Editor’s note: This article contains spoilers for “The Raid.”
“I don’t know anything about love,” laments Ruby, played by Stephanie Hsu, at the end of Peacock’s new romantic comedy series “The Raid.” The eight-episode season will conclude on December 19th, and Sue’s Ruby will be joining the cast of all the cast members so far, including Michael Angarano, professional wrestler Ettore “Big E” Ewin, and, inexplicably, John Early. He discovers that the people he slept with are dead.
Ruby goes on a journey to find out why this is happening, but along the way, with the help of her best friend and roommate AJ, played by Zosia Mamet, she finds herself in the middle of conquering the past. . Tracking down Ruby’s ex-lover and figuring out the timeline went well. And that’s you. ”
It’s a grand, timeless gesture, akin to rushing into a plane to stop a lover from flying to a faraway place (early’s in a plane crash on Ruby’s way to shoot Icelandic yogurt). Like when he tried to prevent death (commercial), and have “Letters to Cleo” performed at the top of the high school. Ruby somehow manages to get AJ’s ultimate crime fetish, Amanda Knox, to meet AJ for dinner.
“Your boyfriend says you always say, ‘If only I could spend an hour with Amanda Knox…'” Knox herself says in the finale of “The Raid.” “Well then, I’m Amanda Knox and I’d like to give you an hour.”
“We wanted to avoid spoilers and respect Amanda’s privacy, so we made the set very small that night. It was no different than the scenes we shot,” Mamet told IndieWire. . “She’s amazing, so kind, so smart, so open about her experiences. She’s a force. She’s one of the strongest people I’ve ever met.”
Ruby, who has learned to be a little more selfless, organizes this secret dinner party with AJ’s forgettable and pathetic boyfriend, Zack (Andre Hyland), who Ruby apparently slept with. Pretend to be someone who signed a death warrant in a selfish act. But even though AJ was hurt, he quickly learned that only best friends would act in such a big way. Therefore, the love story at the heart of “The Raid” is with AJ, rather than with someone who can help break Ruby’s curse.
From her breakout role on Girls, where she played the neurotic Shoshanna Shapiro, to Aya Cash’s estranged childhood best friend and real-life best friend Caylee on You’re the Worst, Mamet has played a great role in female friendships. I have built a career drawn to drawing things. Cuoco’s on-screen best friend in “The Flight Attendant.”
“It was love at first sight,” Mamet said of her friendship with Cuoco. “The first time we met was when I did a compatibility chart with her on that show. We got pretty close while filming. Shooting a TV show or movie is a very long time and consecutive days together. So we had a favorable situation.
“And that’s how I connected with Uma Musume,” Mamet added, recalling the time he took the horses to Cuoco’s ranch in California, where “The Flight Attendant” relocated for its second season. Mamet and Cuoco would go horseback riding together between takes.
Mamet and Cuoco are now stablemates at the network with a new show, and Cuoco recently starred in the full-on crime movie “Based on a True Story,” which AJ from “The Raid” will definitely be into . The pair attended the Peacock Killer Women in Comedy event in November, along with The Raid producer Sue, who helped bring a relaxed atmosphere to the intense eight weeks of filming. .
Mamet praised Sue and shared that she found ways to lighten the mood, such as Friday’s costume contest. “She was not only the face of the show, but also the beating heart of the entire show,” Mamet said. “She has a really beautiful and appreciative tone on set, and that gets everyone off to a good start.”
This is in contrast to Ruby and AJ’s friendship deteriorating throughout the show. Like all good comedy heroines (a page from Carrie Bradshaw), Ruby is a troublesome person whose actions alienate AJ, her family, and her co-workers at her party planning job. AJ grows tired of having his academic-like investigative skills and flexible schedule taken advantage of as a bartender, and at one point kicks Ruby and Zack out of his apartment.
Mamet says one of the things that drew her to The Raid was its nuanced depiction of the conflicts involved in female friendships in their 30s.
“When you’re in your 20s, there’s not as much pressure on friendships. (They) don’t need to be taken care of as much,” Mamet said. “You guys are just having fun with each other.”
Or, in the case of “Girls,” these titular girls are unlikely to be friends under different circumstances, yet they exist in the same scene because that’s what the show wanted. That’s all.
“As we get older and the world puts outside pressures on our friendships, friends become the ones we have to rely on more and more. Suddenly, you find yourself asking more of your friends and receiving more from them. You start asking for more, and when people don’t give it to you, your friendships are put through a test that isn’t always comfortable,” she continued.
“(In some cases) it’s not necessarily someone’s fault, but just as they grow further apart from each other, you start to see the distance forming. That’s a really scary and sad thing that can happen in life.”
In “Raid”, Ruby and AJ appear there. AJ has dedicated his time and skills to helping Ruby, but as he tracks down Ruby’s ex-lover, he discovers that Ruby has a penchant for taking things away.
Ruby has committed such an insult to AJ that their friendship is difficult to restore, but Ruby’s aforementioned grand gesture is a way to mend it, or at least show AJ that their friendship is most important to her. It’s a way to show that she’s not only making an effort, but also willing. Not for himself, but to regain AJ’s trust.
“I don’t think we often think of them that way,” Mamet says. “We think about romantic relationships that way, but we don’t think about friendships that way.”
The real curse of sex was the friends we made in the process.
“Laid” is currently streaming on Peacock.
