GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

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"TMI is such an outdated concept.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 The radical transparency/online exhibitionism Hannah champions feels like it is already outdated.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

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/hbos-girls-end-season-6-852340

lol, so they're announcing they're cancelling if they get renewed?

don't see it not being renewed for a sixth season

well no i guess not but still the chutzpah!

I think they probably should be wrapping it up after this coming season if the last season was anything to go by.

Wonder if Kylo Ren's appearances will be curtailed considering his filming commitments to those Disney films + the fact that he broke up with Hannah. I hope not as he's my favourite thing about the show.

five seasons is almost always the correct number for any tv show, this has been proven time and time again.

just started watching season three, rly feeling this

i envy anyone for whom the sister was not immediately familiar

― flopson, Tuesday, January 21, 2014 4:35 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(adam's sister, that is)

Just watched "One Man's Trash" and it's as ambiguous and compelling as a good short story.

i'm with you there; i think it's the high water mark for the series.

Yup

Hey Beloved Pals,
I just wanted to let you know that, while I am so excited for Girls to return on Feb 21, I won't be out and about doing press for the new season. As many of you know I have endometriosis, a chronic condition that affects approximately 1 in 10 women's reproductive health. I am currently going through a rough patch with the illness and my body (along with my amazing doctors) let me know, in no uncertain terms, that it's time to rest. That's a hard thing to do, but I'm trying, because all I want is to make season 6 of Girls the best one yet. I'm lucky enough to have support and backup from Jenni, Judd and the whole Girls gang. So many women with this disease literally don't have the option of time off and I won't take it for granted.
Wishing you all health & happiness, in whatever form suits you.
Back soon
xxLena

New season starts Sunday. Yay?

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/02/19/girls_season_five_reviewed.html

lol there's a headline

I'll keep watching and keep getting frustrated by this show, for reasons I can't understand

more like *hurls*

That was a really good piece though - I was surprised at the reveal that the author is a mere 28. I was also sort of startled at the reminder that there is a generation of young urbanites who really deeply feel attached to and relate to this show.

Desi killing it in this episode.

yeah ep was better than I expected, p funny.

Marnie's "I'm a chill chick but please run every detail by me" schtick was pretty funny too.

Andrew Rannells' age is 37.

the Dorian Graylike effects of the jizz of Satan