GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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

sitcoms aren't funny? what do you find funny then?

uh, other forms of comedy...? what a weird question

"Sitcoms aren't funny" is a pretty broad statement!

if we're talking yr standard three-camera 30-minute "situational comedy" with sets and a laugh track/audience... yeah I can't watch those, I just find them irritating

unless they are from the '70s or are The Dick Van Dyke Show

yeah there are some old ones I like, but the form's basically been dead/moribund/totally worthless for... 30 years? yeah fuck that, they aren't funny.

The 3-camera ones are pretty bad, though Seinfeld/Friends were pretty good, and I'm sure there are other examples of good ones here and there. But the single-camera ones are often awesome! I think what people mean by "sitcom beats" are the set-up/knock down rhythm of sitcoms. For example, Hannah getting lectured on boundaries early in the episode, and then giving the same lecture to her dad later on.

Meant to say Most of the 3-camera ones...

yeah I consider stuff like Larry Sanders Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, Broad City, Always Sunny, etc. as some other kind of tv comedy distinct from sitcoms. just the way they're paced, shot, written - they feel like a totally different beast from something like Everybody Loves Raymond or whatever.

"She is SO not sorry to interrupt" had me str8 lolin

here's a situation we built for our characters! they have to deal with it! comedy ensues!

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Larry Sanders, Curb, 30 Rock, Broad City, Always Sunny, etc. <-- Sitcoms.

the form's basically been dead/moribund/totally worthless for... 30 years?

this is nonsense

unless you define sitcoms as situation-based comedies you don't like

which appears to be what you're doing