GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

can't tell if stevie's post is a piss take or not

lol not at all

it just started airing during a period that I was really fucking jaded and fed up w/ a lot of bullshit and was hoping this would subvert these things instead of perpetuating them but I was wrong

i don't think there is any nationally aired subversive gay television programming
and maybe not since pee wee's playhouse?

yeah idk if there is either which is why I was like "oh wow it's a show abt gay millenials, maybe this will be really critical and thought provoking!", like I feel like Girls has a lot of commentary abt its characters and its characters' generation and demographic and all of that and Looking does not

it's much more implicit yes.
worth noting: one of the executive producers of looking is the chief creative officer for archie comics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roberto_Aguirre-Sacasa

okay just watched 5 episodes of Looking in a row, just finished season 1, actually am kind of liking it

now you're gonna make me go back to season 1
when you get to the funeral episode in season 2, let's see if you're with me

halfway through the most recent episode, mimi rose seems similar to the main characters just better at it

this ep was prob the best of the season imo, tho if someone critiques dad tad's coming out as gimmicky id not disagree

if we're still talking about togetherness, i just watched episode 4. the sex scene is so sad.

ok shosh still killing it.

"Fucking Marnie?!"

there are scenes in togetherness that are underplayed but just. devastating. the sex scene is one.

Holy shiiieeeeeet what a great episode!

I was laughing so hard at/with Mom laughing so hard

thought this was a really great episode. best of the season easily. just when i was starting to feel a little bit fed-up with girls too.

Shosh is like the only one resembling a sympathetic human being at this point. Idk why i'm still watching this tbh, it's so scattershot. Dad coming out was ridiculously contrived altho it was nice to see sy ableman again.

Elijah said Hannah's dad was gay back in Season 1

deadbeat desi is the worst best thing

also Jason Ritter is my guilty pleasure total normcore crush

wasn't there foreshadowing of the dad coming out in the episode where he visited hannah in iowa?

This was like a season's worth of jokes in one episode. It was a quickfire sitcom spliced with a Woody Allen sex farce. Favourite bit was when Hannah gives the bemused teacher her theory about why he's scared to date her. "It's the new misogyny… and I'm up for that!" Also, Shosh's misfiring dirty talk.

could NOT watch the frenulum piercing scene and it really aggravated me tbh. right up there with the dentist and chopping up the body scenes in the american for WOAH I CANNOT WATCH THISness. also as this seems to be where we are discussing it, last episode of togetherness was just amazing/painful.

i thought the last episode of togetherness was the worst one of the run.

girls, on the other hand, was excellent, one of the best episodes of the series. the piercing looked real; was it?

i thought the last episode of togetherness was the worst one of the run.

yeah so did I - the whole will they/won't they with the charter school guy, c'mon we all knew they were going to

i don't think it was 'will they' as much as 'when will they'

Also, Shosh's misfiring dirty talk.

"slimy vagina" was v lol

like a deli pickle

had to watch that scene twice

hannah's lack of professional boundaries as a high school teacher, while predictable, is really angering me in a way nothing lena dunham has ever done has.

"thanks for ruining my day, raincloud!"

"future of your cock" had me in stitches for a good two minutes. delivery was perfect.

I hooowwwllled at that Shosh dirty talk scene

hannah's lack of professional boundaries as a high school teacher, while predictable, is really angering me in a way nothing lena dunham has ever done has.

agreed tbh. Was sure she would get sacked for the frenulum thing.

starting with the abortion episode, this has kind of gotten good? (would still be better without Hannah and her parents)

Hannah and her parents

"Get the Woodman on the phone--I smell PREQUEL!"

End of the Adam-Mimi Rose relationship was so dumb. I mean, typical for what this show is doing now, but nearly no explanation given. It's so hard to care about characters in a show as random as this though. Now I think I mostly watch for lulz, and schadenfreude at seeing Hannah and Marnie repeatedly sabotage their own lives.

I loled at the Ace-Mimi dialogue there, though. I think I'd watch a mockumentary about those two as contemporary NY artists.

The opening sex scene set to an Ezra Koenig song about New York was none-more-Girls.

It's so hard to care about characters in a show as random as this though. Now I think I mostly watch for lulz

otm and the problem is the laffs are few and far between (limited to Shoshona and Elijah mainly)

Ray pining for Marnie is such contrived nonsense

And even Marnie wouldn't be so cartoonishly narcissistic as to announce her engagement at Ray's election party (in front of a group of strangers).

lol no that part i totally believe

I have no problem believing either tbh

One narcissist I know announced her engagement at her fiance's best friend's wedding so, y'know…

Surprised that anyone thinks the laughs have dried up. I thought the last two episodes were hitting the sitcom beats harder than ever.

Peter Scolari was the actor from Gay Dad

everything w Hannah & her "friendship" w her student was gold

I thought the last two episodes were hitting the sitcom beats harder than ever.

sitcoms aren't funny