oh wait i just checked my twitter feed and it looks as if people like this too much.
this show is utterly fucking shit and god fuck all these people with their fucking lives and opinions and their ham-fisted attempts at comedy i mean seriously let me know if a cannon shoots out the support of a guard tower and Lena Dunham falls out and then maybe we can talk about Real F-ing Comedy.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 16 April 2012 05:26 (twelve years ago) link
terrible show. enunciate for gods sake
should have been father-and-stepmother. the mom made no sense
― fart bucket (toandos), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:08 (twelve years ago) link
side dude (ray?) at dinner party was funny once or twice. that was about it
― fart bucket (toandos), Monday, 16 April 2012 06:09 (twelve years ago) link
isn't this show about failing yuppies not hipsters
― judith, Monday, 16 April 2012 10:54 (twelve years ago) link
let me know if a cannon shoots out the support of a guard tower
^excellent
what replaces shoes from S&TC here?
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 10:56 (twelve years ago) link
I think I like the idea of show, gen limboy, but I have only read about it and not watched it, but I am afraid if I watch it I will stop liking it
that it's SATC influenced seems worrying? SATC's only virtue is that it will merit a lot of analysis in whatever 'fall of the american empire' tome is written in 50 years
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:24 (twelve years ago) link
how exactly is this 'satc' influenced' anyway. four women? that's it? four women. they all look alike huh.
― goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
well it's more like it's being groomed as the anti-SATC (complete with deliberately eye-rolling SATC references in the pilot) than that it's influenced by it, to be fair
it was aight but really, i dunno that this is much better than, like, Garden State
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:28 (twelve years ago) link
oof
― goole, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
four women? that's it? four women.
NYC, first-world problems, HBO Sunday night etc
The 2nd and 3rd seasons of S&TC were quite funny btw, before SJP swallowed the show.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:38 (twelve years ago) link
satc is a p good show just kinda disturbing
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
2nd and 3rds seasons of SATC were excellent.
This was not as interesting as I had hoped.
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
In your pilot, you have overt references to Sex in the City. Obviously, you’re writing about four young women friends in New York City. Do you see Girls as sort of a response or reaction or a tribute to SATC? Was it just something that naturally these characters would reference themselves in comparison to? That was sort of the first thought was that Shoshanna [Zosia Mamet's character] would have moved to New York because of Sex in the City. And a lot of these girls, even Hannah who might make fun of the girl who were the “I’m a Carrie” T-shirt, part of the reason she came to New York is clearly because she thought she was a Carrie. It’s almost like not only is this a show that talks about Sex and the City, these are women who couldn’t exist without Sex and the City. And I sort of wanted to reference that, honor it and get it out of the way. But I was sensitive about that Sex in the City reference. I was scared when I sent the pilot to HBO that they’d be offended or find it to be too meta, and they told us that it was a big reason that they picked up the pilot. They liked the fact that we were the first script about women that had commented on Sex in the City and took the issue head on.
That was sort of the first thought was that Shoshanna [Zosia Mamet's character] would have moved to New York because of Sex in the City. And a lot of these girls, even Hannah who might make fun of the girl who were the “I’m a Carrie” T-shirt, part of the reason she came to New York is clearly because she thought she was a Carrie. It’s almost like not only is this a show that talks about Sex and the City, these are women who couldn’t exist without Sex and the City. And I sort of wanted to reference that, honor it and get it out of the way. But I was sensitive about that Sex in the City reference. I was scared when I sent the pilot to HBO that they’d be offended or find it to be too meta, and they told us that it was a big reason that they picked up the pilot. They liked the fact that we were the first script about women that had commented on Sex in the City and took the issue head on.
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:54 (twelve years ago) link
the first episode went fast and had some promising stuff, but all the characters who weren't the leads were painted pretty broadly and unsympathetically. Found it really disturbing to have the mom from Freaks & Geeks being such a contemptuous monster with no explanation.
