. She’s at home in the suburbs, crafts, and crucially, loves to hear Bridget Everett sing. After we talk on Zoom, she tells me she’s got to get back to planning a dinner party, another very Tricia activity. Of course, there’s a sizable distance between Garrison and her character; in the show’s first season, Tricia, sister to Everett’s character Sam, presents herself as tightly-wound, homophobic, and cold to many of the show’s other characters.
Well, Bridget and I lived together for nearly a decade and we actually do like each other in real life. When we moved in together, I wasn’t sure she liked me at first. I was like,. She did come to love me and I came to love her, and it was from her that I realized I was funny. When we lived together, I was doing plays and she was waitressing and doing a lot of karaoke. We weren’t ever performing together, and we were never doing the same thing.
I did find it very relatable to see her venting her anger at her ex and her ex-business partner through her burner Instagram.] Somebody sent me a meme where someone had taken a photo of Tricia and wrote “I love this bitter bitch.” That feels like I’ve arrived somehow! The thing about all these characters, but especially Tricia, is that they sink into the petty sometimes. She can’t help it. She’s trying so hard to do her best and life just keeps toppling over.
She’s accidentally Pride all the time! Remember, in the first season she did that rainbow display in the store. She keeps being accidentally pro-Pride.I have a very different aesthetic than Tricia. Mine’s a little more modern, but I do sew and make pottery and I paint and make jewelry. Right now I’m making some avant-garde shaped fake press-on nails. I bite my nails, there’s no reason for me to get into that, but here I am! It actually started last season when I was in Chicago.
There’s a lovely moment at the wedding where Sam spots Tricia in the crowd while singing “Gloria” and pulls her over and gets her to ride on her back.