workaholics gets crazier as it goes along.
girls is no louis either. i know lena is a louis fanatic. louis is next level stuff. and kinda genius. but again i still like girls...
(its no 30 rock or parks & rec either as far as half hour shows go...)
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
The League, OTOH, is brilliant
You mean the fantasy football show? I thought it was hilarious. Went through all the eps in, like, two days, it was so funny.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
league's great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
workaholics is great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
I hate women
I actually thought The League was pretty egalitarian. That is, the dudes act like asses (mostly toward one another), and the women - who are all smart, pretty much - inevitably swoop in and show them up at their own game. When they do get crass and sexist-ish, they're usually the butt of their own schemes and jokes.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
But I can't imagine people polluting the Workaholics thread with complaints about how they can't get into the show cuz they can't empathize with the privileged backgrounds of the characters or whatever.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:12 (twelve years ago) link
in general, i wouldn't think that i would have much time for anyone who might even tangentially be connected to something called "mumblecore", so, i was happy that girls is actually pretty good. its just funny/entertaining. and i'm always on the lookout for new funny.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:13 (twelve years ago) link
i kinda hate the league
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
the thing with girls is you have the tried and true bildungsroman thing of someone learning how to make their way in the world but then you have the post-curb/seinfeld attitude of no lessons/etc/etc and that's probably off-putting to some people. people want people to learn lessons and suffer and the characters in girls do learn things but they are also pretty modern/blase. you know, like clueless.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
like clueless the movie. and okay a little clueless as people.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
not familiar with the league, but workaholics bugs me. dislike the characters and sensibility. girls is much funnier, imo.
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
Girls set itself up for that by staking some claim to verisimilitude (no one's complaint about Entourage was that they couldn't identify with Hollywood millionaires - you weren't supposed to), and with the first ep. Without the pilot, I don't think there would be half as many complaints about privilege. --Kiarostami bag (milo z)
I doubt that somehow and I don't really see the difference.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
i like workaholics more than peep show too. my problem with peep show is my antipathy for the characters/actors.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:24 (twelve years ago) link
peep show's great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
netflix is great
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:26 (twelve years ago) link
it sux for everything but these shows tho, for the most part I think
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:27 (twelve years ago) link
i really tried to love peep show. watched it stoned, everything, just don't love it. i guess i am kinda parochial when it comes to naughty lad humour. i pretty much like everything that workaholics is based on. office space/kids in the hall/mr. show/wet hot american harold and kumar super troopers. all that crap.
― scott seward, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Netflix is great for everything except big studio films.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Inspired by my love of Girls watched Tiny Furniture this evening and was suddenly struck by the AbFab influence on the Denham/Kirke 'ship. Kirke is so obviously Patsy age 22 or so.
― Stevie T, Sunday, 6 May 2012 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
are there any UK-friendly links for this show online? HBO's You Tube link upthread is 'not available in my country'.
― piscesx, Sunday, 6 May 2012 23:40 (twelve years ago) link
wld 100% watch a show of the 2 chick co-workers of hannah from this ep
― johnny crunch, Monday, 7 May 2012 03:29 (twelve years ago) link
didn't really laff at this one
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 7 May 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
No girlz talk this week
― sleepingbag, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.npr.org/2012/05/07/152183865/lena-dunham-addresses-criticism-aimed-at-girls?ps=cprs
― Fas Ro Duh (Gukbe), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
On her relationship with her parents"When I graduated [from] college, my parents said, 'You can live with us,' but they made it really clear they were not going to support any of my endeavors. They were like, 'You can live with us and that's a great gift we can give you, but you have to have a job, you have to figure out, like we did, how to have a creative life, and we're giving you a great step ahead by already living in the city you want to be in, but we're not going to serve that function for you. Our parents didn't do it for us, and we don't think it's healthy.' "
"When I graduated [from] college, my parents said, 'You can live with us,' but they made it really clear they were not going to support any of my endeavors. They were like, 'You can live with us and that's a great gift we can give you, but you have to have a job, you have to figure out, like we did, how to have a creative life, and we're giving you a great step ahead by already living in the city you want to be in, but we're not going to serve that function for you. Our parents didn't do it for us, and we don't think it's healthy.' "
I don't totally understand this - they offered her a place to live but didn't give her walking around money or wouldn't help her find a job or what?
― Mordy, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
she wasn't going to be able to lounge around or be a trustafarian, she had to have a job even though they were letting her stay rent-freepretty clear, tbh
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Monday, 7 May 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, that's why my brother ended up sleeping in the barn.
― scott seward, Monday, 7 May 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
More like they gave her a place to stay and supported her finding a job, instead of letting her stay and eat while "writing the great american novel" or w/e. My dad, who thinks the world ends if you do not have a job at all times, would kind of unconsciously surface this as "how's the job hunt going?"
― mh, Monday, 7 May 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
john cook's episode recaps of this show on Gawker are really bad. like, 'he needs an editor to tell him to stop writing like that' bad.
― Bad Company's Drummer's Daughter (stevie), Monday, 7 May 2012 23:24 (twelve years ago) link
hah shit got mad real at tender boyfriends rock show
― lag∞n, Monday, 7 May 2012 23:26 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's funny how the gawker recaps only refer to the characters as their fathers' daughters. THAT IS SO FUNNY AND NOT PLAYED OUT AT ALL.
― how did we get here how? (ytth), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:36 (twelve years ago) link
I can understand not knowing the characters' names (there's British girl, SATC girl, Lena Dunham and yuppie IMO - along with sensitive boyfriend, douchebag, aging slacker husband and guy from Tiny Furniture), but that's pretty ridic.
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 03:48 (twelve years ago) link
douchebag can either be the artist or Lena's fuckbuddy
We did this upthread
― mh, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 04:09 (twelve years ago) link
britchick looking to unionize the nannies was pretty in characterlena with the paralegal pool maybe somewhat less so
― (Name Withheld to Avoid Hassle) (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 04:51 (twelve years ago) link
http://maxgif.com/13u
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
Her eyebrows were killing me
― mh, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
I don't relate to this show one bit.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
what's the obstacle?
― 10. “Pour Some Sugar On Me” – Tom Cruise (contenderizer), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:29 (twelve years ago) link
I guess I feel like I relate to Angela Chase on My So-Called Life and Lindsey Weir from Freaks & Geeks far more, to draw parallels from other 'girl'-centric shows.
― homosexual II, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 16:40 (twelve years ago) link
Come on, it's only been four out of ten episodes. Give it a chance!
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't particularly relate to anybody on this show and I was largely appalled by the characters at first but since it keeps making me laugh, I'm sticking with it. It's also kind of fun to be reminded how callow I was at their age, too.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:19 (twelve years ago) link
yes! and that she kept them like that all day+night!
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
i love Angela Chase and Lindsey Weir too but in a high-school relating way, which is more of a friendly nostalgia with minor cringing at recognition of self. there's really something in Hannah that i somewhat shamefully relate to in an oh-my-god-agh-look-back-at-my-early-mid-20s-and-cringe-but-not-hate way.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
i think they looked amazing? like i think she should keep them for the rest of the series + her life
xp
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
i thought that if they were a little toned down, they'd be perfect! (but i have never nearly approached that level of eyebrow make-up myself)
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
Still liking this show a lot. This episode seemed a little more 'typical sitcom' in its pacing though, and then afterward I noticed it was the first one she didn't direct herself.
― Hierophantiasis (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
I loved that caveman bf loved the eyebrows!
"you look like a mexican teenager"
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link