GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

what made the teacher dude fall for Hannah in the end? guess we'll never know

Yeah jeez that went by fast and nothing happened, how is it over already?

cannot imagine anything worse in life than jessa as a therapist

wtf I enjoyed the hell out of this season, it leaned hard on the funny, which it is good at

i liked the hannah/adam scene, and i thought this season was kinda patchy but ok

The series overall was mundane yet still unbelivable. I have no idea why I'm watching this.

guys is this ok i don't think so? http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/dog-or-jewish-boyfriend-a-quiz

I am gonna say no

oh, Lena.

"He doesn't tip"?

(grimace)

I'm honestly more annoyed at the New Yorker for thinking it was worth printing than Dunham for writing it

Loved the last few episodes. Some corny business in the finale (cue miracle of childbirth, earnest montage music) but worth it to finally move the characters forward and make even Jessa sympathetic. They've driven the "these people are terrible" approach into the ground so I can forgive a little sentimentality. Favourite bit was the woman who offers Shosh the Tokyo job. Hai!

She was GREAT!!!! Aidy Bryant is a godsend and needs to be everywhere all of the time.

"She's bipolar so between you and me we're going to fire her as soon as she hits her next manic upswing."

9. This is because he comes from a culture in which mothers focus every ounce of their attention on their offspring and don’t acknowledge their own need for independence as women. They are sucked dry by their children, who ultimately leave them as soon as they find suitable mates.

uh

well now I am pissed off

like it's gross enough to compare your boyfriend to a dog idk why you gotta throw "Jewish" in there except to make some anti-semitic joeks about being cheap/mama's boy etc

I like this show but LD seems dumb as shit tbh

Like a genuinely dense and stupid person

i basically assume everything she says/does at this pt is said/done to elicit some kind of dramatic reaction which is unfortunate bc i think it is a lazy approach to creating art and it devalues her work generally

saying this w the whole memoir controversy in mind.

Not gonna approve of what she said, but isn't she also Jewish?

Dunham has described herself as feeling "very culturally Jewish, although that's the biggest cliché for a Jewish woman to say”; her father is Protestant, and her mother is Jewish.

Really liked the finale, even the maudlin shit with Ray and Marnie, this show is solid pretty much any time it's not the Lena Dunham Hour as it turns out.

Lotta good moments in the finale, good balance of 'lol these ppl are awful' and emotional stuff that actually worked. Cut to 6 months later too abrupt.

Fave bit was Shosh saying "--in Japan!" and wiggling her chopsticks. Shosh wins this season overall.

Do I want to see s4

Yes

no

yes

no

No

Maybe

if there's another season of this show I ain't watchin it

How abt just watch a few episodes and then decide

Even with all my complaining, I'm still gonna watch. It's still sporadically very funny.

"TMI is such an outdated concept. There's no such thing as too much information. This is the information age!"

Episode 2 of this season was really interesting. The radical transparency/online exhibitionism Hannah champions feels like it is already outdated. People's online personae are so polished and cultivated now. Our discourse, too, doesn't feel freewheeling of anarchic, there is a real cost to saying the wrong thing. I think it was different around the end of the last decade. Not everywhere, but in the aggregate.

The Iowa students were sancimonious and annoying. Hannah is different: she is narcissistic and annoying. She has adopted some of their language and positions herself as an ally/activist and definitely believes in those causes but still, she is not one of them. It's not so much about actual positions as this insider/outsider thing, she signals all the time that she has these different values, finds pleasure in transgression rather than censure. I feel like Lena Dunham did a great job depicting these highly relevant antinomies in this episode

Bristol on Lena

To save you the trouble, here's the most of the post...

Remember the liberal media outrage?
Oh that’s right. It didn’t happen. The liberal media darling Dunham was praised for her “honest and witty” book.
The double standards make me sick. Josh Duggar touched a sleeping girls breast – a terrible thing to go. But now their ENTIRE family is punished and their hit show is canceled? He’s labeled as a pedophile? His family is crucified!
Liberals in today’s media can do no wrong, while conservatives can do no right.

There's probably a better place for this, but this group interview with Dunham, Amy Shumer, Tracee Ellis-Ross, Gina Rodriguez, Ellie Kemper and Kate McKinnon is very interesting
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/lena-dunham-amy-schumer-comedy-797861

god when will Amy Schumer's moment be over

she's having an amazing season right now but i don't wanna have this argument again

Remember the liberal media outrage?

I remember her being shredded on Twitter. Does that count?

12 Angry Men Inside Amy Schumer maybe the single greatest episode of TV this year

not trying to be contrary, but i thought that was the worst episode of the season for her!

https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/YlMhPcDN.0hIJrp9wtpekQ--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjtzbT0xO2lsPXBsYW5l/http://41.media.tumblr.com/3b9f24c18a6dfe681c4380761c997a52/tumblr_inline_nvfsgwwVas1tcrvtq_1280.png.cf.jpg

s'prised it took this long

Girls S4: I Did Not Watch You

it just occurred to me. show completely went off my radar.

not enough joeks imo