""It's boring! No wonder you're stuck!" he says. Aggie tries to defend her idea: "It's two people with radically opposed worldviews, deeply polarized convictions, who still manage to have real affection-" Nile, played by Rhys as a magnetically rude man, mimics putting on a mask and breathing into it: "It's a snooze! No one wants hope! You know that! People want gossip and carnage!""
"Aggie, a prize-winning writer with a Bushwick-dwelling artist ex-wife and bylines in the Atlantic and the New Yorker, is Ginsburg. Nile, a rapacious developer and a capitalist prone to declarations like "Selfish gets shit done" and "Humans have eyes in the front and sharp teeth ... we are predators," is Scalia. They may seem like opposites, but just as Ginsburg and Scalia were both creatures of the privilege the Supreme Court conveys"
Agatha Gibbs has a contract to write a book about the friendship between Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Antonin Scalia but is stalled on the project. Her only child died in a car accident four years earlier, and she and her wife divorced in the aftermath. A wealthy neighbor, Nile Jarvis, openly criticizes her project as dull and urges sensationalism. Aggie and Nile develop an unexpected, intense rapport that echoes the Ginsburg-Scalia dynamic. Both characters share New York privilege and an obsession with prestige despite holding opposing worldviews, revealing complex similarities beneath apparent differences.
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