― da croupier, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:56 (twelve years ago) link
so her 3 co-stars are the daughters of David Mamet, Brian Williams and the Bad Company drummer? Worth boycotting for that alone.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
well that's not an entirely unrealistic portrait of williamsburg, as long as they play themselves
― iatee, Monday, 16 April 2012 13:59 (twelve years ago) link
yeah the show felt very much like 'every character who is not played by the writer/director is a cardboard cutout,' except for maybe the one other girl who kind of scolded the other girl in the bathroom. it was a pilot, though, presumably those people would need time to get fleshed out.
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
really think its a stretch to lump the drummer of bad company in w/those other two
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
she is eating a cupcake in the shower
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
yes, bcz I likely wouldn't want to kick the BC drummer in the face if I saw him on the street
xp
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 16 April 2012 14:06 (twelve years ago) link
i am watching this
now they are talking abt satc
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
joylin knows photoshop, lol
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:10 (twelve years ago) link
no one really seems to be talking abt the apatow connection but it seems v apatow w/the mundane misanthropy
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
this is p funny
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:17 (twelve years ago) link
this does not taste like twix
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
that was so smh, it's not like he even pronounced it any way that could lead to that kind of misunderstanding
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
i support all twix based humor
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72gsdsL26po
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
why dont u get a job and start a blog u r so spoiled
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
I just remembered the "I am busy...trying to become who I am" line and felt a strong wave of rmde all over again
― some dude, Monday, 16 April 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
One thing that really struck me with Hannah’s character in the pilot is that last scene where we see her take the $20 that he parents left for her and then the $20 for the housekeeper. You’re showing a not very sympathetic side of her.
No, it’s like, “You just took that from a Mexican lady with five children because you want a fucking buy some fancy sandwich.”
What does it say about her?
I think it shows that she’s a little scared, that she’s a little desperate, but also that she’s a little entitled and like there’s a part of Hannah that probably feels like the world’s not giving me what I need and I need to take it. And she thinks she’s being proactive and she thinks that somehow like she’s owed this.
Of course it will cause her tremendous guilt later and she’ll probably confess to her parents in a year and try to pay them back. But, at that moment, like it was a moment where I sort of announce this is what the show is. You’re not going to necessarily be with this girl at every – you’re not going to necessarily agree with this girl’s every move.
― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
bad company should be playing in the background of every scene in this show
― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 17:43 (twelve years ago) link
i enjoyed the overall attitude of the dude she hooks up w/ in this ep -"i was fat in high school too, i didnt let ppl draw all over me"
― johnny crunch, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:00 (twelve years ago) link
hah he was so mean
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
I expected the Mamet kid to be like her character in Mad Men, which has nothing to do with the quality of the show.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:04 (twelve years ago) link
i dont remember her on mad men, she was in the kids are alright tho, i like her
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol
From the steamy bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey to HBO's Girls, sexual domination is in vogue. Katie Roiphe on why women's power at work may be fueling the craze.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/04/15/working-women-s-fantasies.html
― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
that article and hologram tupac dominated my twitter feed this morning
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:14 (twelve years ago) link
katie roiphe hologram in your living room
― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:17 (twelve years ago) link
she's peggy's friend who works at Life magazine and has all the counter-culture buddies.
― stay in school if you want to kiw (Gukbe), Monday, 16 April 2012 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
o rite!
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link
― buzza, Monday, April 16, 2012 2:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dominating u, u r a blogger
i was just thinking, i miss that katie roiphe.
― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
what trenchant insights does she have for us about girls, not to mention Girls
― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
idk there is no way im reading that article
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
i am going to save it for a time when i really need to yell at my computer
― horseshoe, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
there is some key video content with katie how can u miss it
― buzza, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
only if shes being tied up and written all over 'riot grrl' by teenage lesbians
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
then maybe i might watch it
― lag∞n, Monday, 16 April 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link