“You’re not just doing that whole old-person thing where you call girls cutesy names ’cause you think it’s charming or whatever, are you.”

For instance, if you were working as a call girl, you would know the things not to do because of the bad experiences that other people have had.

The first episode finds Jimmy, a year into his mourning, hitting rock bottom, numbing himself with booze and drugs and a late-night pool party with call girls.

In Emma Cline’s latest, “The Guest,” the heroine is a call girl on the run.

Unwelcome: In Emma Cline’s latest, “The Guest,” the heroine is a call girl on the run.