Every person who moves to Los Angeles in search of success, fame, or whatever unholy mash-up of the two they can get will inevitably mix friendship with business. But what does that actually look like on a day-to-day basis? And how the hell do you draw boundaries? The only real attempt in this episode to describe the difficulty of Maia’s position as Tallulah’s manager comes from Maia’s chirpy co-worker (Lauren Holt, a treat every time). Her analogy of choice is a doozy (“It’s like when I tell guys on the first date that I want a C-section”), but the message is right. Things are different for Maia and Tallulah now, whether they want to admit it or not.

But when Maia takes Tallulah out for coffee, she can barely say, “I want to talk to you about your career,” before making fun of herself. T

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