Smith-Cameron) is a no-nonsense person who can give the phrase "bless your heart" infinite shadings. But Ben tells Ty he wants to center a podcast on the murder, and Ty thinks that’s just great because the people on Reddit will get obsessed with it and will take vengeance on the murderer without their having to do it.Īs the movie progresses, Ben begins to fall in love with Abby’s family. Now, why Ty would want Ben’s help is far from clear, as his manliness, such as it is, just extends as far as objectifying women. And he wants Ben to help him exact vengeance. Things get even juicier when Ty informs Ben that Abby didn’t die of an opioid overdose. She’s a "dead white girl," the holy grail of podcasts, and she’s from a red state, so how exotic is that? Ben gets an idea-he can expand on his career by doing some sort of podcast about her, her family, and her end. The funeral is on Thursday and Ty will be at the airport to pick Ben up. They are, and are intended to be, gross and contemptible.īen dubs one such girl "Texas," and as the movie begins in earnest, he’s in bed with a one-night stand when he gets a call from Texas’s brother Ty (Boyd Holbrook). "One hundred percent," each of them says to the other.
They do nothing but agree with each other. He and his friend (played by the singer John Mayer, well-known for being a cad) open the movie discussing their method of taking the names of hook-up-ready women and putting them in their phones in depersonalized code so they can remember who the women are. We begin with a successful New York journalist named Ben Manalowitz, played by the movie’s writer-director, B.J.
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