#i hope if greg goes to LA next season he mentions his parents or other hollywood execs recognise his name and talk about them a bit

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Since one of the few things we know about Marianne is that she used to party with Gore Vidal it wouldn't be that surprising if she had Hollywood connections. She and Greg's dad probably lived in LA, went to a lot of parties, lived the Hollywood lifestyle. Maybe it's how they met?

I like to imagine Greg's mom as a parallel to Shiv in a lot of ways and I think Marianne moving to LA to live a very hedonistic, lavish, consumerist lifestyle would be an act of rebellion against her very frugal, financially controlling, self-righteous father. Kind of the same way Shiv went into politics for the democratic party as a way of rebelling against her father's conservatism and to prove she could make something for herself outside the Waystar bubble.

Marianne was probably cut off financially by Ewan, made a number of bad investments, and could no longer maintain that lifestyle without falling into significant debt.