GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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"TMI is such an outdated concept.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 The radical transparency/online exhibitionism Hannah champions feels like it is already outdated.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

so they bothered to make another season?

IMDB sez there's a season 5 coming next year.

Gotta cash in on Adam Driver being in Star Wars.

yeah I saw an ad for it it was obnoxious. much as I love that Becky Ann Baker and Peter Scolari are gettin work I have really soured on this show after the last season.

i soured on it after season 1 but for some reason i can't explain i watched the rest of it.

it was bcz somewhere in yr heart you knew that Louise Lasser would be on.

Lena needs more episodes in which to insert subliminal Clinton ads

the gaby Hoffman home birth s.4 ep was still incredible

thought there was a few really good episodes last season (the coming out episode especially), while the season considered as a whole was p terrible

the last episode seemed kinda like a series-ender with the leap forward and everything (which came off like a remarkably cheap narrative fix)

I did finally start S4. I found the writing workshop scenes false and hard to stomach, and there was something that really irritated me about the scene where *everyone unfairly criticizes Hannah* -- it seemed like narcissistic writing, on the part of Dunham, to me.

Like there's something about people who believe that the entire world gangs up on them for no reason -- usually (1) their perception is distorted and not everyone is really against them as much as they thing and (2) there is a reason

Elijah is consistently the funniest lately. but this show isn't particularly interested in comedy.

― Οὖτις, Friday, January 16, 2015 11:39 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I like his character, he's very good at doing that thing where a person is obviously full of shit but kind of believes his own bullshit.

― walid foster dulles (man alive), Friday, January 16, 2015 12:35 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just realized I was mixing up Elijah and Desi when I said this. Elijah is hilarious and knocks it out of the park consistently, and yeah pretty much is the only thing saving S4 for me so far.