32Oh, sorry.
26:41Oh, I'm sorry.
26:42Here we are.
26:43Here we are.
26:44I know.
26:46Okay.
26:50Here we are.
26:51I'll see you out.
26:55Good night.
26:56Good night.
27:07You in love?
27:31Oh no,ú.
27:34Something was trying.
27:36You door.
27:36Oh no.
27:37Oh.
27:38No.
27:39Oh.
27:42Oh.
27:43Thank you for listening.
28:38Thank you for listening.
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