GIRLS talk (the Lena Dunham thread)

(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

I dunno man, i was pleased to see Brigitte getting paid but otherwise this felt like self parody to me

i kind of enjoy watching everyone except LD and Ray.

its a lot more polished and sitcom than it used to be but it was p funny and i am fine with that. kind of wanted the ep to be longer though. think both it and togetherness could stand to be 40 minute shows or something.

The scene with Ray and Desi in the river was the most sitcomy this show has ever been. And it was proceeded by Hannah complaining about how sitcomy the girls were. Still, not a bad ep

Last nights episode was the worst yet. Show tipping into self parody

this show feels so outdated and boring

yeah this show has completely run out of fresh and interesting ideas. I wonder how it's gonna hold up in 20 years?

I feel like it tries to find edginess and profundity and stuff in sources that have been completely tapped out

i liked the wedding ep but otherwise this show is p bad now

This season has been p reliably funny and watchable tbh - much like the last two seasons.

my thought on the japan episode -- "wait, she works in tokyo, how is her apartment not a shoebox"

I liked this episode, definitely more than the last two. Not much happened but the arguments between the couples were, I dunno, more believable than usual? Mostly I liked that the girls were interacting with each other again, and not just doing their own thing

yea this was an improvement, i prob credit the bruce eric Kaplan written by

also lack of ray is helpful; i like karpovsky a lot but im done w his character

this show is not great, but the acting and writing for Marnie and Desi produces lots of laughs culminating in this season with Marnie's authentic pronunciation of Ecuador and Desi's fit of self loathing at not being able to take his tank top off.

i laughed at the tank top bit, but this show is more or less 100% bullshit, entirely bereft of ideas, and seemingly interested in easy target caricatures while also somehow infused with a ton of self-congratulatory liberal reflexiveness. i predicted that the end of the first season portended bad things and i think i was right.

it's mired in the dumbest cliches at this point

it's turned into a mediocre sitcom and hannah's awful teaching career just makes me feel anxious and desi seems to be a different character every episode but yes marnie is reliably awful every week (and very entertaining at that) and the jessa and adam subplot is surprisingly watchable, though i have this weird feeling they're actually going to kill adam off.

but like i think it was a more uneven and "worse" but more interesting show before this season. i don't know. i seem to be in a grump w/tv right now. even the second season of togetherness is bleh to me.

I thought the first few episodes were good this season and now everyone's back to being an idiot again.

1. ew is the viewer supposed to ~feel sometihng~ @ blandrew flannels' times square kiss? ugh
2. that gay sex scene was totally hilarious and v otm bad bossy gay sex
3. this show totally IS devoid of ideas, and has become a mediocre sitcom where the humor comes from the characters being their own caricatures; there is no more situational humor, it's just "lol at how predictably self-absorbed and ridiculous hannah/jessa/marnie is". it's still really funny at times but it's completely lost everything that made it zeitgeisty and fresh and essential.
4. desi is a terrifying monster

5. shoshanna was initially introduced as a flat one-note caricature among three seemingly-complex/complicated/interesting women, and was then developed into the only really likable and complex and relatable character among three flat one-note caricatures, and then has like seemingly been done away w/ or pushed farther into the background, what the fuck

her episode in Japan was great. She's the best thing in it by far.

The end of that episode was the worst cliched hamfisted garbage

I'm a sucker for stuff set in Japan AND Shosh, but I thought that ep drew from the worst moments of Lost in Translation

i sorta love how terrible they had to make desi to find an appropriate match for marnie's self-absorbtion

like a one hour play about just the two of them fighting would be sort of amazing, in a modernist avant-garde awful way

man that was bad

only funny moment/laugh was when Desi started to cry

glad they brought Marnie's douchebag ex back around for one final round of humiliation though

"What have you been doing since you left Girls we broke up?"

"Now I'm a fat drug-dealing junkie!"

ok so Hannah has become so improbably immature and bad decision makey and just a fucked up nonsense shell of a human being and it has completely ceased to be funny, interesting, or even remotely logical or realistic. It makes absolutely zero sense, and also it's very tiresome and I don't care about anything she does at all.

I can't separate this show in my mind from Dunham's sycophantish public displays of appreciation for people like Hillary Clinton and Melinda Gates, and to me that is of a piece with the show's very narrow, mainstream young upper-middle-class liberal take on things -- forward thinking about sex and relationships up to a point, complacent about p much everything else.

Lol desi's ray bradbury shelf

Hannah needs to get fired from this school.

This show is amazing

Desi is so ridiculous