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What The Gen Z Stare Reveals About A Generation Raised Online
In Mike White’s presciently witty series "The White Lotus," he captured the modern zeitgeist often with uncanny accuracy. Sometimes this was through dialogue between young Zoomer characters, modeled after the snarky, sardonic tone of The Red Scare podcast, and shaped by a generation disillusioned with neoliberalism and girl boss feminist heroes like Hillary Clinton.
By Jaimee Marshall8 min read
Other details were even subtler—nonverbal. In an early scene introducing characters from two different but parallel worlds: Olivia and Paula, the daughter and best friend of a wealthy family enjoying the spoils of legacy matriarch Nicole Mossbacher, and recently married struggling freelance writer Rachel, who has just married Shane, another descendant of generational wealth.