Menendez could have invoked whatis known as a "friendship exemption" regarding the two personal trips, which would have required the senator to report the travel to the Senate Ethics Committee as a gift.
Like the writer Sheila Heti and the filmmaker Lena Dunham, Ocean is deciding what it means to talk about friendship, drugs, love, and sex, and is setting the parameters for shame and regret in a world in which failure is simply a way of saying hello.
That's what makes friendship interesting: we bring new things to the table, and if all we do is like exactly what our friends like, we'll all end up bored out of our minds.